ARTS and CULTURE
Waking the Dead
Jarrett Murphy |
Lomex. Robert Moses. Westway. Jane Jacobs. What New York’s planning past tells us about its future.
Lomex. Robert Moses. Westway. Jane Jacobs. What New York’s planning past tells us about its future.
After seven years of legal wrangling, hundreds of millions of dollars in city expense, and the eviction of many of Coney Island’s historic amusement operators, the island is still seasonal.
Officially, the city and national economies are out of recession. But in New York’s bodegas, the evidence—in lottery tickets, food stamps and reduced sales—suggests otherwise.
Despite the coalescence of an anti-Espada movement around Rivera, Rivera says the race is not just about dislodging Espada. He says it’s about bringing to the community much needed resources such as jobs and housing.
Nearly three years after Mayor Bloomberg’s powerful deputy mayor and development czar Dan Doctoroff left City Hall, we check in on some of the major—and controversial—projects launched during his tenure.
This fall, voters will decide on a minor change to rules governing the location of sewage plants and garbage stations. But environmental advocates and community planners wanted more.
The Charter Revision Commission green-lighted several questions for voters to decide this fall, including whether to return to a two-term limit. But the push for nonpartisan elections died with a whimper.
Transit service reductions will inconvenience millions of commuters. But for thousands of people in a few neighborhoods, the cuts will be more deeply felt.
An impromptu survey finds that about half of a sample of city offices participate in a 20-year-old program to distribute voter registration forms.
Some members of the Charter Revision Commission disagreed pointedly with the panel’s own staff over what changes to city government are worth contemplating before a November vote.