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Earlier this month, in the brief few-day period when only one governor was embroiled in a sex scandal, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez introduced a bill to use eminent domain to take pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s approximately 15-acre manufacturing plant site in East Williamsburg and turn it into affordable housing (he's talked about this previously). Read More
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Mr. Lopez, also the chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, has been circulating a draft bill to acquire the Read More
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Pfizer Inc. said it would shutter its Brooklyn plant as part of its "immediate priorities to drive improved performance." Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says more than 600 jobs will be lost. Worldwide, the pharmaceutical company is eliminating 10,000 positions. - Matthew Schuerman
The new 28,000 square-foot Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory, funded partially by you-know-who and designed by Polshek Partnership, opens this week at the New York Botanical Garden. It will be open to the public until Sunday before being closed for students and scientists to study molecular systems and plant genomics. Get your wiggly worms here. Read More
There was a bit of coverage of the politics and ambience of the Black, Puerto Rican Caucus 's annual meeting in Albany over the weekend, and it sounds like a wonderful time was had by all (including, most of all, Tom Suozzi, who by all accounts had a lovely time complaining about his exclusion). Read More
The inability to make a decision turns out to be a rich comic subject. I think. In any case, it’s the problem of Dwight Wilmerding, the likably indecisive narrator of Indecision. One may wonder why someone likable has to be saddled with such a name (though maybe not, coming from an author stuck with Kunkel), Read More
The inability to make a decision turns out to be a rich comic subject.
I think. In any case, it’s the problem of Dwight Wilmerding, the likably indecisive narrator of Indecision. One may wonder why someone likable has to be saddled with such a name (though maybe not, coming from an author stuck with Kunkel), but Read MoreIn the soon-to-be-released documentary The Corporation , a commodities trader named Carlton Brown stares into the camera and describes his first reaction upon hearing that two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
"How much is gold up?" he wondered. "My God, gold must be exploding!" He explains that he Read MoreAs headlines warned of record tax increases and bitter divisions among state Republicans, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor George Pataki-on opposite sides of the tax-hike debate-appeared together at two press conferences on May 5. Both occasions celebrated good news. First, they announced that Pfizer Inc. will create 2,000 jobs here. An hour later, they cut Read More
Peter J. Powers-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's boyhood friend, former top deputy mayor and perpetual close adviser-has quietly re-emerged as the man to hire for several companies seeking a sympathetic ear from City Hall.
Although Mr. Powers says he does no lobbying-he is not registered as a city lobbyist-he has been retained as a "consultant" by at least Read MoreViagra is the perfect American medicament. It raises the Dow Jones and the penis, too. If you were ever wondering whether the stock market was a metaphor for male potency, here's your answer.
According to a venerable old Wall Streeter of my acquaintance, young Wall Streeters are predicting it will lower the divorce rate. That's a Read More