Most of America got to know Bill Kunstler in 1969, for his role in the Chicago Seven Trial. But by then he was 50, and had been a lawyer for almost twenty years. How did a white lawyer living in Westchester get involved in the Civil Rights movement, ...
Many New Yorkers pay more than $20,000/year for rent. As one who is unemployed and looking for work, I find this very depressing news. Get your daily dose of New York first thing in the morning from our weekday newsletter, now in beta. ...
Over the weekend, we looked at just a few of the many OHNY sites: the Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, an MTA Substation, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Here's a gallery of some of our other favorites, submitted by Gothamist users. If you've got any ...
The digester eggs, from the North (Jake Dobkin) As part of our continuing Open House New York coverage, we visited the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant this morning. It is enormous: dozens of buildings on 53 acres at the northern edge of ...
There are so many Open House New York sites open this weekend, and so little time to see them all! So we picked two that seemed interesting: this MTA powerstation on 53rd Street (built in 1901 by Heins & Lafarge, with help from McKim, Mead and White, ...
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The article has a point about the Pandas. We spend time and resources to save them because they are SO CUTE!!. But I wouldn't go as far as to 'pull the plug'. They have just as much as a right to exist as any other species and as its most likely our ...
Take a gander at this new Specter piece that went up on Park Avenue in Bed-Stuy yesterday. Specter tells us that "its basically about the under appreciated workforce that runs the city anyone from some guy collecting bottles and cans to someone who ...
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