Cruel Parkings
City Cuts Artist from Funds They Live On
With the city's unemployment rate holding steadying at over 10%, you think the mayor would not be looking for way to put more people out of work, of cut off the extra money seniors use to improve the quality of life over what their social security check can provide. You would think some pols especially those running for mayor in 2013 would have the decency to stand up and say no, let these artist make a few extra bucks to live on. Hundreds wait days to apply for job New York is being very cruel to all besides the super rich * Hearing on Limits for Vendors Gets Creative Response * Artists fight public hearing on vendor restrictions in parks * Cutting down on vendors in some NYC parks
Newspapers War Begins Monday New York's was the home of the first News paper war when Joseph Pulitzer took on W. R. Hearst in 1896 Is the Times Ready for a Newspaper War? (Business Week) * New York Times to Keep Ad Rates as WSJ Targets NY * Murdoch prepares for war on New York Times Sydney Morning Herald * Stephen Foley: Round one: battle for news-stands hits New York Independent * EXTRA! Wall Street Journal heads into NY hyperdrive Reuter * Wall Street Journal Revs Up New York Times Rivalry * Wall Street Journal Vs. New York Times * Newspapers are useful after all Try these uses for old newspaper * Party for WSJ Metro SectionMurdoch: The Dirty Dumper Rupert Murdoch, known as the Dirty Digger, is more like the Dirty Dumper as he drops ad prices in New York (and he’s known for dropping cover prices in London) — because he apparently doesn’t really give a damn about making money with his newspapers, he cares about influence and killing his ideological enemies. (Jarvis Buzz Machine)
Sunday Talk Shows Chris Dodd On 'Meet The Press' .. Larry Summers On 'Face The Nation' .. Mitch McConnell On Fox * Howard Kurtz examines the idea of fact checking the Sunday shows and puts some politicians' claims to the truth test.
Spitzer Hit Cuomo "Cuomo is too much a creature of Albany and too close to special interests to make the politically unpopular choices necessary to reform state government." The two never got alone but this attack is a surprise Spitzer on Cuomo: He’s Driven, Often by Politics (NYT) Film Spin Could the real reason Spitizer used the NYT to dump on Cuomo today to get the headline off the film that debuted last night? Spitzer talks openly about his hooker habit in new film The documentary suggests his crusade against greed led to his downfall. *'Love Gov' Spitzer gets off lightly in new documentary*Hooker-happy Eliot flings some mud on Andrew Cuomo * Like father, unlike son: Andrew Cuomo learning from - and running from - legacy of his dadHere Comes the $3.00 Fair MTA fares, tolls could soar past planned 7.5% hikes: report * MTA's scrub-way stations * NYC Transit axes Line General Manager program * How 'Transit-Oriented Development' Will Put More New Yorkers in Cars * Get magic keys that open the gates at 468 subway stations for only $27
Stuy Town Divide to Control?As the massive development on Manhattan's East Side moves toward a foreclosure sale, the two outfits leading that effort are asking a judge for the OK to sell each parcel separately, according to recently filed court documents.
Will the NY pension fund file a class action suit against Goldman? * Do You Have Any Reforms in Size XL? * Study: Taxpayers owe teacher pensions $933B
Reunited Pal Reunited and it feels so good. Embattled financier Steven Rattner has landed at the "family office" of close pal Michael Bloomberg . The New York mayor pulled his billions from Quadrangle Group after Mr. Rattner left the firm to become car czar (and then became ensnared by New York's pay-to-play pension-fund scandal). Mr. Rattner and the Quadrangle team that managed the mayor's money have resurfaced doing the same job as Willett Advisors. Why the name? Thomas Willett was New York's first mayor. (WSJ)
New York's Economic Melt Down NYC Says Tax Data Shows Financial Firms Curbed Bonuses abcnews.go.com * Free Month's Rent, Other Perks Starting To Disppear
* Chelsea's Empire Diner Set To Close Next Month * The OTB Parlors, Limping Along * Lawmakers hope to force action on $17 million loan to NYRA
Shootings Increasing Gun flood is killing us: SkylerFuture Mayor's of New York (Weiner, Stringer, Quinn, Liu and Deblasio) besides being against guns what would you do to stop the illegal guns coming into the city?
