Bloomy Gets Lift To Subway, Wants Hand With Planting/Paying For Trees

Written by Jill Colvin on August 1, 2007. Posted in Politics, Posts

It looks like Mayor Bloomberg has been stretching the truth just a smidge—or at least leaving out a few important details about his life and policy plans. You know how he has always made a big deal about how he takes the subway to work, standing on the platform and standing clear of the closing
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NYC Water Kicks Ass

Written by Jill Colvin on August 1, 2007. Posted in Posts

Mayor Bloomberg announced Monday that the city’s drinking water is so gosh-darn clean that the federal government is waiving a filtration requirement for water coming from the Catskills/Delaware watershed, which provides 90 percent of the city’s tap water. As part of the 10-year waiver deal that will save the city an estimated $8 billion, the
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9/11 Families Boycotting City Memorial

Written by Jill Colvin on July 31, 2007. Posted in Posts

The families of a group of 9/11 victims are so angry the city is refusing to hold its annual memorial ceremony at ground zero that they’ve decided to organize their own. Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that the memorial would have to be moved to Zuccotti Park, just southeast of the site, because ongoing construction makes
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Shalom NYC!

Written by Jill Colvin on July 31, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

The founder of a new public school that teaches Hebrew in Hollywood, Florida, is planning to bring his controversial idea to New York City. Former congressman Peter Deutsch (pictured) says that demand for space at the Ben Gamla Charter School, which opens at the end of August, has been much stronger than he expected, with
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Shalom NYC!

Written by Jill Colvin on July 31, 2007. Posted in Education, Posts

The founder of a new public school that teaches Hebrew in Hollywood, Florida, is planning to bring his controversial idea to New York City. Former congressman Peter Deutsch (pictured) says that demand for space at the Ben Gamla Charter School, which opens at the end of August, has been much stronger than he expected, with
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Domino Sugar Factory Inspires Artists

Written by Jill Colvin on July 31, 2007. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

A group of Brooklyn artists is lobbying to create an art museum inspired by London’s Tate Modern at the Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg instead of the housing complex, waterfront esplanade and commercial space that developers currently have planned. The highly successful Tate Modern is housed in a former power plant by the London
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Domino Sugar Factory Inspires Artists

Written by Jill Colvin on July 31, 2007. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

A group of Brooklyn artists is lobbying to create an art museum inspired by London’s Tate Modern at the Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg instead of the housing complex, waterfront esplanade and commercial space that developers currently have planned. The highly successful Tate Modern is housed in a former power plant by the London
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NYCLU Questions Frisky Cops

Written by Jill Colvin on July 26, 2007. Posted in Posts

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking the NYPD to release its stop-and-frisk records—data that the department has already refused to turn over to the City Council. Statistics released last year show that 508,540 people (an astounding half a million) were stopped in 2006 alone, five times
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NYC Is Falling Down, Falling Down

Written by Jill Colvin on July 26, 2007. Posted in Posts

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for New Yorkers: First, a tornado, then a steam pipe explosion and last night, a retaining wall on the Upper West Side fell apart, forcing hundreds of residents of a high-rise in the Park West Village complex to evacuate. The wall was part of an adjoining construction site
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Our Advice To Kids: Move To Minnesota

Written by Jill Colvin on July 26, 2007. Posted in Posts

One in 10 children in New York state is living in extreme poverty, according to a study released yesterday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. A total of nineteen percent live below the federal poverty line, which has remained relatively steady over the past five years, as has the number of children living in families
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