By The Editors 3/02/11 12:34am

Editorial

Double-Dipping Teachers Cost NYC More than Just Money

Mayor Bloomberg has put together a list of schools that will be affected if the city has to lay off more than 4,500 teachers because of state cuts to education. Most of the schools are in poorly served neighborhoods, because that’s where most of the city’s youngest teachers work. If City Hall has to abide Read More

By Azi Paybarah 2/28/11 5:30pm

UNIONS

Bloomberg and the Teacher Layoffs

To hear Bloomberg explain it, teacher layoffs are a necessity… and a prerogative.

One day after putting out a map detailing where more than 4,000 teacher layoffs would fall in the five boroughs, Bloomberg told reporters in Brooklyn what exactly he needs in order to keep those educators employed.

“You’d have to get roughly Read More

By The Editors 2/23/11 1:28am

Editorial

Schumer Should Mind His Own Business

What does Chuck Schumer know about Wisconsin?

A lot, apparently. Or so he says. New York’s senior senator, who rarely misses a chance to play the populist card, has seized on the fiscal crisis in Madison to raise his profile and a few campaign dollars as well. Mr. Schumer recently sent a mass email to Read More

By Nate Freeman 1/27/11 11:36pm

Rebirth

Could Tavern On The Green Be Saved?

Word got out yesterday that Tavern on the Green may be on the fast track for a new era of pond-side dinner opulence. The beloved Central Park restaurant has been closed for over a year since union and bankruptcy issues shut the doors in early 2010, but it seems to have found a savior in Read More

By Matt Chaban 11/04/10 3:53pm

Machers

Sam Zell? ‘He’s a Rat!’ Union Yells Outside NYPL

Add metal lathers to the long list of people peeved at Sam Zell.

The successful developer and not-so-successful media mogul came to the New York Public Library today as part of the Bloomberg Real Estate Briefing, where he just finished giving a talk (more on that later from The Observer‘s Zeke Turner). Greeting him this Read More

By Eliot Brown 8/11/10 8:58pm

Disunion

REBNY Attacks City’s Plan to Limit Hampton Inns in Tribeca

The Bloomberg administration’s plan to limit the spread of hotels in north Tribeca is drawing fire from the real estate industry.

The Real Estate Board of New York, the industry’s chief advocacy group, today put out testimony rather critical of a new special provision for hotels contained within the planned North Tribeca rezoning, calling it Read More