Cutting Cops Has Costs This job is murder NYPD solved 59% of 2009 slayings down from 67% in 2008
Kitty Genovese The Shock is Gone In 1964 Genovese murder shocked not only Queens and New York, but the entire nation, especially when newspapers disclosed Kitty's neighbors heard her screams and looked on without calling the police. Today half a century later culture and society has so changed we are no longer shocked when it happens again. Stabbed hero dies as more than 20 people stroll past him A heroic homeless man, stabbed after saving a Queens woman from a knife-wielding attacker, lay dying in a pool of blood for more than an hour as nearly 25 people indifferently strolled past him, a shocking surveillance video obtained by The Post reveals * Good Samaritan wouldn't have ignored dying man: family
Terrorism Comedy Central Censors 'South Park' Episode After Muslim Site's Threats 'South Park' jihad patrol Security was tightened at the cable network's Midtown headquarters *Cowardly Central (NYP Ed)* A date to quake your boobies NY gals join busty, lusty imam protest * Qaeda rant of bomb zombie An al Qaeda-controlled city cabby who became a subway bomb plotter went on a tirade of hate yesterday, blaming "Zionist Jews" for "destroying this country from within" during his guilty plea in Brooklyn federal court * Government Says Al Qaeda Ordered N.Y. Plot * Court Filing Sheds Light on Bin Laden Bodyguard * Zarein Ahmedzay's rant in court showed he is deluded & demented Daly: Why not try KSM in New York and let him do the same? * Web of terror: Jihadis use the Internet to cow 'South Park' producers (NYDN) * Seattle cartoonist launches 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'... 
City Council and the Slush Fund Cover-Up Shying from sunshine(NYP) Most councilmembers have rejected Public Advocate Bill de Blasio plan to list each members member item applications before the council votes to fund them. * Council hiding its pork from de Blasio (DN)True News says the cover-up is going on for years Member Item Slush Fund Cover Up * Member Item Slush Fund Cover Up * Controlling the News: What Happen to the Council Slush Fund Investigation? * Ethics fuels next mayor's race: For this team of rivals, reform will be the key to Gracie Mansion
Espada Wars Pedro Espada responds to Cuomo claims (WABC TV) * Eye Off New York: Angry Espada Jilts CBS 2 (WCBS TV) *
Residents tell Espada, "YOU DON'T LIVE HERE!" * Pedro-son victim calls pop 'thug' - NYPOST.com * Espada Storms Off WCBS 2 Set During Interview * Espada MediumVideoCity Council and the Slush Fund Cover-Up Shying from sunshine(NYP) Most councilmembers have rejected Public Advocate Bill de Blasio plan to list each members member item applications before the council votes to fund them. * Council hiding its pork from de Blasio (DN)True News says the cover-up is going on for years Member Item Slush Fund Cover Up * Member Item Slush Fund Cover Up * Controlling the News: What Happen to the Council Slush Fund Investigation? * Ethics fuels next mayor's race: For this team of rivals, reform will be the key to Gracie MansionFacebook David Galarza "A great many men deteriorate very much morally when they go to Albany." Theodore Roosevelt
Play to Play Bruno Goes to Jail Feds urge 'significant' jail time for ex-Senate big Joe Bruno
City's Hospital Emergency CrisisKings County psychiatric ward still full of danger and deceit *
Residents Rally Against Emergency Care Closure at St. Vincent's * Lower Manhattan Residents Rally For St. Vincent's Sake
Thompson Could Lose Again to Bloomberg Thompson's post in limbo as Mayor Michael Bloomberg mulls Battery Park City land grab
City to make a busy midtown block a haven for pedestrians * DOT To Present Plan For Union Square Pedestrian Plaza
An Offer He Could Not Refuse Can the story dump last week about Bloomberg offshore accounts send a message for the the mayor to toe the line on Obama Wall Street plan and Senator Gillibrand? Mayor Bloomberg is (finally?) ready to make nice with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Their word is dirt: State Senate Dems betray the farmworkers again(DN Ed)
Last Teacher In, First Out? City Has Another Idea *
Election 2o10 Outclassing Perkins Harlem parents drafting elex foe * Bloomy gal's '$queeze' play on his political pal support Reshma Saujani, the novice candidate trying to unseat veteran Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
New York Puts Brakes on Drilling in NYC Watershed, Clears Way for Upstate Wells by Next Spring
Afraid of the SunshineAs Congress works on campaign finance legislation, Republicans seem to have forgotten that they used to believe in the disclosure of campaign cash.9NYT ED)
