Richard Brosky

Almost every time I’ve called Assemblyman Richard Brodsky about a story in the past few months, he interrupts me in my first question.

“You wanna know the story you should be doing?” he states, then goes into a diatribe on how the billions in initiatives on the far West Side are an unstable set of dominoes, all liable to topple.

My response—while the projects seem on shaky ground, there’s not enough hard figures or examples to show that things indeed are going to hell—may soon become invalid.

Now Mr. Brodsky, the chairman of the Assembly committee that oversees state authorities and corporations, is taking legislative action to provide more transparency with these projects.  read more »