The Upper East Side waterfront is finally setting sale, and plans continue to emerge for what just might be built there. Yet there is one project that continues to miff and tiff the silk-stockinged hordes: a marine waste transfer station set to be reactivated on 91st Street. Read More
It appears they have opened the open space floodgates on the East Side of Manhattan.
Ever since the city reached a land deal with the United Nations to help build a new East River park, a parade of new developments have taken place in Manhattan's rarefied reaches. There are new plans for the U.N. and the esplanade beside it, and the Related Companies has finally revealed new plans for Rupert Playground, where it wants to build condos and a medical facility.
Reversing the karma of the public-to-private transfer at the playground, the city yesterday reached a settlement with Sutton Place South, the East 50s co-op that for over a century has controlled a private park overlooking the river. When the FDR was built, the co-op was given control of a new park built on piers over it, but that deal lapsed in 1990, though it was not brought to light until a few years ago. As with so many things in the world, litigation ensued. Read More
Michelle Obama was sent a letter by city lawmakers inviting her to testify here in favor of requiring paid sick days for workers.
The first lady recently embraced paid sick days in a talk with the business leaders, according to the Times.
In the November 12 letter, the lawmakers said, “We believe that with the Read More
As I noted earlier, Garodnick's district mirrors a good portion of the Congressional district, and he has a base of support in the voter-rich Stuyvesant Town and Peter Read More
Say what you want about her chances, but Carolyn Maloney is still acting like someone who actually means to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate next year.
She'd have to give up her House seat to do so. (Which is actually quite a good reason to believe that, at the end of the day, Read More
Jessica Lappin will not enter the public advocate’s race, according to her campaign adviser.
“Jessica weighed a number of factors and at the end of the day decided the right decision for her this year was to run for re-election for the city council,” said Mark Guma, the adviser.
Lappin, a freshman City Council member Read More
Here’s Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum several of the people who want to replace her when she leaves office: John Liu, Bill de Blasio and Jessica Lappin.
The rally was to urge the City Council and mayor to amend the city’s human rights law to expand employment protection to caregivers.
It’s an issue with a Read More
Like Lappin, Green is from Manhattan, posing another challenge to her potential candidacy in what already looks to be a Read More
Former public advocate Mark Green just announced that he's running, once again, for public advocate. It's the only office he's ever run for successfully, and it changes the current race pretty drastically.
Other candidates in the race include civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel and City Council members Eric Gioia, Bill de Blasio and John Liu. Read More
Assemblyman Jonathan Bing’s chief of staff, Ben Kallos, filed paperwork to run for the City Council seat in Manhattan currently held by Jessica Lappin, who is contemplating a bid for public advocate.
Kallos is a 20-something lawyer who has done some impressive tinkering with voter databases and has quickly embedded himself in the Read More
A few readers have encouraged me to take a longer perspective on the fund-raising efforts of the public advocate candidates, and particularly of Bill de Blasio’s $200,000 haul in the last six months.
While that number is large for this filing period, overall, de Blasio still lags behind some of the other candidates. Read More
In non-plane-crash news, public advocate candidate Bill de Blasio was endorsed today by ACORN, the campaign announced.
"Bill has been at the forefront of our fights to increase affordable housing, combat rental discrimination, and ensure the provision of quality child care," said the chairman of ACORN's political action committee, Val Holder-Luke.
"While there are Read More
Jessica Lappin, who is considering joining the crowded race for public advocate, plans to change the name of her campaign committee from Lappin for Council to Lappin 2009, a person with knowledge of the campaign said.
Lappin has also begun to “ramp up” her fund-raising effort and hired two new fund-raisers for Read More
John Liu has signed Bill Lynch Associates to be the general consultants on his campaign for public advocate, a campaign aide confirmed.
“This is a very accomplished group of campaign strategists and partners who have signed on as a team for John Liu, the next public advocate,” said Chung Seto, a senior strategist on the Read More
Norman Siegel, one of the recognizable names in next year's public advocate’s race, said that if his third bid for the office is unsuccessful, he won't try again.
“I told my wife and we had a conversation, and this is it,” Siegel said.. “That’s why it’s more Read More
