Seth Pinsky
From living-wage battlefield to 'largest ice sports center on the planet'
On Tuesday morning, erstwhile political combatants Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. announced that the Kingsbridge Armory would become, in its developers words, "the largest ice sports center on the planet." More
New York City previews plans to deal with the next 'very quirky' superstorm
Hurricane Sandy was “an incredibly idiosyncratic storm” and “a very quirky event,” according to Seth Pinsky, the city official heading up Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s resiliency task force. More
The Staten Island borough president wishes a water siphon were a subway tunnel
At a ribbon-cutting for a new water siphon to Staten Island, Borough President James Molinaro said he wished the event were celebrating something else.
"I was told that they were going to be boring for a train from Staten Island to Brooklyn," said Molinaro, after Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced him at a construction site on New York Harbor. "But I found out this morning, it’s not, it’s just for water." More
M.T.A. chief Lhota on how the city is like a petulant child
At one point during a public infrastructure forum today, M.T.A. chairman (and former deputy mayor) Joe Lhota said, "The city is a child of the state, and it’s sometimes very hard for children to accept it." More
Bloomberg says there's no daylight between the city and Brookfield, touts Yelp expansion
Mayor Michael Bloomberg reiterated this morning that Brookfield Office Properties, rather than the city of New York, has the ultimate say in how to manage the Occupy Wall Street protesters camped out in the landlord's privately owned, publicly accessible Zuccotti Park. More
Diamond District businesses lauded, urged to sell more aggressively
On Monday morning, the business improvement district representing Midtown’s Diamond District unveiled a study highlighting the economics behind the dense, jostling row of jewelers along 47th Street.
Those numbers showed more than 4,100 businesses employing more than 22,000 people while the district provides the city $4.2 billion in wages, profits and indirect taxes. The businesses provided an economic impact of $24.2 billion dollars in cost of materials, services, wages, rent and profits. The study also found that jewelry, diamonds and gold were three of New York State’s top four exports. More
City fathers scramble to keep New York’s mini-Patti Smiths from choosing ... Detroit?
So the Bloomberg administration is actively trying to hold on to its artists by cultivating various programs and involving the sorts of industry and government agencies—the sorts of institutions that that Patti Smith and company were, years ago, subverting. More
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