By Azi Paybarah 4/09/07 12:00am

Spitzer’s Money Person Cashes In for Women

Cynthia Darrison, the woman who spent eight years building Eliot Spitzer’s mighty fund-raising operation, has calculated that there’s a market for people with skills like hers.

“I don’t think donors themselves are necessarily in tune with why they’re giving,” she said in a telephone interview Saturday night from her home in Flatbush, hours before the Read More

By Staff 3/15/07 8:41am

The Round-Up: Thursday

  • Residents fret Park Slope one-way traffic conversions.

    • [NY Sun]

  • Bistricer-owned Flatbush Gardens seeks change.

    • [NY Sun]

  • Milstein plans apartment tower near Union Square.

    • [NY Sun]

  • “Hotel mania” grips Manhattan!

    • [NY Sun]

  • New York dodges mortgage problems–for now.

    • [NY Sun]

  • Subprime mortgage debacle snags state teachers’ Read More

    • By Staff 2/22/07 9:30am

    Analyzing Eugene’s Win

    An informed reader emailed over a rough breakdown of the results of Tuesday’s special Council election in Brooklyn.

    It turns out that Mathieu Eugene’s union-backed victory was just as thorough as the overall numbers indicated. He was the top vote-getter in nearly all of the Assembly districts that lie at least partly within the Read More

    By Staff 2/19/07 9:30am

    Jennifer James and the News

    The much sought-after Daily News endorsement in the City Council in Brooklyn went to Yvette Clarke’s former fund-raiser Jennifer James.

    Here’s what the News said:

    “A local political activist, lifelong Flatbush resident and daughter of Caribbean immigrants, she has broad support in a diverse district. Also welcome is a promise to donate any “lulu” Read More

    By Staff 11/02/06 4:41pm

    New Brooklyn Boss: Hits, Not Homers


    Brooklyn coulda been a contender

    Downtown Brooklyn’s lament has been the inability to attract mega-tenants to four different sites that were painstakingly drawn and measured in a city-led massive rezoning two years ago.

    Joe Chan, the president of the new Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, indicated in an interview last week that he was Read More

    By Staff 8/08/06 12:42pm

    What Project?


    “It looks like we just got done playing Backgammon.” -Bill Batson

    Bill de Blasio has endorsed Bill Batson for the 57th Assembly District, despite the fact that they differ in their views on the Atlantic Yards project. De Blasio’s district does not overlap with the 57th, but is just north and Read More

    By Staff 2:20pm

    In the District

    With so many people from outside the 11th Congressional district weighing in on what ought to happen there, we figured it was about time to take a stroll down to the area surrounding the proposed Atlantic Yards Plan to speak to actual residents about the issues that will affect their choice in that race. Read More