Schwartzie

Or Balazs. But whatever works....

There is so much procedural oversight on government work that it's inconceivable that Cruz--a well-established firm in heavy civil construction in the NYC area--would get away with subbing out work th...

"...CARING TO ALL ANIMALS INCLUDING WOMEN." Taxonomy fail?...

No kidding marmot...I fail to see how offering a right to a larger group of people somehow threatens the people who already have that right....

Why is this necessary? What's so critically wrong with MetroCards that they need to be done away with immediately? Doesn't the MTA have more pressing problems that could use the capital instead of t...

Breaking! Man widely thought to be self-important jerk is in fact self-important jerk. (Art imitates life, but sometimes life imitates The Onion.)...

Evidently, the building had serious structural stability problems, and was in effect a ticking time bomb. The fact that the original landmarked facade was going to be preserved but the rest of the bu...

I think the only thing that the Community Boards don't oppose is having everything stay exactly the way it is right now....

I think the only thing that the Community Boards don't oppose is having everything stay exactly the way it is right now....

Come on. It's not like Silverstein unilaterally came up with this contract and forced a meek and fearful Port Authority to sign it! Silverstein is in business for himself so it should come as no sur...

Skeptics are always good for a laugh. I live by the East River and there are a couple of unexpected fireworks shows every year. The first time it happened, I swore it was the beginning of WWIII, but...

A hell of a lot funnier! Furthermore, VF took a good bit of flack because of the sexist undertones in the original photo and having these fellows naked would have made for a good tongue-in-cheek mea ...

The bag search program is a complete waste of resources. It's nothing but theatrics. For a rational and non-alarmist take on security, Bruce Schneier's always worth a read. Here's what he had to sa...

So he and his lawyers allege that he didn't realize that what he was doing was a violation of the terms of his bail. That may well be the case, but if he doesn't understand the terms of his bail, he ...

There's an important wrinkle that I didn't make explicit. Promiscuity seems like a good predictor of STD transmission rates, but without data, there's no way to know definitively. This relationship ...