Mixing Legal and Liquor

Location: Certain neighborhood factions have been clamoring for a New York City representative on the State Liquor Authority for years. What impact does your residency have on your job?

Healey: What you get with me is, I know the lay of the land down here. I’ve worked all over—Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau. I’ve worked in the Read More

Will Stripper-Plex Take It All Off?

The government may have stripped him of his title as C.E.O. of Manhattan’s most protuberant topless-bar franchise, but recently demoted Scores boss Richard Goldring isn’t giving up his main money-maker so easily.

On March 28, Mr. Goldring faces off against the State Liquor Authority (S.L.A.) in a hearing of huge consequence to his sprawling, 10,000-square-foot Read More

Liquor, Race, Soho—And All That Jazz

“We don’t want to appear to be antagonistic to anyone,” said restaurateur Gayle Patrick-Odeen, after deleting some triumphant rhe-toric from her Web site and yanking letters of support from her storefront windows, on advice of counsel.

“We don’t want to rub anything in anybody’s face,” Ms. Patrick-Odeen said. “We just want to get on with Read More

Liquor, Race, Soho-And All That Jazz

“We don’t want to appear to be antagonistic to anyone,” said restaurateur Gayle Patrick-Odeen, after deleting some triumphant rhe-toric from her Web site and yanking letters of support from her storefront windows, on advice of counsel.

“We don’t want to rub anything in anybody’s face,” Ms. Patrick-Odeen said. “We just want to get on with Read More

New S.L.A. Chief

Yesterday the New York State Senate confirmed Daniel Boyle, the former police chief of Glennville, N.Y., as the head of the State Liquor Authority. Local officials and community boards–particularly in Chelsea and the Lower East Side, where complaints about bar and club over-saturation–have been pushing Governor Pataki to appoint someone from New York City, only Read More

Upper East Side Gets Shaft- 33B, To Be Precise

There’s no question that the East Side will be getting shafted—it’s just a question of where and for how long.

The Department of Environmental Protection, along with the Department of Design and Construction, is currently scoping out sites for the location of Shaft 33B, the latest infrastructure project for the long-awaited Water Tunnel No. 3, Read More

Upper East Side Gets Shaft-33B, To Be Precise

There’s no question that the East Side will be getting shafted—it’s just a question of where and for how long.

The Department of Environmental Protection, along with the Department of Design and Construction, is currently scoping out sites for the location of Shaft 33B, the latest infrastructure project for the long-awaited Water Tunnel No. 3, Read More

Upper East Side Gets Shaft— 33B, To Be Precise

There’s no question that the East Side will be getting shafted—it’s just a question of where and for how long.

The Department of Environmental Protection, along with the Department of Design and Construction, is currently scoping out sites for the location of Shaft 33B, the latest infrastructure project for the long-awaited Water Tunnel No. Read More

To ‘B’ or Not to ‘B’ a One-Way

Last night at Community Board 3′s traffic and transportation committee meeting, the issue on everybody’s mind was whether to convert Avenue B into a one-way street. As it stands now, residents and business owners (with the possible exception of nightclub owners; nary a one showed up at the meeting) are fed up with traffic and Read More