On January 14, 1895, trolley workers in Brooklyn walk off the job. The largest and most violent strike in Brooklyn's history to that point, it was in many ways a typical story of the Gilded Age where employers and the state combined to crush the...
New York
Rockland County, New York, a center of anti-vaccination Jenny McCarthyism, is dealing with a measles outbreak, thanks to these idiots. It has taken the logical and overdue step of banning.
I spend a good bit of time in New York and have driven by the exit for Donald Trump State Park in Westchester County many times. I've long been curious.
The scheme of the founder of the Gillette razor company to turn Rochester area into a futuristic socialist utopia is fascinating: Architecture The primary goal when designing the architecture for Metropolis was to make each public space as beautiful as possible. When building a city...
Call the waaaaaaaaaaaabulance! Bernie makes Wall Street executives feel so oppressed! Timothy Collins, 49, hears the lamentations about Sanders at the high-priced steakhouse he manages near the stock exchange. “You.
On August 7, 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal, New York, in response to the discovery of massive amounts of toxins underneath a school and.
A great start in New York fighting wage theft: On Wednesday, the owner of nine Papa John’s franchises in New York City pled guilty to the first criminal case brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman against a fast food franchisee over wage theft....
A year ago this week, the Working Families Party decided to endorse Andrew Cuomo for governor. He made "promises" to promote parts of the WFP platform. Guess how that worked.
In order to honor Foreign Language Week, New York's Pine Bush High School decided to read the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic. You can guess how the good people of.
On February 23, 1864, Kate Mullaney (sometimes spelled Mullany), leader of the Collar Laundry Union, the second all-female union in the United States (the Lowell Female Reform Association, established in 1845, was the first), led union members in Troy, New York out on strike. The...
In the aftermath of Zephyr Teachout's surprisingly strong challenge to Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor of New York, there are a number of articles proclaiming that it.
On October 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization,.