Unless you’ve been hiding under the Marcellus Shale, you’ve probably heard the uproar about hydro-fracking. It’s a chemically intensive process used to release natural gas from underground deposits. If fracking is allowed in upstate New York, it will contaminate New York City’s water supply and make it impossible for local growers to continue to raise… Continue Reading
On Friday, February 18, City Council member & Consumer Affairs Committee Chairman Dan Garodnick held a hearing on the first fifteen months of pedicab regulation, and on four pedicab-related bills he is introducing to the City Council. The four bills would: make pedicabs subject to the same parking rules as motor vehicles; create a pedicab… Continue Reading
So you’re planning your wedding for 2011…or 2012. You’re getting married at a house of worship, or on the Great Lawn, or on a pier jutting into the Hudson River. But you’re not holding your reception there – that’s across town, or at the Park Lane, or at the yacht club on the East River…. Continue Reading
The New York City Council voted yesterday to ban smoking in parks and pedestrian plazas. The Wall Street Journal quoted Speaker Christine Quinn as saying, “No one should have to inhale deadly cigarette smoke when they go to a park or beach.” Right on! I’d much rather inhale deadly airborne chemicals when I’m out walking,… Continue Reading