By Staff 4:13pm

The Long Island City Mystery

I wrote a fair amount last week about the overhaul of the city program that offers tax abatements for new residential construction. The details are here, and here, but to recap: A bill passed by the City Council last week will expand a so-called “exclusionary zone” within which developers, if they want Read More

By Staff 8/15/06 8:25am

Mr. Pink

On of this site’s most avid readers is now chief of staff to Councilman Eric Gioia of Queens.

Yesterday I ran into Jerel Klue, the football player-sized aide who likes the color pink, who told me about his promotion. His loyalty to Gioia is well-known, but his fondness for this site is more discreet.

At Read More