Marvel at the mysterious process by which government pork comes into being.  Have you ever wondered how it is that when people and municipalities badly need one thing or another congress somehow seems to lack the slightest sense of reality and instead funds the most comically inane shit you can possibly imagine?

Admittedly this isn’t as critical as I think editorial cartoons should be.  It’s really just a visualization of what I suspect may have been Governor David Paterson’s reaction to getting involved with the Gowanus Canal.  I get the feeling he wasn’t aware what a money sucking sludge-pit it really was until after he threw his […]

Mike Bloomberg seems to think that promising to influence things outside his jurisdiction (and things that will likely never happen…the notion of trolleys in Red Hook is good for a snort, for example) is going to endear him to voters in the upcoming mayoral race (The MTA is controlled entirely by New York State.  The […]

After ditching the Gehry design and completely changing the scale of the Atlantic Yards development Forest City Ratner has yet to really give any indication what their new, leaner development will look like.  With their fondness for artsy crap It seemed natural to suggest another famous and messy artist for the updated layout that matched […]

This past weekend a group left a huge mess in Prospect Park.  A crusade was taken on to blame this particular group but this has been going on all summer.  It occurs to me that by now the Parks Department should be able to anticipate the mess and compensate with more dumpsters or trash cans…or […]

Recently it was announced that the tallest building in Brooklyn, a residental tower, is to be built in the imminent future. If you walk around town you might notice that downtown Brooklyn resembles Dubai these days.  Developers are building like crazy and they’re building residential.  But they’re building into an already unfavorable supply side market.  Those trying […]