If the Cuomo administration has been adhering to austerity in its first year, that is because there is a smaller pie to carve up, as the governor keeps reminding New Yorkers. But he was also taking his time because the money is meant to go where it can actually do real work, according to Read More
As has been rumored since talk began that Chris Ward would be departing the Port Authority some time this year, the Cuomo administration is poised to announce Patrick Foye will be taking over the bi-state agency as executive director, The Journal reports. Read More
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Well, technically train tracks are still train tracks:
"Normally, the farther you get from the subway the less expensive the housing is," said [Friends of the High Line co-founder Robert] Hammond, who confessed that he rents an apartment in the West Village. "But the closer you are to the High Line, the farther you are Read More
The tone of a City Council hearing last week on Mayor Bloomberg’s major Coney Island redevelopment plans was music to Joe Sitt’s ears.
The red-carpeted Council chambers in City Hall quickly became an interrogation room as successive Council Members took their turns bellowing aggressive questions and assertions at a trio of Bloomberg economic Read More
In the universe of the city budget, cuts are everywhere.
Nowhere was this more apparent than the city’s capital budget, the decade-long plan that pays for new parks, schools, firehouses, infrastructure and economic development with $47 billion in city funds. The Bloomberg administration is proposing to shrink its capital spending by about $8 billion from an Read More
Watching the wonderful spectacle of the Olympics this year, one finds the world outside the sports arenas constantly intruding. Russia manages to invade Georgia, human rights activists try to communicate their message to the world and oh yeah, breathing in Beijing remains a challenge. All of these issues are important, but as you might expect, Read More
