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The coronavirus hasn’t delayed New York’s June 23 Democratic primary. In fact, it has added to the ballot a presidential contest – rescheduled from April 28, then cancelled (which prompted a lawsuit from candidate Andrew Yang), then restored, then challenged again in court, then affirmed – where 10 candidates who’ve suspended their campaigns will compete for delegates to August’s Democratic […]
Regal Management, a corporate landlord in Brooklyn, has a portfolio of more than 20 buildings located primarily in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Its tenants have the same complaints as most renters in Brooklyn: namely, high rents and subpar maintenance. In March, after COVID-19 hit New York City, Regal sent a form letter to residents. “We are aware that you might be […]
The two new options on the table are Boylan, a 36-year-old Columbia Business School graduate whom Andrew Cuomo appointed Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Adviser to the Governor in 2018, and Herzog, a 25-year-old who joined Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign after serving as co-president of Harvard Law School’s student government. Herzog hopes to advocate for Yang’s platform […]
Since March, 60.6 percent of U.S. households have responded to the 2020 Census, which will determine each state’s share of congressional representation and (to a large extent) federal funding for the next 10 years. With a 55.6 percent self-response rate, New York State trails New Jersey (62.6 percent) and Connecticut (64 percent). The self-response rate refers to the percentage of […]
New mandatory disclosure reports filed in May at the New York State Board of Elections gave local voters a glimpse into the campaigns of several candidates who hope to represent Red Hook in Albany in 2021. The documents reveal political donations and expenditures made between January 12 and May 18. Schoolteacher Jabari Brisport, who trailed former State Senate staffer Jason […]
During the first half of my twenties, I cared about art, not politics. I skimmed the news about wars and oil spills and participated in elections as a matter of civic duty, but deep down I intuited that nothing good or exciting would ever happen in Washington – or probably anywhere in the real world, which I found alienating and […]
How do you win an election without leaving the house? Local politicians – their sights set on Albany – hope to figure out the answer. With seven major Democratic candidates vying for New York State Legislature seats in Senate District 25 and Assembly District 51, which overlap in Red Hook and Sunset Park, this spring would – under normal circumstances […]
Update: Spaceworks has announced that artists at its Williamsburg and South Bronx locations can wait until June 15 to move out. 19 below-market-rate studios for artists in Williamsburg and the South Bronx are slated to vanish in May, leaving painters, sculptors, writers, and dancers with the grim task of moving out during a pandemic. Until recently, more than two dozen […]
In zip code 11231 – which encompasses Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, most of the Columbia Street Waterfront District, southern Cobble Hill, and eastern Gowanus – the rate of verified COVID-19 infections is seven per 1,000 residents, roughly half that of New York City on the whole, according to data from the New York State Department of Health. The low-income tenants […]
Dr. William Chiang is a native New Yorker who moved to California last year for a fellowship in wilderness medicine at UCSF Fresno. On April 12, he flew home to serve as a daily volunteer in the emergency departments of several New York City hospitals until May 7. On April 17, after four consecutive nights of 12-hour shifts, he shared […]