Should We Care About the World Baseball Classic?

Written by C.J. Sullivan on February 1, 2006. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

HOLLANDER: If you care about baseball you should care a lot about the WBC. Baseball is dying in this country. There is no more sandlot baseball, stickball or even run-down. Kids in the United States no longer dream of playing major league baseball. You find that hunger in the dirt ballfields of San Pedro de
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Patriot Of the Arts

Written by C.J. Sullivan on February 1, 2006. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

A man with a plan
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Are the Knicks Back?

Written by C.J. Sullivan on January 25, 2006. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

SULLIVAN: When you’ve been down as much as this ship of fools, starting 2006 with six wins in eight games wasfor a Knicks fan, anywaylike feeling a spring breeze blowing down 7th Ave. during the heart of winter: You know it can’t last but it sure feels good while it does. The good news is
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Bronx Stroll: On the Lamb

Written by C.J. Sullivan on June 10, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Jersey City— the Bronx of the Garden State
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Bronx Struggle: Angels on the Subway

Written by C.J. Sullivan on May 13, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The legacy of the Magnificent 13.
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Bronx Stroll: Glory Days Gone

Written by C.J. Sullivan on April 8, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Don't make plans for a Yankee Stadium centennial.
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Lindbergh Baby Booty: The missing ransom money may still be up there.

Written by C.J. Sullivan on March 11, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Sixty years before O.J. Simpson’s "Trial of the Century," there was the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Both the crime and subsequent trial took place in New Jersey, but the Bronx played a starring role in the drama: A small fortune from the Lindbergh ransom money went missing and may still be buried there. No one seems
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Bronx Stroll: Rag Trade: One of the city’s most important industries, now in decline.

Written by C.J. Sullivan on February 25, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Garment Center in New York was once one of the few districts in the city where most anyone who was willing to work hard could find a job. Immigrants, people with little or no education, those with no work history or skills, and some with criminal records flocked there to get a job. All
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First Person: Kill Santa Claus

Written by C.J. Sullivan on January 14, 2003. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

I got big plans for revenge for this new year. I’m not talking 2003 resolutions here. This plot is much more base and primal. This year I am going to kill off Santa Claus. Exterminate him like one of the old gods of the Roman Empire. There’s a back story to this rage. Two weeks
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Forest Hills Garden

Written by C.J. Sullivan on August 20, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Turning off of the earsplitting hustle of Queens Blvd. and walking down Continental Ave. you see the urban oasis of Forest Hills Garden. When you pass underneath the LIRR tracks there’s a sign: Warning! Entering Private Streets. Parking by Permit Only. There’s always a secret thrill in being somewhere you aren’t supposed to be and
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