The feds are eying using Superfund money to clean up the Gowanus Canal. But opponents – including City Hall – say the Superfund process would take too long and could prevent redevelopment along the canal’s banks.
Cafe owner Yoko Kubo has lived in Tokyo and Manhattan. But Greenpoint is where the Japanese immigrant feels at home, thanks to friends helping her through a personal tragedy.
The Red Hook Community Justice Center, an innovative combination courthouse and community service hub, has trimmed hours. More cutbacks loom.
City streets are more bike friendly these days -- but many would-be two-wheel commuters have nowhere to park. Now the City Council wants to make building owners open their doors to bicycles.
Election Day is likely the last time New Yorkers cast votes using the city’s aging fleet of pull-lever machines. New York is the only state in the nation that still hasn’t updated its machines under the federal law that rose out of the disputed 2000 presidential election.
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