Lopez Torres Wins

Know that Brooklyn judicial race that maybe you vaguely feel like you should be following though you’re not?

Anyway, the “reform” candidate, Margarita Lopez Torres, has won it by 205 votes, doubling her margin of victory from the first count, Crain’s Erik Engquist emails.

It’s something of a blow to the new Brooklyn boss, Read More

Politics

Brooklyn History

Brooklyn Politics columnist Erik Engquist has an extraordinary little item about District Attorney Joe Hynes buffing his non-hack credentials with the claim that, in 1989, he ran as an insurgent against the party machine.

“An excellent point indeed. If it were true,” Engquist writes. “Which it isn’t.”

Apparently, the last time Hynes claimed Read More