It seems the Bloomberg administration has chosen landscape designer Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates to build a new West Side park, though there’s no official word yet from the city. Last night at a forum on the West Side rail yards, both Vishaan Chakrabarti, an executive at the Related Companies who is leading the firm’s development of the yards ...

An ex-convict hid his criminal past to get work as a court-appointed sentencing consultant and bilked the city out of more than $60,000 with phony efforts to help dozens of poor defendants, authorities said Tuesday. Richard Gottfried, who last year admitted cheating Philadelphia courts of ...