Like many museums the Brooklyn Museum is having to do more with less and, to address budget shortfalls, is employing measures from lowering salaries to forced unpaid leave to ditching entire exhibitions.  So goes the economy.

Recently the EPA decided what everybody knows already - namely that The Gowanus Canal is an open sewer. They are trying to designate it a ward of the Superfund program and get it cleaned up for good.  But not so fast.  The city and Toll Brothers, a local real estate development company are concerned that if the […]

I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried. They really did this. I cant imagine that somebody over there wasn’t quietly snickering at what a great joke it was to tease by now totally insane F train riders with the idea of a longer train at rush hour so they didn’t have to stand […]

I used to like Mike Bloomberg.  Sometimes I still do. I don’t think, however, that anybody, no matter how much I like them has the right to steal another term in office.  By steal, here’s what i mean.  Twice the issue of a third term was posed to New Yorkers and twice a majority voted […]