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Three years ago, my friend Vittoria Fariello approached me. She wanted to tell me about a bill she was advocating for. She knew I was generally inclined to support labor issues, civil rights, and human rights. She told me the bill introduced by Council Member Christopher Marte, would make it illegal for home-care attendants to […]

After a dominant showing on election night, Carl Wilson is poised to become the next representative of Manhattan’s 3rd City Council District, finishing 17 points ahead of runner-up Lindsey Boylan after the first round of voting. Boylan conceded after first-round results showed Wilson with 43.08% of the vote to her 25.66%. District Leader Layla Law-Gisiko

The Second Avenue Subway was back in the news a few months ago when Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed that the third step for the Second Avenue Subway, rather than proceeding south from 63rd Street, should be heading west across 125th Street to 8th Avenue, with connections to other lines. While there was some support among

“April is the cruelest month,” is the famous first line of T.S. Eliot’s 434-line poem The Wasteland. Poetry hasn’t been the same since it first appeared in print in 1922. Thirty years ago, in 1996, the Academy of American Poets used Eliot’s line as part of their justification for seeking and receiving official recognition for

After 17 months of negotiations and two days of striking, almost 1,000 non-tenure track faculty at New York University agreed to a contract with major upgrades to their pay and benefits. In an email to its members just before 2 a.m. Tuesday night, the union’s bargaining committee announced a tentative agreement with the university that

If you’ve been a close reader of this paper the past few months, you’ve probably figured out that we are big supporters of Layla Law-Gisiko. This has nothing at all to do with Derek and the Dominos, but rather her governing principles, especially in what is called land use. For some time I’ve been reading

Layla Law-Gisiko has spent the past two decades enmeshing herself in the hard-nosed and oftentimes shady world of Manhattan land use, and she doesn’t like what she’s seen. “I’ve seen up-close how the sausage gets made,” Law-Gisiko told the Village Star-Revue. “And I really just think we should be doing better for our community.” That

Residents of NYCHA’s Elliott-Chelsea and Fulton Houses need to keep up the pressure against the housing authority’s plan to demolish and replace the buildings, several hundred people stressed during a demonstration at Fulton on Saturday, March 14. The plan by NYCHA, The Related Companies, and Essence Development would destroy all 2,056 apartments on the two

Brody Hale describes himself as “the poorest lawyer you’re ever going to meet,” but it’s his fierce intensity, sharp tongue and equally sharp intelligence that distinguish him. He is literally a man on a mission, a mission to keep Catholic churches from closing—and so far, his efforts have saved at least 20 churches across the