By Adrianne Jeffries 9/27/11 7:52pm

Beating the Street

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Overnight at Occupy Wall Street

BY MONDAY NIGHT, the 10th day of the Occupy Wall Street protest, the miniature colony at Liberty Park Plaza was rather sophisticated. The “media tent,” which on Saturday had consisted of a MacBook and an umbrella, now looked like an amateur version of the CNN newsroom. Protesters crushed around a central table, tweeting, emailing and editing video, surrounded by a barricade of tables holding more computers, with the cracks in between filled in by sleeping bags, blankets and backpacks. One revolutionary with a hard face sat straight-backed, a cigarette poking sideways out of his mouth while he typed away. The computers and lights were powered by a generator, which briefly died when someone misplaced the gas can. The media center, as the always-lit hub of information and electricity, is the cornerstone of the encampment. Entry is restricted. Read More

By Emily Witt 7/19/11 7:09pm

Tales of Retail

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While We Wallow in Walmart, Duane Reade Dominates

In the marbled halls of a converted lobby in the Trump Building on Wall Street last week, a party was underway. Rihanna was blasting from turntables manned by D.J. Clue. A line of office workers waited for autographed photographs from baseball once-was Darryl Strawberry. Caterers in bow ties circulated trays of chicken skewers and stuffed peppers.

It almost could have been a nightclub, except that it was 11 a.m. and, in a corner, a woman presided over a table of free antifungal toenail spray samples. Despite the professional athlete and the music, this was a Duane Reade, the opening of the drug store chain’s new flagship store. Read More

By Meghan Keneally 11/01/10 4:51pm

What the Other Candidates are Doing

While Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino are keeping up a maddening pace criss-crossing the state, the five “other” candidates for governor are mostly taking it easy today and tomorrow.

Warren Redlich, Libertarian Party: No campaign events. “Our campaign has been heavily focused on the internet and we will continue working there,” Redlich said Read More

By David Freedlander 8/13/10 5:32pm

Charles Barron, Party Builder

Former Black Panther and current city councilman Charles Barron said today that he is planning to announce the results of his signature-gathering efforts to form a new political party on Monday at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

The Freedom Party, he says, will unite “blacks and Latinos and working class and progressive whites and Asians,” and he Read More

By Reid Pillifant 6/16/10 1:06am

The Transom

Cuomo’s Mississippi on the Hudson

“This is the 21st century, what are we doing with a state structure that looks just like the State of Mississippi structure in 1950? This is ridiculous,” City Councilman Charles Barron told the Transom Monday night, shortly after his plan to run for governor had trickled out to the press.

A week earlier, Mr. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/08/10 7:32pm

Bloomberg Fine With Cuomo Investigating Paterson

Michael Bloomberg said he does not consider it a conflict of interest to have Attorney General Andrew Cuomo investigate Governor David Paterson. 

Some, like City Councilman Charles Barron and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio raised concerns that Cuomo’s expected gubernatorial run could influence the investigation.

Bloomberg, speaking to reporters outside City Hall, said, Read More