Real estate in New York has always been the proverbial ride. Home prices in Brooklyn are sliding…but with a median price still approaching a million dollars in some neighborhoods they remain far too high for most, especially with jobs disappearing at the rate they are…so the real question is ‘how much further should they go […]

As developer Bruce Ratner continues to attempt forcible removal of residents living within the ever shrinking footprint of his Atlantic Yards development through abuse of Eminent Domain laws, a dwindling number of residents refuse to leave and continue to fight through legal means. Unfortunately, the courts have commonly come down on the side of the […]

The MTA is now selling off naming rights to the highest bidder for its stations around the city, starting with the Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn hub, which will now bear the name of the famously slavery-linked Barclays Bank (also not to be overlooked is how much money they relieve people of in their prominent role in […]

A BID (business improvement district) - and there are more than one I’ve been informed, so this isn’t the ones that it isn’t, whoever they are - has made the complaint that a bike lane is hindering business for shops along 5th Avenue.  Their proposal is to impose some ‘bike lane’ that just has bikes […]