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The Nieghborhood Retail Alliance
http://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com
Cogent commentary on New York City politics, especially as it relates to small business
- Added on: May 5th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Politics Small Business
Recent Posts
Meritricious
We read with some amusement about how our Educator-in-Chief at city hall is going to use student test grades to determine teacher compensation. As the NY Times reported: " Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Wednesday that New York City public schools...
Eminently Debatable
The federal court decision that serves to justify over 60 years of municipal neglect on Willets Point, is a reminder to some degree just how limited legal action can sometimes be-and how conventional judicial thinking usually is: "A federal judge on ...
Kingsbridge Re-Moat?
The NY Daily News is reporting that negotiations over the fate of the Kingsbridge Armory have stalled: "The Kingsbridge Armory cliff-hanger will keep dangling well into next month, after a failed attempt yesterday to reach a compromise on the living ...
Community Organizer Charade
One of the supreme ironies that emerged during the last presidential campaign was the conservative onslaught against BHO for his community organizing/Saul Alinsky background. The irony lies in the way in which this background was manipulated by the O...
Not All in the Family
According to Jacob Gershman in New York Magazine, a movement is growing to mount a challenge to the political dominance of the Working Families Party: "With the pro-labor Working Families Party on the rise, a coalition of New York business elites is ...
One Fine Day
In Sunday's NY Post, the paper gave the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs a ream of free publicity-and nary a dissenting voice was heard about how DCA vigilant may be doing more harm than good: "New Yorkers are getting short-changed by supermarkets,...
