Third Term's The Charm
Sep 15, 2008
Illustration (c) Gotham Gazette Councilmember Oliver Koppell, a career politician who has gone from state attorney general to a member of the Bronx delegation in City Hall, needs a new job. Term
After 7 Years, Breathing Ailments Persist
Sep 11, 2008
Graphic from the EPA As the world waits -- and waits -- for the World Trade Center's redevelopment project to rise from the gaping hole along Church Street, downtown residents and
Seven Years Later
Sep 10, 2008
Photo by Benjamin Jarosch, courtesy of WTC Documentary Arts Project On June 30, the Port Authority told Gov David Paterson what many New Yorkers suspected: Almost seven years after the 9/11
The Question Mark Over Fiterman Hall
Sep 10, 2008
Photos by Gail Robinson Standing on the 52nd floor of his new building at 7 World Trade Center, developer Larry Silverstein recently declared the structure a monument to what private enterprise
The Return of Allan Jennings
Sep 02, 2008
Huntley defeated Jennings and will be unopposed in the general electin. Shirley Huntley has a rare distinction in New York politics: In 2006, she unseated an incumbent state senator. This came
A Battle for the Ballot in Flushing
Sep 02, 2008
In 1999, Toby Ann Stavisky became a state senator -- the first woman from Queens to do so -- after the death of her husband, Dr. Leonard Price Stavisky, a
A Long-time Incumbent in a Changing District
Sep 02, 2008
Update: Democratic Incumbent Rhoda Jacobs won the state primary by a vote of 3,982 to 1,644 against Michele Adolphe. Jacobs now faces Alan Kesler. Information could not be found on Kesler.
A Feud in Flushing
Sep 02, 2008
UPDATE Grace Meng, the daughter of former Assemblymember Jimmy Meng, defeated incumbent Assemblymember Ellen Young in the hotly contested primary. Although Young will appear on ballot on the Independent and Working
Reshaping the City: Who's Being Heard -- and Why?
Aug 25, 2008
Images (c) NYC Department of City Planning Like clockwork, about every five minutes a black garbage truck rumbled down Washington Square South flashing a banner that bashed the Bloomberg administration. Accompanying a
Finding Your Way Around New York's News
Aug 18, 2008
New York is one of the media capitals of the world, and everything here -- from sporting events to zoning disputes -- takes place under a microscope the strength of |