The battle between the administration of Mayor Eric Adams and our neighborhood Community Board 8 has become a futile effort. It seems CB8 is a couple of steps behind City Hall when it comes to work planned in their backyard.
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9/16/22
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Good evening.
Today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.
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9/9/22
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We don’t know much about him, except that he was 61 years old, and he had visited a live animal market in Wuhan, China.
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9/2/22
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Just what is this pickleball people are talking about?
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8/26/22
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The horrific stabbing attack of Salman Rushdie last week brought back memories of a dark time in the history of this newspaper. We wish a speedy recovery to the famed novelist and human rights activist who was left on a ventilator after escaping injury for decades following the publishing of “The Satanic Verses,” a fictional account based on the life of Muslim prophet Muhammad.
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8/18/22
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“How fragile civilization is. How easily, how merrily a book burns,” wrote Salman Rushdie when a group of English Muslims publicly burned copies of his novel, “The Satanic Verses,” in West Yorkshire.
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8/18/22
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The latest example of the chaos created by the new court-mandated redistricted maps is the primary senate district representing the greater Riverdale area, where the incumbent is no longer part of the district.
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8/12/22
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The numbers don’t lie.
The strategy of Mayor Eric Adams and predecessor Bill de Blasio to help the homeless has failed miserably. Instead of finding suitable places for such people to live or find shelter, they are using the police and sanitation departments to clear out homeless encampments.
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8/5/22
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After watching the eight hearings from the U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 Attack, it makes one wonder if a President of the United States truly is above the law.
As far as the Jan. 6, …
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7/29/22
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It took only about two months since this newspaper and nine months since two hyperlocal online news sites first reported on the “scourge” of illegal and defaced license plates for someone in the mayor’s office to finally take significant action.
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7/22/22
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