https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/raising-bar-on-cbas.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Raising the Bar on CBAs
The Observer posts on the excellent Bar Association report on community benefits agreements-and the report raises some of the issues that...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/08/money-and-faith.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Money and Faith
The admonition from Nat Hentoff for reporters to do their job on uncovering all aspects of the mosque story, is now being picked up-as the ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/mom-and-popped.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Mom and Popped
As the NY Sun is reporting today, the City Council's Small Business Committee will hold a hearing to explore the possibility of providing ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/08/recycling-cliches.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Recycling Cliches
Gotham Gazette focuses on yet another attempt by the city council to find some way to boost New York's anemic recycling rates. Now we go ba...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/12/note-on-composting.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: A Note on Composting
Many environmentalists, including those who oppose disposer usage, point to composting as a preferable alternative for handling food waste....
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/11/gotham-grocery-shoppimg.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Gotham Grocery Shoppimg
Our friends at the Gotham Gazette have just posted an article by Gail Robinson about the paucity of grocery stores in NYC's poorer neighbor...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/09/mike-bloomberg-real-mc-coy.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Mike Bloomberg: The Real Mc-Coy
Mike Bloomberg just can't seem to help himself-but the faux coyness really is unbecoming. As the NY Daily News reports this morning, May...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/09/eminent-grist.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Eminent Grist
As the ESDC charade on the use of eminent domain continues, it appears that, at least according to the NY Sun, that Columbia honcho Lee Bol...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/mighty-quinn.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Mighty Quinn
We have certainly had our differences with Council Speaker Chris Quinn-in particular her less than aggressive check on mayoral power-but, if...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-he-govern.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Can He Govern?
In a wonderfully understated-and unintentionally ironic-headline concerning a political pow wow in Harlem to discuss the fate of Davis Pater...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2011/01/
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: 01/01/2011 - 02/01/2011
Protecting Neighborhood Business For Over 20 Years
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/morose-on-gay-rights.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Morose on Gay Rights
In today's DMI blog the indefatigable Maureen Lane flagellates herself in a post about gay rights. What makes all of this fascinating readi...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/09/tale-of-two-cities.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Tale of Two Cities
In this morning's NY Times, the paper takes a very interesting look at the two-sided opposition to the Willets Point redevelopment : " No ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/weiner-to-egress.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Weiner to the Egress
So, a funny thing happened on the way to our cornucopia of electoral choices -or, in the more persuasive vernacular, another one bites the ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/05/bloomberg-cheapens-times-square-bomber.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Bloomberg Cheapens Times Square Bomber Debate
One thing that can always be said of Mike Bloomberg is that he is certainly no cheap skate. Anyone who gives away so much of his money-or sp...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2011/02/ends-and-means-at-willets-point.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Ends and Means at Willets Point
The Flushing Times has an editorial on Willets Point that wonders about the use of eminent domain: "The use of eminent at Willets Point may...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/09/union-leaders-politicians-mount.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Union leaders, politicians mount attacks against Wal-Mart
The Staten Island Advance covered an anti-Wal-Mart rally held on Wednesday sponsored by organized labor. The event is part of a 5 borough-w...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/09/baby-and-bath-water.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Baby and the Bath Water
Yesterday we commented on the misplaced efforts of the City Planning Commission to bring more supermarkets to underserved neighborhoods. A...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/those-myriad-benefits.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Those Myriad Benefits
Last week we were discussing the dispute over the accuracy of the polling data on the mayor's congestion taxing plan. We were particularly...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/09/kosher-labor-practices.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Kosher Labor Practices?
