Hoylman takes aim at Penn project after Cuomo aides tried to boost support for Manhattan BP bid Denis Slattery
ALBANY State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) is pitching a piece of legislation that would force Gov. Cuomo’s controversial redevelopment plan around Penn Station to go through the standard city land-use review process.
The introduction of the measure comes after the Daily News revealed that top Cuomo officials tried unsuccessfully to drum up union support for Hoylman’s Manhattan borough president bid earlier this year.
Hoylman refused to comment on the calls made by Cuomo allies to union officials or his relationship with the governor, instead focusing on the one-house bill that would make the Empire Station Complex project subject to the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.
NY Sen Brad Hoylman bill would subject Cuomo s Penn project to NYC land use process
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We are the Met : Opera unions rally against proposed pay cuts
Union members rally in New York on May 13, 2021, in opposition to the Metropolitan Opera s lockout of its stagehands and managements demands for deep and lasting pay cuts it says are needed to survive the coronavirus pandemic. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs and Matt Stevens
NEW YORK
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- As New York prepares for the long-awaited reopening of its performing arts sector, with several Broadway shows putting tickets on sale for the fall, it is still unclear whether the Metropolitan Opera will be able to reach the labor agreements it needs to bring up its heavy golden curtain for the gala opening night it hopes to hold in September.
Could the Barron political dynasty be overthrown?
Charles Barron is vying to win his wife Inez Barron’s New York City Council District 42 seat, which she is leaving this year due to term limits. The majority-Black district encompases East New York and its subsections such as Spring Creek and Starrett City. Charles Barron previously won the same seat in 2001. His wife won the Assembly seat in 2008 and they swapped seats when Charles was term-limited out of the City Council in 2013, with Inez running successfully to replace him and Charles then replacing her in the Assembly.
But some have grown tired of the Barrons’ seat swapping, particularly local politicos who say the district is in need of new leadership, pointing to the neighborhood’s high rates of poverty and unemployment, and a recent upward trend in shootings as some of the most pressing issues in the district. Others remember the iconoclastic, radical couple known for generating their share of controversy, for their