Saturday, August 28, 2010

Co-op City's 'One Man Journalist' Still Going Strong 36 Years Later


Meet Co-op City's "One Man Journalist"

If you're fortunate to meet him, he'll talk to you about his passionate dislike for President Obama, health care reform and the “left-wing ideologue idiots” opposing calls for the privatization of Co-op City, the world’s largest cooperative housing development.

He's Michael Horowitz, a 64-year-old Manhattan-raised Riverdale resident and he's been covering news happenings in Co-op City for 36 years, for his community newspaper, City News, which goes to print on Wednesday nights. He averages about 15 stories every week and from the looks of it, he has no plans to stop.

Arriving in Co-op City at the age of 28, Horowitz arrived at his Co-op City beat at the tender age of 28 after responding to a newspaper ad, he told Bronx Ink.

Horowitz has been Co-op City’s one-man journalist, chasing one management scandal after another and writing about everything from rent strikes to charter schools, to the recurring problem of mold in many of the cooperative’s 15,372 housing units, The Bronx Ink reported.

Speaking from behind a mountain of yellowing newspapers that hide him behind his desk, he shares his thoughts on politics, journalism and Co-op City with Bronx newspaper, Bronx Ink.

FULL ARTICLE HERE


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