Peter S. Green
Reporter, Editor, Newsroom Manager
Get your food business news from FoodMakers.NYC. On the side, I cover tax cheats, revolutions, foreign policy, hurricanes, droughts, wars, oysters, New York City and the business of water.
PROJECTS
Metro
Astoria Park murder mystery: What's real reason commie-hunting academic was slain?
As editor, I organized a reporting and photography team stretching from Astoria to the Balkans to get a Queens man pumpedtwo bullets into the back of the head of Croatian historian William Klinger
The Wall Street Journal
How to own a vacation home - With someone else WSJ
Sharing a vacation home - with 265 other relatives....
Frommer's
FoodMakers.NYC, a weekly newsletter about the business of food
Brooklyn's rising rents are putting the squeeze on homegrown distiller Van Brunt Stillhouse....We talk the future of the culinary workforce with Kingsborough Community College's chef and professor Babette Audant....and we have a roundup of interesting food news for you. Have a read and let us know what you think by writing to us at editor@foodmakers.nyc
Frommer's
Brooklyn Army Terminal, Incubator Kitchens and Beermaking: FoodMakers.NYC Issue 3
New York City unveils a new food manufacturing hub at the old Brooklyn Army Terminal on the Sunset Park waterfront. But is the rent too damn high?... We talk to Kathrine Gregory, founder and director of Long Island City's Entrepreneur Space, a shared professional kitchen that has launched hundreds of NYC food businesses...
Frommer's
Chocolate mergers, health care savings and grease thieves; FoodMakers.NYC Issue 2
Two Brooklyn chocolate makers merge as they look to secure their futures...(A FoodMakers.NYC exclusive)... N.Y. State Assembly member Richard Gottfried explains how his single-payer health care bill would reduce costs and improve life for small businesses in the city...and we have a roundup of interesting food business news.
Crain's New York Business
Dry Cleaner Wage Theft
Part tow of the Dry Cleaning expose- Many workers in dry cleaners are forced to do shift work, which is illegal, and are often paid far below minimum wage. They are often undocumented aliens who are afraid to complain.
Bloomberg
Tax Whislteblower Series Changes IRS Practice
A series on tax whistleblowers forced the IRS t change the way it treats citizens who bring tax fraud to the service's attention. It also broke the story of Caterpillars multi-billion-dollar tax avoidance plan.
Crain's New York Business
(Editor) Toxic Dry Cleaners
SABEW-award winning investigation -
Perchloroethylene, used throughout the dry cleaning industry under the name perc, has been a concern for decades, leading to concerns about poisoned workers and environmental health risks
Crain's New York Business
Reimagining Rikers Island
(Editor) Conceived, assigned and edited this special issue to look at what NYC could do with Rikers Island, 412 acres of waterfront property, if the infamous prison there were to close.
Crain's New York Business
(Editor) Inside the underground economy propping up New York City's food carts
Once a path to the American dream, manning hot-dog and coffee carts now traps entrepreneurs in a spiral of low wages and a black market operating in plain sight
Bloomberg
Kosher Storm Shelter Seeks Minyan
In a kosher shelter setup for SuperStorm Sandy, a lone Jewish man seeks fellowship for prayer.
vanwinkles.com
Military Sleep Disorders Are the ...
“Insomnia is the signature illness of military service.”
Bloomberg
Welles Award for Investigation of IRS Tax Whistleblower Program
A series investigating flaws in the IRS's tax whistleblower program revealed major flaws and led to action on the Senate floor reforming the process.
Crain's New York Business
(Editor) Hot dog vendors and coffee carts turn to a black market operating in ...
Hot dog vendors and coffee carts turn to a black ma...