The Bloomberg campaign plans to circulate independent nominating petitions to put Mike on the November ballot on the Liberal Party line, The Politicker has learned.
Also on the petitions: D.A. Robert Morgenthau.
Technically speaking, they’re doing this independently of the old Liberal Party, which lost its ballot line in 2002 when Andrew Cuomo Read More
My comrades were all atwitter on Nov. 3, predicting Armageddon and worse after John Kerry conceded defeat. One retired friend said he was so “depressed” that he was locking his doors and staying home for a few days.
But how bad was it really? So a pro-war Democrat who tap-danced his way around issues like Read More
John Lindsay didn’t have a minute’s preparation for what turned out to be the first in an unending series of crises during his years in City Hall. Transit workers walked off their jobs the moment Lindsay became Mayor on Jan. 1, 1966. They stayed on the picket line for nearly a month, while the new Read More
The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, by Vincent Cannato. Basic Books, 579 pages, $35.
In War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy wondered whether men make history or history makes men. Years of reading history, watching other people make it and involving myself a bit in city and state history-making Read More
Is there still a cult of nostalgia for the 1970′s? I seem to
remember there was one, but I paid it little attention, assuming that-as with
all pop-culture trends-it was the work of fools, and those wretched nihilists
whose names appear in the style sections of the world.
The deaths of John V.
Lindsay Read More
As the great men and women of municipal government shook
their umbrellas and hats and chatted to each other about the rain and the
solemn state ritual at hand, they passed-some without noticing-a vision from a
dimly remembered past. Some 10 feet from the main doors of City Hall was a picture,
mounted on a Read More
