Housing and Homelessness
ON ELECTION EVE, SOME WOULD-BE BACKERS NOD OFF
Jill Grossman |
Mark Green’s stance on deregulating apartments in The New York Times might lose him some housing group endorsements.
ANOTHER GREEN BACKS SPITZ
Geoffrey Gray |
George Spitz has trouble getting serious press, but he does have the admiration of former Green Party presidential hopeful Ralph Nader.
Economy
UNIONS TO BETSY: DROP DEAD!
Annia Ciezadlo |
Hubby Victor once headed the city’s largest municipal union, but Betsy Gotbaum has been frozen out of labor endorsements in the race for public advocate.
Hillary Clinton
WORKING FAMILIES' LOCAL HEROES
Jill Grossman |
The Working Families Party might have set an endorsement record with its slate for a south Brooklyn council seat.
Bronx
ORGANIZERS MOURN
Annia Ciezadlo |
Jim Drake’s passing ends a storied organizing career that began with helping migrants in the Southwest and culminated in training a generation of neighborhood activists in Harlem, Brooklyn and the South Bronx.
