Calls to Lucy Friedman, a former city official who is coordinating the after-school initiative for Soros, were not returned. A Soros spokesman, contacted in London late on Friday, said he was unable to track down staffers to confirm or deny the project. Thrush Back to City Limits Weekly Index. The New York Law Journal reported in its March 24 edition that the agency's Housing Litigation Bureau hasn't filled 25 attorney positions that have opened up since 1995, leaving the unit with half the number of attorneys it had three years ago, according to the Civil Service Bar Association. Housing court observers are neither surprised at the number of cutbacks nor buying that they haven't had an effect.
Landlords can get away with poor building conditions and feel no one is looking over their shoulder.
It means a court order means less and less. Vogel Back to City Limits Weekly Index. City Council Committee on Health holds hearing on HHC cuts. Harlem Hospital Center, King Pavilion, 2nd floor auditorium. NY Worker's Rights Board hosts public hearing on workers' right to organize a union.