The New York city council finally got around to holding a vote on the future of Coney Island, but in the end they mostly waved the city’s plan on through: The way things are going, the never-ending Coney Island rezoning … Continue reading
Four years and change in the making, the rezoning plan for Coney Island is finally about to be voted up or down, and you can’t tell all the competing factions without a scorecard: The battle over Coney Island’s future is … Continue reading
More New Yorkers are struggling, but good luck getting info from the city on how to get help: When Judith Rubinstein was named NY1’s “New Yorker of the Week” recently, she was immediately deluged with 70 phone messages. They weren’t … Continue reading
More on the public health insurance debate, this time on the faceoff between small business groups over whether it’s a great idea that will increase choice and lower premiums, or an unnecessary government intrusion into the private market: As Congress … Continue reading
Why we need a public health insurance option, in 360 words or less: When my friend was laid off recently, she was happy to learn that, thanks to Obama’s stimulus package, she’d get to keep her family health insurance at … Continue reading
Beneath the longest headline known to man or blog, I examine the possible fallout of the NYC subway’s first-ever naming-rights deal: That resounding “Ewwwww!” you heard emanating from Brooklyn was the sound of locals discovering that as part of Bruce … Continue reading
There are some tentative signs that the recession may finally be able to do what Hurricane Katrina did not: Get the news media to pay attention to the 1 in 8 Americans — or more, depending on how you’re counting … Continue reading
Some historical perspective on why the time may be right to cut bait on some big New York development projects: When the state Senate — back when we had a functioning state Senate — held hearings on Brooklyn’s beleaguered Atlantic … Continue reading
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Carolyn Lochhead — never my favorite reporter on social issues — has a long piece today on health reform that asserts: It will mean higher taxes and, potentially, lower benefits for many people. It will mean … Continue reading
For those of you in the Twitterverse, I’ve started posting links to all my new articles to Twitter as they appear. You can follow me @neildemause. For those of you who wouldn’t touch Twitter with a ten-foot pole, there’s still … Continue reading