By Steve Huff 4/13 12:27am

Superheroes

Mayor Cory Booker, sans cape and tights

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Hospitalized After Fire Rescue, Exposure to Kryptonite

Newark, New Jersey’s tireless mayor Cory Booker is in the hospital tonight, suffering from smoke inhalation and second-degree burns. Mr. Booker acquired his injuries around 9:30 p.m. Thursday as he returned home from a television appearance. One of his security guards saw a fire in a building on Hawthorne Avenue in Upper Clinton Hill. Mr. Booker’s guards rose to the occasion, but the mayor realized their work wasn’t done and cape madly flapping, gold “M” emblem glinting in the firelight, he dove into action: Read More

By Drew Grant 2/08 12:00pm

Religion and parties

Looks like regular treif Jesus to us

Cory Booker and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Gearing Up For Kosher Jesus Party Tonight

We’ve been getting emails about Michel Jackson‘s favorite Jew, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and his latest book, appropriately titled Kosher Jesus for the past several months. (We say “appropriate” only in relation to his last bestseller, Kosher Sex).

And today is the day of its official launch, which will be celebrated over at Trinity Wall Street (a church!) at 6:30 this evening, with the Rabbi sharing a stage with New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman, and Wall Street Journal Foreign Affairs Correspondent Bret Stephens. Read More

By Joe Pompeo 8/18/09 11:32pm

Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey Plans Move to Manhattan

On the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 11, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey prompted a ripple of buzz online when he uploaded a grainy photo of himself and Mayor Michael Bloomberg tweeting from their smart phones at Gracie Mansion.

Mr. Bloomberg was updating his own Twitter account, normally maintained by his staffers, for the first time Read More

By Steve Kornacki 8/10/09 1:13am

Bloomberg and Booker, a Love Fest

David Gregory touted the joint appearance of Michael Bloomberg and Cory Booker on Sunday’s Meet the Press as an opportunity to discuss the “economy and the president's stimulus plan and their impact on big cities across the country.”

But mostly it was an opportunity for the two mayors, cross-generational allies who lead Read More

By Azi Paybarah 7/15/09 8:12pm

Wright on Bloomberg’s Fenty Endorsement: So What?

At an event last night in midtown, Washington’s mayor, Adrian Fenty, an African-American Democrat, endorsed Michael Bloomberg for reelection.

Another prominent black Democratic mayor, Cory Booker of Newark, endorsed Bloomberg in April.

Assemblyman Keith Wright of Harlem isn’t impressed.

“When these outside mayors start making these endorsements, Fenty from 200 miles away, they Read More

By Jason Horowitz 4/17/09 8:32pm

Bloomberg Basks in a Booker Endorsement

Mayor Michael Bloomberg had an efficient campaign outing this afternoon, receiving the endorsement of Newark Democratic mayor Cory Booker and then visiting with firefighters at a blaze that broke out down the block from his press conference.

Standing before red, green and black "African Americans for Bloomberg" signs in front of a public school on Read More