Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-axes-union-referee-article-1.1427174#ixzz2gdKRQIaq Arbitrate this! The contract arbitrator who just ruled that New York’s MTA can’t stop its high-priced shuttle service for Bronx bus drivers has been pink-slipped by the authority, the Daily News has learned. Richard Adelman has been the independent arbitrator of contract disputes between the NYC Transit division and the Transport Workers Union Local 100 for a dozen years. Last w

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/05/nyregion/public-lives-lawyer-prescribes-shake-before-helping.html ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ loves to count the ways he has made people miserable. It started as far back as the Bronx High School of Science, where he badgered the administration to ease the dress code. Then at Columbia University during the Vietnam War, he joined the sit-ins, was arrested three times and signed up with a radical Maoist group. ”I always make the joke,” he says,

Source: http://gothamschools.org/tag/advocates-for-justice/ September 7, 2012 City breathes new life into a charter school it once tried to close by Geoff Decker, at 10:10 am City lawyers are in negotiations to extend the life of a charter school that the education department tried last year to close, according to a lawyer representing the school’s parents. Details aren’t final, but the terms are likely to include an agreement to grant the school, Peninsula Preparatory Academ

Source: http://www.villagevoice.com/related/to/Arthur+Schwartz/ February 22, 2013 It Can Be Done: DOE Reverses Decision to Co-Locate Thriving Brownsville High School So, remember how in December we concluded that there’s nothing that a public school can do to successfully fight off co-locations with other schools? Well, Brownsville Academy High School proved us wrong. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reign, rulings on co-location proposals seem to be guided by … More >> Januar

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/driver-color-blind-issue-article-1.1462133 A bus driver who was taken off the road for being color blind is fighting to get back behind the wheel. Jose Cruz, a veteran MTA bus driver, wants to take a road test to demonstrate he can maneuver through the city safely. But the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says Cruz is better suited for his new position – cleaning dashboards in a depot. The veteran driver was forced to

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/deadline-looms-911-victim-compensation-fund-applications/story?id=20374225&singlePage=true Cancer rates among first responders and residents of lower Manhattan who were directly impacted by the 9/11 terror attacks are 15 percent higher than in the general public, according to a study of the World Trade Center Health Registry published earlier this year. I am among that 15 percent. I was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year. I am relative

Source: http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/4115/ Instead of rattling through the Mississippi Delta in a battered bus, the volunteers from up North caught a Delta flight to West Palm Beach. It was their chance to defend democracy, these freedom riders in wing tips. “In addition to their day jobs,” says Tim Fry, a Manhattan intellectual-property attorney, “these lawyers are interested in the fate of the republic.” Even if Katherine Harris is no Bull Connor. Gore an

Source: http://www.villagevoice.com/related/to/Arthur+Schwartz/ October 6, 2009 The Acorn Tapes Jerry Nadler, the nine-term congressman from Manhattan’s West Side, stands up for the Constitution June 26, 2008 BLT Market’s Wild Blossom Cocktail Wins Drink Mix-Off April 9, 2007 It’s a Good One: Pizza Rustica (Recipe!) December 14, 2006 Chowhounds on Sietsema Diss in Time Out May 2, 2006 Undulating Facades Landmarks panel gives green light to wavy glass tower in the Village. But

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/911-victims-rush-register-compensation-fund-deadline-looms/story?id=20431292&singlePage=true The number of people who have applied to the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund for financial assistance has surged as the deadline looms this week, according to the nonprofit group 9/11 Health Watch. As of June, a little over 17,000 people had applied to the fund, which was established as part of the 2010 James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act

Source: http://thevillager.com/2013/09/19/audacity-and-thanks-in-the-village-in-a-new-era/ BY ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ  |  We live in a magnificent part of a magical city. It’s not just the smaller scale, or the trees, or the narrow streets. It’s the people. My neighbors are what makes our neighborhood magical. Twenty-three years ago, at age 37, I got involved in the affairs of this neighborhood after sitting on the sidelines for the previous decade. I haven’t stopped since then. I

Source: http://www.lohud.com/article/20131002/NEWS/310020069/Rye-teachers-still-limbo-over-testing-flap-after-five-months-no-scores-students RYE — A lawyer for two of four Rye teachers who were removed from their classrooms in May amid allegations of improper coaching says inaction by the Board of Education is preventing the teachers from establishing their innocence and returning to school. Five months after the elementary school teachers were placed on administrative reass