In yesterday's NY Times, the paper focused on the questionable labor practices of a Kosher meat processor, a company with problems all over...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/11/avella-refuses-to-waiver.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Avella Refuses to Waiver
As we commented this morning, the NY Post's urgent push to grant the new ed chancellor-designate a waiver is an egregious rush to judgment-...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/04/shelton-from-storm.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Shelton from the Storm
The Observer is reporting that a labor leaders has labeled Congressman Mike McMahon a, "Judas," for his vote against ObamaCare : "Rep. Mike ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/08/fidler-for-truth.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Fidler On the Truth
In yesterday's Daily Politics Blog Liz highlights the unusual Council vitriol generated by the decision of Speaker Quinn to stack the cong...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/06/restaurants-sue-doh.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Restaurants Sue DOH
As Crain's is reporting , the New York State Restaurant Association is suing the NYC Board of Health and the DOH in order to prevent the i...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/10/relateds-big-gamble.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Related's Big Gamble
As more and more evidence comes in that Related Companies has cut a deal with Walmart to take 180,000 square feet in the expansion footprin...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/progressive-caucus-gaps.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Progressive Caucus Gaps
The two co-chairs of the new city council Progressive Caucus lay out their agenda in the Nation (Via Liz)-and there are some high notes tha...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/09/chicken-little-wylde-and-mayor-mike.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Chicken Little Wylde and Mayor Mike
As Yogi Berra might have said, "It's deja vu all over again." This time it's the fiscal crisis that is leading business leader Kathy Wylde...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/trader-joe-comes-to-west-harlem.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Trader Joe Comes to West Harlem
In this morning's NY Sun, the paper reports on the decision by the Bloombergers to support the rezoning initiative of Manhattan BP Scott ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/11/tale-of-two-cities.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: A Tale of Two Cities
The folks are taking sides in the battle over the mayor's choice of a new schools chancellor-and it is beginning to look like a tale of two ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/rangels-it.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Rangel's "It"
Daily Politics has an interesting post on the gala thrown for Charlie Rangel , the chairman of the House Ethics Committee-no, that can't be...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/09/wal-mart-bjs-and-race-for-speaker.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Wal-Mart, BJ's and the Race for Speaker
We've been thinking a little more about the BTM/Gateway project and its potential impact on the Speaker's race. As we previously posted the...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/06/
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: 06/01/2008 - 07/01/2008
Protecting Neighborhood Business For Over 20 Years
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/09/conflicted-just-change-subject.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Conflicted? Just Change the Subject
As City Room is reporting, Comptroller Bill Thompson has jumped on the NY Times story about, well, conflicts at the city's Conflict of Int...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/07/remove-that-stain.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Remove That Stain!
The NY Daily News is reporting that Greg Meeks is up to his old habits -playing fast and loose with the ethics laws: "Queens congressman Gr...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/01/beating-on-barclays.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Beating on Barclays
Trying to revive a dead horse for another beating, the Daily News' Michael O'Keefe goes after the Nets deal with Barclays Bank in today's p...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/05/neighborhood-retail-alliance-profile.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Neighborhood Retail Alliance Profile
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance is profiled in a great piece by Stacey Mitchell at the Hometown Advantage , a pro-small business organizat...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2011/02/one-city-one-standard-double-standard.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: One City, One Standard: The Double Standard
Can you believe the chutzpah of Mike Bloomberg? According to City Room the mayor is actually dressing down workers for, we kid you not, fai...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/10/
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: 10/01/2007 - 11/01/2007
Protecting Neighborhood Business For Over 20 Years
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/07/ken-red-weighs-in-on-congestion.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Ken the Red Weighs In on Congestion
The NY Times opens up its Op-Ed today to the wisdom of "Ken the Red" Livingston, the communist mayor of London. Now we normally resist the ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/11/cabbie-knows-best.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Cabbie Knows Best
In an Op-ed piece done for the Sunday Daily News, cab driver Nick Stern demonstrated that it's so often the folks on the ground who are able...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/07/bronx-pols-demand-preservation-of.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Bronx Pols Demand Preservation of Bronx Terminal Market
Today at the offices of the Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation a number of parties met to discuss preservation of the Bronx Term...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/08/need-for-re-testing.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Need for Re-Testing
Diane Ravitch in, of all places, the Op-ed page of the NY Post, highlights the fraudulent nature of the New York State school tests: "Davi...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/08/rubens-rubicon.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Ruben's Rubicon
As the NY Daily News reports this morning, Bronx BP Ruben Diaz is grappling with his decision on the development of the Kingsbridge Armo...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/12/bye-bye-bondy.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Bye Bye Bondy
The CityTime scandal continues to roil the waters with the resignation of NYC's real life Inspector Clouseau, Joel Bondy, as head of the Off...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/04/flushing-more-gridlock.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Flushing More Gridlock
Speaking of the Flushing Times, the paper has an article on the recent approval of Flushing Commons: "Community Board 7 voted 35-2 Monday ni...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/12/leadership-win-for-kruger.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Leadership Win for Kruger
As Crain's Insider is reporting this morning (subscription only), State Senator Carl Kruger emerged from the leadership fight as a big winn...
