The armory, a turreted, century-old behemoth, has stood empty and idle since 1996. And, back in The Bronx, the sad saga of the Kingsbridge Armory reclamation project drags on.In Brooklyn, the judge overseeing the endless Long Island College Hospital melodrama last week bought into a nurses-union grievance involving a handful of clinical positions - then all but wrecked an complex deal to ease the shutdown of a bankrupt hospital and clear the way for development of one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the city.In Queens, as The Post reported last Sunday, plans to rebuild a 487-room hotel at Kennedy Airport have fallen victim to opposition from a hotel-workers union.That is, for its embrace of unionists, dead-ender environmentalists and ideological activists - at the expense of the uncounted thousands who come to the city every year in search of a future. Indeed, the borough stands out even in a city well known for economic obstructionism. More to the point, The Bronx remains notorious for its hostility to economic opportunity not linked directly to its politicians’ own best interests. But don’t pop the corks quite yet.įor while borough joblessness dipped to 9.8 percent, that still contrasts poorly with the city’s overall rate - 7.3 percent. Unemployment in the nation’s poorest urban county dropped below 10 percent in August - down from 13.9 percent in 2010, at the depth of the Great Recession. We are paying the violent price for refusing to lock people up - and treating them Who gains from New York's pro-crime culture? Kathy Hochul and drug cartelsġ6-year-old cop basher shows just how broken NYC justice is George Soros-backed DA realizes that soft-on-crime 'reforms' are a failureĮric Adams is flunking his Rudy Giuliani moment on the border crisis

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