Topic: Vito Lopez

Editorial: Go for Gonzalez

Here's what a brazenly cynical politician does when all the newspapers - including this one - turn thumbs down on endorsing him. He fabricates a...

Editorial: Gonzalez for Assembly

Voters in Brooklyn will choose a new Assembly member in Tuesday's special election. They should go with Jesus Gonzalez.. . Of the three candidates...
City lawyers and community groups clashed in court yesterday over Williamsburg's controversial Broadway Triangle plan, a pet project of Brooklyn...

Editorial: Who's the boss, gov?

Gov. Cuomo has called special elections to fill six vacant Assembly seats and Anthony Weiner's former post in the House of Representatives. What a...

Council grants to tainted social group

The taint of a federal investigation hasn't stopped City Council members from lavishing pork on the social-services empire founded by Brooklyn...
Pastors for two Catholic churches at the center of a sweeping remake of the Brooklyn Diocese say they're being targeted for tangling with borough...
Does the Catholic Church think that the injunction attributed to Jesus, " It certainly seems that way, especially now that the Catholic hierarchy in New York is working hard to oppose a bill that would make it easier to prosecute child molesters. Similar ...

Woman vs. the Machine: Jo Anne Simon

Jo Anne Simon is one of seven candidates running for office in the 33rd City Council District, which runs from Greenpoint-Williamsburg along the Brooklyn waterfront through DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights, then spans Boerum Hill through northern Park Slope. In mid-August, Rail editor ...
The list of neighborhoods that lie within Brooklyn's 33rd City Council district reads like something out of a real estate developer's wet dream: Yet Levin simultaneously stood out as the only candidate who did not fully repudiate the rezonings of ...

Lopez Gets Some Politics Done at a Holiday Party

A reader who attended Brooklyn Democratic leader Vito Lopezs holiday party at Cono's last night told me that Lopez took pains to introduce his co-leader Maritza Davila as his candidate against Diana Reyna, though he did not mention her by name ...