Celebrating Community
Page two of today’s NY Daily News has two stories about Mayor de Blasio’s increasingly annoying persona. “Blaz hits denial of building deal” is a story about his anger at the City Council for going along with community wishes. They denied a zoning change that would have allowed a real estate developer to build approximately ten extra stories in a […]
I was stunned by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement of the Brooklyn Queens Connector – his $2.5 billion plan for a trolley system that would serve only the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. What shocked me was the funding source. It is to be financed by floating a bond issue backed by anticipated property tax increases on land adjacent to the […]
While some (including us) might call Carlos Menchaca’s first year in office an evolution, in the vital things he has held fast to his principles – the most important being that a democracy is for all the people. He is no thoughtless revolutionary. While he signs his emails “in solidarity,” he never looks to divide people into “us and them.” Instead, as we […]