Richard Brodsky

Shelly Silver is 'the Enemy of Reform,' but his Law Firm's Cash is Still Good as Gold for Kathleen Rice

​File this one one away under the "Unsolved Mysteries" of this election season: Try to follow: Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver is the key symbol of Albany hypocrisy. Only yesterday, Ed Koch, the newly re-born reform banner waver, was declaiming him at City Hall. "He is the enemy of reform," ... More >>

Attorney General Candidates Debate #7: Haikus and Chutzpah

​The marathon debating team of five Democratic candidates for Attorney General met again last night and if they are maybe running out of steam somewhat after seven straight matches who can blame them? Kathleen Rice, the Nassau County D.A. who is leading both polls and fundraising, gave the ev ... More >>

Democratic Attorney General Wannabe's Duck Debate on Great Fender Bender Scandal

​The five Democrats who want to be the state's next attorney general debated for the first time last night at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Reports are that it was a sedate affair with no good mud-slinging worth relating. To NY1's great dismay, no one raised the biggest campaign issue so f ... More >>

Demo A.G. Candidates Heap Praise on Voice's "NYPD Tapes" Series

​By Gavin Aronsen All five Democratic attorney general hopefuls praised Voice staff writer Graham Rayman's continuing "NYPD Tapes" series about police abuses when they debated Thursday night at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. The exposé has revealed that brass in Bedford-Stuyvesant's ... More >>

Stopping and Frisking the A.G. Candidates

I knew Eric Schneiderman was coming to the attorney general debate at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn last night, so I didn't park in the campus lot. I preferred to take the chance that I'd be stopped and frisked by Ray Kelly on my walk through Crown Heights to see a debate at which all five Democ ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Siren Fest and The Fake Retirement of Ted Leo

​Every summer, Coney Island gets taken over for a Saturday by a mass of incredible music, and the mass of fans who hop on the F or the Q to get to one of the furthest edges of Brooklyn to hear them. The best part? It's free, and it's ours: The Siren Fest is here again. This year's headliner? Mod-r ... More >>

Eric Schneiderman and the Bogus Issue of AG "Independence"

​In the only hotly contested statewide primary race, the buzzword is "independence." The theory, propagated by those unlikely to get Andrew Cuomo's support to replace him as attorney general, is that an endorsement from the probable next governor would compromise a law enforcement official wh ... More >>

State Assembly Lion Richard Brodsky Sharpens His Claws

He wants to roar as attorney general

Andrew Cuomo's Pledge Proving Tricky for Fellow Dems

By Gavin Aronsen Andrew Cuomo, New York's likely next governor, has made it known that fellow Democratic office seekers should sign onto a single-page pledge to reform Albany if they expect to win his endorsement for this fall's election. But only two of his hopeful AG successors, Nassau County DA ... More >>

Why is Eric Schneiderman Using Eric Espada's Fixer?

Schneiderman​The current attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, is throwing allegations by the boxload at the man who thinks state government is his personal hostage, Senator Pedro Espada, while one of the AG candidates who wants to replace Cuomo, Senator Eric Schneiderman, hired Espada's right-hand ... More >>

Atlantic Yards Combatants Finally Forced To Sit Through State Senate Hearing

The footprint. Image via Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots. Yesterday was the long-awaited — like, six years long — first state legislative hearing on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, with State Senator Bill Perkins convening his Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions Committee ... More >>

Yankees Pay $11.5M for Right to Sell Old Yankee Stadium Crap. Whose Win?

Are the Yankees screwing us on memorabilia? The Times points out that the city has what looks like an extremely sweet deal on bits and pieces of the old Yankee Stadium: they give us $11.5 million, and they get to do what they like with the debris of the stadium built in the mid-70s (with taxpayer as ... More >>

Kicking It Soviet-Style: Day Two of the Yanks-Mets Stadium Hearings

If yesterday's state assembly hearing on stadium funding focused on the big guns, today was for the hoi polloi. The city Industrial Development Agency is required to hold a public hearing before voting on new projects - in this case, $342 million in new tax-free bonds for the Yankees and Mets - so ... More >>

Billy Thompson's Maximus Moment

There's something about a looming mayoral candidacy that makes even the mildest city comptrollers put some tough in their talk and some strut in their walk. Former comptroller Alan Hevesi got along and mostly went along with Rudy Giuliani until the mayoral election of 2001 appeared on the horizon. ... More >>

When Elephants Fight: Not-quite-liveblogging the Brodsky Yankees Hearing

This morning in Yankeefunland: Assemblymember Richard Brodsky's surprise last-second hearing on the latest round of taxpayer-financed Yanks and Mets stadium bonds, with promised testimony (under duress) from Yankees president Randy Levine and city Economic Development Corporation chief Seth Pinsky ... More >>

Brodsky Hearing: IBO Says Mets, Yanks Stadiums Costing Taxpayers $1.2 Billion

Play-by-play of Assemblymember Richard Brodsky's hearing on the new Yankees stadium project, continued from last post: 11:29 am: Brodsky and Yankees president Randy Levine are now squabbling over which documents have and haven't been provided when. Moments later, city development chief Seth Pinsky ... More >>

Bloomberg Leads Yankees in Steals

Scoreboards and other trinkets given to baseball's richest team

Thompson Denounces Yankee Stadium Deal; Assembly Subpoenas Yanks' Prez, Pinsky

photo by Shelley Panzarella (cc) Now we're getting a little more action on Yankee Stadium. Today comptroller William Thompson denounced the "incredible mismanagement" by the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) in failing to control city costs from the construction of the new Yankee Stadium. "The or ... More >>

Mayor Mike and the Yanks: How Suite It Is

City Hall gift-wraps another present for baseball's richest team

Kennedy Accused of Under-Tipping Dems, Promoting Neil Diamond

E-mails Show City's Tricky Math in Yankee Stadium Deal

Yanks, Mets Demanding Even More Cash Than Rod Blagojevich

The Yanks' Suite Deal With Bloomberg

The Yanks on Trial: Liveblogging the Kucinich Hearings

The Yankee Stadium Kerfuffle: A Crib Sheet

Yankee Stadium Critic: And They're Not Even From Around Here!

Blogs Note Yankee Stadium Report, Taxpayer Rip-Off

City on Yanks Bond Details: Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later

Taxpayer Cost of Yanks' Bond Demands: $82.9 Million

Yankees to City: What’s Another $350M Between Friends?

Lobbying Albany: A Recession-Proof Industry

Albany's Reaction to Spitzer Scandal: 'What the Fuck?'

Bloomberg's Congestion Pricing Plan Has Rivals

Congestion Pricing Questions

Who's skeptical about the mayor's traffic plan? The companies bidding to run it.

Congestion Zone Drivers Earn More $$$: Report

Congestion Pricing Panel Named

Bringing Back the Commuter Tax

Brodsky Crashes Congestion Pricing Debate

Atlantic Yards: Silver Makes a Deal

'Times' to Commoners: Go Elsewhere

Don't soil our publicly subsidized new HQ with your riff-raff

If They Build It, You'll Pay

Whether a stadium is built, the Olympics may get off at another stop

Fixer Fonz

The Ex-Senator Brags About Bonanzas, Hides Behind Pataki

Showdown for the Phone Union

With a Nod From Washington, Verizon Prepares for Battle

Transit Hurrah

The People Who Stood Up to the MTA Bullies

Shock Corridor

How a Long-Dormant Law Could Spark a Hudson Valley Power Plant Boom

Green With Envy

Pataki Wrestles Spitzer for Eco-Laurels