Underworld Turns

Fix tax lien sales & keep N.Y.ers in their homes

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Since I first became a member of the City Council, I have met with countless families facing foreclosure and displacement over debts that were shockingly small compared to the value of their homes. As attorney general, I’m still fighting the same battle. New York City’s tax lien sale — recently revived after a long pause — continues to wreak havoc on hardworking families, destabilize communities, and strip intergenerational wealth from homeowners.
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‘Deduction’

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The Northern Irish poet Jean Bleakney studied biochemistry at Queen’s University Belfast and started writing poetry after the birth of her first child. With her strictly scientific academic background, she stands somewhat apart from her contemporaries, although, as she points out, science and poetry overlap in many ways: “both interrogate, and the processes are not […]

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The Puzzles of the Pantheon

The Puzzles of the Pantheon

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We started our hour’s walk around Rome with a visit to the Pantheon (that didn’t count within the hour). I hadn’t, honestly, been hugely looking forward to it. The Pantheon is the ancient building that now has the greatest wow factor: still standing, plus roof, after 2,000 years, including its vast concrete dome which had […]

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