Several experts questioned whether the new Federal strategy would be any more successful than the city efforts.

The task force's efforts are only the latest city effort to regain control of its fields.

Why did the city effort, once trumpeted, quietly fall short of its goal?

The project, built largely with public money, is part of a city effort to encourage retail development in poor areas.

The federal government calls the three city efforts pilot programs and says that based on their success they could be replicated in other cities.

"All these years, they promised us everything," she said of previous city efforts.

Several pornographic video stores still do business, despite city efforts to close them.

It is not merely a city effort, but also a national one.

Last June, after an earlier city effort to close welfare hotels, fewer than 200 families lived in them.

The surveys, for parents, teachers and students from grades 6 to 12, are part of a $2 million city effort.