If like any red-blooded American capitalist you measure success by growth, these are boom times for Major League Soccer. North America’s top soccer league has gone from just 10 teams in 2004 to a whopping 22, with two more clubs … Continue reading
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show took note this morning of the Voice’s article wondering if Mayor de Blasio’s $2.5 billion BQX streetcar plan is even a thing anymore, and the mayor, on hand for his weekly #AskTheMayor segment, answered, Hell yeah it is: Lehrer: From Twitter, a listener … Continue reading
Yesterday morning, a group of Hunter College filmmaking and planning students announced the YouTube debut of Gentrification Express: Breaking Down the BQX. In this seventeen-minute documentary, filmmakers Amanda Katz and Samantha Farinella lay out the case that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s planned … Continue reading
As reported Wednesday in numerous outlets, a group of 43 Democratic and Republican U.S. Senators have teamed up to introduce a bill, drafted with the help of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that would make any support for boycotts … Continue reading
Michelle Neugebauer remembers exactly where she was when the lights went out. “I had just graduated from high school,” remembers the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation director, at the time a seventeen-year-old living in Bushwick. “I was at home with … Continue reading
Tomorrow night’s MLB All-Star Game in Miami will be, above all else, a celebration of shattered hopes and dreams: The raison d’etre for Miami being awarded the game—the hulking, endomed Marlins Park which opened in 2012 after a many-year wait—remains … Continue reading
One of the quandaries of figuring out how to pay for college is that by the time you’ve figured out how heavy a debt load you’re likely to find yourself crushed underneath, it’s too late to do anything about it. … Continue reading
Across the nation, an assortment of thirtysomething doctors, lawyers, and other young professionals are panicking. Since 2007, a federal program has promised that college graduates would be able to have their remaining student loan debt, no matter how great, forgiven … Continue reading
On March 31, Transportation Alternatives and Gothamist announced the winners of a $5,000 competition to design a solution for the transit horror that will befall travelers from north Brooklyn when the L train shuts down for 15 months starting in … Continue reading
StreetEasy has all but usurped the apartment-finding role once held by Craigslist, and before that, by rushing out to pick up the Voice on Tuesday nights before your fellow would-be renters. Ever since the site launched its first subway ad … Continue reading