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Progress New York staff member Louis Flores was interviewed by Michael G. Haskins for the WBAI news program, "Living in the City." The subject of the interview was the situation facing the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA.

September 28, 2019

NYCHA interview with Michael G. Haskins’ WBAI show “Living in the City”

Progress New York staff member Louis Flores was interviewed by WBAI news host Michael G. Haskins about the situation facing NYCHA.

With no public input, Campos Plaza I in the East Village, was sold with other project-based, Section 8 buildings in 2014 by the de Blasio Administration to a consortium of private real estate developers. The lack of transparency in the sale of public housing assets is only getting worse. Source : File Photograph

March 25, 2019

With NYCHA undergoing so much change, Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, once critical about lack of Government transparency, now working with no openness

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New York’s southern district, which first revealed in 2016 information about the New York City Housing Authority’s lead poisoning crisis, now violates transparency by operating in the dark.

"I am not a biased judge," is what U.S. District Court Judge John Koeltl proverbially claimed during a Court Conference 19 October 2017, to nobody's belief. Photo Illustration/Fair Use (President Richard Nixon photo by Associated Press ; John Koeltl by NYU)

December 23, 2018

To restore public confidence in the U.S. District Court for S.D.N.Y., Judge John Koeltl must resign

EDITORIAL : No amount of reasoning, or judicial complaints, has compelled S.D.N.Y. Judge John Koeltl to introspectively examine the causes or sources of his bias and misconduct. As a result, he must resign.

The C'est Vrai : Week In Review is a newsletter of important political articles that are culled from the database that powers the C'est Vrai computer-assisted reporting Web app. Photo Illustration/Progress New York

December 2, 2018

C’est Vrai : Week In Review : 02 December 2018

C’est Vrai : Week In Review : Amazon.com lobbied the New York City Council for a procurement contract that, if won, may provide the online retail giant with more compensation. #AmazonHQ2

A map of the partial, proposed route of the BQX streetcar service, indicating that the streetcar would run through the Long Island City section of Queens, which is represented in the New York City Council by Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside). New York City Economic Development Corporation/Public Domain

December 2, 2018

Amazon.com was using lobbying firm from BQX to lobby City Government for cloud computing services

By Progress New York Staff The lobbying firm, Yoswein New York, Inc., which had been prominently promoting the troubled Brooklyn-Queens Connector,

Photo Illustration/Federal Bureau of Investigation/Fair Use

November 4, 2018

As REBNY ramps up efforts to stop or gut SBJSA, two politicians renounce campaign donations from the real estate industry

Council Speaker Corey Johnson adopts a REBNY talking point, saying that the SBJSA must not be passed as-is, just as two prominent politicians renounce real estate donations.

Official Photograph/U.S. Department of Justice

October 28, 2018

As U.S. District Court decides NYCHA settlement, Wilmer Hale, a law firm with questionable legal authority, has been participating in the litigation

U.S. District Court Judge Willliam H. Pauley III is close to accepting a settlement with NYCHA negotiated by Wilmer Hale, which lacks legal authority. Tenant activists appear to be overlooking legal issues and criminality amongst the controversies at NYCHA.

New York City Councilmember Rory Lancman has announced a campaign to run for Queens District Attorney. New York City Council : Public Domain

October 3, 2018

Feds mum as Lancman announces run for Queens D.A. after supporting Crowley as chair of Queens machine that is reportedly being monitored by FBI

Rory Lancman plans to make social justice system reform a key plank in his race for Queens District Attorney, ignoring the problem of corruption in the Queens machine.

When the Feds let Political Machines use smooth transitions of power to avoid accountability

Will the Queens Machine be able to avoid the consequences of a long of corruption, so long as it puts into effect a smooth transition of power to another Congressional lawmaker ? Photo Illustration/Progress New York

September 1, 2018

Some mob families have succession plans. So does the Queens Machine.

EDITORIAL : Any political transition of power that lends legitimacy to the ways that the Queens Machine has been allowed to corrupt democratic functions will fail to restore the public’s dwindling faith in Government institutions.

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY 6) is telegraphing her reported interest in succeeding U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY 14) as chair of the Queens Democratic Party county committe. U.S. House Of Representatives/Official Photograph

August 27, 2018

Grace Meng reportedly interested in taking helm of Queens Democratic County Committee that is of interest to Federal investigators

Queens Democrats avoided serious consequences from a previous, reported Federal corruption investigation by installing a Congressional lawmaker as a new chair. Will it work, again ?