Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has been stamping his feet for years over his desire to land the holy grail of retailers: an Apple Store. After all, the M.T.A. bent over backwards to bringing a glowing Temple of Jobs into Grand Central. But it looks like Marty can forget about it, as Apple may be opening its next outer borough outlet in Queens County, not Kings County. Read More
The owners of the property had asked for a rent decrease, but the management company said they could not accommodate because of their mortgage costs. A last-ditch effort to find a new lease holder was rejected by the Read More
This from Weiner's press office: "Early this morning, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens & Brooklyn) was admitted to the emergency room at the Parkway Hospital, in Forest Hills, in substantial pain. "He was diagnosed with a kidney stone. After several hours of treatment, he was released, and is now resting at home. "He hopes to Read More
If you ask Hilda Peltz about Michael Bloomberg's television commercials, the septuagenarian has near-perfect recall. "I saw how he started when he was a little boy, and then when his father died early," she said between mouthfuls of salmon and kasha at the Young Israel senior center in Queens. "And he was a self-made man. Read More
Watching City Comptroller Alan Hevesi go about his business
as the sober, wonkish, white-haired, bespectacled keeper of the city's books, it's hard to imagine that in a younger, wilder moment, he tried to legalize pot for New Yorkers over 18 years of age. But he did. The date was Jan. 28, 1975, and Mr. Hevesi was Read More
