With a horde of reporters wandering around the Bronx looking for World Series stories, it’s probably inevitable that some of them would wander onto 161st Street and ask local merchants how business is going what with the new stadium next … Continue reading
Why public schools need their own bailout. And pay no attention to that other guy who ripped off my topic today. At my son’s elementary school, the news that Gov. Paterson is proposing $223 million in midyear cuts to city … Continue reading
I just received my hot-off-the-presses copy of the new issue of City Limits Investigates, with a report by CLI editor Jarrett Murphy and myself on how one New York City zip code — 11237, which covers most of the neighborhood … Continue reading
Thoughts on tonight’s Game 1 of the World Series: With the World Series starting tonight — if this rain ever stops, and if Jay-Z’s opening act finishes in time for the game to start before midnight — the media is … Continue reading
From an article today on a Wall Street Journal blog reporting on a New York Times story on how the rushed condo developments in Williamsburg, Brooklyn are already starting to fall apart: The article points out that condo owners have … Continue reading
The Nets may be moving next year, but it’s not to Brooklyn: Rumors of the Nets moving to Newark to join the Devils are as old as Jason Kidd’s knees, but hoops-by-the-Ironbound may finally be a reality, as early as … Continue reading
So much for promises that the New York Times would soon diverge from the media’s obsession with the Nouveau Poor. The front page of today’s Times features a profile of foreclosed homeowners who are now living in homeless shelters that … Continue reading
There’s nothing like getting sick to make you appreciate the hazards of getting sick: I caught a cold last week. No, it was not the swine flu. Though my head felt like it was going to explode, and I ran … Continue reading
Of all the inane chatter flying around about Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win, the award for the inanest has got to go to the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, who first opines that this will make up for Obama’s devastating … Continue reading
As if landing the Olympics wasn’t trouble enough already, now it could come with the requirement of passing newly expanded police powers: Countries could be barred from hosting the Olympics, starting with the 2018 games, if they don’t have laws … Continue reading