Tag: Bill de Blasio
After a roadblock earlier this week, the march towards turning Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar factory into gleaming, futuristic high-rises will continue as planned. The stall came when Mayor de Blasio asked for more affordable housing units than the developers and Michael Bloomberg, de Blasio’s predecessor, had agreed upon. Under a new compromise, Two Trees, the development company, […]
The much-dreaded/anticipated redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory could be slowing down, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked for more affordable housing units than were agreed upon under the Bloomberg administration. Jed Walentas of developer Two Trees isn’t having it, and a continued disagreement could delay the future of the project. “I’d very much […]
In the spirit of the New York Post’s traffic exclusive on CBS‘ traffic exclusive, here’s ours. These photo were taken about an hour ago on West 57th Street in front of CBS headquarters, which apparently is a a hotbed of unlawful traffic activity. CBS employee proceeds to jaywalk after cab pulls illegal U-turn. This SUV […]
Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” initiative — the plan to reduce traffic fatalities to zero within ten years — has thus far been little more than a hopeful idea. This week, however, the mayor rolled out the specifics of how he intends to pull it off. Those include everything from indicators inside taxis that tell […]
When Bill de Blasio addressed his decision not to close New York City schools for yesterday’s snowstorm, he pointed to history, noting that the city has only closed schools for snow 11 times since 1978. “Unlike some cities, we don’t shut down in the face of adversity,” he argued. “I’m going to make decisions based […]
One of Bill de Blasio’s key campaign promises involved ending the city’s appeal of a federal lawsuit aimed at the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, and now, he’s delivering on it. In a deal laid out by the mayor’s administration today, the city will accept a court-ordered monitor to oversee the NYPD for three years to ensure […]
The most frustrating part of Bill de Blasio’s mea culpa about the “botched” plow job on the Upper East Side after the snowstorm was that by apologizing, the mayor was privileging the wealthy UES over the city’s other snowbound neighborhoods. He played right into the New York Post’s weather class warfare non-narrative, despite the fact […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on on a concept “vision zero” — the idea that traffic deaths are preventable, and can and should be eliminated entirely in New York — and yesterday, he unveiled some of the steps his administration will take to try to make it a reality. The NYPD’s Highway Division will grow […]
Jerry Delakas’s East Village newsstand, which operated on Astor Place for 26 years before the city shut it down last month, reopened today. The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs forced Delakas to close because he worked without a license, and instead paid a monthly fee to “a succession of people who had received operator licenses,” […]
Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota’s main line of attack against his Democratic rival Bill de Blasio in recent weeks has been to go the classic Republican route and label de Blasio a “socialist.” The onslaught began after the New York Times published a piece explaining de Blasio’s 1980s ties to the Nicaraguan Sandinista movement. Now, an actual socialist–namely, […]
