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The Brooklyn Mayor
By Williams ColeWilliams Cole reflects on the importance of Bill de Blasio's victory in Brooklyn.
BATS Step Up to the Plate
By Eleanor J. BaderThey call themselves BATS, an acronym for Badass Teachers, and they’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
Will James Challenge De Blasio on Atlantic Yards?
By Norman OderNew York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel wrote on October 9. “That’s because [likely Mayor Bill] de Blasio and [likely Public Advocate]Letitia James are both Democrats, and also Working Families Party stalwarts.” Similarly, on October 16, New York Post contributor Stephen Eide suggested that such synchronicity made the Public Advocate’s job “worse than useless.”
Seaside Stories
By Saskia KahnI work at a bar that was recently named best neighborhood bar in N.Y.C. by the NY Times Magazine. While I agree that it deserves the title, I am not exactly sure which neighborhood it belongs to—South Slope? Greenwood Heights? Sunset Park? I thus felt compelled to dive into some bars deeply intertwined with their own distinct neighborhood (Sheepshead Bay).
UrbanGlass Remakes a Brooklyn Landmark
By Michael Randazzo and Chip BrennerUrbanGlass which re-opened its doors on Fulton Street to some fanfare last month, is letting no grass grow under its feet.
