[em]Daily News[/em] Floods the Zone on Imus


The Daily News, like most of the media, has gone completely overboard on the Imus/ Rutgers basketball story.

Today in the News alone, there were six pieces: news stories on both the press conference and the advertising angle; columns by Mike Lupica, Errol Lewis, and Filip Bondy; and an editorial!

(The Times clocked Read More

Do They Really Want to Be Like Rutgers?

Now that March Madness is over—by this I mean both the NCAA college-basketball tournament and the state budget process—let’s start talking about another form of insanity that involves both collegiate sports and state institutions.

You’d have to be a dedicated watcher of the ESPN sports crawl to notice this, but over the last few years, Read More

The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday

  • Yonkers is the new Brooklyn! Brit architect Will Alsop will make his U.S. debut by transforming an 80,000-square-foot power plant there into a $250 million Hudson River “residential complex featuring a museum, restaurant, and park.” [Arch. Record News]
  • Speaking of Brooklyn: The Department of Transportaiton has ideas to make the nightmarish Grand Army Read More

  • Students String for C.B.'s

    Amid all the complaints from community boards about getting overwhelmed by rampant development that they cannot keep track of, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stronger hit upon one solution: Get students to do it!

    This fall, the Beep recruited 13 graduate students in urban planning programs at Hunter, Columbia, Rutgers, New York University and the New Read More

    For Customers Only

    Wansoo Im is an adjunct professor of urban planning at Rutgers University. He has a twenty-two-year-old assistant, who took Professor Im’s Geographic Information Systems course. And now, they’re taking on New York together.

    The two are mapping the city’s bathrooms.

    The New Yorker

    - Riva Froymovich