For many years, Village Preservation has energetically and successfully advocated to protect our treasured neighborhoods and structures. Now they hope to save the crumbling Dapolito Recreation Center at the corner of Seventh Avenue South and Clarkston Street. They also hope to stop the creation of a new recreation center at 388 Hudson Street.
I had an interview with City Council Member Harvey Epstein this past month to talk about climate change. This conversation covered his background within the environmental movement, his philosophies, and the hurdles he believes we all must overcome.
Local primary election coverage and political commentary
“Half Trumpian and half Tammany Hall.” That’s how Layla Law-Gisiko described the nearly successful effort to throw her off the ballot for the April 28 special election to fill the District 3 City Council seat vacated by Erik Bottcher.
On a chilly night in February, more than 70 volunteers gathered for the inaugural volunteer event for progressive Lindsey Boylan’s campaign for City Council – an unusual crowd for such a local race.
District 3 — the City Council district encompassing all of the Village west of Sixth Ave. and extending south to Canal Street and north to 55th Street — is a hotbed of land use and preservation issues. On March 10, Village Preservation hosted an online candidates forum.
What we didn’t discuss in this issue is the fact that there is Ranked Choice Voting, which means you, the voter, get to vote for all four candidates, ranking them 1, 2, 3 and 4.
When you read this Zohran Mamdani will have been mayor for two months or about 2% of his first four years. Yet the naysayers (who fill the local Nextdoor blogs with daily critiques) have already declared him a failure.
Negotiations are already heating up for the DGA, SAG and the AMPTP, due to run out June 30. WGA expires May 1. These promise to be vigorous negotiations that could lead to another industry-wide strike in June.
Dr. Hotez’s main expertise is in tropical diseases and vaccination treatments for them but this book includes a wider range of options for disease control and prevention.
