The $400 rebate checks wouldn’t reach home owners in time for Christmas, said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
“Just numerically, it is not possible for these checks to arrive before Christmas, even if they were sent out, you know, today, it’s just not possible,” said Quinn in a scrum with reporters in City Hall. She Read More
Michael Bloomberg’s aides called to cut $1.4 billion from city agencies – and cancel indefinitely the incoming class of 110 firemen.
“Clearly we’re in a dire situation,” Deputy Mayor Ed Sklyer told reporters in City Hall yesterday. Skyler, surrounded by reporters in the Blue Room, noted that these reductions for Fiscal Year 2010 are based Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has returned to planet Earth. With a white-cheeked gibbon swinging from branch to branch and a Malayan Tapir drooping its head over a muddy puddle behind him at the Bronx Zoo, on Nov. 24, Mr. Bloomberg explained why, after all the talk over the last couple of years about the stratospheric national Read More
When billionaire term limits activist Ron Lauder was speaking to Ed Skyler earlier this week, he was, for all intents and purposes, speaking to the mayor.
That’s because Michael Bloomberg was traveling oversees with two top deputy mayors, Patti Harris and Kevin Sheekey. So, the person who was left in charge was Read More
Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler released a list today of Michael Bloomberg’s member items — the City Council members’ projects that the mayor funded directly from 2003 to 2008.
The request came amid closer scrutiny of discretionary member-item allocation, which is being investigated by a U.S. prosecutor after fake names were found to have been inserted Read More
The National Committee for the Furtherance for Jewish Education held their annual “empowerment breakfast” in a small hotel room on Ninth Avenue yesterday morning, where the talk of politics was unavoidable.
Breakfast chair Suri Kasirer called City Comptroller Bill Thompson to the front of the room to present an award. (She used to be a Read More
City Hall just released a memo from Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler with his suggestions for how the mayor’s side of city government can best respond to member-item requests from City Council members.
The recently revealed speaker’s slush fund–not to mention the arrest of two Council staffers–has raised questions about how member items are Read More
There’s a new system for vetting member items this year, according to an agreement between City Comptroller Bill Thompson and Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler [clarified].
In a letter dated today, Thompson’s says that going forward from now on, he will examine all member items worth at least $5,000 (previously it had to be worth $25,000). Read More
At a conference today organized last week the Regional Planning Association, which describes itself as a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the NY/NJ/CT metropolitan region, one topic dominated the discussion: the failure of congestion pricing.
Albany was the main focus of the conference participants’ ire.
An exasperated Edward Skyler, the Read More
Bill Lipton, Ed Skyler, Rich Baum, Rodney Capel…
These names (and precisely 31 others) can be found on the City Hall News list of “Rising Stars.” It’s not clearwhat the criteria were for making it, other than that the honoree be less than 40 years old.
In any event, the young Manhattan Media publication Read More
