January 2004

Cover Story: Amazing Grace. An Allen Street mega-church offers Fuzhounese immigrants the solace of heaven – and begins to help them deal with their troubles on earth, by Kenneth J. Guest with photos by Casey Kirkella. Other stories include Matt Pacenza on state welfare officials looking to end rent supplements; Cassi Feldman on the damage done to other open-space efforts due to resources and money disproportionately allocated to the High Line; Alyssa Katz and Abu Taher on labor abuses at M&T Pretzel, a company that has its vendors sell food in New York City parks coinciding with increases in Parks Dept. revenue; Geoffrey Gray on why Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's nonprofit crackdown may not be all it's cracked up to be; Amy Zimmer on the huge slew of hardships faced by Chinese migrants they overcome before making it to East Broadway; Gordon Mayer's book review of "Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice" by Edward T. Chambers with Michael A. Cowan; and more.

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