By Staff 9/01/06 6:05pm

Events for September 1-3, 2006

Tonight, NY1 hosts a reporters roundtable.

On Saturday, the West Indian American Day Junior Carnival and parade kicks-off at St. John’s Place and Kingston Ave. in Brooklyn at 10:30

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin talks about rebuilding his city at Tribeca Cinemas at 11:30.

Upstate congressional candidate Eric Massa stops by the New York Read More

By Staff 3/26/06 2:31pm

New Orleans: A Thousand Points of Blight

I’m just back from New Orleans, and stunned and shocked. Nothing on television or in the papers conveys the scale of Katrina, six months on. You turn onto a boulevard and suddenly there’s a mountain of dead trees, gargantuan and muddy and scraped clean of branches and leaves by crews that left months ago.

That’s Read More