Topic: Gifford Miller

New housing crop for West Farms Road?

A new development group has snapped up a stretch of derelict blocks on West Farms Road and wants the city to rezone the strip so it can build 10...

Ready for Quinn's Big Speech

Red Room Council Chambers right now waiting for Christine Quinns State of the City speech, in which she'll propose generating $1 billion in tax revenue from people who make more than $300,000 and eliminating income taxes on low-wage earners. Former ...

Arctic Ice Fields 'Receding Like Mad'

Ice fields on an Arctic island have shrunk 50 percent in the past 50 years and will be gone in 50 more, scientists said this week. Located just west of Greenland, Baffin Island is the fifth largest island in the world, with ...

Weprin: City Council May Still Tweak Term Limits Law

As the law stands, 36 of the 51 City Council members will be term-limited out of office in 2009, which explains the slew of councilmembers who seem to be running for higher office. But not all the members have given up on ...