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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Scandals: Jared Kushner and Ivanka...
If you have been catching up with the news recently you know about the scandals involving Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance. . .Vance's office was ready in 2012 to prosecute Ivanka, the daughter...
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Appellate Court Hearing on View-Blocking Brooklyn Bridge Park Development:...
Outside after Friday, the 20th Appellate Court argument: Center background in suit and blue shirt Hank Gutman member of the defendant Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, Center in trench coat Otis Pratt...
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This Year’s Seasonal Reflection: Yes We Are Now Living In Ratnerville,...
From our Thursday, December 24, 2009, A Christmas Eve Story of Alternative Realities: The Fight Not To Go To Pottersville (Or Ratnerville),Every year since 2009 Noticing New York has engaged in the...
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Reporting About Multiple Troublesome Real Estate Deal Connections Between...
Stephen Schwarzman and Jared Kushner captured in black tie together in 2007 around the time the Donnell Library sale was being concocted. Schwarzman with Trump running his economic forum where the...
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With No Irony, No Trepidation, The New York Times Publishes Story About...
Come on everybody: The New York Times just ran an article about"extreme ideas" for solving housing crisis problems that suggests people take up compact living in drainpipes . . . . .. . . . Didn't...
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Reimagining Our Library Spaces: Where Once There Were Books There Will Now Be...
"Major" changes are coming to Brooklyn's Gran Army Plaza Library with name changes to reflect the future and sponsorshipDo you know about the “Major” changes they are making to our libraries, perhaps...
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New York Times Didn’t Cover Biggest New York City Election Story As It...
It was front page news in the Times, but the Times did not report events leading up to it as they unfolded.This is about a major local and national news story that the New York Times didn’t cover as it...
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How To Vote On The Three City Charter Reform (Reform?- Really?) Proposals on...
The adviceon how to vote on three proposal to change the NYC Charter sent out by two activist coalitions (above) is pretty similar and largely negative about the proposals. The short answer is—Vote NO...
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Where Manhattan’s Beloved Central Destination Donnell Library Once Stood:...
The hard choices facing society: You could have your $1,500 ice cream sundae (left) or you five-story Donnell Library (right)It’s a not so pretty please with a cherry on top . . .. . . A $1,500 ice...
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Amazon Headquarters Lands In Long Island City: What Happens When Our Elected...
I remember the young and tender age I was when I was horrified to have explained to me the concept of “the company store,” the store in the company-owned town, which was the only place to buy things,...
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This Year’s Annual Seasonal Reflection: It Rhymes (But Not With "Reason" or...
From our Thursday, December 24, 2009, A Christmas Eve Story of Alternative Realities: The Fight Not To Go To Pottersville (Or Ratnerville),It seems almost as if we are back again where we started....
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Un-Change That You Can Believe In?: Is The Brooklyn Heights Association Going...
The corner of Montague and Henry Streets: On left, the current problematic vista; On right, the view as some Brooklyn Heights Association trustees may hope that it will be approved, restoring the...
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The Commissioners of The New York City Planning Commission: From The...
Top row left to right: Mariso Lago, Kenneth Knuckles, Joseph Douek, Alfred Cerullo, Richard Eaddy, Middle row left to right: Allen Cappelli, Hope Knight, Anna Hayes Levin, Orlando Marín, Larisa...
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An Open Letter To Reverend Ana Levy-Lyons of The First Unitarian Universalist...
A number of months ago, I resolved to write a letter to Reverend Ana Levy-Lyons, our minister at our First Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Brooklyn, requesting that she deliver a sermon about...
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Michael Bloomberg’s Wealth? As It Allows Non-Democrat Bloomberg To Buy The...
Overlaid charts from Noticing New York 2014 article, reshaped to show how Bloomberg's increasing annual wealth at the time makes the increasing annual average wealth of the rest of the "Forbes 400"...
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Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson, Now Poised To Additionally...
Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson is poised to take on new responsibilities holding her position as BPL head. It will occur with a merger that will make the Brooklyn Historical Society...
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Noticing New York 2020 Seasonal Reflection
Today is Christmas Eve.I have a long-standing tradition of, every year, on Christmas Eve, publishing a Noticing New York seasonal reflection for the holidays. This year I hardly feel up to it. There...
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Legal Eagle Arthur Schwartz, Attorney Skilled In Opposing Privatization, Says...
Double height streetery - Fifth Avenue in Park Slope- last spring it was single height.(* Also spelled 'streateries')Mayor Bill de Blasio, (“Build de Blasio” as he is affectionately known by some in...
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Noticing New York 2021 Seasonal Reflection
Julian Assange at Christmas- The center image from the WeeklyLeaks site and magazine- Julian, in his prison cell, chained cannot reach the keyboard to give us truth.Today is Christmas Eve.I have a...
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year From Our Departing Mayor: NYC Residents...
Your home is a workplace! Post this there visibly to attest that you are requiring your nanny and any plumber, or private tutors entering the premises to prove they have been vaccinated.Jezzum!!!Talk...
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New Demonstration Program Now Approved By NYC Landmarks Commission: Related...
It’s history in the making! Not since New York City’s Landmarks laws and programs and Landmarks Commission were ushered in back in the early 1960s has anything new and exciting been done in this...
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Noticing New York 2022 Seasonal Reflection
Those who want top-down control of the world would encourage us to be either isolated or in conflict with each other. But on this cold, frigid Christmas Eve, those of us willing to be together have...
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Will Be Taken Over By Consortium of The City’s...
Whatever "floats your boat"- Will the public be happy with big real estate industry families and the New York City Partnership taking over the Macy's Parade? The Macy’s parade must go on! It’s a...
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Noticing New York 2023 Seasonal Reflection
This is Noticing New York's annual seasonal reflection. In church, just days ago, we sang a Christmas Carol hymn: "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear."It has in it this line: "Oh hush the noise of...
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Good News For NYC’s WBAI 99.5 fm? Possible Financial Rescue As Pacifica...
Malcolm is super, Mr. Dylan is super, and we've always known that radio is super, and that's not just a fantasy!Great news coming up in a minute. . Stay “tuned” as they say in radio!WBAI Radio, 99.5...
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