Citywide
Green Taxi Case Heads Toward Showdown
Hashim Rahman |
The Bloomberg administration’s hopes for a hybrid-car taxi fleet may hinge on whether a federal appeals court thinks a city plan passes Constitutional muster.
Bronx
City Wants Answers, Input On Upstate Drill Plan
Sarah Crean |
A huge underground reserve of natural gas is luring fuel companies to upstate New York. But local officials and advocates are worried about what the drilling will do to the city’s watershed.
Bronx
In Flatbush, Pirate Radio Tunes Into Trouble
Curtis Stephen |
In one Brooklyn neighborhood, unlicensed radio stations add to the cultural mix—but irk owners of small community stations who compete for space on the dial.
Citywide
Do They PAC A Punch? Freelancers Get Political
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Hoping for friendlier policies toward independent workers, the Freelancers Union launched a PAC this year. And local pols paid attention.
ARTS and CULTURE
Dreaming of Brooklyn: Development Reconsidered
Robert Neuwirth |
An art exhibit and conference looks at what development has meant—and will mean—for New York’s most romanticized borough.
