The US Attorney's Office, part of the federal Department of Justice, recently said it will create a specialised unit in the city to deal with violent crime.
No ambulance was available at Redemption and after three days a friend took him to John F. Kennedy Medical Center, another treatment unit in the city.
Before the storm, the fair market rent for a two-bedroom unit in the city was $676; it is now $940, according to the Brookings Institution.
And a new police drama for the fall from ABC, "Detroit 1-8-7," is about a homicide unit in the city that has arguably been worst hit by the economic downturn -- a city whose mainstay industry, automobiles, is providing far fewer advertising dollars to the TV networks than during the boom years.
It has 106 active members; patrols Central Park on Monday & Wednesday evenings, & the Zoo area on Sunday afternoons; is the only auxiliary unit in the city authorized to go on mounted & motor patrols as well as on foot patrols; & is the only unit to seek new members through newspaper ads.
Dan Margulies, executive director of the Community Housing Improvement Program, an advocacy group for landlords of mid-size buildings in New York, explained that Local Law 38 of 1999, which replaced Local Law 1 of 1982, prohibited the dry scraping or sanding of lead-based paint, including "paint of unknown lead content," in any dwelling unit in the city.
There are about 2 million rental units in the city.
About three-fourths of the housing units in the city are used for dwelling purposes only.
Newer apartments there can cost twice as much as comparable units in the city.
The percentage of owner-occupied units in the city reached 30percentt, up from 23percentt in 1980 and 29percentt in 1990.
At least 2.2 million people live in more than a million rent-regulated units in the city, the center said.
