Gov. David Paterson has proposed shifting the structure of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll tax so that businesses in New York City would pay a greater percentage than businesses in other areas. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not pleased.
Currently all counties in the metropolitan commuter transportation district pay a flat [...]
Gov. David Paterson has proposed shifting the structure of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll tax so that businesses in New York City would pay a greater percentage than businesses in other areas. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not pleased.
Currently all counties in the metropolitan commuter transportation district pay a flat [...]
Major state education stakeholders are funneling money to both sides in the not-yet-official-but-looking-likely gubernatorial primary contest between Governor David Paterson and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
But donors say that although their gifts coincided with increased speculation about Cuomo’s entry into the governor’s race, the donations are more a reflection [...]
Courtesy Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS, here’s about 14 minutes of footage from the Senate debate on the ethics reform veto override.
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New York State’s standardized tests could see big changes next year if a series of a proposals under consideration are approved by the Board of Regents.
According to the State Education Department’s website, the Board of Regents is considering three changes that would not alter the English and math tests’ [...]
When Anthony Weiner arrived in Congress in 1999, the young newcomer said he sought out the old "oral historians" of the institution--guys like George Miller, David Obey and Pennsylvania Congressman Jack Murtha, who passed away this afternoon at the age of 77.
"He's someone who had seen everything, who" [...]
While Assembly Democratic Majority Speaker Sheldon Silver was prepared to praise the Senate if it overrode the governor’s veto of ethics reform, which passed in the Assembly 136-2, he was none too happy with the final outcome.
The Speaker’s spokesman Dan Weiller offered this statement a few moments ago:
“Governor Paterson and [...]
The Senate failed to override Gov. David Paterson’s veto of ethics legislation by 9 votes. The tally was 35-26. A list of statements from interested parties follows.
Here is the statement from Sen. Eric Schneiderman:
“Just days after unanimously voting for the most sweeping ethics reform bill in a generation, the [...]
The Senate failed to override Gov. David Paterson’s veto of ethics legislation by 9 votes. The tally was 35-26. A list of statements from interested parties follows.
Here is the statement from Sen. Eric Schneiderman:
“Just days after unanimously voting for the most sweeping ethics reform bill in a generation, the [...]
• Here's your Sarah Palin highlight reel, addressing the Tea Party convention, with a bunch of stuff written on her hand.
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Untitled by ChaunceyMellowsToday on Gothamist Newsmap: robbery on 87th and Lex, falling debris on University and 11th, shooting in the Bronx.American Airlines plans to begin charging $8 for a pillow and blanket on its flights.Classic Post quote: "She is not a" [...]
Here are the reactions from Senate Democrat Majority Conference Leader John Sampson, followed by Republican Minority Leader Dean Skelos on the failed ethics override.:
Sampson:
“For the second time in six months, Senate Republicans have killed ethics reform in Albany. They have once again asked New Yorkers to do as I say [...]
After taking a moment to attack the newly-dead John Murtha ("He seemed to characterize the Democratic Party's 'cut-and-run' defeatism"), American Power applauded Minority Leader John Boehner's kin...
Continue reading "Rightbloggers Offer Tributes to the Late John Murtha" > [...]
Bonafide, left, who Lynde admitted to killing The alleged serial cat killer has escaped from jail island. Sean Lynde, 37, had been charged with killing five of his girlfriend's cats between October 2008 and January 2009. He pled guilty today [...]
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Starpoint Solutions, a technology consulting firm, signed a 14,700-square-foot lease in lower Manhattan. The Mayore Estates-owned space will ably support the techies' "growth projections" for its future, said Studley's Marc Shapses.
On the owner's side, Grubb & Ellis broker Barrett Stern said, "We were looking at the long-term benefit'" [...]
With revenues well below expectations and frustrations high in the suburbs, the year-old "mobility tax" might be up for an overhaul. Governor Paterson on Monday announced a plan for some major changes to the payroll tax, changes he said would fetch the originally intended revenues—$1.54 billion a year—and [...]
The Senate has failed to override Gov. David Paterson’s veto of an ethics reform package. Most Republicans voted against the override. Republican Sen. Tom Libous said that Senate Republicans were left out of initial negotiations of the bill and that Democrats declined to take part in five-way discussions over potential [...]
The Senate has failed to override Gov. David Paterson’s veto of an ethics reform package. Most Republicans voted against the override. Republican Sen. Tom Libous said that Senate Republicans were left out of initial negotiations of the bill and that Democrats declined to take part in five-way discussions over potential [...]
The override of Gov. David Paterson’s ethics bill veto passed in the Assembly and but it didn’t make it through the Senate.
It went down by a nine-vote margin, 35-26.
Democrats are blaming the GOP, while Republicans say Dems wanted an override in order to get a weaker ethics bill.
