Chairman Crowley Statement on Secretary Carson’s Proposed Rent Hikes on Millions of Americans (Washington, D.C.) – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) issued the following statement after U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced a […]

(Bronx, NY… April 24, 2018) …  On the steps of City Hall in lower Manhattan today, and at a ceremony held at the Dr. Katharine Dodge Brownell School in the Southeast Bronx, Alan Mucatel, executive director of what was formerly […]

On Tuesday, April 24th, the 80th assembly district went to the polls for the special election to fill my former assembly seat and voted overwhelmingly for my former chief of staff, and good friend, Nathalia Fernandez.   I have gotten […]

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287) Mortimer was imprisoned in 1322 for opposing King Edward II, but he escaped to France. When Edward II’s queen, Isabella, came to France in 1325, Mortimer became her lover. Together they invaded England […]

Acknowledgement of one another’s faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

High-toned Definition: (adjective) Pretentiously elegant. Synonyms: High-class Usage: She felt awkward and out of place in the high-toned restaurant, with its elegant décor and elite clientele.

Anthony Trollope (1815) One of the great English novelists, Trollope spent seven unhappy years in London as a postal clerk before transferring to Ireland in 1841. Soon after, while still working for the postal service, he began writing. Working mainly […]

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. William Makepeace Thackeray […]