December 2003

Cover Story: Miracle on 33rd Street. This Christmas, poor New Yorkers will send more than 200,000 letters to the North Pole. More affluent New Yorkers will intercept them at Manhattan's General Post Office. Some kids will get things like computers, coats, bikes and hope. The rest learn the hard way: Santa Clause doesn't care who's naughty or nice, just who can convince him they're the neediest, by Debbie Nathan. Other stories include Cassi Feldman on tenants asking HUD to reconsider how it sheds unwanted property; Alec Appelbaum on the Community Food Resource Center and its dedication to cooking hundreds of healthy, inexpensive meals daily; Bobbi Murray one organizers' fight to make sure government aid benefits the community along with big business; Wendy Davis on the sad state of foster homes for hundreds of abused children in New York; Penelope Duda on the New York City Teaching Fellows Program and whether its tactics are effective in simultaneously helping students learn while teachers gain experience; Kai Wright's book review of "To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City" by Martha Biondi; and more.

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