Amazon Breaks Up With NYC on Valentine’s Day
It was a rocky relationship from the start, one forged in secret between the largest company in the world…
The Indypendent
Peter Rugh
The mayor is expanding access to medical treatment for NYC’s poor and undocumented. But how he says he’s paying for it may sicken you.
Superb Humanity: A Christmas Fairytale
Everyone saw something different in the stain, but everyone agreed there was something there. Ms. Nancy, who was always…
Gearing Up for a Green New Deal
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the plan to change everything.
Hank’s For All The Memories: A Long-Standing Boerum Hill Haunt Bites the Dust
Ernest Hemingway wrote of the importance of a “clean, well-lighted place.” I would counter that a dark den of…
New Yorkers Vow to Challenge Cuomo-De Blasio Amazon Giveaway
Perhaps it is dengue, perhaps it is malaria. Maybe it’s African sleep fever. It is definitely some kind of…
Prime Target: Amazon’s NYC Power Play
Concerns grow as the trillion-dollar company looks set to place its HQ2 In Queens.
The Past Comes Alive with Frightening Results in John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’
Antonio Bay is a small town with a big problem. It seems the California fishing village was founded on…
Ticket to Jail (For Some): Study Finds Massive Racial Disparities in Fare Evasion Arrests
People of color comprised nearly 94 percent of those jailed for turnstile hopping, according to an examination of recent NYPD data. Meanwhile, the police department is breaking the law by failing to provide its complete demographic records.
Upcoming Small Business Jobs Survival Act Hearing Decried as Sham
Members of New York’s beleaguered small business community and their supporters have spent more than three decades pushing for…