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June 10, 2008
Want to Work for Mike Bloomberg? What's Your Batting Average?
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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April 6, 2006
Theeeeeeeeeeee Yankees Win!
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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December 11, 2006
Atlantic Yards Foes Hope for a Silver Christmas
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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April 24, 2007
Pedicab Smackdown: City Council Defies Bloomberg, Reins in 'Green Transport'
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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August 27, 2007
Block Party Against Brooklyn Owner-Evictions
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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March 14, 2008
Atlantic Yards Opponents Look With Hope to Gov. Paterson
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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April 28, 2008
April Showers Bring Rally Calling for Atlantic Yards 'Time Out'
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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October 6, 2008
Morning Papers: Rich Guy Gets Cold Feet on Term Limits, NYers Expatriate for Money, Etc.
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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October 16, 2008
Rachel Trachtenberg, Others Testify at Term Limits Hearings
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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October 29, 2008
Two Term-Limits Rebels Run for Gotbaum's Seat
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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December 15, 2008
Bushwick Rallies Against Hate Crimes
Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration
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February 23, 2009
Jails Commissioner Finally Confronted by City Council
In the ongoing controversy over the murder of teenager Christopher Robinson at a Rikers Island jail, someone in the City Council finally tried to pin down Correction Commissioner Martin Horn on what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did to stop it. Robinson was fatally beaten i ... More >>
News
November 26, 2008
City Jails Chief Gets Off With Only a Few Sentences
Council members barely question Martin Horn on the deadly teen jail at Rikers
NYC Life
August 16, 2005
Beat It!
Soul Summit gets one last dance; movie nite; Mellie R.I.P.
News
September 4, 2001
Can’t Buy Him Love
Brooklyn Machine Lines Up for James and Against Davis
NYC Life
July 25, 2006
Life in the Footprint
Voices of the fading community in the shadow of the Atlantic Yards
News
July 25, 2006
Andrews Amnesia
Why are the media giving the scandal-ridden Norman pal a pass?
NYC Life
July 25, 2006
BAM Goes the Neighborhood
While Atlantic Yards grabs the headlines, an art attack quietly transforms downtown Brooklyn
News
August 1, 2006
Letters
While Atlantic Yards grabs the headlines, an art attack quietly transforms downtown Brooklyn
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October 2, 2001
Still Counting
The Big Term-Limits Primary Offers Some Surprises
NYC Life
July 16, 2002
Close-Up On: Fort Greene
The Big Term-Limits Primary Offers Some Surprises
Film
October 28, 2003
Election-Week Docs Profile Anti-Globalist Cleric, Deliver Civics Lesson
The Big Term-Limits Primary Offers Some Surprises
NYC Life
February 15, 2005
Close-Up on South Williamsburg
The Big Term-Limits Primary Offers Some Surprises
News
July 26, 2005
Keep Moving, Son
Cops in Carroll Gardens are hustling schoolkids onto trains. Police call it protection. Parents call it harassment.
News
April 10, 2007
Slumlord Showdown
Mayoral wannabe Chris Quinn treads cautiously in housing fight
News
May 22, 2007
On the Outs in Brooklyn
The city's complicity behind the borough's soaring eviction rate
Columns
October 29, 2008
Bloomberg's Term-Limits Coup: Heroes, Villains, and Wimps
Brutal brawling in the first throwdown of the 2009 elections
News
October 1, 2008
A Hip Young Couple Clears Out Low-Rent Tenants for its Television and Playroom Needs
Generation excess comes to Prospect Heights
News
January 17, 2006
Council Priorities
The new City Council Speaker doles out some surprising assignments
News
June 24, 2009
The Queer Issue: The New Gayborhoods of Fort Greene, Sunset Park, and Jackson Heights
Breaking the outer limits
Blogs
September 1, 2009
News Roundup: Jay-Z, Them Crooked Vultures, Grizzly Bear/Michael McDonald, Michael Jackson
--Jay-Z held a formal news conference yesterday to discuss plans for his upcoming Answer the Call September 11th benefit show at Madison Square Garden. Sitting beside Governor Patterson, Jay remembered September 11, 2001, the day the original Blueprint was released, and the days that followe ... More >>
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October 13, 2009
As Appeal Goes Forward, MTA Hit With New Atlantic Yards Suit
Bruce Ratner and his Atlantic Yards project are really getting it in the neck this week. Tomorrow an appeal by landholders of the eminent domain seizure of their properties for the sports, shopping, office and residential mega-plan gets going in court. And now Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, state s ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Yet Another Atlantic Yards Lawsuit!
