February 2003

Cover Story: Mercury Rising by Smita Paul. Other stories include Alex Ulam on deputy mayor Rudy Washington and his cashing in on a muddled golf course project at Ferry Point Park; Jill Grossman on the financial troubles within the state's AIDS treatment insurance program; Matt Pacenza on Harlem SRO tenant leader James Lewis and the fight against a destructive real estate scam; Mayita Mendez and Carol E. Lee on the B-52 bus route across a vast economic divide in the Bronx; Maia Szalavitz on the mistreatment of addicts by drug counselors at rehab residences; Annia Ciezadlo's book review of "Coney Island: Lost and Found," written and designed by Charles Denson; Hilary Russ on organized labor trying to use connections in immigrant neighborhoods; and more.

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