Whether you’re for or against the soda ban the NYC Board of Health approved last week, you can’t say the city’s plan to combat obesity came out of left field. Over the last decade, Mayor Bloomberg has pitched not one, but six contested policies testing the limits of what government can and cannot do to [...]
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NYPD ‘stop & frisk’ tactics under renewed scrutiny
This summer, the American public was shocked by an array of violent crimes committed by gun-wielding individuals across the country. In Aurora, Colorado on July 20, James Holmes walked into a midnight screening of the Dark Knight Rises with an arsenal of weapons, murdering twelve people and injuring 58. A few weeks later in Oak [...]
City announces new ‘Slow Zones’ across the borough
CORONA, Queens – On 104th Street and 38th Avenue, drivers bring their cars close to a complete stop, slowing down to roll up their windows and flick on their windshield wipers as they enter the harsh spray of an open fire hydrant. Although it does not involve the same tactic many New Yorkers use to [...]
Mayor Bloomberg details vision for major Willets Point redevelopment project
EAST ELMHURST, Queens – Dubbed “the valley of ashes” by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby,” the area along the Flushing River was once a desolate wasteland used by the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company as a dumping ground for the coal industry. Nearly 90 years later, the ‘valley of ashes’ might [...]
LIC community rallies against proposed $270,000 budget cuts to after-school programs
This afternoon, scores of pint-size protesters stormed the Our World Neighborhood Charter School (OWN) playground in Long Island City armed with hand-made posters and catchy rally chants. Occupy Sesame Street? Not quite.
New York Public Library embraces activism, social media to protest $100 million budget cuts
On Thursday, bibliophiles from across the city convened on the steps of City Hall to protest steep budget cuts to New York’s public library system. Sunnyside native and Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, chair of Cultural Affairs and Libraries Committee led the protest. The city financial plan has proposed to cut nearly 100 million dollars in [...]
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