Trash wars: City copes with rats, superintendents

December 8, 2025 / no comments

Waste is a terrible thing to mind. Just ask Dominick Romeo. Other than a few building superintendents and extremely close followers of city politics, nobody noticed that the West 18th street resident ran against City Council member Erik Bottcher this fall. Romeo was crushed. The superintendent is best known for organizing opposition to the Adams administration’s trash pickup rules, which he said were taking him and fellow supers away from their families in the evening. This platform proved woefully insufficient for Romeo to win on the “Blue Collar/Fight and Deliver” ballot line in a heavily Democratic Manhattan district. He got […]

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Fordham Landing developer files for bankruptcy

December 8, 2025 / no comments

Brad Zackson’s firm filed an eleventh-hour bankruptcy to halt a foreclosure on a highly ambitious Bronx megaproject. Zackson put his company, Dynamic Star, and three affiliates’ controlling equity stakes in Fordham Landing into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in White Plains on December 1. The move stopped a foreclosure auction scheduled for December 2. The bankruptcies add to the intrigue of Fordham Landing, a multi-billion-dollar mixed-use project along the Harlem River. The ground-up development had an odd cast of partners and was spearheaded by Gary Segal and Brad Zackson, a protege of Fred Trump and a past business associate of Paul […]

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Real Estate Lines Up Behind Higgins In Miami Mayoral Runoff

December 8, 2025 / no comments

Developers have overwhelmingly chosen their preferred candidate to win Tuesday’s runoff election for the next mayor of Miami. 
Eileen Higgins — who served eight years in the Miami-Dade County Commission representing Liberty City, Little Haiti, Overtown, Wynwood, Edgewater and the Upper East Side before resigning to run for mayor — has pulled in nearly 10 times more in campaign donations from real estate than her opponent, former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez.