Mayor Mike’s new television spot was unveiled this afternoon at campaign headquarters on West 40th street and featured, in a dig on Freddy, “Bronx native” and salsa star Willie Colon. In the ad, (no link available) Colon spins around and blows his trombone as Mike stands, with conspicuously less rhythm, on the other side of Read More
After her early boom, Jeanine Pirro is having remarkable trouble breaking through to the New York media market.
So this afternoon on 11th Avenue, she’s holding a press conference to press for a drop in the gas tax. Unremarkable — except she held that same press conference four times over Labor Day Weekend, without Read More
El Diario today takes the first look at Freddy’s attempt to capture the Villaraigosa momentum, and has Ferrer saying he’s “ready to be the first Latino Mayor in four centuries.”
The paper also gives a Bloomberg aide, Fernando Mateo, a chance to take a shot at Freddy for, unlike the Los Angeles Mayor-elect, “disappear[ing] Read More
There is Fernando Mateo, standing with a crowd of demonstrators in Union City, N.J., protesting the death of a 17-year-old Latino boy killed by local police officers. There he is again, in front of New York City Hall, addressing a group of 2,000 livery cab drivers chanting and blocking the sidewalks, demanding that Mayor Michael Read More
Under nearly cloudless skies, thousands of Mexican-Americans gathered on East 116th Street to celebrate the independence festival of Cinco de Mayo. Wedged between whole families of revelers were women with small folding tables displaying mangoes on a stick cut to resemble roses, and grilled corn dipped in mayonnaise, cheese and chili. Wafting through the air Read More