“For the second [...]
Well this seems unfair: MTV is allegedly trying to stop the Jersey Shore cast from cashing in on personal appearances. Well, not all of them, but the NY Post reports that the network's head honchos have warned the cast to "rein in their" [...]
Now on New York's college campuses:
- "A small pack of wild coyotes."
- Fewer jobs for arts professors than there were a year ago.
- Not so many boys, and thus a "pronounced" gender imbalance at N.Y.U.
- "Three animals identified as coyotes."
- The cast of Gossip Girl, to be spotted [...]
As Natavia Lowery's trial enters another week, the suspect has requested a change in counsel! The former personal assistant of Linda Stein (who she is accused of murdering in 2007) was denied her request for a new defense team today, according to the [...]
What do Stephen Ross, Steve Roth, Mort Zuckerman, Douglas Durst, Ric Clark and Gerald Hines have in common?
The six landlords are all vying to take a stake in 1 World Trade Center, the since-renamed 1,776-foot "Freedom Tower" that is being developed by the Port Authority of New York [...]
Indignant Bronx residents and business owners who protested and attempted to sue the city over the placement of a homeless shelter in their neighborhood will finally get what they asked for: a h...
Continue reading "Bronx Shelter Opponents Finally Get a Hearing -- Because the Shelter's'" [...]
2012: Obama 44; Palin 29; Bloomberg 15.
Bloomberg, generous.
Joseph Spinelli is appointed to the Commission on Public Integrity.
David Paterson met The New York Times editorial board today, and said there's no reason for him not to run (or pay attention to polls).
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The Assembly successfully overrode Gov. David Paterson’s veto of the ethics reform package. A successful override in the Senate seems unlikely.
Here is a statement from Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb:
“Last week my colleagues in the Assembly and I were greatly disappointed that Governor Paterson vetoed legislation [...]
The Assembly successfully overrode Gov. David Paterson’s veto of the ethics reform package. A successful override in the Senate seems unlikely.
Here is a statement from Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb:
“Last week my colleagues in the Assembly and I were greatly disappointed that Governor Paterson vetoed legislation [...]
Queens resident Michael Albright is suing a newsstand owner for negligence after a TV fell on his head while he was buying coffee in 2008. According to the Daily News, an overhead monitor in the Village Card & Gifts shop plunged from its mount [...]
We nodded off during Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's State of the Borough speech and missed the news that Markowitz had finally named a new poet laureate for the borough to replace Ke...
Continue reading "Tina Chang Appointed Brooklyn's Poet Laureate " >All the news unfit to print out of Albany today is about David Paterson, supposedly the target of a Timesbomb about to drop. One wag up there told me that if there was a Pulitzer for buzz, the Ti...
Continue reading "David Paterson Takedown By the" [...]
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The gods of denim will soon be squeezing into the meatpacking district. With a new lease on West 14th Street, the Levi's store will be stocked full of skinny jeans to accommodate a "mecca for savvy, creative and artistic consumers," as Levi's vice president Joelle [...]
The Commercial Observer: It sounds like you've been pretty busy.
Mr. Jaccom: I gotta tell you! The phone is ringing off the goddarn hook, from CB to Jones Lang to Cushman brokers to every adviser and consultant. Now that we're the third largest in the [...]
Ten troopers were transferred from the Executive Services Detail last month, a state police spokesman said, as part of a larger re-structuring.
Testifying at a budget hearing this morning, Superintendent Harry Corbitt said the transfers had nothing to do with a report that a Trooper walked in on the governor [...]
So yeah, Valentine's Day is around the corner, but big whoop, this is New York City, romance runs through our sewers practically— we've got romantic bridges, we fall in love with our doormen, hell, there's a whole genre of movies about' [...]
A Rockaway resident claims that no-parking signs that bar visitors from leaving their cars in the beach-front neighborhoods of Belle Harbor and Neponsit during summer weekends and holidays are "racist and illegal." The signs force beach-goers to drive west to pay parking lots in Jacob [...]
When Queen Anne of England bestowed Trinity Church with a large land grant in 1705, the aim was to establish an Anglican foothold in the New World, not a commercial hub for New York City's creative underclass.
But with 6 million square feet of property situated, lucratively, in what [...]
Senator Gillibrand got a rollicking reception at a gala dinner for the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday night, when she said she'll try to starve Don't Ask, Don't Tell of any federal funding.
"Tonight I am announcing that I plan to introduce an amendment to the budget that will'" [...]
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is facing new questions about the validity of the NYPD's crime statistics. The NYPD crime stats have become probably the most important indicator of the city's heal...
Continue reading "Ray Kelly, They're Questioning Your Crime Stats" >A two-block pedestrian plaza is coming to Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill, replacing an underused service road between Grand Avenue and Emerson Place. Last Friday, the local business improvement district unveiled eight potential ideas for the site (check out the BID's Flickr stream to see them all) and [...]
Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania has passed away at age 77 from complications of gall bladder surgery. A key member of the Democratic House leadership at the time of his death, Murtha ser...
Continue reading "John Murtha, 1932-2010" > [...]
In the Illinois Lieutenant Governor’s race, I think we may have found the absolute worst person ever to run for office.
Scott Lee Cohen, allegedly abused anabolic steroids, displayed fits of rage and forced himself sexually on his wife before their divorce, court documents reviewed [...]
The Guggenheim Foundation has reached a confidential settlement with the heirs of Kasimir Malevich, who had been attempting to reclaim an untitled work by the painter.
According to The Times:
In a joint news release, the foundation and the heirs of Malevich, the Russian Suprematist, said they had reached "an" [...]
Perhaps following in the footsteps of Alain Robert and the other men who followed his climb up the NY Times building in 2008, a man was just spotted scaling the Manhattan Bridge (Brooklyn side). We'll update when we have' [...]
Last week we reported how the trend of "reverse-publishing" was catching on at Meredith and Hearst, where the publishing companies were taking online recipes and putting them into "blogazine" format in print. Apparently, when Time Inc. tries something similar, its considered self-plagiarism, instead [...]
While it's sorting out its considerable financial difficulties, the MTA is doing some repair work, and limiting service in consequence. The Morrison Avenue and Whitlock Avenue stations on the 6 li...
Continue reading "Two Bronx 6 Line Stations Out; F and G to Skip Some Stops'" [...]
Speculators say the NY Times's Paterson scoop has to do with drugs, swinger parties or some combination of the two, but as scandals pile up, it seems like the news could have to do with 4,500 video slot machines planned for a [...]
Is there any Democrat defending Paterson with as much gusto as Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio?
Today he wrote an open letter to Bill Keller, asking The New York Times to stop this "psychological warfare" against Paterson.
Of course, there's some indication here that it's not Paterson Lazio thinks he'll' [...]
Checker cabs are a thing of the past, so what does the taxi of tomorrow look like? Well, maybe you can have a say...
A new website has launched asking people to share opinions about a taxi makeover—the site's creators tell us, "Basically, the" [...]
Miss Heather sends us some sad news from Williamsburg; Luis Rivera, creator of the peculiar stuffed animal displays that have enlivened the vacant lot at North 1st Street and Bedford Avenue in rec...
Continue reading "Luis Rivera Dies; Built Stuffed Animal Scenes on Bedford Avenue" > [...]Sen. Brian Foley, D-Long Island, said his resolution calling for the expulsion of Sen. Hiram Monserrate will come to a floor vote tomorrow – regardless of what Sen. John Sampson determines to do.
“We intend to have the vote on an expulsion resolution tomorrow,” Foley just told me on the [...]
Penguin Group CEO John Makinson wrote an op-ed for today's Wall Street Journal on the meaning of e-books.
Steering mostly clear of the trickier challenges facing the publishing industry (authors would like higher royalties, while consumers would like lower prices--"fair enough"), he tackles a sentimental (but still important!) issue: [...]
Thieves rammed an ATM machine with a U-Haul van in an attempted robbery early this morning. It's unclear if they were able to grab any cash after they toppled an ATM near the corner of 112th Street and 3rd Avenue—though it appears they left the [...]
Charter school advocates’ day of political action in Albany last week appears to have had an unintended consequence: State Senator Bill Perkins now wants to hold hearings to expose an alleged lack of oversight and parent voice in the schools.
In a half-hour interview on WWRL’s Working New York [...]
Looking to make a possible bid for the property themselves, the Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village tenants' association has found itself a corporate law firm. The association announced Monday that Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison would provide it representation as the imbroglio at the apartment complex moves forward.
"We'" [...]
Photo via alan(ator)'s flickr
The Central Park Conservancy asked New Yorkers to pick the most romantic spot in all the park, and today they unveiled the winning location: Bow Bridge. Can't you just hear Johannes Brahms playing right now?
The bridge was' [...]
From Associated Press, via Yahoo News:
HARRISBURG, Pa. – U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.
The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center [...]
I meant to write about this a few days ago, but got distracted. If the Democrats are serious about reversing what seems to be a negative national trend they need to ensure that Wall street doesn’t act above the rules - either the rule of law or the rule of [...]
Around 106 million people watched the Super Bowl last night, and it's a fair bet that a majority of those 106 million people drank a beer or two. But did you know that all those beer aficionados were actually strengthening their bones?? A new [...]
GOP Senate hopeful Bruce Blakeman has fired a shot at Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, criticizing her for saying she wants to withhold funding for enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding gays in the military.
Gillibrand, who continues to reach out to New York City voters who may still [...]
