Union Boss Backs Bad Boy Bevona
Michael Hirsch |
Union boss uses crooked tactics to win election.
Economy
QUEENS LABOR LORD BACKS BAD BOY BEVONA IN BALLOT BATTLE
Michael Hirsch |
Gus Bevona is fighting a judge’s order that says his side rigged the local’s election, and he has a surprising ally in the battle.
David Dinkins
Lone Ranger No More
Michael Hirsch |
For decades the Regional Plan Association padded the corridors of power and flexed muscle for its sweeping visions of regional development. But now the group must court communities if it wants to see its latest plan take wing.
Economy
RUTH-LESS LABOR'S “RIGHT” IN S.I.
Michael Hirsch |
The union’s aren’t on board for Ruth Messinger’s mayoral run, and they’re doing stranger things still on Staten Island.
Regional Plan Association
No-Go Gowanus
Michael Hirsch |
A new truck-and-car tunnel v. repairs to the Gowanus Expressway.
Citywide
Dr. Downsize
Michael Hirsch |
The boss of a backwater Brooklyn hospital wrote the book on cutting jobs in hospitals around the country. His slash and burn credo may be New York’s next health care wave.
Staten Island
Wrongshoreman
Michael Hirsch |
A Brooklyn Congressman from the West Side of Manhattan has a worker-friendly plan for resurrecting a dead port. So why is everybody talking like Jerry Nadler’s just proposed Westway 2000?
