By Steve Cohen 11/02/09 9:43pm

Baseball and the Heart of New York City

My parents moved to Brooklyn in 1955 when I was almost two years old, and by the time I was four, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had played their last home games in the five boroughs. Until Casey Stengel and the Mets arrived in 1962, the only baseball team in town was the Read More

By Azi Paybarah 6/23/09 10:47pm

The Goodman Commission

Former state senator Roy Goodman of Manhattan released a statement today saying he’d like the stalemate in the Senate to be broken by a bipartisan commission.

Goodman, one of the last of the Rockefeller Republican types, recommends the following “individuals of the highest caliber” to serve on it:

Former governors George E. Pataki, Mario Cuomo Read More

By Azi Paybarah 5/13/09 7:23pm

Dinkins Endorses Thompson, Wishes Bloomberg ‘Were a Democrat’

Former mayor David Dinkins endorsed Bill Thompson at a rally on the City Hall steps just now, but offered few–if any–reasons why voters should not choose Michael Bloomberg, and referred to the mayor as a “friend” more than once.

Dinkins was asked what “shortcomings” Bloomberg had that led to today’s endorsement.

“Gee, I Read More