September/October 2002

Cover Story: Squatters' Rites, Loisaida's last outlaws are about to make their most revolutionary move yet: legal occupation, by Robert Neuwirth. Other stories include Carolyn Szczepanski on one city parks worker's loss of job after reporting safety concerns; Charu Gupta on the abysmal state of the city's five high schools for teen mothers; Jesse Goldstein and Theodore Ross on the policies of gubernatorial hopeful Democrats Carl McCall and Andrew Cuomo; Alyssa Katz on the frustration faced by idealistic State Senator Liz Krueger of the East Side; Hilary Russ on the disappearance of neighborhood street vendors; J.W. Mason on New York's need to tax the financial markets the way it is done in Hong Kong and London; Hakim Hasan's book review of "Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City" by Paul Stoller; and more.

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