From Humble Beginnings to New York’s ‘Upper Echelons,’ Tali Weinstein Sets Her Sights On the Manhattan DA’s Office
Note: This the sixth in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Tali…
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A Life-Long Fight For Justice Spurred Alvin Bragg Into the Manhattan DA Race
Note: This the fifth in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Alvin…
Public Defender and Reality TV Star Eliza Orlins Wants to Clean Up the Manhattan DA’s Office
Note: This the fourth in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Eliza…
Assemblymember, Public Defender… Manhattan’s Next DA?
Note: This the third in a series of interviews with 2021 contenders in the race for Manhattan District Attorney. Assemblyman…
The Return on Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s Slush Fund Investments Could Be Low
Félix Ortiz concedes to socialist in Sunset Park. Walter Mosley, Joe Lentol and Aravella Simotas could soon be ousted too, despite more than $365,000 in aid from Albany power-brokers.
The civil rights attorney helped lead the campaign to close Rikers and defended Occupy Wall Street protesters. Next, he plans to take on corruption from the other side of the courtroom.
Manhattan DA Candidate Tahanie Aboushi: It’s Time to Reimagine the Criminal Justice System
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of interviews The Indypendent will do with candidates running in…
Heastie-Controlled Slush Fund Props Up Embattled NY State Assembly Incumbents
Félix Ortiz, Walter Mosley, Joseph Lentol, Michael DenDekker and Cathy Nolan have all received $22,000 to $42,500 from a special account funded by Albany special interests.
Media-Darling Cop Terence Monahan’s Legacy of Brutality
He took a knee on Monday night at Union Square protests, garnering the effusive praise of Mayor Bill de…
Frank Sinatra, Woody Guthrie, Arthur Miller & the Reds on the Brooklyn Waterfront
An excerpt from “Bernie’s Brooklyn: How Growing Up In The New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders’ Politics” by Theodore Hamm.