July/August 2005

Cover Story: Battery Park City Recharged: Why the city made good on an old housing pledge by Alyssa Katz. Other stories include Xiaoqing Rong on Orlando Tobon and his dedication to making sure undocumented immigrants are properly laid to rest when they die; Dan Bell on New York’s black market in AIDS drugs; Jonathan Bowles on Mayor Bloomberg’s economic development plan for the boroughs, looking past the hype of the West Side redevelopment; Tracie McMillan on long-time welfare recipient Benita Andrews and the general difficulties she and the city faces in trying to get people up to a point of self-sufficiency; Jonathan Bowles’ Q&A with South Bronx local development expert Neil Pariser; and more.

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