For the Record: Andrew Cuomo Doesn't Keep a Schedule

Unlike most public officials, New York’s hard-charging attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, doesn’t keep a written daily schedule.

That’s according to his office, which, after two separate Freedom of Information requests from The Observer, finally said that Mr. Cuomo simply didn’t have any pre-existing documentation of his day-to-day professional and political activities that he could make Read More

No to Carson Street

The City Council has voted down a proposal to co-name four blocks of a street in Brooklyn after black nationalist Sonny Carson. The vote was 15 for and 25 against, with seven abstentions. Notable votes: Bill De Blasio, who worked on David Dinkins' mayoral campaign with Carson, voted no. Oliver Koppell, who voted no, said Read More

Koppell's Painting

A Harvard-educated lawyer-turned-New York Attorney General who is not named Eliot Spitzer is about to be honored in Albany. 

On Monday at 5 p.m. in the capitol, an official portrait of Oliver Koppell will be unveiled. The painting will hang on the second floor of the capitol, down the hall from Spitzer's current Read More

Koppell Goes Too Far for Felder

Although Councilman Simcha Felder joined yesterday’s rally criticizing the way the city’s Board of Elections is testing new voting machines under the Help America Vote Act, he ended up protesting the rally itself.

HAVA is the federal law that funds upgrades in local voting machines so hanging chads and punch cards will Read More

Flyer Fallout

Oliver Koppell is being dragged into Miller’s flyer mess.

His challenger is demanding that Koppell’s campaign pay for the taxpayer-funded newsletter Giff sent to his district.

“The cost of possibly illegal literature authorized by City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and Councilmember Oliver Koppell, and mailed in the 11th District, should count towards the Read More