The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Remember when Trump was bragging to the skies that he had saved all those jobs at Carrier’s Indiana plant? Well Carrier is planning to lay off 300 of those workers just before Christmas. Carrier is owned by United Technologies one of
The traffic problem in NYC that Mayor Bloomberg and his traffic Commissioner Jeanette Sadik-Khan made so much noise over, spent so much money to solve and introduced kamikaze bicycles to implement, has been a complete and utter failure. Streets that once
One of the main platforms on which Mayor DeBlasio got elected this year was his stated desire to provide more affordable housing in a city that oozes people with too much money and not enough places to spend it.
Frank Bruni a sycophant lobbyist who masquerades as a reporter for the New York Times has just done his latest obeisance to Janette Sadik-Khan and her traffic follies? Bruni’s love letter to Sadik-Khan in the 9/11/11 Times, Sunday Review was about as
Michael Grynbaum, in a recent article on Traffic Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, completely missed the point. The people of the city don’t care if Sadik-Khan is nasty, abrasive or hard to work with. Most of them don’t ever, thank God, have to see