January 2000

Cover Story: Green With Envy, National environmental groups want to clean up New York. Can neighborhoods hold on to a say in their own future? By Kemba Johnson. Other stories include Jarrett Murphy on the city's cops, firefighters and sanitation workers looking to have one of their own run for office; Joanna Cagan on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York case; Kathleen McGowan on tax credit housing's success, although even nonprofit developers complain that it's not capitalist enough; Matthew Strozier on the plight of Chelsea families as their local junior high school shuts down; John McCrory's book review of "Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash" by Susan Strasser; and more.

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