City Limits articles from March 2005

City Limits archives from March 2005

Whose block grant?(EDITORIAL)
March 1, 2005... THERE WASN'T EXACTLY a collective gasp among community developers when the Bush administration floated its latest domestic spending trial balloon. The president's people propose to substantially cut the Community Development Block Grant, while...

More housing = more jobs.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Inclusionary zoning is missing the chance to turn around low-income lives. Low-income people need jobs, not more handouts. ["Inclusionary Zoning's Big Moment," January/February 2005]. The jobs that would be created with market-priced...

Keep the SI waterfront working.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... In her recent interview with your publication ["How Can the Staten Island Waterfront Be Reborn?" January/February 2005], West Brighton LDC Executive Director Susan Meeker states, "I'd like to see an esplanade that goes from the ferry terminal...

No running away.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... About your article regarding Hispanics--particularly Puerto Ricans--vanishing out of New York City and going to small, rural areas in Pennsylvania or small cities like Providence ["Adios, Nueva York," September/October 2004]: There is no doubt...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2005... An article profiling the Fresh Start work-preparation program ["Occupational Therapy," November 2004] contains several errors. It wrongly characterized program director Peter Fraenkel as "not sure why people are poor, or what to do to...

Health care jetsons style.(FRONTLINES)
March 1, 2005... FORGET ATMS. There's a new kiosk in town, dispensing another item of great value: health information to those without access to care. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Computerized Screening Inc. (CSI) the Nevada-based company that brought blood...

Battle of the brownfields: builders balk at state spending limits.(FRONTLINES)
March 1, 2005... THERE'S A CUL-DE-SAC in the middle of Bushwick. There are new streets too. Lining them are well-appointed townhouses sold for bargain prices, to owners who have started to move in. Not bad for a former Rheingold brewery site, which sat vacant...

Worried about the wage: will workers get the money they're owed?(FRONTLINES)
March 1, 2005... ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, hundreds of thousands of new workers were supposed to get a raise. The state's minimum wage was recently upped by the legislature from $5.15 an hour to $6, and to $7.15 by 2007. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But some...

Clean bill of health.(LABOR)
March 1, 2005... PRIVATE EMPLOYERS could soon be forced to provide health insurance for their workers, under a new bill moving steadily toward City Council approval. The Health Care Security Act, introduced last fall, would require private employers in...

Nyet to Neighborhood Preservation.(not yet, Neighborhood Preservation Program)
March 1, 2005... IT WAS THE YEAR the usual lobbying was not enough. Every winter for more than a decade, Republican and Democratic governors alike have attempted to slash the budget of the Neighborhood Preservation Program (NPP), a 27-year-old fund supporting...

Feds skimp on granny homes.(Living Equitably: Grandparents Aiding Children and Youth)
March 1, 2005... THE CITY'S FIRST apartment building designed specifically for grandparents raising children is about to open its doors in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. There should be more to come. In 2003, President Bush pledged $10 million to create...

Vera Institute of Justice.(Michael Jacobson appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Former New York City Commissioner of Correction and Probation MICHAEL JACOBSON was named director of the Vera Institute of Justice. Jacobson, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, took over from Christopher Stone, who left to...

President Bush named Mike Leavitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency and former Utah governor.(INS AND OUTS)
March 1, 2005... President Bush named MIKE LEAVITT, head of the Environmental Protection Agency and former Utah governor, as the replacement for outgoing Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson. Leavitt made his mark on Utah's social safety net by...

Urban Pathways.(Joan Ohlson appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Social services veteran JOAN OHLSON retired from Urban Pathways, one of the largest homeless housing organizations in the city, after serving as executive director for 14 years. In her 40-year career, Ohlson has served as head for various...

Tenants and Neighbors.(Jumaane Williams appointed)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... JUMAANE WILLIAMS was recently named executive director of Tenants and Neighbors, the 30-year-old tenants' rights group. In his former post, as housing director for Flatbush Development Corporation, Williams helped form tenant associations in...

Law and disorder: as it struggles to rebalance its budget, can Legal Services trust its neighborhood offices to manage their own business?(INSIDETRACK)
March 1, 2005... THE STAFFERS at the Legal Services for New York City (LSNY) board meeting in December didn't hold back. "I think the first thing you've got to do is to figure out how to make the programs manage money properly, before you raise more money," one...

The road home; Charged with getting kids out of foster care, city agencies are doing the once-unimaginable: collaborating with one another to help families piece themselves back together.(Department of Homeless Services, Administration for Children's Services )
March 1, 2005... It's the kind of horror story that makes headlines--and causes heads to roll. Last May, three-month-old Colesvintong Florestal was found starved and beaten to death at Hamilton Place, a Harlem homeless shelter. A fellow resident had reportedly...

The young and the jobless: one in five of the city's young adults are out of school and out of work. What can New York do about it?(Cover Story)
March 1, 2005... ONE IN FIVE. That's how many of New York City's young adults, ages 16 to 24, are not working and are not going to school. Only a few of them are even looking for jobs. There are 200,000 in all--the approximate population of Richmond,...

Department of corrections: when police make mistakes, there's a new way to catch the problem early and retrain them. Why not in New York?
March 1, 2005... Crystal Petteway couldn't believe what was happening. The 18-year-old had been sitting one evening in May 2001 with three friends in the stairwell of a building in Harlem's St. Nicholas Housing complex, where they lived. "We were talking for...

Late edition: why Brooklyn should still mourn the demise of the Daily Eagle, 50 years ago.
March 1, 2005... When the subway opened a century ago with an inaugural trip from City Hall up to 145th Street, the New York papers celebrated with all the ingenuity they could muster. The editors of the World even arranged for a signal to be flashed to the...

Q & A: why does bustling Flushing need a boost?(Wellington Chen)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Few neighborhoods in New York have as much energy, and as much potential for growth, as downtown Flushing. With the neighborhood weighing a number of public and private sector development projects, the Center for an Urban Future took the Number...

Shelter book: a west coast view of a booming field in architecture.
March 1, 2005... Designing for the Homeless By Sam Davis University of California Press, 176 pages, $34.95 THE IRONY OF A BOOK titled Designing for the Homeless is that we live in a time when architects can specialize in a building type that would...