- Housing
- New Yorkers tighten toolbelt for home repair
- After layoff, finding a new start at home
- Foreclosure crisis creates demand for legal aid
- Recession yields housing for the homeles
- Bedbugs soften the recession's bite
- No pets allowed
- Recession triggers increase in illegal conversions
- In a recession, there's no place like home
- Small Business
- High-flying glass maker grapples with crash
- Garment District embroiderer dangles by thread
- Pharmacist feels pinch pushing pills
- Luxury Manhattan plasterer learns to scrape by
- Guitar shop hopes new spot can beat slump
- Hectic hustling keeps restaurateur alive
- Survival of the fittest: Dog-care pro shifts course
- Midtown pedicab boss rides on leaky tires
- The Arts
- Bay Ridge theater fights recession with song and dance
- 'Art Stimulus Plan' offers alternative to Chelsea scene
- Dancing through the recession
- Artists turn to age-old practice during economic slump
- 'New Money' makes money in recession
- Business on off-off-Broadway
- The music lesson
- Recasting construction sites as public art
- Retooling
- Unemployment
Photo: Charles Mostoller