Boroughs
New Crime Site Data Needs More Detail
Jordan Moss |
A new tool lets New Yorkers see where the crime is, but supporters of the law that mandated the map want to know more.
Health and Environment
EPA Wants Site on Brooklyn-Queens Border in Superfund
Jarrett Murphy |
The Wolff-Alpert Chemical Company imported sand containing thorium from the Belgian Congo in the 1940s. Now the feds believe lingering radioactivity warrant making the former factory the third active New York City Superfund site.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Competitive Energy Markets Work for New York
Gavin J. Donohue |
In a response to an assemblyman’s call for stricter regulation of the electricity marketplace, an industry official says deregulation is not to blame for high prices.
Health and Environment
Deadline Nears for Public Input on Rockaways Pipeline
Karla Ann Cote |
Federal regulators will soon decide whether to permit a pipeline to run under the Rockaway Inlet, connecting the Brooklyn-Queens natural gas grid to a transcontinental pipe three miles offshore.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Failed Deregulation: NYers Pay Too Much for Power
Assemblyman James Brennan |
An assemblyman reveals the results of an investigation into how our current electricity rates compare to those we’d have paid before the Pataki administration’s deregulation of the power market.
Economy
Campaign 2013, Seen from Brownsville
Jarrett Murphy |
We wanted to hear a little of what people in one somewhat forgotten piece of Brooklyn thought about the candidates, the campaign and the city.
Bronx
Fracking Accusation Angers Bronx State Pols
Tyler Pager |
A Common Cause report says donations imply support, but lawmakers insist they’re for moratorium.
Government
The 2013 Primary Candidates on Public Safety
Sara Sugar |
Stop-and-frisk, the inspector general, Ray Kelly and Muslim surveillance: How do the hopefuls come down on the key issues of crime and policing in New York?
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
True or False: New York City Already Bans Racial Profiling
Jarrett Murphy |
When the Democrats running for mayor debated, the merits of a proposed ban on profiling figured prominently.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Wage Theft Case Grinds On
Tobias Salinger |
Authorities found that a Williamsburg construction company owed its workers $500,000, but no one’s been paid yet. Advocates blame enforcement delays on overburdened state inspectors.
