As with any election, our local contests had clear winners–including some local issues and groups that got an unexpected boost from last Tuesday’s returns.
One of the biggest and best buildings on the Williamsburg waterfront will soon be converted from manufacturing space into 184 Soho-priced studio apartments–even though local residents have pushed to keep…
By requiring environmental review of a scheme to dump thousands of tons of chemicals in a upstate reservoir, the state may have scuttled the city’s drining water plan.
A chance discovery of illegal dumping at an abandoned Brooklyn pier has stalled a proposed movie theater development–and possibly opened the door for a park instead.
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…
