Despite Drawbacks, Board 1 O.K’s Liberty Bond Financing

No one would argue that rebuilding downtown after Sept. 11 isn’t an important, even an urgent task-but should it trump long-standing standards governing affordable housing in Manhattan?

That’s the question Community Board 1, which covers the area surrounding Ground Zero, wrestled with-and eventually answered with a yes -at its Sept. 17 meeting, when it voted Read More

The City and Sex: Strippers Strike Back at Giuliani

Mayor Rudy Giuliani hath decreed that people can’t just take off their clothes and let other people ogle them or touch them. The courts have been taking their sweet time in giving the city the right to enforce the decree, but the other day, all the Times Square strippers were acting like it was a Read More

The City and Sex: Strippers Strike Back at Giuliani

Mayor Rudy Giuliani hath decreed that people can’t just take off their clothes and let other people ogle them or touch them. The courts have been taking their sweet time in giving the city the right to enforce the decree, but the other day, all the Times Square strippers were acting like it was a Read More