Save the Lower East Side!

I moved to Loisaida in 1978 because it was hidden from mainstream New York, abandoned by ownership, undiscovered by commerce. The storefront...

If I'm playing devil's advocate, it's because the liberal arguments put forward for raising the minimum wage have not been pro-l...

To assume that any policy is by definition pro- or anti-labor is a mistake of knee-jerk liberalism. A policy isn't pro-labor if it throw...

Wal-mart employees are the largest food stamp and Medicaid recipients in many states, at taxpayer cost. So labor is agitating for a raise i...

It looks like NO711 is headed towards a racially divided face-off. NO711 is 100% white and mostly middle-class. Store employees are neither....

Consider what graffiti means to the course of western art. It's not just raising the cry against the defacing of NYC by developers...

The Historic Districts Council informs me that seating for the lecture "Solving the Tenement Puzzle" has reached capacity and ther...

I'll be giving the illustrated lecture  Solving the Tenement Puzzle  again, this time at the Neighborhood Preservation Center/Historic ...

LES Jewels, the most transgressive man I know: indifferent to safety, security, health, decorum, decency, police, imprisonment, violence, or...

There has been growing support for city council candidate Jennifer Rajkumar in Chinatown. Several local Chinatown leaders have explained to ...

Last night at the debate, candidate Jennifer Rajkumar cited this article at  City and State . Chin responded by dismissing it as "just ...

I attended the Chin-Rajkumar (Council District 1) debate last night. Although the audience, mostly white, seemed to be evenly divided betwee...

[Cross-posted at  http://chinatownforchinatown.wordpress.com/ ] There are two sides debating in the Chinatown Working Group. Some want to...

Neil Smith attempted a predictive theory of gentrification within a Marxist frame with a close examination of the phenomena in the US, parti...

NO711 performed the skit again at the Tompkins Square Memorial Riot Concert today and again got requests to post the script, so here it is ...

Margaret Chin is taking money from the Real Estate Board of New York's Political Action Committee. You'd want to ask, why would t...

Remember how we were all told that the Bloomberg sugar "portion cap" exempted the Big Gulp because the Health Department had no j...

Adam Davidson, appearing on WNYC's morning "Brian Lehrer Show" discussion program, gave his strongest argument for rent dereg...

Rent regs in the Times again. Amazing to me that they can print baldfaced lies.  This was empirically studied in Boston:  when rents w...

Walmart threatened to leave DC if their mayor signs the council's living wage bill.  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/ 2013/07/09/living-wa...