...d real estate, but also the energy, innovation, and creativity of the outer boroughs, and the new immigrant communities, and the artist and cultural communities of our city. We spend a lot of time fixating on office towers in Manhattan and very often we lose sight of the fact that there’s an exciting city out there and we haven’t done a good enough job making it livable for New Yorkers. CPR: How do you think security issues play into that? Weiner...
photo from Wikimedia Commons Manhattan Media Publisher and 2013 mayoral hopeful Tom Allon announced Monday that he will switch his party registration from Democrat to Republican to sidestep the already crowded Democratic Primary. Allon made his announcement in front of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan Monday morning. His campaign is to represent a fusion of the two parties, combining fiscally conservative values with liberal social po...
Illustration by Katherine Isokawa For a long time, the far West Side of Manhattan was ignored by city planning. It developed into a neighborhood of low-rise houses, businesses, and factories. But in the past few years, the city has turned its attention back to that part of town, seeing it as the best way to expand midtown. While the entire proposal has stirred controversy, one aspect of it, a planned stadium for either the Olympics or the Jets,...
...cess in the private sector is much more hierarchical…a decision that’s handed down by the chief executive in the private sector is followed rather crisply,” said William J. Stern, a contributing editor at City Journal for the Manhattan Institute. “In the public sector, decision-making is rather nuanced…what you have is a much slower decision-to-action process.” Explaining that the private sector is “far more efficient,” Stern concluded, “The publ...
...u don’t care about anything except the money, Hurricane Sandy alone flooded $50 billion dollars straight down the river. Responding to these alarming findings, a group of students, inspired by the recent 350.org conference in Manhattan, decided to form a coalition demanding Columbia practice the “environmental stewardship” it so often talks about. While it is wonderful that Columbia provides space for an environmental house, offers students summe...
...Indus Valley. Almost forty Columbia and Barnard students, organized by Student Worker Solidarity (formerly Students Support Barnard Workers) stood with the abused workers to demand owners pay back what they owe. In the dusky Manhattan evening, the red traffic light hues, flashing police cars, and handmade signs all swirled together into a vibrant scene. Students formed protest lines in front of Indus Valley, handing out flyers and discouraging p...
...where as to the future of Gitmo. After all, the insanity of the President and Attorney General Holder’s absurdly botched (and fortunately, failed) attempt to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in Manhattan has faded from Washington’s memory, and with US military involvement officially over in Iraq and coming to a close in Afghanistan, the question of what to do with the War on Terror’s most serious remaining detaine...
...the disproportionate percentage of stops of black and Latino New Yorkers is that this merely reflects the concentration of Stop-and-Frisks in high-crime precincts that are majority black and Latino. However, the East Side of Manhattan and Greenwich Village are both just 8 percent black and Latino, yet over 71 percent of stops in both neighborhoods were of blacks and Latinos. The same is true of four other precincts as well. I believe the term f...
...llons of water were lost, or 33 gallons per day. By comparison, the per capita daily availability of water in Jordan, the country where I grew up, is 24 gallons. Living between two large rivers, we take it for granted here in Manhattan that some 800 million people around the world have no safe drinking water supply. As declared by Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil, in the 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, “For most Americans, wh...
...ation against and signing of the National Defense Authorization Act in 2011, the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others at Guantánamo Bay charged with the 9/11 terror attacks was transferred out of civilian court in lower Manhattan, due to a provision in the law. Citizens were worried about security and about the possibility for KSM to spout propaganda, much like Breivik is now doing. Earlier this month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced...
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