Topic: Marty Markowitz

Three strikes and you ... get one last chance.. . Tests showed Borough President Marty Markowitz's summer concerts again broke the city's new...
What century is this?. . The Brooklyn Paper reports that Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is unabashedly using chain gangs from Rikers...
Prospect Park West is slowing down.. . Speeding on the Park Slope thoroughfare has dropped dramatically since the city installed a controversial...
Here’s Marty Markowitz at the press conference yesterday making the case that charging tolls on the East River bridges is essentially congestion pricing, which he opposed. Many opponents of congestion pricing also oppose tolling the bridges, but not all.

Brooklyn, The Borough: The Great Shop Chop of '08

On Monday, the door to the new and expanded Beacon's Closet, a consignment shop now on the corner of Warren Street and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, opened. Along with a burst of cold air came not a customer but a ...

McCain's Panic Button, Bikers for Obama

According to Mike Allen, McCain's "comeback speech" today was "more like hitting the panic button." [Politico] The Obama campaign is still enthusiastically trying to get more donors. [The Hill] Sarah Palin turned down a fund-raiser hosted by Ivana Tr

Events for Tuesday, October 14, 2008

8 a.m. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa discusses his clean ports plan with Jerry Nadler and Chris Ward at a forum on cleaning up seaports at The Harvard Club, 27 West 44th St. 8 a.m. New York Building Congress releases ...
The New York Post's Chuck Bennett and Rick Calder report today that Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner and other project backers have "funneled" at least $680,000 to nonprofits set up and championed by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Mr. Ma
The chair of the Staten Island Conservative Party is reportedly going to back the Republican nominee for Congress, Bob Straniere. [Staten Island Advance] A columnist in Queens wonders in Michael Bloomberg is facing another big defeat with the Willets Po

A Coney Island Dream Deferred

Charlie Bendit stood atop Coney Island’s ancient Childs Restaurant building, peering out to sea. “Can you imagine being up on the roof and having a wedding overlooking the ocean? What a wonderful experience,” he said. “In the summertime, you can have ...