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Politics

Say It Ain’t So, Joel

As overcrowding at the city’s schools reaches unbearable levels and newly hip neighborhoods fill with strollers and nannies, the city’s Department of Education and its head, Chancellor Joel Klein, are considering new options to alleviate the crunch. Since new school construction is so gosh darned expensive and fraught with red tape, the DOE is considering [...]

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Rev. Al Sharpton at Critical Mass Ride

Reverend Al Sharpton spoke at a rally last evening before a Critical Mass ride last night to denounce police aggressiveness when it comes to public assemblies, and drew parallels to the police reaction in the Sean Bell shooting incident. Sharpton was joined by Sean Bell’s fiancee Nicole Paultre Bell, Bell’s father William Bell, and other [...]

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Builders Beware: Jimmy Oddo Is Watching

A Staten Island developer received two citations from the Department of Buildings regarding issues with three houses being built in the Dongan Hills neighborhood of Staten Island after a tipster alerted the city agency to the potential violations. It turns out that the tattletale was none other than City Council Member James Oddo (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) [...]

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Communities Rally to Save Supermarkets

From the Bronx to Bay Ridge, there are growing signs that New Yorkers are getting fed up with the gradual replacement of the city’s supermarkets with chain drug stores and other retailers. Those who want their Key Foods, Fine Fares, and Met Foods to stay put are now taking to the streets with increasing frequency [...]

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Providing More Opportunities for Veterans

Yesterday City Council Member Eric Gioia (D-Queens) announced a proposal for a new initiative that would that would try to make available paid city internships to all veterans returning from active duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. In order to help put veterans on a path to permanent jobs with the city, Gioia wants the city’s [...]

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Union See, Union Do

In a completely surprise move (not!) the Uniformed Firefighters Association has announced it will now open negotiations to try and win the same type of wage increases that the NYPD just received in a recent Public Employment Relations Board decision. The UFA will halt negotiations for their current contract, which is up in August of [...]

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NYPD Gets Long-Awaited Raise

NYPD in Times Square by Sophie Harrington on Flickr. An arbitration panel of the Public Employment Relations Board decided yesterday to award the city’s uniformed police officers a retroactive pay raise that will total 9.73% (the city had originally offered 6.24%). As a result, starting salaries for new cops will rise from $25,100 to $35,881 [...]

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