GothamNextI Met My Website’s Commenters. And I Kind of…Like Them?And so it was that the week after DCist shuttered, I arrived at Bar Charley and headed to the back, where I knew the commenters were…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
GothamNextCity Requests More Authority to Impose Safety Standards on Private Trash HaulersSanitation Salvage is one of many carting companies that haul trash for New York City businesses. Oversight of the industry rests with the…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
GothamNextAfter Deadly Vice Sting, Advocates Say End to Prostitution Arrests Is Long Overdue“Raids are a traumatic event… just mentally harmful,” Jenna Torres, a community organizer with the Red Umbrella Project, a Brooklyn-based…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
GothamNextBrooklyn Electeds Pay Tribute to Edwin Ajacalon and Call on Albany to Prevent Deadly SpeedingSpeaking to Streetsblog afterward, Adams said he would like to see more enforcement of speeding to remind drivers that pedestrians come…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
GothamNextLeave Malia Obama AloneThe media, collectively comprised of alleged adults, should back off of Malia, and Sasha, and Barron, and Tiffany, and any other…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
GothamNextWilliamsburg’s Industrial Businesses Are FleeingThe Radutzky family has been making halvah, tahini, and jelly rings at their factory in East Williamsburg since 1918. But rising utility…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
GothamNextCrown Heights tenants sue city, developer in effort to stop Bedford-Union Armory project“We know that in reality tenants in rent-regulated buildings are not immune from displacement or gentrification,” says Jennifer Levy…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
GothamNextLegal Aid Lawyers Stage Walkout After Yet Another ICE Court ArrestGenaro Rojas Hernandez, thirty, was in court to face charges of violating a restraining order. Just after 11 a.m., after a judge asked him…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017
GothamNextBaby boomers, like millennials, are flocking to rentals offering a ‘hands-free’ lifestyleChung is one example of a subset of baby boomers who have become the fastest-growing group of renters across the nation. Since they tend to…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017
GothamNextSurveying decades of change on the Lower East Side’s bustling Orchard StreetNot that Orchard Street hasn’t undergone periods of drastic change before: running through the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017