With the City Council set to decide whether or not a Queens street should be renamed after Sean Bell, the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke out in favor of the renaming. In 2006, Bell was killed and two of his [...]
With the City Council set to decide whether or not a Queens street should be renamed after Sean Bell, the Reverend Al Sharpton spoke out in favor of the renaming. In 2006, Bell was killed and two of his [...]
Last spring, Queens Community Board 12 voted to re-name a street after Sean Bell, the 23-year-old groom who was killed in a hail of bullets three years ago by police, and yesterday it was approved by a City Council committee as part [...]
The Democrat & Chronicle reports that City Councilmember Lovely Warren will take control of the Rochester City Council as its president next year. Warren works for Democrat State Assemblyman David Gantt and will most likely take her lead on all matters coming before City Council from Gantt himself. That’s a very, [...]
I was under the impression that area politicians are not only here to govern said jurisdiction but also to act as a promoter of the people and places that they represent. Why are the Democrats not doing that any longer? City Council in Rochester this past week voted to spend [...]
The Ferry Company has finally dissolved (pending approval from City Council next year). Via the D&C
Members of the city’s ferry board met briefly Thursday to terminate a lease with the Toronto Port Authority with a $90,000 settlement, and to dissolve the Rochester Ferry Co.
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The Toronto terminal lease was a [...]
State Assembly member Micah Kellner, City Council members Melissa Mark-Viverito and Dan Garodnick, Council member-elect Margaret Chin, and State Senator Bill Perkins are among 19 local electeds calling on DOT and the MTA to implement "true BRT" and "complete streets" on First and Second [...]
from Atomische • Tom Giebel's flickr
In a rare decision for the City Council — which has voted in support of almost every single development project backed by Mayor Bloomberg — the group turned down a plan to convert the Kingsbridge [...]
Former Washington Heights City Councilman Miguel Martinez was sentenced to five years in prison this afternoon for stealing more than $100,000 in funds that were intended for non-profit groups in ...
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By all measures, a press conference early Monday afternoon on the steps of City Hall appeared to be a victory celebration.
The City Council had just voted, 45-1, to block a planned new mall at the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory, as the developer, the Related Companies, balked at requiring its [...]
We were told to withhold our applause when the Washington, DC city council voted to recognize gay marriages in the District: the process required another vote. Well, they had it today, and it pass...
Continue reading "Gay Marriage D.C. a Go; Fenty to Sign, Congress Unlikely" [...]
Last week, Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the 5-minute grace period bill which was overwhelmingly passed by the City Council. He also vetoed a similar bill which would allow clergy to receive city-issued free parking permits. Today it was expected that the Council's Transportation Committee [...]
While the Related Companies on Monday was handed a rare, high-profile rebuke by the City Council over its $323 million Kingsbridge Armory retail project, the giant developer did happen to win the Council's thumbs-up on another little project: the $15 billion West Side rail yards [...]
Pictured above are Councilmember Joel Rivera and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. at a rally following the council’s vote.
In a rare move, the City Council rejected a proposal from the Bloomberg administration and developer The Related Companies to redevelop a massive armory [...]
Pictured above are Councilmember Joel Rivera and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. at a rally following the council’s vote.
In a rare move, the City Council rejected a proposal from the Bloomberg administration and developer The Related Companies to redevelop a massive armory [...]
Photograph by Atomische + Tom Giebel on Flickr After postponing two votes, two City Council subcommittees voted against a $310 million proposal to transform the Kingsbridge Armory into a shopping Mall. NY1 reports, "This is the first time the current" [...]
The City Council is preparing to hand a defeat Monday to the Related Companies, the normally-successful development powerhouse that sought to turn the giant Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a mall.
The forthcoming rebuke--the Land Use committee Monday morning voted 17-1 against the project--is an extremely rare action for a [...]
The city council’s land use and zoning subcommittee have rejected the proposal to redevelop the kingsbridge armory. More to come later.
[...]The city council’s land use and zoning subcommittee have rejected the proposal to redevelop the kingsbridge armory. More to come later.
[...]This was filed from Gotham Gazette’s Dana Farrington from City Hall.
Several members of the City Council want to force the city’s corporation counsel to report on civil lawsuits against the NYPD — an attempt to hold the police accountable for not only the number of them, but also [...]
This was filed from Gotham Gazette’s Dana Farrington from City Hall.
Several members of the City Council want to force the city’s corporation counsel to report on civil lawsuits against the NYPD — an attempt to hold the police accountable for not only the number of them, but also [...]
Ex-city councilman Miguel Martinez has written a wrenching and apologetic letter to government probation officials saying that he cried himself to sleep the night after he pleaded guilty last July...
Continue reading "Facing Prison, Miguel Martinez Is Very Sorry. But It's Not All His Fault. " [...]
Yesterday, the City Council passed legislation "to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing government, commercial, and residential buildings." Mayor Bloomberg praised the Council's work and said, "By requiring buildings to conduct energy audits and improve their energy efficiency, the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan will" [...]
To anyone closely watching the recent City Council elections, a small set of races took an interesting turn in the summer. The Independence Party of New York, typically something of a passive player in city politics, suddenly became actively involved in outer-borough contests, pushing hard for four or [...]
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn isn't sweating Councilman Charles Barron's announcement that he's running against her for Council Speaker. The Daily News reports that Quinn said, "I take all races seriously, but I am very, very optimistic that I will be reelected in January'" [...]
