For other property owners — those who may not be able to afford the up-front cost of energy efficiency renovations — programs are cropping up to help.
A few months ago, she discovered a city renovation program that was not actually fixing up houses.
Until this year, the M.T.A. has been unwilling to comply with the law, and its station renovation program has been stymied.
Since then, Mr. Schwarz has nearly erased the deficit, and he has organized a campus renovation program: the drains are being replaced, the music building and several lecture halls are being rehabilitated and residential areas are being landscaped.
Many residents may not know that their local sewer renovation or their high school apprenticeship program was paid for out of federal funds, but states have come to rely on the money.
The news magazine Proceso has already criticized the decision as proof the moral renovation program has been "managed politically, " and some radio programs this morning contained sarcastic comments by announcers and complaints from listeners.
He said he tried unsuccessfully to insert renovations into Lincoln Center's master plan, "but basically the program was over".
The New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens and Flushing Hospital, which are less than a mile from each other and which had begun separate renovation programs, will be meshed so that medical procedures now offered at both will be consolidated at one.