It seems Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards boondoggle was getting another lawsuit just yesterday (it was in October, actually -- an appeal by local landholders whose property is being seized to make the big Brooklyn hole that was supposed to be a sports arena/shopping complex by now even bigger) ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
Brooklyn to Get the Michael Jackson-Themed Subway Mural It Tenuously Deserves
Photo via alexrheadrick's photostreamCan't wait to hear what angry NY GOP Congressman Peter King will have to say about newly revealed plans to dedicate a memorial to Michael Jackson at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, where Martin Scorcese once directed the "Bad" video. Last year, City Council ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
City and NY Restaurant Association Launch Delivery Workers Protection Program
Revenge: best served cold.Assami Semde may have foiled the would-be thieves who tried to steal his pizza earlier this month, but not all restaurant delivery workers are so lucky. And so in response to a recent rise in violent incidents, City Councilwoman Letitia James and Brooklyn District At ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
New Yorkers Protest Target's Donation to Anti-Gay Candidate
New Yorkers unhappy with Target's recent $150,000 donation to anti-gay-rights Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer gathered yesterday at the flagship Target in Brooklyn to protest. The rally, organized by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Councilmember Letitia James, and MoveOn.org ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
Ray Kelly Hears It From Brooklyn Politicians Over Stop-and-Frisks
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was challenged on the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy in a recent meeting with Brooklyn politicians, the Voice has learned. In a meeting described as "somewhat tense," Kelly told a group of elected officials that the department is using stop and frisks--which have ... More >>
News
January 12, 2011
NYC's Computer-System Cash-Dump Disaster
New York City threw away a mountain of cash over a new computer system. Now, finally, someone is going to pay.
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Abortion Billboard in SoHo Calls Out African Americans During Black History Month
Life Always, an anti-abortion group, revealed a giant new billboard today at Sixth Avenue and Watts Street in the New York City neighborhood of SoHo, featuring a picture of a young black girl and text that reads, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." Underneath is ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Marijuana Busts Cost City $75 Million A Year, Report Says (Updated with Police Comment)
The city spends $75 million a year on the NYPD's campaign of arresting people on low level marijuana possession charges, a new report says. The Drug Policy Alliance report says police and court expenses total up to $2,000 per arrest. Between 2002 and 2010, police made 350,000 marijuana posse ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Today in El Diario: New York Women Are Underpaid
New York's women underpaid A study conducted by the New York Comptroller's office found that women earn 20 percent less than men -- when they are are doing the same job and have the same credentials, according to the Spanish-language daily. "It's really pathetic that we keep having this c ... More >>
Film
June 15, 2011
Memory Lane: A Look Back at the Campaign Against Atlantic Yards in Battle for Brooklyn
New York's women underpaid A study conducted by the New York Comptroller's office found that women earn 20 percent less than men -- when they are are doing the same job and have the same credentials, according to the Spanish-language daily. "It's really pathetic that we keep having this c ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2011
Forget Rome: Jesus Gonzalez Takes on Brooklyn
There's nothing like a nicely dressed young man standing just in front of the turnstiles handing out fliers with JESUS in big print at the top to get people to whip out their Metrocards, drop their heads and race for the train. Jesus Gonzalez, though, appeared indefatigable Thursday morning ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
Q&A: Amy Klein On The Blue Star Band, Talking Back On Tumblr, And Patti Smith's Message To The Kids
The last time we checked in with Amy Klein, the Titus Andronicus guitarist/violinist told us about the genesis of the Brooklyn-based activist group Permanent Wave, which has since put on protests, panel discussions, and concerts. Between organizing benefit concerts and playing with both Titus ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Jerome Isaac to Face Murder and Arson Charges for Burning Deloris Gillespie to Death in Prospect Heights Elevator [Updated]
There are some updates in the truly awful story of a man who burned an elderly woman to death in her elevator at 203 Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights this weekend. Jerome Isaac, 47, was arrested yesterday after he turned himself in, 8 hours after he killed 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie. C ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Councilwoman Letitia James: Family of Burned Elderly Woman Have Been Victimized Twice
NYPD Surveillance footage of suspect Jerome Isaac. The family of an elderly Prospect Heights woman burned to death by a man her family said she once helped discussed their loved one's legacy and the financial challenges they have faced while putting the 73-year-old to rest during a press conf ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Religious Leaders and Electeds Protest Mike Bloomberg in the Rain Prior to State of the City
The rain didn't stop a group of religious leaders and elected officials from rallying outside Morris High School in the Bronx today before the mayor's State of the City speech. Around 100 protestors were fenced in a block away from the school chanting under a sea of umbrellas. They had trekke ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Jerome Isaac, Who Allegedly Burned Deloris Gillespie to Death in Her Elevator, Pleads Not Guilty
Yesterday Jerome Isaac was arraigned on murder charges in Brooklyn Supreme Court for the death of 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie, who, in December, he allegedly sprayed with flammable liquid and set on fire in her elevator in Prospect Heights. He was caught on video doing all of this, which le ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Report Gives Mike Bloomberg's Polemic School Closure Policy an 'F'
A new report released last week comes down hard on the mayor's record of shutting down schools that aren't performing well. Mike Bloomberg and the Deptartment of Education can add it to the list of grievances and criticisms that have been thrown at them so far this year (He demonizes teachers ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Mayor's Budget: No Tax Increases and No Layoffs of Teachers, Police Officers, or Firefighters
Sam LevinElected officials and nonprofit groups rallied this morning before the mayor announced his budget.Announcing the city's annual budget today, Mayor Mike Bloomberg said he would not be increasing taxes and he would not be laying off teachers, police officers, or firefighters. He said i ... More >>
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