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From the Village Voice's Best of New York 2003:
 
best political columnist -  ERIK ENGQUIST

The endless revelations about the inept double-dealing between the Brooklyn Democratic party and the judiciary have an elephant-in-the-room quality: It's hard to spin a narrative arc out of a problem that's so pervasive. ERIK ENGQUIST of the Courier Life newspaper chain is your Vergil through this Zadie Smithian underworld. He's funny, skeptical, and encyclopedic in his knowledge of the endless feuds, alliances, and backstabbing that pass for politics in the borough of churches.      -Josh Goldfein
 
(From http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/bestof/2003/detail.php?id=3760)

From the blog run by New York Observer political reporter Ben Smith:
 
Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Brooklyn History

Brooklyn Politics columnist Erik Engquist has an extraordinary little item about District Attorney Joe Hynes buffing his non-hack credentials with the claim that, in 1989, he ran as an insurgent against the party machine.

"An excellent point indeed. If it were true," Engquist writes. "Which it isn’t."

Apparently, the last time Hynes claimed this, the New York Times printed it -- then ran a correction!
 

Erik Engquist founded this column in 1994 and wrote it until 1996 when he left for four years of daily newspaper reporting in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He resumed writing Brooklyn Politics in April 2002 and continued through May 2005, when he accepted a position at Crain's New York Business reporting on city and state politics and government. He continues to welcome political news via phone at 212-210-0745 or e-mail at eengquist@crain.com.