Photo: Courtesy of Speaker Silver's office
This week State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver stopped by to check up on a petition drive to save the Pitt Station Post Office on Clinton Street (between East Broadway and Grand). We reported on...
There's plenty of room to debate whether Shelly Silver is good for the Lower East Side and good for New York State. But no matter your view of Albany's most powerful man," I think you'll find the new documentary...
New York 1 reports police are investigating who's responsible for a swastika that was painted on an interior door at the Bialystoker Synagogue on East Broadway. According to the report, a smoke bomb was also set off. The story...
Shelly Silver's mayoral control bill passes the Assembly. The Senate? Oh, never mind. Census officials are facing an uphill battle, trying to count the estimated half million undocumented immigrants in New York. As the Gotham Gazette puts it, many...
The Albany coup's big winner is, perhaps, New York's real estate industry. The New York Times notes the "most significant expansion of rent regulation and tenant rights in a quarter-century" is now DOA. Some analysts are warning the city's...
State Senator Hiram Monserrate says he's coming home to the Democrats (until he decides otherwise). Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he'll tell his members to go home this week if the Senate can't get its act together. As...
The Democrats go to court... Albany hangs on every word uttered by a guy indicted three months ago for allegedly assaulting his companion with a broken glass... the governor's plea to lawmakers: "think of the lobbyists!" Just another day...
Political insiders are doing their best to assess the ramifications of yesterday's bizarre coup in Allbany that resulted in Republicans regaining control of the Senate. Late yesterday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was not giving up hope that Democrats could...
Political insiders are doing their best to assess the ramifications of yesterday's bizarre coup in Allbany that resulted in Republicans regaining control of the Senate. Late yesterday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was not giving up hope that Democrats could...
State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver now has a proposal of his own to fix New York's ethics oversight commission. He's calling for four separate commissions to oversee state government. As the Times put it, the plan would "preserve the...