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https://westhivecapital.com/
Revitalizing Neighborhood Retail - West Hive Capital
May 5, 2026 - Revitalizing Neighborhood Retail We acquire underperforming retail properties and transform them into profitable, thriving destinationsAt West Hive Capital, we...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-deposits-no-returns.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: More Deposits, No Returns
Crains Insider is reporting that the expanded bottle bill may get a greater impetus from the newly installed governor: ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2006/01/stadium-park-and-deride.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Stadium Park and Deride
On Saturday Charles Bagli did an excellent examination of the rising neighborhood discontent over the ballyhooed Yankee Stadium redevelopme...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2006/02/manhattans-cb-8-takes-lead-on-vendors.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Manhattan's CB #8 Takes the Lead on Vendors
The Alliance has been taking the lead on the issue of the proliferation of fruit vendors all over Manhattan and we are glad to report that...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2011/02/related-problems-for-walmart.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Related Problems for Walmart
As Crain's is reporting , pressure is being brought to bear on Related Companies to convince the real estate giant that partnering with Walm...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/05/small-business-congress.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: The Small Business Congress
The Small Business Congress, a group headed by long time advocate Sung Soo Kim, is holding its Second General Meeting and Fundraiser tomorro...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/10/daily-news-weighs-in-on-hcsa.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Daily News Weighs in on HCSA
The Daily News comments editorially today on the recently passed Health Care Securiy Act (HSCA). The paper cites objections from some of th...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/09/lemmings-refuse-to-jump.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Lemmings Refuse to Jump
In yesterday's NY Post, Dave Seifman has an interesting column on the refusal of some of the candidates being supported by Mike Bloomberg ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-and-bill-clinton.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Obama and Bill Clinton
Steve Kornacki's latest observation in the Observer about President Obama's waning popularity, has a grain of truth-but only a grain; an...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/03/zoning-out-small-business.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Zoning Out Small Business
Whatever one thinks about the merits of the city's rezoning plan for 125 th Street, one fact is incontrovertible: it's another officially s...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/cuts-and-cramps.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Cuts and CRamps
As we continue to comment on the city's dire fiscal condition-and the hue and cry over the need to cut the municipal work force-it is appro...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/12/wholesale-violations.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Wholesale Violations
The Alliance has been tracking the outrageous situation of fruit and vegetable peddlers opening up grandiose "stands" directly in front of ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/03/george-mcgovern-schools-nannies.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: George McGovern Schools the Nannies
Acquiring new wisdom in his dotage , George McGovern writes the following in the WSJ : " Since leaving office I've written about public pol...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/03/pass-fail.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Pass, Fail
In the latest dust up over educational policy, the Panel for Education Policy voted last night to approve the mayor's controversial plan to...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-fruits-and-nuts.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: More Fruits and Nuts
The NY Times had a short piece last week that, once again, attempted to extol the Green Carts program-this time in Jamaica. But the informa...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/softening-in-middle.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Softening in the Middle
In yesterday's NY Daily News the paper's Errol Louis reports on the growing exodus of middle-class New Yorkers. Citing a report done by C...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/12/inside-twu.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Inside the TWU
Four years ago we had the pleasure to do some of the best grass roots organizing the Alliance has ever done on behalf of Local 100's efforts...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2006/02/ed-debate.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: ED Debate
The disingenuousness about the use of eminent domain as an economic development tool continues. The latest example, cited by Jacob Sallum in...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/02/roc-ing-restaurants.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Roc-ing the Restaurants
In today's NY Post there is a column by TomEliot on the efforts by a group called the Restaurant Opportunities Center to gain influence (or...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/08/columbia-can-we-talk.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Columbia: Can We Talk?
Matt Schuerman's Observer Real Estate Blog has commentary on the CB9 vote the other night against the Columbia expansion. The take on wha...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/10/schooling-mayor.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Schooling the Mayor
With the mayor's approval rating skyrocketing , the opposition to the term limits power grab has a great deal of work to do; but there's one...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/09/cardwells-lacuna.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Cardwell's Lacuna
Writing in the NY Times, Diane Cardwell puts a mostly positive spin on the city's plan to try to bring more supermarkets to designated und...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/01/kudos-to-mayor-mike.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Kudos to Mayor Mike
We have to admit it, we never really thought that Mayor Mike would lower taxes. We thought that he was congenitally predisposed to a permane...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/10/study-in-deceit.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: A Study In Deceit
Tomorrow a substantial group of council members will convene at city hall to announce their support for the living wage bill-and denounce th...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2011/02/shoprite-wal-wrong.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Shoprite, Wal-wrong
The battle between Walmart and Shoprite over the site in the expanded Gateway Mall in East NY is heating up-and the Brooklyn Paper has the ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2006/06/crains-gives-us-props.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Crain's Gives Us Props
We need to give a shout out to the Crain's Insider for singling this blog out in this morning's In$ider . The kind words-"an informative pro...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/10/not-really-naming-names-on-stella-doro.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Not Really Naming Names on Stella D'Oro
The lead editorial in the NY Daily News today focuses on the lack of support for the bakery workers at the now closed Stell D'Doro factor...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-congestion-ahead.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: More Congestion Ahead
In today's Crain's In$ ider the newsletter reports , with a somewhat jaundiced spin in our view, that supporters of the pricing scheme are...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/08/mta-and-public-trust.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: MTA and the Public Trust
The NY Times has an editorial today that speaks of restoring "trust" in the MTA . In our view the concept of restoration implies the existe...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2006/03/food-waste-worm-turns.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Food Waste: The Worm Turns
Many of those who aggressively oppose the use of food waste disposers champion composting as a realistic alternative that is more environme...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/fat-and-foolish-taxing-credulity.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Fat and Foolish, Taxing Credulity
Well, you didn't expect that we would continue in an effusive manner in reference to Governor Paterson's budget just because, after much dit...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/10/brownnosing.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Brownnosing?
