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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant... (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
While Christine Quinn announces a new food policy to the City Council this morning, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer is asking his e-mail list to sign an NYC Food Pledge and Charter. Each signee vows to “eat in a manner guided by the environmental, economic, and health consequences of my food consumption,” and to “create a food system consistent with the...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Borough President Marty Markowitz and New York Cares are asking Brooklynites to give the coats off their back, sort of.Markowitz was joined recently by students from Believe Northside and Southside Charter High Schools in Williamsburg and Brooklyn Ex...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Borough President Marty Markowitz found himself in the middle of a simmering feud between the leaders of two rival Hasidic factions over a troubled williamsburg waterfront development project this week.After failing to receive a positive recommendati...
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carroll gardens petition (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to hear from members of the community in multiple public hearings, and for Community Board 6, the Borough President, and the City Planning Commission to make recommendations, before a vote is taken by the City Council on whether or not to allow the change. I look forward to listening to you during that process, before I make my own decision. Please continue to communicate with my...
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The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday
... contractors. They do nothing for retail workers. Which is why people like Ruben Diaz Jr., Bronx Borough President, have targeted the armory project. "We are sick and tired of leading the nation as the number one county in poverty rates," Diaz says." This is a fight for economic justice against a real estate company that has gotten fat off of public largess-including...
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The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Voluble Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer announced this morning that he is supporting Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, becoming the first would-be challenger to back her. The endorsement shores up Ms. Gillibrand's credibility with liberal Democrats who, like Mr. Stringer, were initially concerned about her House record when she was appointed by Governor...
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NYC Parks Daily Plant (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
On December 7, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe broke ground on the restoration of McCarren Pool in the neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg. The $50 million revitalization of this Works Progress Administration-era facility is one of eight regional parks throughout the five boroughs that will be redeveloped as part of PlaNYC , the City's long-term plan...
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The Neighborhood Retail Alliance (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The NY Daily News editorializes this morning on the fate of the Kingsbridge Armory-and surprising takes a rather mild position in support of the plan, and fails to excoriate those who are pushing hard for a living wage: "Now the matter rests with the City Council. There, Councilman Joel Rivera and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. are threatening to scuttle the deal unless Related...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
This morning Mayor Bloomberg and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz held court at McCarren Park Pool for a groundbreaking ceremony. Over the past few years the pool has come back to life with JellyNYC's concerts (now still in search of a new home with help from Senator Schumer ) — but soon it will return to being a community pool, thanks to Bloomberg's $50 million PlaNYC...
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Workers World news online (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
“When billionaire developers are accepting tens of millions of dollars in tax benefits to build in our communities,” said Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr., “it is not a radical idea to ask that the jobs they create be good jobs.”
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Lost City (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... bald man at his side. It was none other than Marty Markowitz, our "third term" Brooklyn Borough President. As he sidled up next to me, I was shocked to discover that he stands roughly five feet tall. Marty spied the truck and let go with a bubbly spiel of unstinting silliness. "We love Vienna," he burbled. The vendy man looked at him without expression. "Luv...
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Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... the museum project in 1998 after then-Gov. George Pataki, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Borough President Guy V. Molinari put up a combined $5.5 million in public money. The city Economic Development Corporation has already spent $8 million to stabilize two other buildings — former lamp and machine shops — at the site and Borough Hall has allocated millions...
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Pardon Me For Asking (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
To enlarge, click here Thank you to the blog McBrooklyn for the great piece about the Hannah Senesh Day School expansion controversy and for revealing the fact that in 2008, the private school paid Attorney Kenneth Fisher** to lobby the Brooklyn Office Of City Planning, Office Of The Brooklyn Borough President, the New York City Council, the Office Of The Mayor and the Department of Transportation...
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. announced Thursday the creation of the Bronx Public Housing Advisory Council to address the concerns of the more than 100,000 Bronx residents who live in the city Housing Authority buildings.
