City Comptroller John Liu has been an embarrassment during his three years in office, but he is not always wrong. His recent audit of work on the city’s 911 emergency-response system raises some troubling questions about the practices of a vendor, Hewlett-Packard, that has received more than $100 million in city money over the last few years. Read More
The World Trade Center has come unbound. A little or quite a lot depending on whom you believe.
The 16-acre site had a good year last year. The still overly symbolic 1 World Trade Center passed the halfway mark of its eventual height, Condé Nast closed on its huge lease there and the 9/11 Memorial opened on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, as on time as it was ever going to be. “Let us remember not only the day that time stood still—but the decade we have spent recovering, rebuilding and renewing,” Mayor Bloomberg said during a Sept. 6 speech. The passage of time had been good, even necessary.
But no longer. The gloom has begun to return. Read More
