The economic downturn (says the Times) has been a boon to candidates running in next week's NYC Primary Election. Among the contenders to benefit from a surplus of unemployed professional people ready and willing to volunteer, is...
Downtown Express has more on the story we first reported Wednesday: City Council member Alan Gerson's financial woes. The DE says Gerson has borrowed $52-thousand to pay campaign expenses, money that must be repaid by September 15th. The...
District 2 City Council member Rosie Mendez plans on making an endorsement in the First District City Council race soon. But she doesn't seem to be too pleased with the incumbent, Alan Gerson. Speaking of Gerson's failed amendment...
New York Magazine interviews State Senator Dan Squadron: "Has there ever been a more potentially disenchanting time for a
reform-minded freshman state senator to be introduced to the ways of
Albany than this past spring? We doubt it!"The Tribeca Tribune...
New York real estate: more contracts signed, prices "stay low."Weekend crime watch: shots fired on East 11th Street.Bars will donate 50-percent of today's register to a college fund benefiting the children of Eric "Taz" Pagan. Rally in support...
The five candidates competing to represent District 1 in the City Council will take part in a candidate forum this evening at the Terrace Club, 380 Rector Place. The forum is sponsored by the BPC Neighbors Association. It begins...
Police are still searching for two suspects in the shootings that rattled Avenue A early Sunday morning. An off-duty bouncer, 42-year old Eric "Taz" Pagan, was shot and killed outside the club, "Forbidden City." Two others...
Politicos rally to save 14 NYC post offices on the chopping block. The new chairman of the State Liquor Authority is wasting no time in making personnel changes at the troubled agency. EV Grieve points us to the hilarious write-up...
About 75 advocates for low income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS rallied outside Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Grand Street home this morning. They want his support for a bill that would reduce the amount of each disability check residents...
Pier 35 rendering.Mayor Bloomberg broke ground yesterday on the first stage of the East River Waterfront Esplanade and Piers Project. As Channel 4 reported, "this beginning stage is expected to cost $148 million, as it creates
400 jobs and transforms two...
