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April 2, 2009
Stimulus for Public Housing
By David R. Jones, President & CEO of the Community Service Societyin the Amsterdam NewsMore than 100 advocates, tenants, representatives from government, and public housing officials joined me and Congressman Charles Rangel last Saturday to discuss public housing in New York now that the stimulus has funded more than $13.6 billion for HUD programs nationally.The forum, “Public Housing: Washington and …more

February 17, 2009
The Kingmakers of N.Y.: High-ranking Pols to Rain Stimulus Dough on State
By David Saltonstall, New York Daily News. Congressional Power Hitters: * Sen. Chuck Schumer: The Senate's third-ranking Democrat. He's a 900-pound gorilla who gets a seat at any table he wants, and he wants a lot.* Rep. Charlie Rangel: After 38 years in office, Rangel is head of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, where tax policy gets born.* …more

February 17, 2009
Street Naming Honors Fallen War Hero's Sacrifice
By Stephanie Gaskell, New York Daily News. The sign at W. 185th St. and Wadsworth Ave. in Washington Heights now reads: "Corporal Juan M. Alcantara Way."It's a small token for the family of Alcantara, who was killed in combat in Iraq nearly two years ago.But it's a lasting one."People are going to walk by and ask, 'Who is Cpl. Juan …more

December 8, 2008
On Capitol Hill, Mayor Bloomberg Pitches for Rangel, Money for Urban Public Works Projects
By Richard Sisk, New York Daily News. Mayor Bloomberg led a Capitol Hill love fest today for embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) while joining other big city mayors in pushing for $73 billion in federal money for urban public works projects.Rangel brushed off concerns that his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee might be in jeopardy when the …more

July 28, 2008
Rooting for Rangel
By Seth Lipsky, The New York Sun. The one time I met Charles Rangel I took an immediate liking to him. The introduction had been set up by the district attorney of New York County, Robert Morgenthau, who felt the chairman of Ways and Means was someone a new newspaper editor in town should know. So a breakfast was set …more

July 20, 2008
Rangel’s Rental Looking Glass
By Josh Barbanel, The New York Times. The idea that anyone, let alone Representative Charles B. Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, could live in more than one rent-stabilized apartment — and be paying less than the increasingly high market-rate rents in Manhattan — may sound shocking today.But lawyers who represent landlords and tenants in the …more

October 27, 2007
Deeply Dominican in Upper Manhattan
A NY Times video article of the Dominican American community in the district.■This video article was published in The New York Times on Oct. 27, 2007. …more

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