When House Republicans voted last night to remove food stamps from the Congressional farm bill, they took the first step toward ending a 40-year-long compromise tying food aid to the poor (liked by big-city liberals) to farm subsidies (liked by … Continue reading
Sometime in the next few weeks, a state supreme court judge could issue the first of several rulings on a legal challenge to FreshDirect’s plan to open an 11-acre headquarters in the Port Morris section of the Bronx, which would … Continue reading
Karen Gregory is still puzzled by the events of “the day the syllabus went crazy,” as she calls it. The Queens College instructor, searching for something to spark discussion on the first day of her Introduction to Labor Studies class … Continue reading
On Neptune Avenue in Coney Island, the throngs that surrounded the Coney Island Gospel Assembly’s relief site in November have mostly dissipated. The mobile medical office—a gift from a pastor in Joplin, Missouri—remains in place, and a Red Cross truck … Continue reading
As with so many roads in the outer boroughs of New York City right now, the drive into Gerritsen Beach, on one of the less fashionable fringes of coastal Brooklyn, abruptly changes once one hits the flood zone. Suddenly, traffic … Continue reading
Drive along the Brooklyn beachfront, and at first, things don’t look quite that bad. Massive trees have fallen along Ocean Parkway and in Asser Levy Park, crushing unsuspecting cars; power is still out to most of the peninsula, so cars … Continue reading
Ever since the Post’s Albany columnist Fred Dicker reported on Monday — based solely on two unnamed sources — that a deal for an MLS stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is “close to being wrapped up” and that construction “could … Continue reading
The indefatigable Norman Oder — at least, we’ve never seen him defatigued — reported yesterday on his Atlantic Yards Report that Brooklyn’s new Nets arena is about to get a “honking big” Barclays logo on its roof. This is normal … Continue reading
The week before last, rumors began cropping up that Major League Soccer’s long-running search for a place to put a new New York City team — a search that had circumnavigated the boroughs from Pier 40 in the West Village … Continue reading
When crowds throng Coney Island for the annual Nathan’s hot dog eating contest on July 4th, they’ll find a boardwalk amusement strip that is, for the umpteenth year in a row, undergoing a summer of change and transition. There is … Continue reading