Big Apple Summer Games Would Be An Olympic-Sized Mistake
BETWEEN THE LINES: Seven years ago New York City was in the running to host the Summer Olympic Games, which are currently underway 3,500 miles east of here. We made it to the final five before London...
View ArticleNo Ifs, Ands Or Butts In Anti-Smoking Crusade
BETWEEN THE LINES: The place: Times Square, New York City. The time: High Noon, the present. The scene: Two men slowly walk towards each other. A few passersby anticipate a showdown and seek nearby...
View ArticleCity’s Spirit Shone Brightly Throughout ’03 Blackout
BETWEEN THE LINES: Where were you when the lights went out on August 14, 2003? A recent partial power outage in my apartment jogged my memory to that night. When the power went out and the...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Cops’ Facebook Comments Went Beyond Limits of Free Speech
BETWEEN THE LINES: With the 45th West Indian Day Parade only days away, the New York City Police Department last week disciplined a group of officers for posting racist comments about revelers...
View ArticleDirty Old Men Have Sleazy Sense of Power
“Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.” – John Adams BETWEEN THE LINES: More than a year ago, Congressman Anthony Weiner resigned after he admitted taking part in virtual trysts with other women...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Notes From The Couch — Conventionally Speaking
BETWEEN THE LINES: After watching portions of the Republican and Democratic conventions, here are some observations: Now I can sleep soundly, knowing the incumbents, their opponents and their...
View ArticleOp-Ed: State’s Part-Time Pols Don’t Deserve A Raise
BETWEEN THE LINES: A show of hands, how many of you think our state legislators deserve a pay raise? Not too many hands. Now, if they were to get a raise, how many think that a 26 percent hike, the...
View ArticleOp-Ed: A Slice Of Life That’s Become Divisive
BETWEEN THE LINES: As soon as the New York City Department of Health (DOH) established a regulation recently to require written parental consent before a circumcision, several rabbis and Jewish groups...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Obscure Victim Of Twisted Justice Left His Mark
BETWEEN THE LINES: A 68-year-old former Brooklyn resident died of a heart attack a few weeks ago in a New Jersey nursing home, not far from where he lived until his late teens. Though his life was...
View ArticleDo All Our Guns Make Us Any Safer?
BETWEEN THE LINES: When I wrote my first column about gun violence in the wake of the fatal Columbine shootings years ago, I knew it wouldn’t be the last. Similar incidents happened before and were...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Congressional Cowards Need To Bite The Bullet
BETWEEN THE LINES: What we have in Congress — to paraphrase the iconic line from “Cool Hand Luke” — is a failure to legislate. That was quite evident last week after the Senate failed to expand...
View ArticleOp-Ed: DOMA’s Dead — Let Freedom (& Wedding Bells) Ring!
BETWEEN THE LINES: The Supreme Court gaveth a day after it tooketh away. Less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court invalidated part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it — sort of — righted justice by an...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To E-Fraud, I (Hope I) Won’t Get Fooled Again
BETWEEN THE LINES: In conjunction with occasional Sheepshead Bites postings of Crime Prevention Tips from the NYPD’s 61st Precinct, here’s my tale of identity theft. You’ve probably heard the...
View ArticleBye, Bye Bloomberg — Bumps Aside, It’s Been A Triumphant Trip
BETWEEN THE LINES: For more than a decade, Michael R. Bloomberg governed the Big Apple. Entering politics after years as a business entrepreneur, he adapted to the process and departs with conspicuous...
View ArticleCan We Add Political Campaigns To The Do-Not-Call Registry, Please?
BETWEEN THE LINES: Whether or not your candidate was elected, the end of the 2013 political campaign season surely delighted Brooklynites frustrated by months of annoying, unsolicited...
View ArticleJFK Assassination Remains A Defining Moment For Baby Boomers
BETWEEN THE LINES: The following is an excerpt from one of several speeches that Senator John F. Kennedy made in Brooklyn, on October 20, 1960: I come over here to Brooklyn to ask your help. I run for...
View Article“Knockout” Attacks Are Anything But A Game
BETWEEN THE LINES: There has been a succession of media reports over the last few weeks about pedestrians being sucker-punched by a single attacker or one among a group of passing youngsters. The...
View ArticleJaywalkers Are Not Road Scholars
BETWEEN THE LINES: Jaywalking, for those only familiar with the term from occasional segments on “The Tonight Show,” can have dire consequences. Jay Leno casually — and lawfully — “jaywalks” Los...
View ArticleAnd In The End, I Loved ‘Em, Too, Yeah, Yeah Yeah
BETWEEN THE LINES: This past Sunday night, February 9, marked the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” A record 73 million Americans — more than a third of the U.S....
View ArticleSixth Winter Storm Leaves Mayor In A Snow Daze
BETWEEN THE LINES: With possibly the worst storm of the season, packed with heavy snow, sleet and rain racing up the East Coast, flights were grounded and government offices to the south of the city...
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