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Demand Growing at NYC Food Pantry

by Eileen Markey

March 11, 2009

As unemployment grows, more New Yorkers are having a hard time putting food on the table. The increased need is straining the city's nearly one thousand food pantries. Eileen Markey spent an evening ....

City Settles with Anti-War Protesters

by Eileen Markey

August 19, 2008

The City of New York has agreed to pay $2 million to anti-war demonstrators arrested in April 2003 outside the Manhattan offices of a military contractor. After four years of litigation, the city's ....

Report: DEP Bad at Making Project Deadlines

by Eileen Markey

July 31, 2008

The Department of Environmental Protection is blowing its deadlines on nearly two-thirds of the projects it supervises. That's what an audit released today by Comptroller Bill Thompson finds. Accord....

Grant for Businesses Displaced in 125th St. Rezoning

by Eileen Markey

July 30, 2008

Help is available for Mom and Pop businesses displaced by the contentious rezoning of 125th Street. REPORTER: The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone today announced a $750,000 fund to aid small busine....