Scott Stringer

West Side Story

Visiting the Eva Empire

Council Cliffhanger

Transit Countdown

Tenants and Landlord Hit Pinnacle of a Dispute

Exposing Sexual Harassment on the Subways

Military Recuiters Gone Wild: Report

Landlords Flipped 200-Plus Residential Buildings Into 'Hotels': Report

Storm Brewing for Marathon Planning Commish Meeting

Roosevelt Island Tram Hearing Offers Many Solutions, No Official Response

Two Term-Limits Rebels Run for Gotbaum's Seat

Stringer Won't Run for Advocate, Seeks Re-Election as Beep

Lousier Subways Predicted; Panic Ensues

Thursday's Headlines: Assembly knocks down Rockefeller drug laws, Senate next

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]Your Thursday New York headlines...State Assembly finally sweeps away Rockefeller drug laws; now it's the Senate's turn.With Manhattan rents falling, could Wal-Mart be far behind? The retailer looks at Union Square, Chelsea.Prosecutor begins taking apart t ... More >>

President of What?

Nine's a crowd in the race for Manhattan beep

Mother Dearest & the Courthouse Cabal

A Public Advocate Candidate Has a Patronage Problem

Imagining the Public Advocate

Five Visions for a Young Office

Abject Lessons

Public Schools Accused of Skimping on HIV Education

Columbia Expansion Gets Uglier

Three board members resigned last week in a sign the fight is only getting nastier

Gillibrand Grabs More Way-Early Endorsements, Scares Off Stringer and Suozzi

We guess it's a new trend, at least for Democratic officeholders whom Obama wants left alone: Since NARAL delivered their endorsement to Kirsten Gillibrand -- who isn't even running until 2010 -- she's been getting more early expression of support. Local Congresspeople Yvette Clark and Michael McMah ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Neighbors March in Memoriam at Deadly 9th Ave Stretch

Not all this weekend's parades were as cheerful as the Puerto Rican Day festivities. Because the stretch of Ninth Avenue between 45th and 36th Streets has seen a lot of pedestrians run down by cars -- the most recent being art restorer Susanne M. Schnitzer, killed in a hit and run on April 9 -- th ... 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 >>

Top 10 Most Dangerous Foods to Eat While Driving; Say Hola to Pecsi

Is organic food always better for you than "conventional"? Sure, fresh organic produce may be more nutritious than fruits and veggies grown using pesticides. But organic milk doesn't necessarily come from cows raised in lush pasture. Large dairies keep the animals in lots and truck in their feed. [N ... More >>

What Is the New York Foodshed, Anyway?

galleyslave/flickrNot the New York foodshed. In an article he wrote for the Huffington Post last week, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer outlined his plans for making food policy a priority for city government. Among the initiatives he mentioned was a city "foodshed...consisting of far ... More >>

Stringer Aide Out After Facebook Posts Denouncing Gates, Supporting Racial Profiling

​It's getting to the point where if you tell people the truth about the black crime menace, you lose your right to a government job. Here's the latest outrage from the sensitivity police: An aide to Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer has resigned after it was revealed that she made com ... More >>

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 >>

Scott Stringer Has a Real Plan for Overhauling the City's Food System

Andrew SchwartzScott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President and food reform guy.​ Plenty of enterprising politicians have paid lip service to the idea of trying to make the city's food supply healthier, more easily accessible, and environmentally sound, but far fewer have actually done anything ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Pairing Beer & Cheese; Growing Food in NYC

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! The Harmony of Beer & Cheese Murray's Cheese April 5 at 6:30 p.m. If you think wine is the only appropriate pairing for cheese, then let Dan Suarez, the brewer ... More >>

Gangs of Times Square: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer Suspiciously Not Down with Edgy New York Gang Riot

​So, maybe you know of this frenetic gang riot in Times Square that local business owners pre-emptively beefed up security for? The same Times Square riot that left a few kids shot and dozens arrested? Well, now you do:

How to Use a Bike Lane and Not Be an Utter and Complete Shithead: A Handy Primer

The Village Voice: Not blocking the bike lane.​Oh, bike lanes. They are complex. It's so hard to know, for instance, where they stop and start, and how to actually use them. New Yorkers are accustomed to things being difficult, and maybe these new bike lanes are just so easy that our giant bra ... More >>

East Side/West Side Dividing Line Wars Rage in Upper Manhattan

via NYT/Marilynn K. Yee​Where does the East Side of Manhattan end, and the West side begin? This is a question we thought we always knew the answer to (you know, where street numbers start all over again, or maybe, more vaguely, where Central Park cleaves Upper Manhattan in two?). And yet, per ... More >>

Fifth Avenue is All on the East Side, City Says

via NYT/Marilynn K. Yee​Does everyone who has ever lived (or worked) in Manhattan have an East or West side bias? (We're East Side people, obviously.) As everyone knows, Fifth Avenue divides the two, but recently there was some debate about the specifics of the split area as you move north up ... More >>

Today in El Diario: Rats take New York!

