Thursday Links
Locals Confused by Bus Route Changes [NY Times] City Barred From Hiring New Firefighters [NY Times] Aretha Talks About Her Concert Cancellation [NY Post] Lopez Got Ccash from Winning Hospital Bidder [Brooklyn Paper] Pratt Library School Receives $971,407 Grant [Brooklyn Eagle] City to Charge for Property Tax Hearings [TRD] Brooklyn Man Charged In Fatal Beating…
Locals Confused by Bus Route Changes [NY Times]
City Barred From Hiring New Firefighters [NY Times]
Aretha Talks About Her Concert Cancellation [NY Post]
Lopez Got Ccash from Winning Hospital Bidder [Brooklyn Paper]
Pratt Library School Receives $971,407 Grant [Brooklyn Eagle]
City to Charge for Property Tax Hearings [TRD]
Brooklyn Man Charged In Fatal Beating [NY1]
A Food Crawl Through Williamsburg [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Brooklyn Industries Blames Heat for Bad Rumor [Gothamist]
Extreme Makeover: Williamsburg Townhouse Duplex [Curbed]
Photo by Denton Taylor from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool
The NYC Fire Department REALLY has a problem with hiring blacks and latinos. Why?
“City Barred From Hiring New Firefighters
By A. G. SULZBERGER
The federal judge overseeing a discrimination lawsuit against the city’s Fire Department ruled on Wednesday that the hiring test being used by the department was unfair to minority applicants and issued an injunction that will prevent the city from offering positions to 300 applicants who had already taken the exam.
Two previous hiring tests have been ruled discriminatory by the judge, who has accused the city of using obstructionist tactics to avoid court-ordered reforms aimed at increasing the number of black and Hispanic firefighters in a department that has long been disproportionately white.”
“a British equity slesman for Asian stock”
EUROTRASH
Many years ago, a British equity slesman for Asian stock (who subsequently became one of my best friends) brought an American analyst into my office. I was having a difficult time understanding something he was pronouncing and the brit started laughing over the fact that the two Americans weren’t understanding each other.
“Is Williamsburg a destination resort for Pittsburgh. Also why does one have an h at the end and the other does not?”
Same reason why one of your questions has a mark and the other doesn’t.
BTW, why’s John Paulson so bearish all of a sudden? Maximum Overdrive in the markets? Ticketmaster scams on the exchanges? Or is he two faced and a part of it?
***Bid half off peak comps***
I met him a couple of times & followed him OK. Never done that much Asian stuff (rewrite?)
etson, do you know Dr Jim Walker previously of Credit Lyonnais?
If you’re in a meeting face-to-face with him, he’s understandable. get him on a conference call and all bets are off, the brogue is so thick.
BTW, I know that don’t teach zoology at Manchester College of Knowledge, but its a gecko, hence the whole advertising pun.
no , I don’t see any pic there, Denton.
Touché