Board 12/Peacekeeping Efforts Praised

New York Observer | October 12, 1992

By Judith Warner

At their first full meeting after a turbulent, troubled summer, the members of Community Board 12 returned to work Sept. 22 with words of praise and thanks for the peacekeeping efforts…

No Place Like Home

New York Times | May 20, 1992

By Anna Quindlen

Homeless is like the government wanting you locked up And the people in America do not like you. They look at you and see Beast! I wish the people…

Abandoned Hotel Thrives as New Home for Former Homeless

Columbia University Community Affairs Newsletter | May 1992

The most unusual feature a visitor might notice about the Rio, a recently renovated Washington Heights hotel that now serves as a residence for about 100 formerly homeless individuals and families, is…

The Rio Grand

City Limits | March 1992

By Michele Herman

Ellen Baxter is working with tenants to create model housing for the homeless.

When you walk into the Rio, a new permanent residence for formerly homeless people in Upper Manhattan, one of the first…

A Renovated Rio Brightens Lower Ft. Washington Ave.

The Washington Heights Citizen & The Inwood News | January 28, 1992

The elegantly curved former Rio Vista Hotel on lower Fort Washington Avenue has been reclaimed from abandonment, and will now provide apartments for 100 homeless and low-income people.

Once…