At a black-tie, $375-a-plate dinner, a Bronx economic development agency honors the head of a garbage firm that has been accused of bribery and fined millions for environmental violations.
He’s a karate instructor, founder of a local newspaper and a neighborhood organizer. If Joe Lopez can’t solve your problem, he’ll adopt a profession that can.
A court decision seems to give tenants a lot of new rights under a federal debt-collection law, but a big loophole renders much of the protection moot.
They haven’t announced any specific plans yet, but a wide-ranging group meeting upstate has found more common ground on brownfields than most thought possible.
