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Celebrating New York's Unsung Heroes

Every year Errol Louis, columnist for the Daily News, chooses a community activists he feels should be lauded for their work. Today he is joined by Melvin Blackman, creator of Urban Drug Recovery program and author of Self-Published, Urban Suicide: The Enemy We Choose Not to See, Omar Freilla, founder, Green Worker Cooperatives (Bronx), and Agnes Rivera , resident of Wagner Houses in Manhattan and member and leader at Community Voices Heard, a low-income activist, who he picked this year.

Green Worker Cooperatives
Urban Drug Recovery
Community Voices Heard

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Architectural Nonsense

John Silber, former president of Boston University and author Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art (Quantuck Lane, 2007) thinks “starchitects” lean towards form and away from function.

Architecture of the Absurd is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Tell All

Ethan Brown, journalist and author, Snitch: Informants, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice (Public Affairs), discusses the culture of hiding information on urban streets.

Snitch is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Reaction from Brooklyn

Mohammad Razvi, executive director of COPO (Council of Pakistan Organization), a nonprofit organization in New York City, serving the South Asian community, talks about the reaction to Benazir Bhutto's assassination here in New York.

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