Ratcheting up the pressure on the White House and Congressional leaders to help the city prepare for terrorist attacks, representatives from dozens of the city’s largest corporations are preparing to mount a huge lobbying offensive in Washington, D.C., designed to win more federal homeland-security money.
The new campaign, which hasn’t been publicly announced, will add Read More
Reviving one of the most controversial proposals of the Giuliani years, the Bloomberg administration is moving forward with plans to build a $1 billion water-filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, The Observer has learned.
The plant would filter water that originates in the Croton Reservoir in northern Westchester County and ends up Read More
With New York City on a war footing, some of the most important contingency planning is going on in a squat, nondescript brick warehouse on the Brooklyn waterfront, directly under the Brooklyn Bridge. This is the city’s emergency command center, otherwise known as “the bunker,” which is meant to coordinate the city’s response to disasters Read More
At a time of budget cuts and work-force reductions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has committed billions of dollars to an enormous new capital project that rivals, in scope and complexity, the great public works of Robert Moses, the legendary builder of parks, highways and beaches.
The Observer has learned that the Bloomberg administration has decided to Read More
In his latest effort to revive New York’s sagging economy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is traveling to London in mid-March to entice British and foreign companies to set up new operations in the city, The Observer has learned.
Mr. Bloomberg, who owns a $10 million townhouse and an office building full of Bloomberg L.P. employees in Read More
A month into his third term, Governor George Pataki unveiled a budget that has won him acclaim in national Republican circles for its strict adherence to a pro-growth, no-new-taxes philosophy. At the same time, he has deferred many tough budgetary choices, plugging the state’s $10 billion budget gap with temporary measures that will leave the Read More
Just before he unveiled his new budget proposal on Jan. 28, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was offering a closed-door briefing to City Council members when a Councilman interrupted with an impertinent question.
Why, the Councilman wanted to know, was the Mayor building much of his budget proposal on the hope that his fellow Republican in Albany, Read More
Since taking office a year ago, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has invested a huge amount of capital-political and otherwise-in his fellow Republican, Governor George Pataki. Mr. Bloomberg refused to discuss tax hikes during Mr. Pataki’s re-election bid last year, sacrificing some of his own credibility to provide the Governor with political cover. The Mayor gave hundreds Read More
Shortly after the Democrats were defeated in last year’s midterm elections, Senator Charles Schumer sent a memo to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
The Democrats had become a “legislative party,” Mr. Schumer wrote, a party of compromisers who no longer knew how to connect with the national electorate. The Democrats needed to redefine themselves to Read More
Michael Bloomberg is a Mayor in search of a narrative.
In the year that has passed since he took office, Mr. Bloomberg has managed, against very long odds, to gain direct control of the schools, ban smoking in bars and restaurants, unveil an ambitious plan to redevelop lower Manhattan and maintain the city’s reductionin crime. Read More
