Via Yglesias, a fun and interesting Sunday morning diversion: check out this website that uses census data to give you the demographic of your ZIP code. Especially interesting for you new yorkers, where ZIP codes are proxy for income, level of bourgeoisity, and, of course, coolness. My ZIP turns out, like much of Manhattan, to […]
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…that the quality and quantity of healthcare is vastly different depending on where you live, what your racial and ethnic background is, and how much money you have. And the differences are espe
This fall, for the third year in a row, New York’s Urban Justice Center is hosting the Vendy Awards, a fundraiser cum tribute for their street vendor project, which fights for and protects the r
…and the whole NYC subway system collapses. This for the greatest city in the world? Just pathetic.
The NY Times is reporting today that the NY City Council is considering banning the B-word (that would be “bitch”), much as they did with the N-word this spring. The ban, like the N-word b
From an email from the Correctional Association’s Women in Prison Project to the Coalition for Women Prisoners: In case you have not yet heard, for the first time in almost 30 years,the New York