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Here’s the resume of one candidate running for Assemblywoman in Harlem: Owns millions of dollars-worth of buildings in Harlem Racked up more than $265,000 in unpaid code violations, property taxes and water bills on four decrepit apartment buildings she co-owns On the hook for nearly 200 infractions over dangerous and disgusting conditions that include missing…
NYC Filmmakers Ripped Off During Pandemic New York, NY – NYC Filmmaker Claudia Montano, of Firebrand Films, sent a Cease and Desist letter to Peter Maiden for stealing footage in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The pirated footage was used in the ubiquitous NY Tough video. Maiden’s company, Convicts, placed the video on its…
By day Bronx native Johnny Colon, Jr. works on plumbing, carpentry and electrical problems in an upper west side high-rise, but on his off hours he started taking acting lesson. His acting lessons and his knowledge of construction turned out to be a winning combination to hosting a reality show about construction. The online reality…
New York, NY – As President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted an idea for implementing an apprenticeship program, not far from his Fifth Avenue home the Oriska Jobs and Careers Center (OJCC) has quietly operated one of the nation’s most successful programs of this kind. From the Maritime College in the Bronx, OJCC has operated…
Economic Cornerstone, a small, yet aggressive NYC-based 501.c.4 not-for-profit corporation ensuring minority programs deliver on their promise, recently launched a class-action lawsuit against the NYNJ Port Authority. The suit alleges that the Port Authority did not adhere to the affirmative action requirements that were a precondition to accepting federal funds. The suit claims the Port…
Basil A. Smikle Jr. is a political strategist and PhD student in Politics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University; He holds Adjunct appointments at Columbia’s Graduate School of International and Public Affairs and the City University of New York’s School of Professional Studies. Introduction This November, voters in New York City head to…
New York Democrats are threatening to stifle the dismal pace of job creation in New York State with a 17% hike in our minimum wage. The NY Post reports: Albany Democrats are determined to push through a 17 percent hike in New York state’s minimum wage, despite repeated warnings that it would hurt the economy…
Christmas came early in Albany this year. Santa Cuomo bounded down the Capitol chimney with a sackful of relief — tax relief for middle-class New Yorkers and (with reductions in the downstate MTA payroll levy) small businesses and nonpublic schools and help for upstate communities hit by this year’s floods. (Oh, yes, wealthy New Yorkers…
This is beginning to be a refrain that is heard far too frequently. A top restaurateur is throwing in the apron, saying he’s done with New York City because a wave of vicious lawsuits, coupled with draconian state regulations, threatens to cripple the industry. The New York Post published an article about numerous high-end New…
Our state budget is strained to the limit and programs are being cut that no one would prefer to cut. As the politicians who created this mess duck for cover and point fingers, often while trying to spend even more, the private sector is stepping up. This is the private sector that these same politicians…