The long, maddening process of converting the old Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue into a world-class rail station may yet have a happy ending. Amtrak announced earlier this week that it will move into the proposed new station rather than remain in that hellish pit known as Penn Station.
The late Senator Daniel Patrick Read More
Hillary Clinton's first words after Barack Obama officially announced her as his designated secretary of state at a Dec. 1 press conference included a grateful goodbye to New York and the Senate.
"I also want to thank my fellow New Yorkers who have for eight years given me the joy of a job I love Read More
It seems like only a few glandular cases are obsessed with the fact that Barack Obama knows Bill Ayers, the vintage ’60s “revolutionary” and former mad bomber, with everyone else including the New York Post dismissing the charge as a low blow.
But the Ayers controversy is only the spearhead of a massive Internet Read More
Two of the city’s greatest public-private projects on Manhattan’s West Side have suffered setbacks in recent weeks. First, various government entities have hinting that Moynihan Station—a $900 million project that ballooned into a $14 billion mega-development—will never see the light of day. Then, a deal between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and a real estate developer Read More
An addendum to our article earlier this week on the never-ending Moynihan Station saga: The concept of converting the Farley Post Office into a rail station is widely viewed as belonging to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, its most persistent advocate from the early 1990s until his death in 2003. But Read More
Sometime around late 1991, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan caught wind of a plan being studied by Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service to expand Pennsylvania Station into the neighboring Farley Post Office. The two agencies envisioned an expanded rail station with a sense of grandeur, as Penn Station’s train platforms ran under the column-lined post Read More
If there was an award for loudest cheerleader encouraging Michael Bloomberg to run for president, it would unquestionably go to Kevin Sheekey, one of his political advisors, who keeps finding both big and small ways to suggest that the mayor will enter the race.
The latest: a subtle Read More
“I’m a terrible meditator,” Maura Moynihan confessed. “I can’t sit still for more than five minutes. I tried and failed. I wish I were a monk. I’m not. I’m an angry New Yorker.”
Ms. Moynihan, the daughter of the late U.S. senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was deep into lunch last Friday Read More
Gov. Pataki had a few choice words for Shelly Silver this afternoon, opening his statement on the Moynihan rejection with a quote from the real Moynihan: “The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.”
He also, for the first time, brings up the burning question that has Read More
We should have known it: It turns out that Senator Charles Schumer was never really interested in the thing he calls, with a burst of Yiddish syntax, “The great between-Spitzer-Schumer blah-blah-blah.”
“If I was running for Governor, I would have run a whole different race,” the newly re-elected Senator told The Observer in a telephone Read More
