During a recent and rainy rush hour at Penn Station, dripping umbrellas and dirt tracked in from squeaky sneakers and soggy loafers added to the standard feeling of despair among New Jersey Transit and Long Island Rail Road commuters trying to get home. The air was thick and humid with anxiety, and it smelled like Read More
Peter King is worried that his fellow Republicans are turning into wimps.
“I find it frustrating sometimes with the Republicans—you want to shake them and say ‘Let’s do this,’” said Mr. King, the pugnacious Long Island Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “A lot of Republicans, when they get thrown off their game, Read More
Peter King is worried that his fellow Republicans are turning into wimps.
“I find it frustrating sometimes with the Republicans—you want to shake them and say ‘Let’s do this,’” said Mr. King, the pugnacious Long Island Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “A lot of Republicans, when they get thrown off their game, Read More
I’m sick of New York. There—I said it.
The other day, I made a list of pros and cons about the city. I jotted down, rather quickly, 27 cons ( cramped living, subways!!!, stressful, unfriendly people, terrorism???). On the pro side I wrote Cuban-Chinese food and then below that I wrote friends and Read More
Jeanine Pirro’s campaign received an in-kind contribution from Bernie Kerik’s lawyer days before their scandal broke.
Senate Republicans sent more money to defend John Flanagan’s seat on Long Island than to defend the Westchester seat Nick Spano won by 18 votes two years ago.
John Faso misspelled the name of some Read More
So Christopher Callaghan, the unknown, super-long-shot Republican candidate for State Comptroller, was driving along the Long Island Expressway a couple of weeks ago in his green Honda Civic when he spotted someone he knew: Alan Hevesi.
Mr. Hevesi, the current comptroller, whose bid for re-election was made somewhat more complicated in recent days by the Read More
GABRIELLE: Earlier today I called my caterer to ask for sample menus and the following conversation ensued:
“We don’t do sample menus,” Tony says in his Long Island accent, “check out our website.” *
“Your website, though great,” (I fib here), “has a general menu. Can you at least email me a photo Read More
Here’s the latest Weld video, for those of you who have four minutes and fifteen seconds to burn.
The message amounts to, “I’m a Republican — Really!”
The soft biographical piece has Weld talking about his upbringing on Long Island and upstate, making mention of the fact that his father was a local Read More
The state Democrats are attacking “hypocritical” John Sweeney for campaigning with John McCain, a man he trashed on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000.
It will be interesting to watch how often this theme resurfaces as other New York Republicans who supported Bush six years ago cozy up to McCain ahead of the Read More
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, long a supporter of the Second Avenue Subway and resident of the Lower East Side, is now saying the J.F.K. Rail Link is more important, according to the new Downtown Express. This is a big deal, especially because Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Eliot Spitzer just made fairly clear this morning that Read More
