The rally came ahead of the August 12 vote by the Public Service Commission in Albany that could allow National Grid to raise monthly bills to pay for a pipeline expansion and other fracked gas projects.
Hello Bklyner readers! As you know, I’m more regularly to be found these days over at The Bigger Apple, writing about politics, policy, and the mayor's race (please sign up here if you’re interested) But there’s so much happening in Brooklyn right now that it
Dear Reader, I’m reaching out with an update and an invitation. As many of you know, Bklyner has been quiet. Like many of you, I’ve spent the past year thinking about what kinds of conversations we need to have to make New York City a better place to
Trucks. The ones that cut through residential blocks, are too big to be on local truck routes, get stuck under overpasses, speed on local streets, block traffic, kill residents … I could go on. We've all seen them. But it took the city council passing a local law to
If you want your district to have the best possible representation in the city council right away, you should look beyond politics and pick Justin Brannan, a moderate Democrat.