Spitzer Pours It On

Eliot Spitzer may have toned down his act recently, but he wasn’t tempering much of anything during his appearance at the Hilton this morning in front of an audience of business leaders at an ABNY breakfast.

Displaying the logos of 1199 and the Greater New York Hospital Association under the headline “guardians Read More

Spitzer and 1199

I found this photo last night on the Flickr page set up by Eliot Spitzer’s campaign. It’s from 2005 and but it takes on a certain added poignance now that the governor is about to launch half-million dollars’ worth of ads against 1199 SEIU and the Greater New York Hospitals Read More

Goldman to Buy Embassy Suites B.P.C.?

According to Downtown Express, Goldman Sachs is negotiating with Embassy Suites to buy its 453-room hotel in Battery Park City. A lawyer for Goldman wrote a letter to Community Board 1 saying that an agreement would be signed by tomorrow, with a closing a month later.

A DE source, noting that the Read More

HRC Rival Sounds Like Bill

As part of our continuing, exhaustive (exhausting?) series on Mark Warner in New York, here’s a write-up from Observer contributor Niall Stanage on an event that was covered by him and one Japanese reporter and, as far as Niall could tell, no one else:

Addressing the annual dinner of the Japan Society at the Hilton Read More