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New York Times
3/23/10 “Easy Victory After Intense City Council Race”
8/14/13 “Prosecutor Silent on Questionable Claim”
6/23/14 “Report Assails Parks Dept. Over Slowness in Finishing Projects”
1/12/15 “New York City Council Discusses Cap on Prices Charged by Car-Service Apps During Peak Times”
1/1/18 At de Blasio Inaugural, Speeches by Two Who Might Replace Him
Wall Street Journal
10/3/09 “A Community, Shaken”
7/7/10 “Canceled Bus Stops Were Ticket Traps”
9/21/10 “Election Monitors Sought for City”
9/21/10 “City Tries to Collect on Bus-Stop Tickets”
5/30/12 “Bill Seeks Helmets for Adult Bikers”
7/16/13 “Quinn Critical of Response Time After 911 Call”
4/24/14 “Domino Site Deal Reached”
6/27/14 “Soda Ruling Gives Mayor New Choice”
3/23/15 “In Grief Over Deaths of Seven Children, Jewish Leaders Urge Fire Safety”
5/7/15 “NYC Mayor Proposes a Flat Police Head Count”
1/2/16 “New York’s Orthodox Jewish Community and Mayor Bill de Blasio Are In Step”
1/20/16 “After NYC Property-Tax Break Dies, Angst Lives”
5/18/16 “MTA Considers Express Service on F Subway Line in Brooklyn”
6/14/16 “City Council Passes $82 Billion Budget”
1/27/17 “Messaging App Has Bipartisan Support Amid Hacking Concerns”
3/1/17 “A Trump Tower Bench Sparks an Effort to Reclaim Public Spaces”
7/17/17 “Brooklyn Councilman David Greenfield Won't Seek Re-Election”
The Real Deal
10/1/17 The Closing: David Greenfield
7/15/16 Moskovits gets final Council approval for 25 Kent rezoning
10/24/17 Rabsky, Greenfield accuse critics of Broadway Triangle development of anti-Semitism
6/20/17 Does the proposed Midtown East rezoning incentivize Pfizer to skip town?
New York Post
11/12/12 “Hate mongers torch cars, scrawl swastikas on Orthodox block in Brooklyn”
1/19/12 “A parking lot of relief for drivers”
6/22/12 “Fingerprint private teachers”
11/13/12 “Hydrant rule is all wet: pol”
10/30/13 “Restaurants who ‘trick you into tipping twice’ may face fine”
10/31/13 “Parents of killed boy plead for 20 mph speed limits”
1/21/14 “Bratton faces fury over crackdown on jaywalkers”
3/25/14 “Elections Board head claims agency deliberately underfunded”
4/8/14 “City Council plans 10 percent raise in its budget”
6/2/14 “Driver with cancer patient wrongly accused of ‘illegal cab’”
6/22/14 “Bus depot to become memorial for slaves found buried there”
6/24/14 “City Council OKs $3.5 million for extra neighborhood cleaning”
9/19/14 “City Hall ripped for silence over hate crime spike”
10/7/14 “City Council votes to lower NYC speed limit to 25 mph”
11/20/14 “10-cent paper and plastic bag fee proposal divides City Council”
1/22/15 “Pro-Palestinian demonstrators ejected from City Hall”
2/24/15 “NYC repealing Jewish circumcision law requiring consent”
3/8/15 “Cops ramp up security after 2 men seen videotaping synagogue”
6/24/15 “DOT set to roll out upgraded Muni-Meters”
8/2/15 “De Blasio eyes new council plan to limit Uber’s pricing”
7/16/16 “Russell Simmons is a horse’s ass”
11/28/16 “Hostel owners to lobby City Council to legalize industry”
2/13/17 “Dems push de Blasio to cut subway, bus fares for poor”
3/5/17 “Jewish leaders demand probe into toppled headstones”
7/6/17 “Councilman can’t believe city spent $2M on this tiny park bathroom”
New York Daily News
12/22/10 “Cop who ticketed Brooklyn rabbi on Sabbath for jaywalking transferred”
1/13/11 “Mayor Bloomberg makes up for last month's blizzard fiasco with Wednesday's plower power”
1/23/11 “New bill would grant pregnant women free parking throughout the city”
7/21/11 “'Leiby's Law' would provide safe places for children who are lost or in trouble”
6/25/12 “City Council bills aim to crack down on NYPD for ignoring non-fatal car crashes”
11/19/12 “New Kensington library could be last branch built in Brooklyn”
11/22/12 “Stop treating Black Friday like a cash machine, Councilman David Greenfield tells New York City”
5/9/13 “Councilman David Greenfield to the F subway line: You suck!”
4/29/14 “Parks Dept. spruces up part of Brooklyn's historic Ocean Parkway”
10/28/14 “Melissa Mark-Viverito and Council members to take trip to Israel”
11/25/14 “Astoria Cove project gets final approval”
1/22/15 “Pro-Palestinian activists disrupt City Council meeting”
2/1/15 “City councilman wants meters shut down when alternate-side parking is suspended for snow”
5/14/16 “NYC Council passes bill banning conversions of hotels into condos for two years”
12/7/16 “City Council OKs security guards for some NYC private schools”
1/15/16 “NYPD cracks down on bogus and abused parking placards”
3/14/16 “De Blasio, City Council strike deal on support for affordable housing plan”
4/14/16 “City Council advances plan to build thousands of affordable apartments in Brooklyn’s East New York”
5/5/16 “DAVID GREENFIELD: Plastic, paper bag tax won't work, but will hurt poor, working-class families”
6/8/16 “City Council passes law to speed up landmarking process”
1/4/17 “NYC councilman thinks his bill to track garbage trucks will prevent traffic pileups”
4/10/17 “South Brooklynites rally to bring back F train express service”
4/17/17 “Two thieves break into Brooklyn synagogue, beat caretaker with broomstick”
6/21/17 “NYC to tighten building regulations after Trump Tower violated public space rules”
8/24/17 “Councilman calls for independent commission to tackle homeless shelter placement woes”
9/4/17 “Councilman David Greenfield seeks to plant a thousand 'big and shady' trees in Midwood”
10/24/17 “Brooklyn councilman accuses critics of Broadway Triangle development of anti-Semitism”
10/26/17 “A vast Jewish conspiracy: An anti-Semitic attack against housing”
10/30/17 “71-year-old man pulled over for cell phone use says NYPD cops shoved, cuffed him for no reason”
CBS
1/31/11 “Sanitation Dept. Gets Earful In Wake Of Cemetery Destruction”
5/31/12 “Brooklyn Lawmaker Wants To Make All Bicyclists Wear Helmets, But Bloomberg Not On Board”
8/13/13 “Piles Of Trash Infuriate Many Brooklyn Residents, City Councilman”
2/24/15 “De Blasio, Orthodox Jews Reach Agreement On Circumcision Ritual”
3/9/15 “Police: No Crimes Committed In Photo, Video Incidents At Brooklyn Synagogues”
7/5/17 “Brooklyn Councilman Up In Arms Over Cost Of Refurbished Public Restroom”