By Drew Grant 11/02/11 3:40pm

Occcupy Wall Street

Milk Street Cafe

Update: Wall St. Restaurant Blames Occupy Wall Street For Employee Layoffs

Oh, what a vicious circle this is: Occupy Wall Street comes to picket the banker fat cats in New York, the NYPD forces streets to close and erect metal barricades near the entrances of certain streets and subways to prevent random marches of the protesters, leading to even more unemployment in the area as the local Milk Street Cafe is forced to lay off a quarter of its workstaff because the police structures prevent people from entering the establishment. Consider this a case of a snake not eating its own tail, but firing it. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/02/10 5:02pm

Sheekey Out

One day after Howard Wolfson arrived at City Hall, the administration announced Kevin Sheekey is leaving.

To spend more time at Bloomberg L.P.

Here’s the announcement:

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that Kevin Sheekey, who served as Deputy Mayor for Government Affairs during his second term, will leave City government Read More

By Azi Paybarah 1/15/10 8:11pm

Bloomberg’s (Latest) Total: $108,371,685.01

That’s how much Michael Bloomberg spent on his campaign, according to his latest campaign campaign filing report, released this afternoon.

That figure includes $6.2 million spent in this latest filing, which covered from November 27, 2009, to January 11, 2010, and includes the six-figure bonuses given to key staffers.

Patti Harrison, Bradley Tusk and Howard Read More