Issue 253
The Indypendent
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Issue 253
Dec 16, 2019
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High Rises In Bushwick? City’s Rezoning Scheme Ignores Previous Community Plans
Time stops at Pati Rodriguez’s childhood home in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. Three generations of her family — her parents,…
The Indypendent is a terrible, terrible newspaper, way worse than the failing New York Times. It not only says…
The Indypendent has placed scores of outdoor news boxes around the city over the past three years and our…
The subway. Fares go up but service gets worse. Trains get dirtier and more crowded. Platforms and car seats…
Interview: Journalist Lewis Wallace Refuses to be ‘Neutral’ in the Age of Trump
Just days after President Trump’s inauguration in 2017, one of the only trans people working as a national broadcast…
Not Santa’s Workshop: Amazon’s Warehouse Workers Endure Holiday Season Speedup
Awh, the holiday season. The lights, the snow, the eggnog… Better make it a double for workers at Amazon’s…
Michael Bloomberg Is Back: But Are Uninspiring Centrists Like Him Really More Electable?
Centrists are having a moment. After the initial months of the primary race were dominated by the proposals of…
Home Heating Tips: How to Stay Warm This Winter While Using Less Energy
It’s cold out, and sometimes it’s cold inside, too. You know you should wear layers, block drafts, service the…
Find Your Higher Power and Stop Shopping!
Dear Billy, I’ve given up booze. (Not for the first time.) It’s especially hard quitting the stuff during the…
A Single Father Dreams of a Bernie Victory
Did you hear about Bernie,” he asked. Bernie? As in Bernie Sanders the presidential candidate? As in the man…
Nazi Hipsters: Europe’s Identitarians Are Young, Fashionable and Proto-Fascist
It is spring 2018. High up on the Col de l’Echelle, a snow-covered mountain pass in the Alps between…
If there was any doubt before, the recent horrifying events in Bolivia should have laid those doubts to rest:…
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