Employees at FreshDirect’s Plant Operations warehouse voted overwhelmingly against unionization over the weekend. Given options of joining either the United Food & Commercial Workers, the Teamsters, or no union at all, 80 percent of the employees voted “no union.” The vote comes in the midst of an ongoing labor crisis at the warehouse; over one hundred undocumented workers were forced out earlier this month as FreshDirect announced an imminent inspection by Immigration and Customs Enforcement......

If a change in clothes doesn't help the Jets, what will? Despite looking snazzy in their New York Titans throwbacks, the Jets looked anything but sharp on the field in a 16-9 loss to the Eagles on Sunday. Some creative playcalling, including a reverse, got the Jets deep inside Eagles territory as the fourth quarter wound down, but Chad Pennington couldn't get the ball to Laveranues Coles on fourth-and-one fade. The whispers are growing louder......

Plans for a water park on Randall's Island are on the verge of collapse as the developer granted a state concession to build the amusement complex missed its second deadline in seven months to secure financing. According to the Daily News, many East Harlem residents and park advocates were ecstatic at the project's possible failure. Tickets for the water park would have been priced at $37 a person and would result in a de facto......

Telling us what most any subway rider suspected, City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. issued a review of the MTA's "State of Good Repair" capital expenditures and found that the MTA isn't very committed to making sure subway and bus service is in a "State of Good Repair." For instance, the MTA is 10-15 years behind making NYC Transit assets reach a State of Good Repair: 40% of lettered lines have 70 year old......

Last night, a woman was hit and killed by a car on Utica Avenue in Flatlands. The driver, who had a Nissan Maxima with temporary plates, did get out of the car and saw the victim, but then soon left. Some witnesses tried unsuccessfully to follow the driver, and a photographer for the NY Post was actually on the scene. William C. Lopez said the victim had been crossing against the light and seemed oblivious......

"In 2004, what we had talked about was an impending crisis in affordable housing. Today, that crisis is here." So city comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. tells the Times today while discussing his offices recently released report "Affordable No More: New York City's Mitchell-Lama and Limited Dividend Housing Crisis is Accelerating" (PDF) and the similar study just released by the Community Service Society "Closing the Door: Accelerating Losses of New York City Subsidized Housing" (PDF).......

Dunh dunh DUNH: Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki are doing their Ground Zero development dance, with Bloomberg naming four people onto the LMDC board, including Dan "NYC 2012/West Side Stadium" Doctoroff, and then Pataki named two new people of his own: His economic adviser Charles Gargano and former FBI-bigwig James Kallstrom. The Post says the Gargano and Doctoroff have clashed before, so we can only look forward to some well-planted leaks about the other guy......

Jets fans can only feel good knowing that two touchdowns in two weeks were enough for two road victories for their team, and road to the AFC Playoffs just got a lot clearer, by way of a 13-3 victory over the Arizona Cardinals in Tempe yesterday. After being knocked silly immediately at the start of the game, quarterback Quincy Carter came through in the end (particularly on a 69-yard strike to Santana Moss) and even......