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The Staten Island Expressway: Now With Ten Lanes, No EIS Required

For most of its history, the Staten Island Expressway had six lanes, with three in each direction, and service...

Ok. Let’s have a candid moment. Of course, during this presidential contest where Hillary Clinton is in the fight...

I wouldn’t have handled the situation that way. However I respect his right to do what he did, and...

As I predicted months ago, Sheldon Silver May walk. No jail for at least the next year. Wall...

In the 1990s there was an improving statistic that was as central to New York City’s turnaround as the...

The world is starting to find out what New Yorkers already knew Trump wise, ANDperhaps the best response I...

In my prior post I noted that the labor force of New York City, which had been soaring for...

I have long wondered if and when New York’s young workers, tired of low wages (or permanent freelancing or...

“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves…” “I watch my daughters — two...

The U.S. Census Bureau has released its “individual unit” state and local government pension fund data for FY 2014...