City Council members joined union representatives and social service advocates on the steps of City Hall today in support of a proposal to replace cuts to human services with measures to eliminate tax breaks for banks.
“This is the fairest budget I’ve ever seen,” Council Member Jumaane Williams shouted as he brandished a copy of Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this morning that Nissan has won a contest to furnish the city’s taxi fleet with a new model of car by the end of the decade.
“New York will now no longer have taxis that were simply bought off the rack,” Bloomberg said. “We worked with Nissan to come up with Read More
Tourists scouring Canal Street for cheap imitations of designer bags would face a police crackdown under legislation introduced today by Council Member Margaret Chin.
“Our laws are incomplete in that they only target the supply of these items and not the demand,” Chin said after introducing a bill that would make buying knock-offs a misdemeanor Read More
Not every school’s opening brings together the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and titans of finance, but few schools command the lavish praise and private-public support of Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone.
Shaun Donovan joined Canada, Education Chancellor Cathie Black, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and donors from Goldman Sachs this morning to break ground on Read More
Scott Stringer this morning urged the mayor and the City Council to restore pest control funding crucial for repelling a coming rodent invasion.
“It seems to us incredible that with this rat epidemic reaching epic proportions the City of New York would cut pest control workers by close to 70 percent,” Stringer told a group Read More
President Barack Obama’s decision to hold last night’s $30,000-a-plate fundraiser in Harlem had the added benefit of getting the neighborhood some exposure while helping to replenish the Democratic National Committee’s warchest, according to State Senator Bill Perkins.
“These people are pretty sophisticated and well-endowed financially but also may not have known of the place called Read More
After months of withering attacks for his hearings on Muslim radicalization, Congressman Peter King got to play the critic today, when Illinois Senator Dick Durbin announced he’ll hold his own committee hearing on civil rights in the Muslim-American community.
“Why not have a hearing on everyone’s civil rights?” King said. “Since they told Read More
What a radical idea. On the heels of Peter King’s controversial hearings on homegrown Muslim extremism, Senator Dick Durbin announced that he will hold hearings on rising anti-Muslim prejudice, which has included resistance to mosque construction, Koran burning and increased incidents of hate speech.
“Our Constitution protects the free exercise of religion for all Read More
Caroline Kennedy made a rare public appearance this afternoon to join former schools chief Joel Klein at a reception at the midtown hotspot Monkey Bar and to preach the virtues of charter schools.
The luncheon was a benefit for Public Prep Network, a charter school organization comprising two all-girl schools in the Lower East Side Read More
In the past few months, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has gotten lots of attention for her work on liberal causes like Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and DOMA, along with her strong defense of women’s and reproductive rights.
But, make no mistake, she’s still Senator Working Mom.
In the early days of her Read More
