Posted by Leonard Steinberg on December 5th, 2013 Mayor Elect Bill de Blasio has appointed Bill Bratton as police commissioner for New York…..this is a brilliant choice and a very encouraging insight into our next mayor’s actions regardng crime. Bill Bratton is largely credited for the jaw-dropping turnaround in crime under the Giuliani administration. A… [Read More]
MORE CABS COMING TO NEW YORK, BUT….
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on November 15th,2013 About 200 more cabs will hit the New York streets after an auction yesterday for new medallions, the first since 2008. Bidders, restricted to medallions for wheelchair-accessible vehicles, offered as much as $1.26 million for a single placard, which permits the holder to operate one of the city’s 13,000… [Read More]
DISGRACEFUL WAIT TIMES AT JFK CUSTOMS
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 17th, 2013 Read this NY DAILY NEWS article covering the often disgraceful welcome to our city at JFK customs: surely visitors (and tax-paying New York City residents)are entitled to better service in a first world country, not to mention a world center? Surely for the amount of taxes we pay… [Read More]
BLOOMBERG'S TAXI FIGHT IS THE RIGHT FIGHT – PLEASE REPLACE THE CABS OF NEW YORK!
The NEW YORK POST continued its attack on Mayor Bloomberg who claimed yesterday he doesn’t remember unloading an f-bomb-laced tirade on a taxi-fleet kingpin during a Knick game last week. Taxi Club Management CEO Gene Freidman, who won a legal challenge to Bloomberg’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” based on a technicality requiring more Hybrid cabs, told The… [Read More]
TWEET-SAVVY ANTHONY WEINER TO REPLACE BLOOMBERG AS NEXT NEW YORK MAYOR?
Posted on May 22nd, 2013 Anthony Weiner, the texting-twittering-tiranic former U.S. Representative announced in a video message early this morning that he is running for New York City mayor. Two years after resigning from Congress in a lewd photo scandal, he’s ba-ack. Pundits are asking if voters in the conservative state of North Carolina who recently re-elected Mark… [Read More]
NEW YORK GREEN LAW TO CREATE A RENEWABLE ENERGY WEBPORTAL
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on March 4th, 2013 A new GREEN LAW was signed into effect this past week by Mayor Bloomberg, Intro 887-A: It establishes a Renewable Energy Webportal that consolidates information into an easy-to-navigate website that New York homeowners can access to study new climate change initiatives, how they can implement renewable energy systems,… [Read More]
HALF-BILLION IN FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS: WHY NYC TAXES ARE SO HIGH?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on March 4th, 2013 $ 506,000,000.00 per year wasted: I often wonder why New York real estate taxes are so high? Do we really get that much in the way of services from our government? We all know the unions abuse the system religiously to pay some workers excessively with excessive benefits… [Read More]
NEW YORK IS THE DIRTIEST, NOISIEST CITY IN THE USA: TIME TO FIGHT BACK!
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 20th, 2012 After ranking a tidier No. 5 last year, New York City has regained its No. 1 spot for grit and grime as the dirtiest city in the USA. Some have argued that littering fines here should be tougher: now you can get up to 10 days in jail. Pollution isn’t… [Read More]
POINTING GREECEY FINGERS…
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on June 15th, 2012 While we await the outcome of the Greek elections this weekend, the world seems fixated on a country whose GDP is the size of Indiana, Maryland or Minnesota….if we are to put things into perspective. If Indiana’s economy went bust would America crumble? Lots of the blame… [Read More]
NEW YORK CITY: THE NEXT GLOBAL TECH POWERHOUSE
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on May 28th, 2012 New York is especially well positioned in the NEW TECH ECONOMY: The recent expansion of New York’s Internet industry has forced some entrepreneurs — who recently automatically flocked to California’s Silicon Valley – to focus on New York. New York is now enough of an attractive alternative that a… [Read More]