By Staff 5/31/05 5:36pm

Deep Throat Confirmed

Woodward, Bernstein, and Bradlee confirm it. An FBI official, W. Mark Felt, was Deep Throat.

“The thing that stuns me is that the goddamn secret has lasted this long,” says Bradlee.

Amazing.

By Staff 5/31/05 4:54pm

More Elasticity

A reader points out that we missed several other instances of elastic stadium deadlines in a recent post on the subject:

“Ideally, the plan should be in the public review process by the time the U.S. Olympic Committee votes to select the U.S. candidate city in October 2002 … construction can begin … in Read More

By Staff 5/31/05 3:04pm

Nolan for Freddy

And speaking of supporters, and crimes, alleged and otherwise, we suspect there won’t be much talk of the West Side Stadium out in Queens Friday.

Our Queens spies tell us Freddy will be picking up the support of Cathy Nolan, a member of the State Assembly, labor ally, and important stadium backer.

By Staff 5/31/05 1:31pm

Rasiej’s Offer

Here’s an unusual campaign move: Andrew Rasiej, the tecchie’s candidate for Public Advocate, has engineered a useful patch for the Campaign Finance Board‘s unwieldy software, and he’s offering it free to his rivals, and to everyone else running for office in New York City. All he asks in return is a chance to Read More

By Staff 5/31/05 10:02am

The Hillary Strategy

Here’s something a little more coherent than “Hillary moves right.”

Bill biographer John Harris, in the Washington Post, writes that “the recent record makes it clear that Hillary Clinton has staked her future on precisely the same brand of centrist political strategy that her husband fashioned a decade ago — using many of Read More

By Matthew Grace 5/30/05 12:00am

Astor Place Re-Do Gets Mixed Reviews

A city plan to remake the area around the cube sculpture at Astor Place moved into its infancy on the evening of May 19 with the tepid endorsement of Community Board 2 at its monthly meeting.

The Department of Transportation wants to make over the busy Astor Place–Cooper Square intersection, at the juncture of the Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 5/30/05 12:00am

May 25, – June 1, 2005

Wednesday 25th

Things we wish would stop: Freshly scrubbed twentysomethings in matching Patagonia pullovers accosting us on our way to work with a “minute” for Greenpeace (a great organization, blah-blah- blah) or for a few questions about our hair. Also, memo to CBS: Bring back Arthur Chi’en-we love that foul-mouthed f*cker! Speaking of an expression Read More