Youths,” that echo a community’s calls for justice reminiscent of the Amadou Diallo shooting in the Bronx 13 years ago. “Anytime you end up having an unarmed person, particularly someone of color, who gets shot and killed by police, it brings back all...

I have had the honor of knowing both Ms. Diedra Scott and Assemblyman Carl Heastie personally. Ms. Scott from her involvement in various borough wide art programs and Carl Heastie from my youth when we were Boy Scouts in Troop 164, some twenty somewhat...

Filings show that Mayor Bloomberg quietly donated $4,100 apiece to the campaign committees of Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), Guillermo Linares (D-Manhattan) and Karim Camara (D-Brooklyn), key allies in his plan. “As we’ve often said, the mayor doesn’t...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg summoned three sponsors of legislation that would make real his outer-borough-taxi plan to City Hall to discuss the prior week’s events. In attendance were Assemblyman Carl Heastie of the Bronx, the primary sponsor of the bill,...

Critics of the bill, however, say it could have the unintended effect of driving up drug costs across the board, a view echoed in a memo of opposition issued by the Federal Trade Commission. "I'm still very hopeful (the governor) is going to sign the...