Atlantic Yards Project approved: A three-member state panel greenlights the Bruce Ratner’s $4.3 billion project that will not only include an arena for the Nets, but 16 office and residential towers that will strip that part of Brooklyn of anything resembling neighborhood. See what the Atlantic Yards Report says.
Bronx grandmother murdered by asphyxiation: we guarantee, this is the last you’ll hear of this story that merited a teensy box on page 16 of the Daily News. Thugs tied up 65-year-old Teresa Reyes, a day-care center cook, ransacked her apartment and left her to die. This is a wild guess, but we don’t think Rosie O’Donnell will skip skewering Donald Trump for giving teen beauty queen Tara Conner a second chance in favor of this story.
Giuliani Running: our ex-mayor, whose pre-9/11 mistakes might have cost the lives of more than 100 firefighters as well as approximately 1000 office workers (read Dwyer and Flynn’s 102 Minutes), yet emerged from the disaster a national hero, is throwing fund-raisers, presumedly for a presidential run. Our only comfort is that John Lindsay, the last New York mayor to run for president, crashed and burned in the Florida primary.