By Staff 3/20/06 11:46am

Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal Shaping Up


Click to view sign.

This Saturday, at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Columbia Street, the Port of New York and New Jersey rolled out their centerpiece to welcome the thousands of geriatrics that will be flooding the neighborhood once the Queen Mary 2 docks at the new cruise ship terminal in Red Read More

By Staff 3/09/06 4:09pm

Nothing to Lose But Their Chais

  • The International Workers of the World have set their sights on three Manhattan Starbuckses (is that the plural?) to unionize, after settling with the company on an unfair-labor-practices suit. Reader poll: Where are they? (AP, via Crain’s)
  • The Dubai company that wanted to manage the Port of New York has withdrawn its bid. (Read More

    • By Terry Golway 12/17/01 12:00am

    Homeland Security Shouldn’t Be Cheap

    I don’t know why opponents of increased homeland-security spending won’t simply say what they’re thinking: If we’re not too careful in how we appropriate homeland-security dollars, we’ll simply make people dependent on government handouts. And, of course, who knows how much of that money will line the pockets of the union bosses and big-city (read: Read More