At 93, Ted Kheel could be resting on his laurels as a well-known labor lawyer and negotiator (the NY Times called him the "the most influential peacemaker in New York City in the last half-century"). Instead, he has been crusading, as his Nurture Nature Foundation explains, to address the "fundamental conflict between development and the environment." He has suggested that the subways should become free and will be releasing results from a study to prove......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a triple shooting on East 21st St. and Caton Ave. in Brooklyn, a missing child on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, and a mass casualty incident at Castle Hill Ave. and the Cross Bronx Expressway. Many New Yorkers donned black this Thursday in solidarity with the Jena 6. Cops are looking for a man who applied for a job at the Duane Reade on 34th St. and 5th......

Mayor Bloomberg just hates congestion: He announced a plan to more aggressively go after drivers who "block the box" at intersections. The city describe box blocking as "driving into an intersection as the light is changing without room to continue through it, thus blocking traffic," and it seriously sucks. Mayor Bloomberg wants to allow all 2,800 traffic agents to issue tickets (for some reason, only a few traffic enforcement agents can issue them now) in......

After pointedly saying that it was easy for drivers to move their cars during the midweek snow-and-ice storm and that parking tickets would stand, Mayor Bloomberg backtracked and said tickets issued for alternate side of the street violations on Thursday and Friday would be forgiven (the message is also there on 311). The Mayor begrudgingly said he was sorry during his radio program yesterday:I’m sorry for the inconvenience to people, but you know you have......

Is it true that milk can cure what ails you? Maybe. Salon discusses advocates of the raw milk movement -- those who claim that unpasteurized milk from grass-fed cows may be the elixir of health, "capable of reversing chronic diseases from asthma to irritable bowel syndrome." The Weston A. Price Foundation is one of the leading promoters of raw dairy products. In 1939, Price penned "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," which expounded upon the physical benefits......

A survey from the Red Cross and NYU's Center for Catastrophe Preparedness & Response says that New Yorkers are not all that prepared for disasters. New Yorkers have thought about disasters, but haven't gone all the way:- Half of New Yorkers polled have emergency supply kits, but many of these kits are incomplete; - 63% of New Yorkers polled have an emergency plan, but rarely have they put their plan to a test run or......

As the casualties and death toll increase (1000 casualties/wounded/injured - the Brits seem to use casualties to refer to the injured and dead, so we were taking their lead, as Gothamist knows not of these style books commenters speak of - and at least 30 dead) in London, the U.S. has raised the terror level for all "regional and inter-city passenger rail, subways and metropolitan bus systems." Many New Yorkers seemed a little on......

As the Michael Jackson not guilty verdict was announced yesterday, crowds gathered in Times Square and gasped, cheered, or just were dumbstruck. Many New Yorkers seem to believe he was guilty of something, and were surprised that he was found not guilty on all counts, but not that surprised that a celebrity was found not guilty. Some thought that the trial was a witch hunt, and one Bronx woman told the Daily News, "Michael, if......