By Reid Pillifant 2/14/11 3:48pm

Sincerest Form of Flattery

Schumer Disciples Crowd His Sunday Style

If it’s Sunday, it’s Chuck Schumer meeting the press.

And yesterday was no exception, as Schumer summoned reporters to an 11 a.m. event in his East Midtown office to announce one of his achievable, inarguable policy goals–calling on the Federal Aviation Administration not to dilute its standards for measuring pilot fatigue.

But if the original Read More

By Meghan Keneally 10/21/10 10:07pm

Taking Comptroll

DiNapoli: Wilson Has “No Experience…In Delivering What Government Needs To Do” [VIDEO]

Democratic heavyweights came out for Tom DiNapoli this afternoon as he took his re-election campaign for state comptroller to Chinatown.

Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, New York City comptroller John Liu, state senator Daniel Squadron, assembly member Grace Meng, council member Margaret Chin were among supporters at a press conference at the Chinese Consolidated Business Association. Read More

By Eliot Brown 3/22/10 3:26pm

Housing-in-the-Park Debate Reopens as Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens

For the past half-decade, the plan to build Brooklyn Bridge Park has been a hornet’s nest. A finance plan largely based on developing housing within the new waterfront park, set up by the Pataki and Bloomberg administrations, incensed a vocal set of Brooklyn Heights neighbors, who have been unrelenting in their criticism more than three Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/07/09 9:14pm

Squadron Eyes City Takeover of Brooklyn Bridge Park, with Conditions

For at least two years, the Bloomberg administration has been pushing–first privately, then publicly–to take over the governance of Brooklyn Bridge Park, offering to put more money into the new East River parkland in exchange for more control from the state.

Now, the move has earned the tentative support of the local state senator, Daniel Read More