Our man in the NYC Council/NYC Comptroller candidate/Brooklyn Heights resident/our Facebook friend David Yassky announced today that he’s had it with unkempt news boxes across his district. As newspapers continue to shuffle off this mortal coil they are leaving behind a trail of empty, unmaintained or trash filled news boxes. Yassky has set up a […]
Archive | Election09 RSS feed for this section
Council Candidate Thies Has Park Funding Proposal
Evan Thies, a former aide to City Councilmember David Yassky and a candidate to succeed to Yassky’s seat in the 2009 election, announced in a column in Monday’s Daily News a plan for funding of Brooklyn Bridge Park and other parks that would not rely on revenues from condos or hotels built on park land. […]
Yassky: Keepsky Filmskys in NYC
The NY state fund that financed tax credits for film and TV shoots in New York has run out of dough. Today, our man in the NYC council David Yassky came out swingin’ with his demand for the continuance of the program and a nifty statement. And now, the official press release for your enjoyment:
Yassky Pickskys Isay
Looks like it’s full speed ahead for David Yassky’s bid for New York City comptroller. The NY Daily News reports that he’s tapped Democratic “fixer” and fellow disciple of Sen. Chuck Schumer Josh Isay as a campaign staffer. Isay, the paper says, is taking “at least some of the blame” for Caroline Kennedy’s botched bid […]
Racesky for Yassky’s Seatsky is Onsky
The Brooklyn Paper reports on the race to replace our man in the City Council, David Yassky. Yassky’s still running for Comptroller and the field to replace him is crowded. It includes JoAnne Simon the candidate behind those mailers you received over the weekend: Brooklyn Paper: They’re Off!: Simon certainly has the money. Through July, […]
T.K. Small Discusses Voting Access on NY1
As the hangovers subside and people gradually get used to the fact that the last eight years of horrendous governance will be coming to an end shortly, I thought I would share with the BHB community my experience voting during this historic election. At some point during the day I commented on BHB that there […]
Yassky: Nowhere to Runsky?
Our now un-term limited man in the City Council, David Yassky, could face a tough challenge should he decide to run for another term there and not for comptroller as he had planned before Mayor Bloomberg’s new rule on term limits passed: New York Times: For Yassky…: If he does try to regain his Council […]
Nabe Chatter