Neighborhoods

If I were a poor man ... By Mirjam Donath The concept and culture of giving and receiving permeates Jewish communities city-wide. They have their own serious fight with poverty but provide a safer, enviable social net for their poor. Read more »

Harlem’s renovated clinic remains shut down, maybe forever By Andrew Schmid The Manhattanville Health Center in Harlem closed in 2001 for renovation. It was supposed to reopen in 2005, but has not, and may never reopen. In a neighborhood with soaring rates of obesity and HIV/AIDS, community leaders and residents are puzzled at the loss of the clinic, and what happened to the money earmarked to reopen it. Read more »

Other stories in Neighborhoods:

Lack of affordable housing pushes longtime residents out of Sunnyside

In LIC, bicycle parking is not for the timid

Borough Park’s memory on that Tuesday

Food vs. food for the soul

Closing of a supermarket shakes Kingsbridge

The Box battles for liquor license

Residents slow to pay attention to calorie counts

Sunnyside center thrives despite funding cut

Senior center closings could have ill health effects