Seems Councilmembers Letitia James and David Yassky are teaming up to oppose the massive tax giveaways to developer Bruce Ratner. Here's the press release:

[Councilmembers] Yassky and James to Proposed Atlantic Yards Amendment to MSG Tax Resolution

Today at the Finance Committee hearing, the committee will review and vote on Proposed Resolution 90, which asks the State of New York to end the twenty-year-old property tax exemption for Madison Square Garden. If the Council thinks subsidizing MSG is a bad deal fort the City and State, they should take another look at the tax breaks and subsidies being offered to the proposed Atlantic Yards Development: they are even worse.

As is widely known, there's a new tool that lets you see the originating domain of people engaging in editing of the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Called simply the Wikiscanner, it lets you simply type in a given originating domain or organization name, and gives you a list of edits originating there.

So I went ahead and typed in New York City Council.

Under Yvette Clarke, we find this.

For a decade, Una Clarke held the seat her daughter now holds and US Congressman [[Major Owens]] broke with [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] leadership to support Una's candidacy. Owens was the only elected official from Brooklyn to do so and he continued to campaign for Una despite the fact that he was then recovering from [[Coronary artery bypass surgery|quintuple bypass heart surgery]]. At Owen's insistence, the 40th district was drawn in such a way as to help assure the election of the Council's first member of [[Caribbean]] descent. In [[2000]], Una ran to unseat Owens, telling reporters she owed him nothing, but she failed to oust him.

...which on March 16th, 2006, becomes...

Represents: Greater Flatbush area, Prospect-Lefferts