Buddy Scotto
Inside operator mum on a lucrative Brooklyn shelter deal, no matter who's asking
For weeks, as controversy has built over a highly expedited and ethically problematic city deal to award a contract to operate a homeless shelter in Carroll Gardens, two questions have loomed over the project. More
(17)At long last, a Brooklyn boss goes for the knockout against Nydia Velazquez
Her meeting with Brooklyn's Democratic boss Vito Lopez had been a friendly one, as far as Nydia Velazquez knew.
It was 1992, the year she was first elected to Congress. Velazquez and Dennis Rivera, then the president of the health care workers union, 1199 SEIU, met with Lopez at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan to coordinate his support for her campaign. More
(3)In two meetings, one of them quite heated, neighborhoods confront the half-billion dollar Gowanus Canal cleanup
The sediment is full of harmful polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) left behind by local industries, which would be dredged.
Well, they had explained it before in a 550-page document called a "feasibility study" released last month. But that explanation, especially with its environmental safety implications and near half-billion-dollar price-tag, needed explaining. More
(1)Buddy Scotto, on the ramparts of Carroll Gardens
As Carroll Gardens becomes home to one of Brooklyn’s yuppiest Restaurant Rows, a sort-of Division II Manhattan for recent college graduates and a single-family brownstone dream for magazine editors and downtown types, it’s perhaps unsurprising that, finally, the Scotto family power-base is thinning out. More
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