Here’s what the Star-Revue naively wrote back in 2013, endorsing Bill de Blasio for mayor: We like Bill for a couple of reasons. Bill de Blasio has been a friend to the neighborhood of Red Hook, as well as all of Brooklyn as a whole. He is from the area, having represented the 39th District as City Councilman until his […]
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Is de Blasio the next to go? Op-Ed by George Fiala
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 […]
Editorial: This is how our governor rolls
If anyone was wondering why our mayor, who used to lead rallies across the street from Long Island College Hospital to prevent its closing, has barely said boo about it since February, one need only to look north to the governor’s mansion. You could get a clue by paying attention to Andrew Cuomo’s actions during this past primary season, when […]
Red Hook resident dies after delayed ambulance response, by George Fiala
Wednesday evening, May 21, Danny Cruz Jr. was busy making dinner for his three girls, Tea, 14; Savanna 12 and the youngest, Angel. Dinner was hamburgers and potato puffs. He loved making dinner, helping his wife Tynisha, who works during the day. He was getting ready for the job he held since last November. He worked the 11 pm – […]
Op Ed: LICH Ombudsman calls for impeachment, by Dr. Jon Berall
Editor’s note: Jon Berall was appointed as one of two ombudsmen at LICH to oversee SUNY Downstate’s compliance with the Kings County Supreme Court orders issued by Justice Johnny Lee Baynes. Eleven months ago, SUNY Downstate announced that Long Island College Hospital (LICH) would be shut because it was not medically needed and losing vast sums of money. These lies […]
THE STROMBERG REPORT, by Kimberly Gail Price
Another part of the LICH Saga, sidebar to our recent story. In October 2010, Cliff Stromberg was commissioned by Chancellor, Nancy Zimpher to evaluate the Research Foundation of four Health Science Centers in the SUNY system. Cliff Stromberg works for a legal firm in D.C. called Hogan Lovells. His bio on their website says “For several years, he held an […]
Meet “Skip” Williams – hospital hitman, by Kimberly Gail Price
“This community has been lied to,” said Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio. “At the same time [that] SUNY and the Governor promised everything possible was being done to save LICH, they were preparing to sell it off to the highest bidder.” “SUNY is violating a court order to keep this hospital open, and we won’t let it stand,” de Blasio said. […]
De Blasio announces newest and greatest SUNY/LICH court order yet, by George Fiala
A bit after one pm, on the 6th of September, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio stepped up to the makeshift podium across from Long Island College Hospital and greeted his LICH supporters. The group, made up of employees, former patients, local residents and politicians, and a press corps that grows bigger each week, meet across from the hospital on the […]
Carl McCall’s Ivory Tower, by George Fiala
As State Senator, H. Carl McCall led a community protest against the threatened closing of Harlem’s Sydenham Hospital. The 1976 protest was necessary, as he said at the time, because “the community would not allow the policy of ‘municipal shrinkage’ to shrink our community.” Today, McCall, as Chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees, is leading a nasty battle to shutter […]
A legal and moral responsibility, by Hon. Carolyn Demarest
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