Category: Noted
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Daily News Endorses Yassky for Controller
The News goes for Yassky. This gives him a pretty nice sweep of the citywide endorsements – the Times, Crains and now now the News. On the celebrity/politico endorsement front, Yassky is also doing pretty well. So far, he has Russell Simmons, Robert Kennedy, Jr. and some senator from New York. (Equal time – Ed…
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Bernadette Peters Endorses Gerry Esposito
(l to r): Marie Esposito, Vinny from BARC, Bernadette and Gerry I had no idea Gerry was a cat man: Film and stage star Bernadette Peters announced today that she was endorsing Democrat Gerry Esposito for City Council, because of his phenomenal commitment to helping animals and the extensive work that he has done [on]…
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Times Endorses Simon, Reyna
The Times is out with its endorsements for City Council, and in the local races, it is endorsing Jo Anne Simon in the 33rd and Diana Reyna in the 34th. In the 33rd, the Times sees a three-way race, with something to be said for Simon, Steve Levin and Evan Thies: There are several excellent…
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Pictures on the Radio
WNYC ran a brief piece on the 33rd Council District race, focusing on three leading candidates – Steve Levin, Jo Anne Simon and Evan Thies. The station has transcribed the piece in a blog post, complete with pictures. Good thing you can’t see pictures on the radio, because the image above is what you see…
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Much Better
Real Reform Brooklyn has taken down the photo that came with their stock WordPress template (ironically, a photo of Grand Street in Manhattan) and replaced it with a lovely historic picture of the Brooklyn Bridge. Clearly they are trying to curry favor with me by choosing to go the historic route. (BTW – the photo…
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Real Reform Brooklyn Redesign
Real Reform Brooklyn has redesigned its web site (for the better). We still don’t know who is behind Real Reform Brooklyn, but whoever it is must not be too good on New York City geography. They dumped the old tunnel photo on the masthead and have replaced it with a photo of Grand Street. Grand…
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Kent Repaving Starts
Kent Avenue, stripped. In comments, reader JJ has a front-line report on the Kent Avenue repaving, which (as promised) started yesterday evening: The transformation of Kent Ave. started last night. And kept me up most of the night as DOT crews tore up the asphalt between Broadway and S. 7th. Thank God! Based on the…
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Short Take on OSA
Clearly I’m catching up with what happened while I was away. Luckily, Aaron Short is catching up after his 10th reunion, so I’m just going to keep linking to him. This time on OSA – Aaron authored a three part series on OSA in the Courier, which ended up finding a lot of smoke but…