​New York at the mercy of rats Although nobody is afraid of rats -- who shamelessly inhabit subway lines -- a group of public officials and activists fear that the situation could get out of hand this summer, the Spanish-language daily reports.  With 75 percent fewer pest-control workers an ... More >>

Today in El Diario: New Yorkers Shafted by Con Ed on "Green" Fund

​Green flight: Energy fund leaves city Con Edison clients in New York have been billed for $342 million since 2004 to subsidize renewable energy. But less than 1 percent of that money -- $ 8 million -- has been used for area green electricity projects, the Spanish-language daily reports. New ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Should Pay for What He's Costing Taxpayers, Says Scott Stringer

​Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is among the many not thrilled with Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his fancy new $14 million Tribeca townhouse lodgings. Stringer's office has demanded an accounting of how much Strauss-Kahn is costing city taxpayers as he awaits trial here on sexual ass ... More >>

Jeffrey Axelrod, Cyclist, Killed on Delancey Street Last Night; DOT Responds

​Yesterday at about 5:30 p.m. a 52-year-old cyclist riding on Chrystie Street was turning onto Delancey when he apparently collided with the back of a tractor-trailer, was pulled under its wheels, and was killed. He was pronounced dead at the scene. According to DNA Info, the man has been iden ... More >>

80 Arrested Saturday In Occupy Wall Street Protests; Second Avenue Subway Gets Graded; Marathon World Record Set

Nick Pinto​Approximately 80 were arrested Saturday in connection with Occupy Wall Street, according to the NYPD's press office. Throughout yesterday afternoon Occupy Wall Street used Twitter to chronicled arrests and various acts of force being used by the NYPD against protesters. They say at ... More >>

St. Mark's Bookshop Finally Gets Rent Reduction

​After a months-long saga, struggling St. Mark's Bookshop has finally received a rent reduction from landlord Cooper Union (which has been having its own money problems). It's not the full $5,000 off that they wanted, but it's something: Cooper is reducing the rent from $20,000 a month to $17, ... More >>

Scott Stringer, Local Pols Announce St. Mark's Bookshop Rent Reduction

​This morning at the St. Mark's Bookshop, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha, and the owners of the store held a press conference on the subject of the store's recent rent agreement with Cooper. Some of the usual suspects in East Village politic ... More >>

Swastikas Found on Midtown Storefronts, Scott Stringer Responds With Press Conference

​Hate has hit midtown Manhattan in the form of four swastikas graffitied onto 6th Avenue storefronts -- the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents across the city over the last four months. Several stores on 6th Avenue across the street from Bryant Park were vandalized on Sunday with a ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Bill de Blasio, John Liu, and Scott Stringer: Mr. Mayor, Why Did You Talk About Teachers That Way?

​After Mayor Mike Bloomberg finished his State of the City speech in the Bronx, Runnin' Scared tripped over many reporters and shoved a recorder in the face of a few relevant pols to get their reactions. We reached Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, and Manhattan Borough Pr ... More >>

City Looks to Sell Three Lower Manhattan Properties; Scott Stringer Says He Has the Power To Stop It

​As part of his State of the City speech yesterday, Mayor Mike Bloomberg -- in a discussion about revenue -- said the city plans to sell three Lower Manhattan properties. It was just a few sentences, but it gave Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer a chance today to remind us all that hi ... More >>

Bloomberg Makes Mayoral Race Predictions In Post

​In an interview with the New York Post published this weekend, Mayor Bloomberg weighed in on who he thinks might follow in his footsteps as the next mayor. "It's really hard to see the Democratic primary next year not being the real election," he told the Post. With that criteria, the Post p ... More >>

Scott Stringer: Let's Put Solar Panels on School Roofs

​Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is likely to run for mayor, released a report yesterday that called for the installation of solar panels on the roofs of city public schools. Releasing reports -- it's the thing to do if you want to be mayor, apparently! This one here is one ... More >>

New York Has More Vacant Buildings and Lots Than It Has Homeless People

Banking on Vacancy​New York City has more than enough vacant space to provide housing for every homeless person in the city, according to a study released yesterday by Picture the Homeless and Hunter College. The study represents the first effort to catalog New York's vacant spaces, and inclu ... More >>

Scott Stringer's State of the Borough Address: Reclaim City For Middle and Working Class

Sam Levin​In the land of politics, it's that wonderful time of the year when we opine about the state of things. Last month, President Obama talked about the state of the country, Governor Cuomo discussed the state of New York state, and Mayor Bloomberg chatted about the state of the Big Apple ... More >>

Free Bikes! New York Gets Wheels When Bicycle Sharing Program Debuts Next Summer

David Edgar​Now you finally have a reason to belch one Queen song at the top of your lungs. (And no, it's not "Bohemian Rhapsody.") New York's plans to let loose 10,000 free bikes on the streets are slowly taking shape. In November, the Department of Transportation announced a plan to develo ... More >>

Councilman Jumaane Williams Pressures NYPD, Mayor to Address Police Accountability

Sam LevinCity Councilman Jumaane Williams at a recent rally.​Last week, cops chased Ramarley Graham, 18, to the bathroom of his apartment where they shot and killed him. His grandmother was at home at the time and witnessed the shooting. The Bronx teen -- who may have been trying to flush ma ... More >>

It's Christine Quinn's Turn! Mayoral Hopeful Delivers State of City Speech

Sam Levin​This story might sound familiar. A mayoral hopeful gets on stage and delivers a speech about the state of things. The elected official takes the opportunity to set the groundwork for a mayoral campaign -- appealing to future voters through announcements of new initiatives and prior ... More >>