It seems that Queens weeklies are giddy about the brownfields grant that was received by the Flushing Willets Point Corona LDC-forgettin...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/01/politics-of-eminent-domain.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: The Politics of Eminent Domain
In today's NY Post there is a guest editorial from Bart Dridden , one of the property owners in Port Chester who had is land "transferred" ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/negotiated-surrender.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Negotiated Surrender
Yesterday, as expected, Manhattan BP Scott Stringer lived up to his deal with the mayor, and agreed to support the Columbia expansion pl...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/09/middle-classless.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Middle Classless
The father and son duo of Fred and Harry Siegal have an excellent Op-ed piece today in the NY Daily News-one that recapitulates some of t...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/08/jane-jacobs-legacy.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: The Jane Jacobs Legacy
In the latest issue of the City Journal, Howard Husack reviews two books that deal with the import of Jane Jacobs to our conception of wha...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/09/timely-advice.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Timely Advice?
In what is likely not anything that will surprise anyone, the NY Times today editorializes in favor of raising city property taxes: "It wil...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/10/hcsa-override-cost-and-lessons-of.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: HCSA Override: The Cost and Lessons of Political Apathy
It was certainly no surprise that the City Council overrode the mayor's veto of the Health Care Security Act (HCSA), although it was a surp...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/expansion-all-wet.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Expansion All Wet
The NY Times reports on Nestle's lawsuit against the expansion of the state's bottle law (and the Politicker provides a link): "A coalitio...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/10/great-wal-mart-of-bloomberg.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: The Great Wal-Mart of Bloomberg
Crain's Insider, apparently looking to emulate the Onion for great satire, has an item on Bloomberg, Wal-Mart and promises unkept-the post'...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/09/mitigating-circumstances.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Mitigating Circumstances
We have been commenting on the failure of the city's land use review procedure for its reliance on the consultants selected by either EDC ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/01/randy-rhetoric.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Randy Rhetoric
Co-opting the sports axiom that, "the best defense is a good offense," the Yankees' Randy Levine took off on Assemblyman Richard Brodsky y...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2005/11/fire-deaths-on-rise.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Fire Deaths on the Rise
The Daily News is reporting that deaths from fires have spiked in the last year. The spike, however, comes after a year that recorded the l...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/02/bloombergs-park-mugging.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Bloomberg's Park Mugging
We have commented repeatedly about the city's bad deal on the construction of the new Yankee Stadium-with a pa rticular emphasis on the o...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2008/04/mayors-shotgunwedding-with-wal-mart.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Mayor's Shotgun Wedding with Wal-Mart
As Liz is reporting the UFCW's Local 1500 has taken umbrage at the gun deal that the mayor has struck with our favorite retailer. As the...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/07/traffic-congestion-tax-jammed.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Traffic Congestion Tax Jammed
"It ain't easy being green," that old lament from our Sesame Street favorite Kermit the Frog, must be resonating in Mike Bloomberg's ear ju...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/vendor-van-bomb-scare.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Vendor Van Bomb Scare
The fact that cops on New Years failed to notice an illegally parked van near Times Square, highlights the issue of peddler proliferation in...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/cant-they-take-bank.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Can't They Take a Bank?
In today's NY Sun, the paper reports on the hearing held last night by the MTA in regards to the need to condemn certain properties in ord...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2009/09/low-rent-charlie.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Low Rent Charlie
Can the mud and muck that Charlie Rangel wallows in get even more slimy? Accused of illegally holding on to four rent stabilized apartme...
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The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Coffee Bad Break
There is a seemingly heart rending story in today's NY Daily News about an aggrieved food vendor who, because he was moved from his prime l...
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The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Where Oh Where Did My Parkland Go?
The machinations around the Yankee Stadium development may have ramifications for the BTM merchants. In Saturday's Post story it was reporte...
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The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Bloomberg and the Poor
The DMI has a post on the mayor's new poverty policy initiative, and Maureen Lane describes some of what the mayor's trying to do without ...
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https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2006/01/quinn-and-btm-whither-her-community.html
The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Quinn and the BTM: Whither Her Community Legacy?
Chris Quinn is defined by her roots in the neighborhoods of Chelsea and Clinton. In the year 2000, when a proposal was floated to build thre...
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The Neighborhood Retail Alliance: Municipal Arts Society: Save the Bronx Terminal Market
We think you all should check out the testimony of the Municipal Arts Society on the need to preserve the Bronx Terminal Market. The MAS ...
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