Michael Hirsch, Author at City Limits

City Lit: The Power Mediocre

Michael Hirsch | December 1, 2001

A book review of The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York by Vincent J. Cannato, Basic Books, 2001. 579 pages. $35.

City Lit: Black in Brooklyn

Michael Hirsch | November 1, 2000

A book review of A Covenant With Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, by Craig Steven Wilder, Columbia University Press, $35.

Citywide

The Wrong Haul

Michael Hirsch | June 1, 1999

As the city moves to dump its garbage on Red Hook, the beleaguered neighborhood fights back–with a little help from its friends up and down the waterfront.

Manhattan

SUBCONTRACTING DISEASE: NEW UNION BATTLEGROUND

Michael Hirsch | March 29, 1999

Now that labor boss Gus Bevona is out, the custodian’s union is making some loud noise about an increasingly common practice: breaking a union contract by hiring subcontractors.

Bronx

STATEN ISLAND POLS FLEE CITY'S SINKING GARBAGE BARGE

Michael Hirsch | March 1, 1999

The city has said that it isn’t interested in rebuilding current garbage processing facilities, but Staten Island politicians are willing to look at any plan that closes the Fresh Kills megadump.

City Lit: Import Exploit

Michael Hirsch | February 1, 1999

A book review of Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor, by Peter Kwong, The New Press, 1998, 273 pages, $24.

Gunning for Gus

Michael Hirsch | September 1, 1998

By representing pro-democracy union dissidents, lawyer Arthur Schwartz is doing well while doing good. Can he finally unseat untouchable maintenance union boss Gus Bevona?