The operators of New York's electrical grid are asking state regulators for permission to borrow as much as $50 million to build a new control center they say is needed to maintain reliable service amid emerging "smart grid" technologies. The New York Independent ...

New York Yankees officials said Monday that taxpayers would face more than $5 million in document costs if the team is forced to provide internal records sought by lawmakers looking into public financing of the club's new stadium. Assemblymen Richard Brodsky, a Westchester ...

Richard Brodsky is worried that state authorities, which he calls "Soviet-style bureaucracies," will screw up stimulus spending. [Newsday] Nine hundred guns were recovered this weekend in the first gun buyback program in Queens. [1010] There's a little outrage that Marty Markowitz wants stimulus funds to repair the Coney Island boardwalk, especially with that whole potato chip amphitheatre in the ...

Yankees President Randy Levine and city economic development official Seth Pinsky, apparently not amused by the subpoenas and bad press they’ve received recently, resorted to a relatively aggressive line of defense at a tense hearing this morning on bonds for the new Yankee Stadium, called by Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. The new trick in the bag was personal attacks, as ...