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Precariously balanced on the very tip of Coney Island, Sea Gate, where I was raised, is surrounded by water on three sides ...

The standard policy response to slums — relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing elsewhere — is older than the slums themselves. It has never worked. The logic seems ...

Mumbai: Even as successive governments have promised a “slum-free Mumbai,” the encroached area in the city has grown by 68% between 2011 and 2025, according to satellite-based estimates by the Slum ...

Slums now occupy nearly 24% of Mumbai’s land and house more than half of its population, according to findings by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). Mumbai real estate update: Slums now occupy ...

Mumbai: Along with a 100-acre plot in Andheri West around Gilbert Hill, Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) is set to launch 18 projects in Mumbai under the state govt's recently introduced slum ...

MAKING IT by Norman Podhoretz. 360 pages. Random House. $6.95. In most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly ...

DHAKA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - A massive fire tore through one of Dhaka’s largest slums on Tuesday evening, leaving thousands of people homeless and turning rows of tin-roofed shanties into charred rubble, ...

A Brooklyn girl named Betty Smith last fortnight made more news than a city editor could shake a stick of type at. She > Published a first novel (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn—Harper; $2.75). > Watched its ...

It’s finally getting on track. The long-awaited light rail connection between Brooklyn and Queens has now moved into active development, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday — but the project won’t be ...

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN is a tender, faithful translation to the screen of Betty Smith's popular best-seller about the growing pains of a girl (PEGGY ANN GARNER) and her little brother (TED DONALDSON ...