The candidates were out and about, but it didn’t feel much like an election day.
On the corner of 11th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, Councilman and Democratic mayoral contender Tony Avella competed for attention from a modest flow of passersby with the son of district attorney candidate Leslie Crocker Snyder.
Mr. Read More
While public advocate candidate Bill de Blasio cast his vote in Park Slope this morning, his brother and cousin and other volunteers raised de Blasio signs on a street corner near the polling place.
When I asked de Blasio’s spokesman Matt Wing where his vaunted field operation was canvassing today, he refused to say. Read More
"For the first time in New York City,” said Representative Anthony Weiner back in January of 2008, when he was widely expected to run for mayor, “we’re starting to see the middle class, and those who are struggling to make it to the middle class, wondering.”
A year later, Mr. Weiner—who presented himself, convincingly, Read More
The New York donor community has been dealt its second shock of the year.
the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bharara recently left his job as senior legal aide to Chuck Schumer, who was close to Nemazee and was a recipient of his donations.
Nemazee is Read More
In 1998, Josh Isay recruited his best friend and fellow Capitol Hill operative, Howard Wolfson, to return to their native New York and work on the long-shot U.S. Senate campaign of his boss, Representative Chuck Schumer. Around the same time, Jefrey Pollock, then a 27-year-old Philadelphia transplant who tried to mask his pubescent appearance Read More
"This Executive Order brings New York one step closer to achieving our ultimate goal of widespread fiscal reform, government efficiency and reduced property tax burdens."
For many Democrats, these times call for bolder government regulation to correct years of unchecked business practices harmful to the economy, climate and public health. And so, for Governor David Read More
In the summer, a mature man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of good hair.
Or maybe it’s just that the heat gets to them. But in recent days, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his political allies have been talking a lot about their lack of locks.
It started, at 9:25 a.m. on July 14, Read More
This week, Vanity Fair named Mayor Michael Bloomberg one of the world’s best-dressed men. The judges apparently missed the mustard-colored shirt he wore to the Pakistan Day parade, or the powder-blue socks he wore to the Yankees game.
Mr. Bloomberg is trying to keep up the appearance of a mayoral candidate in a real Read More
There are going to be more of these.
Now that the field has been cleared of established Democratic challengers to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's nomination, the holdout members of the congressional delegation are going to be expressing their support for the senator, as Representative Eliot Engel just did.
Here's Engel's statement, which was Read More
Citing the "impressive success" of his own administration's anti-social-promotion policies in city schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the city would expand the program by ending automatic advancement in the fourth and sixth grades.
Bloomberg spoke at the Patrick Henry Preparatory School on East 103 street in front of children's books, his schools chancellor, Read More
