Alan Gerson

The Living Theatre Continues Struggle to Keep Its Home

The longstanding alternative theater company yet to meet emergency fundraising goal

Is ABC No Rio About to (Temporarily) Move Out?

ABC No Rio still has matinees booked through December, but it looks like one of the Lower East Side's long-running DIY spaces is getting very close to a momentary end. The venue's endless struggle with the city ended in June, when the two-man team of Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer and ... More >>

21 Days Later, Nunes Concedes to Thomas White in Council Race

Last week Lynn Nunes, who lost his Democratic nomination race against longtime incumbent Queens councilmember Thomas White by just four votes in the September 15 primary, told us he was challenging the result in court. The sticking point was affidavit ballots Nunes' people felt were improperly exclu ... More >>

Barrett: Election Shakeup -- For the First time, a Likely Minority-Majority on the City Council

Margaret Chin​When the city council elects a new speaker in January, minorities are likely to hold an unprecedented five-vote majority in the 51-member body. The last time the council picked a speaker -- when Christine Quinn was elected in 2006 -- whites still held a one-vote majority. In Tu ... More >>

Primary Results: Vance In; Comptroller and P.A. Go to Runoffs; Council Incumbents Suffer; Rose Romps in Staten Island

Primary Day led to expected results, for the most part. For the Democratic mayoral nomination, Thompson romped, 70 to 21 percent, over Tony Avella. (Also someone named Roland Rogers got eight percent. Clearly a name to watch!) With no comptroller candidate making the 40 percent mark, John Liu and Da ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Dancers from InSpirit beckon passers-by to enter a new store on Broadway near 13th Street. Labor Day, with its West Indian American Day Parade, was the high point of the week. The low point was, let's see... the rest of it. 9/11 was a popular topic. It was oddly related to a Twitter Festiv ... More >>

Primary Culler: Incumbents Stay Strong in Council Districts 2 and 3

​In City Council Districts 2 and 3, incumbents have much more of a lock than Alan Gerson does in District 1. In the former, first-termer Rosie Mendez built the right connections as a district leader, makes meetings, and has all the big endorsements. Her challenger Juan Pagan (pictured) is ass ... More >>

Primary Culler: Incumbent Gerson Battered in Council District 1

The primary's a week away -- we know, it snuck up on us too -- so we figured we'd look at the state of play in some of the races. Today it's the 1st City Council District. Incumbent Alan Gerson is back on the ballot after a petition snafu. He's got a ton of endorsements, including those of Sheldon ... More >>

District 1 Council Race: The Skinny on Challenger Pete Gleason

This article was reported and written by Wayne Barrett and Georgia Bobley. In the glut of City Council races this season, one candidate stands above the crowd of unknowns, ex-firefighter Peter Gleason, who's challenging downtown incumbent Alan Gerson. Gleason has magically emerged from the shadows ... More >>

Times Blogger Accused of Karaoke Bias (Updated!)

​As silly season coincides with political candidates' realization that they better do something besides get on the ballot (speaking of that, congrats to Alan Gerson for getting back on his!), you may expect many more stories like this: Back in March, a correspondent from the Times' Fort Green ... More >>

At Last Night's CB2 SLA Committee Hearing...

...Josh Morgan (Houston's) and Robert Werhane (Dell'anima, L'Artusi) talked about their plans for the former Bar Q space at 308 Bleecker Street: Their "Chesapeake Bay-inspired fish house" will feature seasonal small bites and weekly specials. Morgan and Werhane have spent three years planning the co ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic by iamawizard. The week started with an underwear run and went downhill from there. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, rocked the Judiciary Committee. He felt so good about that he released unexpected stimulus money for New York cops, and announced Medal of ... More >>

Gerson 2nd City Candidate Thrown Off Ballot for Typo

​Another New York City elected official has been kicked off the ballot for apparently trivial reasons. First it was city councilmember Bill de Blasio, who was running a heady campaign for public advocate until last Thursday, when election officials found that the cover sheet on his packet of p ... More >>

de Blasio Petition Crisis Settled; Gerson (and now Jackson!) Still Waiting

The petition problems of Bill de Blasio (pictured) have been settled with the Board of Elections and he's back on the Democratic primary ballot for the public advocate nomination. No word yet about councilmember Alan Gerson, whose petition rejection we announced earlier and whose case is supposed to ... More >>

