Follow the Leader
There goes my chance of crawling back to New York Press.
The new blog there, Follow the Leader, is up and running. The "new boss" there is the always humble John DeSio. He has been toiling away at The Bronx Press Review for years. Now, he'll be splitting his time between the two papers, which helps when people like Tom Suozzi go campaigning in The Bronx.
With all the info DeSio digs up on folks like Larry Seabrook, the site will undoubtedly be a must read. And as an added bonus, real fans can indulge in vintage NYPress blogging on the site's archive.
--Azi Paybarah
Gee, you folks at Politicker, you might want to look at *why* exactly, Mr. DeSio has a hardon for Larry Seabrook. It's the same reason why Andrew Wolf of the NY Sun has a hardon for him - it's because the Riverdale Review/Bronx Press Review is the bought and paid-for house organ of the Riverdale Democratic machine (aka, the Ben Franklin "Reform" Democrats - Koppell, Engel, and their gang) who for YEARS have catered to the most bigoted, segregationist elements of that community for their own benefit. They only exist apart from the Bronx machine proper because these people prefer to think of themselves as colonizers on behalf of segregationist Yonkers and Westchester.
You want to do some real digging? Why don't you take a good hard look at why, pray tell, Bernie Kerik and his mobbed up buddies choose Riverdale as their NYC residence. Look at how the Italian, Albanian, and Russian gangsters have used that area for DECADES now as a home base - and how Engel, Koppell, Eisland and co. say NOTHING about it.
I should be clearer: Andrew Wolf was a former Riverdale Review/Bronx Press Review staff/editor himself. That's why he's got a hardon for Seabrook.