Bronx
ALL'S FERRER AS BRONX BEEP BAGS LANDLORD CASH
Glenn Thrush |
A City Limits analysis of mayoral candidate Ferbando Ferrer’s campaign filings shows $20,000 in campaign support from the city’s top landlord lobbying group since 1994.
Staten Island
UNION'S BID FOR WORKERS FOILED
Glenn Thrush |
A failed attempt to unionize Business Improvement District workers is now under investigation.
Staten Island
Wedge City
Glenn Thrush |
Sure, the landlord lobby loves Republicans. But wait till you hear their plan to turn New York City’s Democratic legislators into pawns in the rent-regulation endgame.
Bad Air Days
Glenn Thrush |
A team of New York City doctors has found that the main culprits for asthma-related visits to the city’s emergency room are soot, smog and auto emissions.
Manhattan
CAMPAIGN CASH ON COMPUTER
Glenn Thrush |
The nonprofit good-government group Citizen Action is trying to do what the state legislature has thus far refused to do–computerize lists of the tens of thousands of contributions made to legislative candidates.
City Hall
JEANETT COLON OUT AT DAS
Glenn Thrush |
Jeanett Colon lost her job as the head of the city’s Division of AIDS Serviceson Friday.
Bronx
TENANTS FORCE BRONX POL TO WITHDRAW RENT DEPOSIT BILL
Glenn Thrush |
One of the sponosors of a rent-deposit law agrees to tenants’ demand that she drop the hated measure.
Bronx
SHELTER POLICY A “TIME BOMB”
Glenn Thrush |
The city is running homeless families through a bureaucratic maze to keep them from applying for shelter, a court-appointed commission says.
Welfare
KIDS PAWNS IN WELFARE GAMBIT
Glenn Thrush |
New York State does a terrible job of a helping poor children, according to a new report by the National Association of Child Advocates.