Petition Probs: Jackson Back On, Gerson Still Off

Earlier today public advocate contender Bill de Blasio got the Board of Elections to overlook his misnumbered petition volumes and clear him for the Democratic primary ballot. Later in the day, we learn from Liz Benjamin, Councilmember Robert Jackson got a similar dispensation, but councilmember Ala ... More >>

ABC No Rio Gets $1.65 Million for New Digs

As onetime habitues, we're pleased to hear that grotty old ABC No Rio -- the Rivington Street space that has been offering crusty entertainments and workshops since 1980 -- has gotten a windfall from the city, enabling it to replace its current, structurally unsound home with something more stabl ... More >>

ABC No Rio Saved By the City

Michel Bayard Huge news for ABC No Rio, the impossibly resilient Rivington street punk space/zine library/community center that as recently as last week was struggling to come up with the money building inspectors had demanded they spend demolishing and rebuilding their iconic, code-violating space ... More >>

Gillibrand Continues to Rack Up Way-Early Endorsements

She's new on the job, almost half her constituents can't give an answer when asked about her performance, and her next election is over 16 months away, but Senator Kirsten Gillibrand continues to rack up endorsements. Friday Al Sharpton and Congressman Gregory Meeks came out for her, and now House m ... More >>

Endorsement Fever! Aborn, Others Clean Up

The Times says today that Manhattan D.A. candidate Richard Aborn "Aims to Raise His Profile" in that race, and that he does so mainly via endorsements. We'll say -- his office alerts us to each one (other candidates are also encouraged to do so), and he's had plenty, most recently those of four Demo ... More >>

Pols, Peeps Protest Prince St. Post Office Closing Threat

Well, it's not a tea party, but pretty good for a local event: This morning about 150 citizens protested at the crappy Prince Street Post Office to protest its possible closing. The P.O. used to be where the Apple Store is now, but when the Macs moved in the branch got squeezed into a little nook a ... More >>

Candidates for Council, Comptroller, DA Pitch at VID

Democratic candidates for city council seats in districts 1, 2, and 3, district attorney, and comptroller came to the Village Independent Democrats last night to make their cases, under strict time limits and with screened questioning, for the venerable club's endorsement. In District 1: Pete Gle ... More >>

City Jails Chief Gets Off With Only a Few Sentences

Council members barely question Martin Horn on the deadly teen jail at Rikers

Liveblogging the Term Limits Vote Part II (Referendumania! Amendment Defeated)

Rachel Trachtenberg, Others Testify at Term Limits Hearings

Remembering Two Fallen Pedestrians in the Village

Pedicabs Don't Work with Big Wheels

The usual suspects snuff a people-powered invention

A Deluge of Parades

Promoters, DJs, and dancers alike prepare for some much needed cabaret lawlessness

Foie Gras Flap: Gerson's team fights blogland

Good News for Us, Tough Luck for Ducks

Raining on NYPD's 'Parade'

Last Stand at CBGB

War all the time: Punks and councilmen fight for their landmark

Council Races: Big Bucks for a Lonely Fight

Close-Up on Two Bridges, Manhattan

Close-Up on Battery Park City

Extreme Makeover

Washington Square Park renovation battle gets personal—and private

Close-Up on the Lower East Side

Close-Up on South Street Seaport

Music

A Paucity of Choices

Few Challengers, and Fewer Issues, in Council Races

Zero at Ground Zero

City Leaves Key Tribeca Project Unprotected Against Speculators

Close-up on the Financial District

The Safety Dance

You Can't Dance if You Want To

Close-up on Chinatown

The Sheeet Hits the Fan

Musical Chairs

Party Gone Overboard

Music

Fighting for the Right to Party

Club Insiders Organize

Chinatown in Limbo

Will Asian Americans Ever Elect a Councilmember of Their Own?

Signs of the Times

Huge Billboards Invade Noho and Soho