Should New York embrace wind-generated power?
The Bloomberg administration wants the city to spin its way into a greener future by adding electricity-generating wind turbines everywhere, from skyscraper roofs to the peaks of the vast Fresh Kills...
View ArticleDo you like the bright green color of the new outer-borough taxi?
The mayor calls it “apple green,” but a variety of other terms are being used to describe the color of the new taxis that will exclusively serve the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan: lime, mint,...
View ArticleWhere do you think the city’s first outlet mall should go?
In recent weeks, three developers have been linked in the press to plans to open New York’s first-ever outlet shopping mall. One plan calls for such a shopping mecca near the entrance to the Whitestone...
View ArticleWould you spend 38 minutes 62 stories over Staten Island?
Leaving London Eye in the dust, the world’s tallest Ferris wheel is slated to come to Staten Island and open to the public in 2016. The wheel will rise 625 feet high and will operate all year. It will...
View ArticleShould the New York Marathon be canceled?
Bright and early on Sunday morning, an expected 50,000 runners will begin their 26.2-mile run from Staten Island to Central Park. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others say ING New York City Marathon will...
View ArticleShould the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll reduction apply only to Staten...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board approved on Wednesday a rebate for Staten Island residents who cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Residents in noncommercial vehicles with E-ZPasses...
View ArticleShould indicted Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm drop his re-election bid?
Rep. Michael Grimm on Monday pleaded not guilty to tax-evasion charges resulting from a federal probe that initially targeted his alleged attempts to bypass campaign contribution limits. The Republican...
View ArticleShould Commissioner Bill Bratton scale back the NYPD’s ‘broken windows’...
The death of Eric Garner has put pressure on police to reconsider the tactics used to combat minor crime. Mr. Garner died July 17 from a heart attack he suffered after he was put in a chokehold by...
View ArticleHow well is the mayor managing the chokehold controversy?
At a City Hall meeting Wednesday to discuss the possible policy response to the death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Islander in police custody, Mayor Bill de Blasio found himself as the man in the...
View ArticleShould NYPD officers wear body cameras?
After a man died while being arrested on Staten Island for selling loose cigarettes, Public Advocate Letitia James called for the city’s police officers to wear cameras to record their interactions...
View ArticleWas the grand jury right not to indict any police in Eric Garner’s death?
Eric Garner died July 17 after police placed him in a chokehold during an attempted arrest for selling loose cigarettes on Staten Island. The unarmed African-American man was heard gasping for breath,...
View ArticleShould Mayor Bill de Blasio apologize to the police?
Former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is the latest to state that Mayor Bill de Blasio should apologize to the police. “I think the mayor has to give something,” he said. “He has to, you know, sort of...
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