BROOKLYN — Anyone who has been on, through, or close to the old Fulton Mall is aware that it is being completely overhauled in a $15 million city project that is part of creating a new
BROOKLYN — Recently Continuum Health Partners, known to Downtown Brooklyn residents as the parent company of Long Island College Hospital, backed down from its offer to buy the troubled St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village.
The problem with this arrangement is that Continuum planned to shut down St. Vincent’s inpatient facilities,
Since the day I took office I have been fighting for ethics legislation that will improve our failing laws. The ethics reform bill that the Governor vetoed earlier this week, while certainly not perfect, would bring positive change to Albany. {read more...}
(Note: this letter was originally sent to Councilwoman Diana Reyna).
I have lived in a three-story, low-income, six-family apartment building in Bushwick for four years on St. Nicholas Avenue in District 34. I saw you speak at the Onderdonk House this
Two weeks from the devastating earthquake, hunger, thirst, lack of shelter and healthcare must be our primary concerns in Haiti. As the search and rescue efforts come to an end and nations turn their assistance to recovery and rebuilding, an {read more...}
One of the new initiatives offered by President Obama during his State of the Union speech that has significant impact upon the members of my neighborhood is support for small businesses.
BROOKLYN — A sign that things are getting better for the economy and for Brooklyn is the fact that real estate editor Linda Collins is achieving what we call in this business “scoops.”
She has been the first to report on developer Joe Sitt’s plans for his stellar Red Hook land holdings
As Linda Collins has been reporting in our pages for some time, plans for new hotels in Brooklyn have been made at a rate that is astonishing, especially when you consider that there was not a single hotel in the {read more...}
Charles M. Plotz’s letter about traffic calming and pedestrians’ responsibility (January 20, BHP) raises some valid points about the need for pedestrians and cyclists to be more vigilant about their safety. However, it leaves out some vital considerations. As a longtime Heights resident who is both a driver and a pedestrian, I have made some surveys.
Dr. Plotz mentions serious accidents between drivers and pedestrians at curbs, but doesn’t indicate whether these were at controlled intersections. So,
BROOKLYN — These comments are about hospitals, hotels, housing, and havens, as in parks.
The news this week that Continuum Health Partners has agreed to part legal ways with Long Island College Hospital (LICH) has to bring loud sighs of relief from that hospital, Brooklyn, and perhaps even Continuum itself.
BROOKLYN — Sometime in the last few weeks, President Obama had to reflect on Shakespeare’s Richard III that it was the “winter of our discontent.”
With the bevy of bad news, as far as he is concerned, perhaps the most graphic illustration of those woes was this week’s cover of the New
BROOKLYN — As soon as the schedules of Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson can be meshed, there will be some kind of “opening” of Brooklyn Bridge Park at the essentially completed Pier 1.
There will also probably be some kind of opening celebration at Pier 6 when that section gets completed sometime
BROOKLYN — In recent months, primarily because of the health care reform debate and who our president is, there has been a great deal of talk about the Tea Party.
What can be called the Tea Party Nation got started last summer with a series of rallies and hoo-haas around the country.
All magazine readers have long become used to the subscription cards that publishers put inside whatever you seem to be reading. The most irritating ones are those that are loose in the publication and always seem to
