Friday Links
View From the Gowanus Expressway. Photo by Jim in Times Square. New York Candidates Awash in Real Estate Cash [NY Times] Budget Cuts Raise Wrath of Principals [NY Times] New Burg School Stirs Controversy [NY Sun] Baby Kangaroo Make Bklyn Debut [NY Post] ‘Green Cart’ Proposal Debated [NY Daily News] Panel OKs Congestion Toll [NY…
View From the Gowanus Expressway. Photo by Jim in Times Square.
New York Candidates Awash in Real Estate Cash [NY Times]
Budget Cuts Raise Wrath of Principals [NY Times]
New Burg School Stirs Controversy [NY Sun]
Baby Kangaroo Make Bklyn Debut [NY Post]
‘Green Cart’ Proposal Debated [NY Daily News]
Panel OKs Congestion Toll [NY Daily News]
Brownstoner’s Worst Nightmare? [Velvet Sea]
Bid to Cut AY Subsidies Fails [Brooklyn Paper]
Spitzer Signs Anti-Flier Bill [Brooklyn Paper]
I was amazed at how much money public elementary schools in Brooklyn get from the private corporate sector. $500,000 donations for new science class room equipment? Library books? Where is all our tax money actually going? What shape would the schools be in if it wasn’t for these grants?
I was astonished to see that these budget cuts are being made MID-YEAR. Bloomberg’s callous and uncommonly stupid remark about the ease of making such cuts also made my jaw drop. Very little of a school’s budget is discretionary. A principal can’t cut maintenance, reduce federally mandated programs (in some school over 50% of spending), or increase union-restricted class sizes. What’s going to give in these schools?
It’s only worse that the Board of Ed spent millions of dollars on a grading system which gave As to schools no parents in their right mind would send their children to and Cs and Ds to the most popular schools in the city. Under Bloomberg: Patronage: 2; Market forces 0.
HAHA!! LOL!
The Brownstoner’s worst nightmare post made my day. I’m all for the aesthetic police, tomorrow I’m leaving a note.
I’m surprised no one mentioned the NY times article about contributions to city council folks from real estate firms.
Does anyone think these firms are throwing money at Ms. Katz, chairwoman of the Land Use Committee, in order to reform our outrageous zoning codes?
Nope. They are working hard to insure that zoning laws continue to squeeze supply such that only the super rich developers (like the Dursts) can afford to build anything in this city.