Economic Issues

Trinity Church Has Its Way With Planning Commission Approval of Hudson Square Rezoning

As we wrote in December's cover story More Money Than God, Trinity Wall Street is a lot more than just a church -- it's a real estate company sitting on something like $1 billion dollars in New York property -- a dual role that sometimes brings it into conflict with its neighbors. Now it appears th ... More >>

NYAG Eric Schniederman Announces First Fraud Task Force Target: J.P. Morgan Chase

Last January, President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address that a joint effort between state and federal authorities would aim to bring Wall Street's ass to court for civil fraud violations. Although the frustrated liberal base wanted jail time for the 2008 financial crisis, this lega ... More >>

Christine Quinn Presents Living Wage Bill Compromise, Pols Are Generally Happy

Some important news in the ongoing living wage battle in New York -- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed today a compromise that would require higher wages at city-subsidized developments. Companies subsidized by the city would have to pay employees $10 an hour plus benefits, instead of th ... More >>

Sidebar: Mexican Macro-Economics

Coney Island's Grand Past and Grim Future

Requiem for a dreamland

Mike Bloomberg Gets Mixed Report Card on Massive Spending

​Mike Bloomberg met Diana Taylor at a luncheon of the Citizens Budget Commission, a business group known for its salty independence and telling assessments of city budgets. Diana was a trustee, and Bloomberg became a fan of the group almost as quickly as he became Diana's number one fan, all w ... More >>

Atlantic Yards is a Go: Streets Close March 8, Evictions Expected Soon

​Get those shackles ready, Freddy's: Judge Abraham Gerges has denied what appears to be the last big appeal of the eminent domain seizures for the Atlantic Yards project. Several businesses, including Freddy's, are denied all relief; others, including condo owner Daniel Goldstein, may file c ... More >>

Freddy's Bar, Threatened by Atlantic Yards, Executes Dummy with Beer Cans, Vows Resistance

Mayor Bloomberg remains bullish, or should we say Nettish, on the Atlantic Yards project: "While the rest of the country wrings its hands about the national recession," he says, "we're building our way out of it." The patrons of Freddy's Bar, who last week showed resistance to their impending evic ... More >>

Freddy's to Fend Off Atlantic Yards Project With "Chains of Justice" This Sunday

nolandgrab.orgFreddy's​Freddy's, the Prospect Heights watering hole we recently named one of Our 10 Best Brooklyn Bars, has for the past few years been dealing with the threat of destruction courtesy of Bruce Ratner's proposed Atlantic Yards Project. This Sunday, Freddy's staff and supporters ... More >>

The Great Recession in Need of a Bailout

Atlantic Yards Continues to Not Get Built

If you're wondering what's going on with the troubled Atlantic Yards development project, the answer is nothing much and nothing good for developer Forest City Ratner. Back in 2007 a judge ruled that the way a long-term tenant of Henry Weinstein's Pacific Street building transfered his lease to Ra ... More >>

G-20 Pumps $1 Trillion in Play Money, Gold and Whatnot into Lousy World Economy

As rioters remonstrate with the police, the world leaders at the G-20 Summit (which was originally a cozy gathering of six world leaders, but like many all-star events has swollen in recent years) convenes in London. They apparently won't touch the recent Chinese proposal for a new world currency st ... More >>

MOOD SWINGS

Next to Normal now on Broadway

Brooklyn Artisans: Gentrification = Elephant in the Room

The feature on the new generation of Brooklyn food artisans in the New York Times food section was an interesting roundup of small producers/businesses like Marlow & Daughters butcher shop, Cut Brooklyn (a knife maker) and Mast Chocolates. The story is the most emailed story from the NYT this we ... More >>

Most Extreme Recession Special Ever

Stock tips: Buy Obama, sell the economy

Release the news hounds!

Daily Flog: Future heads toward a sharp loss; robot monkeys mesmerized by TV

We Save Wall Street!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Is The Bronx De-Gentrifying?

Bush Bailout? Rightbloggers Say OK -- Fight Hackers, Sandra Bernhard Instead!

Storm Brewing for Marathon Planning Commish Meeting

"Frosty the Goldman" and Other Odes to Subprime Profiteers

Zoned Out

High-rises on 125th Street? Harlem's transformation gathers speed.

Coney Island Lives! Astroland, Maybe Not

Back to Business With Zoellick

Wolfie's Exit Plan

Inside Wolfowitz's Second War

Coney Island's Last Ride? The Bulldozer!

Behind the scenes, a scary game of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos that won't amuse you

All Quiet on the Western Yards

Harlem Suit: State Keeps Secrets

Actual Poor People Rate Bloomy's Poverty Plan

BAM Goes the Neighborhood

While Atlantic Yards grabs the headlines, an art attack quietly transforms downtown Brooklyn

Fear of Heights

Skyscrapers, fronted by tantalizing promises, set to invade Williamsburg's interior

The Space Race

It's a small world after all: Mike Davis's crowded look at global urban catastrophe

City PILOTs Go Off Course

Morning Report 7/28/05
Brown People Love Their Children, Bush Contends

This Land Is Their Land

Message In A Bottle

Indian telemarketers learn it pays to mimic TV's Friends

Letters

Citizen CEO

The WEF's Corporate Moguls Debate Their Role as Unelected World Leaders

The Conference that Wasn’t

The Fight Over Zionism-Equals-Racism Pushed Aside Many Issues

Property Rights and Wrongs

East Harlem Suit Challenges Eminent Domain

A Guide to Key Congressional Races

The Rich, the Mighty, and the Hopeful

A Mad, Mad World

The UN's Millennium Summit Brings a Globe's Worth of Protest to New York's Streets

Trading Gas

Polluters Fight Global Warming—and Government Regulation—With a New Market in Emissions Credits

The ‘Miracle’ of Joe Lieberman

Not All Jews Feel ‘Validated’ by Gore and God

Beating the Backlash

A U.S. Negotiator Details the Fight to Expand Feminist Gains at the UN’s Special Session on Women

Global Warning

Go-ahead on Pinochet extradition sends shot across multinational bow as key U.S. files remain hidden

Starve and Sever

Is the Mayor Trying To Get Out of the Hospital Business?