Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Sheldon Silver

Eyes on the Most Powerful Man in New York State Gov’t

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 20, 2006 | No Comments

NoLandGrab is now reporting that Sheldon Silver is now expected to vote to approve Atlantic Yards today. The word is out, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is going to vote to APPROVE Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal because Governor Pataki has allowed a stand-alone vote, not tied to other appropriations. Also Silver feels that the financial […]

Did a Blogger’s Big Scoop Stall “Atlantic Yards?”

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 19, 2006 | 8 Comments

NY1 is reporting a rumor that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will not vote to approve Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development project at tomorrow’s three-men-in-a-room meeting of the Public Authorities Control Board. (Amazingly, this one meeting constitutes the only legislative "debate" and vote that this massive project will ever see). NY1 reports: According to a […]