Campaign contributor is biggest beneficiary
16/05/12 at 8:47 am
View of Battery Park development in Lower Manhattan (photo by Nathaniel Herz/The New York World)
Nathaniel Herz began reporting on New York City mayoral candidate, former comptroller Bill Thompson, in the fall, as part of his master’s project in the Stabile program. His research focused on Thompson’s stint as chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, a public-benefit corporation overseeing that real-estate development in Lower Manhattan. Thompson relinquished that post last week.
Today the New York Daily News and The New York World published Herz’s report, which revealed that the biggest winner in a rollback in fees charged Battery City Park condominium owners was property developer Howard Milstein, a contributor to Thompson’s mayoral campaign. The Battery Park City Authority charges developers and condominium owners for the land. The proceeds go to a fund that supports New York City’s affordable housing program.
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Four years ago, after a horse running in the Kentucky Derby broke two ankles on national television and was euthanized, New York Times investigative reporter Walt Bogdanich told his editors that it was time probe the horse racing industry. But that didn’t happen. So two years later, Bogdanich, who teaches the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the Journalism School, told his class to take on the story. And they did.
On Sunday, The New York Times ran Death and Disarray in American Racetracks, on its front page. The story, which took off from the research Bogdanich’s class did, was written by Bogdanich, New York Times reporters Joe Drape and Griffin Palmer, and Journalism School alumna Dara Miles, who was Bogdanich’s student. Miles continued working on the story after graduation, with support from the Stabile Center.
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Christopher Twarowski of the Stabile class of 2007 was the editor and co-reporter of a series of stories that led to the recent indictment of three police officers in Nassau County.
An editor and investigative reporter at the Long Island Press, Twarowski led the probe of Second Deputy Commissioner William Flanagan, Deputy Chief of Patrol John Hunter and retired Nassau County Police Department Detective Sergeant Al Sharpe for their role in squashing a May 2009 break-in at a local high school.
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