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What Ever Happened to CBAs? The Rise and Fall of ‘Community Benefits Agreements’ in NYC | City Limits

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Neil deMause

In the winter of 2006, the mood among Bronx elected officials was of hard-fought accomplishment. Along with representatives of Bronx community groups and developers the Related Companies, borough politicians had just finished hashing out a deal for the planned overhaul … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Development

Tax Money From Sports Betting May Not Be the Windfall States Are Expecting | Global Sport Matters

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Neil deMause

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation in December making Ohio the 33rd state to legalize sports gambling, the talk locally was less of opening up the joys of betting on who’ll score the Cleveland Browns’ first touchdown than of … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Economics, Sports

Sonic Youth

Posted on September 1, 2021 by Neil deMause

Record stores used to be a big deal. There was, for example, the one between 77th and 78th streets on Broadway near where I grew up, which had a sizable collection of what would now be considered classic rock standards, … Continue reading →

Posted in How I Escaped My Uncertain Fate

Chuck Prophet

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Neil deMause

As a rule, I rarely go to see musicians I haven’t heard. My tastes are way too idiosyncratic and polarized — despite the best efforts of “You may also like…” algorithms, I still remain determinedly indifferent to, for example, Guided … Continue reading →

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De La Soul

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Neil deMause

I was a little too old to be part of the Napster generation. I remember when filesharing became a thing — I’m sure I dug around the dark recesses of the internet to find a few songs at the time … Continue reading →

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Tournament Game 3: 78 Horowitz 14, Legal Weed 1

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Neil deMause

The Legal Weed went into our elimination-bracket game vs. 78 Horowitz — who we’d faced only once in the regular season, a game we were winning 1-0 when a giant storm blew in and forced it to be called off … Continue reading →

Posted in 2021 - Legal Weed

Tournament Game 2: SFX Anderson 10, Legal Weed 3

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Neil deMause

As we prepared for our game today against SFX Anderson, we had one hope in our back pocket: Jonathan Lai, their ace who shut us out back in April, had according to the PSAL website thrown a seven-inning one-hitter for Beacon on … Continue reading →

Posted in 2021 - Legal Weed

Tournament Game 1: Legal Weed 7, SFX Wilson 6

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Neil deMause

Well, that was a game. I’m going to do my best to do it justice, but all the emotions may not translate into mere prose… With Dylan off at a travel tournament, Ben M took the mound for the Legal Weed … Continue reading →

Posted in 2021 - Legal Weed

Game 15: Legal Weed 13, 78 France 2

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Neil deMause

Yes, we were supposed to have two games today, but the storms on Thursday and Friday had left the fields “a disaster,” according to another coach who saw them, so anyone who could help was asked to show up as early … Continue reading →

Posted in 2021 - Legal Weed

Suspended Game: Legal Weed vs. 78 Horowitz

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Neil deMause

As the Legal Weed gathered for our first and only matchup against 3rd-place 78 Horowitz, it looked like this at Grand Army Plaza: And this on the radar: Would we be able to get in five innings (or an hour … Continue reading →

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