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Linda Rosenthal

2 By Anna Sanders 11/03/11 12:39pm

environment

Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, Eric Goldstein from the Natural Resources Defense Council, former Commissioner of the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection Albert F. Appleton, Deborah Goldberg from Earthjustice, and actor/activist Mark Ruffalo.

Mark Ruffalo Attends Tension-Filled Hydrofracking Forum on UWS

Last night, actor Mark Ruffalo was on hand at an Upper West Side public forum to voice his opposition to the proposal allowing  hydrofracking in New York State.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal arranged the forum as a means for her UWS constituents, along with other New Yorkers, to discuss the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's proposal to open the Marcellus Shale to natural gas drilling, which comes after the moratorium on the practice was lifted in June. The DEC has opened its Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS), which explores the controversy surrounding hydrofracking, to public comment through Dec. 12.  Read More

By Rosanna Boscawen 9/02/11 10:33am

Public Art

Installing the stars. Photo: The Windmill Factory.

The Stars Come Out in the Hudson

Wednesday night, as The Observer crossed the West Side Highway at Bank Street and walked over to Pier 49, the pink-orange sun was reflecting onto the Hudson River, and people had filled the surrounding patches of grass, waiting for the official unveiling of a new public artwork by artist Jon Morris called Reflecting the Stars, Read More

By Azi Paybarah 10/05/09 9:07pm

Tom Duane Gets Behind Thompson; Isay Democrats Don’t

After the Democratic Party's unity rally for Bill Thompson on Sunday, the campaign sent out a list of supporters that included a name I hadn't seen on there before: Tom Duane.

Duane, the state senator from Chelsea, didn't attend the event, but has officially come out in support of Thompson, a fellow Democrat.

Duane was Read More

By Azi Paybarah 5/04/09 5:27pm

De Blasio’s Manhattan Supporters

Here’s Bill de Blasio on Saturday with a bunch of lawmakers from Manhattan endorsing him on the steps of City Hall. The endorsers include Representative Jerry Nadler, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, State Senator Eric Schneiderman and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal.

Nadler said, “He’s known when to get along, and known when to stand and fight.”

By Eliot Brown 9/26/08 6:22pm

Extell ‘Earning Goodwill’ by Nixing West Side Costco

Extell Development has dropped its push to bring Costco to its planned "Riverside Center" site on the Upper West Side, part of the larger Riverside South development by the West Side Highway.

The developer told elected officials this morning that the planned store was off the table, dropping a controversial element of their plan, which Read More

By Jason Horowitz 3/06/06 12:00am

Tom Brokaw Advises In West Side Race— For the Son-in-Law

The Upper West Side’s special election on Feb. 28 to fill an empty seat in the State Assembly has been criticized as a vestige of old Tammany-style politics, in which the Democratic machine hand-picks the winner long before the first ballot is cast. But the Democratic Party wasn’t the only network of power brokers exerting Read More

By Jason Horowitz 3/06/06 12:00am

Tom Brokaw Advises In West Side Race- For the Son-in-Law

The Upper West Side’s special election on Feb. 28 to fill an empty seat in the State Assembly has been criticized as a vestige of old Tammany-style politics, in which the Democratic machine hand-picks the winner long before the first ballot is cast.

But the Democratic Party wasn’t the only network of power brokers exerting Read More
By Staff 3/01/06 3:20pm

Kavanagh Running for Assembly

Brian Kavanagh, the second-place finisher in a crowded East Side City Council race last year, didn't contest the special election to the State Assembly by Sylvia Friedman yesterday in an essentially uncontested race. But a recent call to Knickerbocker SKD, Kavanagh's consultants (who also worked for Mike, Scott Stringer, and new West Side assemblywoman Read More

By Staff 1/30/06 9:40am

Your Democratic Nominees

The complex, weighted County Committee members' vote on who will get the Democratic nomination to succeed two departing members of the State Assembly is by definition an inside process, but yesterday's results suggest that it isn't quite as under control as, say, the bygone institution of judicial conventions. (Nostalgia sets in fast around here!) Scott Read More