Ground Zero of the Cultural War is Chicken
“Bullying” Free Enterprise and Freedom of Speech
The Post cheers Chick-fil-A fans for flooding their franchises in a show of support to the fast-food company despite its CEO’s anti-gay views, and grills Council Speaker Christine Quinn for “bullying” the enterprise, The Post think that the national day of support for Chick-Fil-A was a rebuke to Christine Quinn. * Bloomberg says critics of fast food chain are undermining Constitution(NYP) * From Boston Tea Party to Chick-fil-A, It's About Freedom - Globe & Mail* The Chick-fil-A kiss-in is hit-or-missin', reports Tomer Ovadia:(Politico) * Same-sex marriage supporters staged a “kiss-in” demonstration at Chick-Fil-A.
Jon Stewart Mocks Mayors Trying To Ban Chick-fil-A And The ‘Million Mouth March’
Asians Which Did Very Well With State Redistricting Are Well Ahead on City Council Redistricting
Asian, Latino Groups Want Demographics Reflected In City Council(NY1) Asian and Latino community groups are fighting to make sure changing demographics are reflected in next year's City Council.* Redistricting offers Asian-Americans opportunity, group says(NYDN, 2011) * Unity Map - Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund(2011)
Campaign 2012 Cuomo Picks Democrats' State Director(WSJ) * Andrew Cuomo is set to name Rodney Capel as the next executive director of the state party. * Mayor Michael Bloomberg has contributed $230,000 to Republican county committees in the city over the past six months, the Post reports: * Sartorial Charlie(NYP)Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel won another election yesterday — on style points. Esquire magazine yesterday named New York’s “Dapper Dean” one of DC’s fashion plates. * Staten Island City Council seat generates some heat(SI Advance) * Michael Benjamin thinks that for all the Malcolm Smith for mayor talk, it does show that there is a “a route to the mayoralty outside the Democratic political clubhouse” on that “would combine Republican voters, the Orthodox Jewish bloc, outer-borough ‘Koch Democrats’ and minority voters.” * Former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin thinks there is an opening for a “fusion candidate” in the 2013 NYC mayor’s race – just not Sen. Malcolm Smith.* Hotel Trades Council Backing Joe Addabbo * Senate Republicans Using Democrats’ Redistricting Walkout Against Them [UPDATED] *Bloomberg: Next Mayor ‘Will Have to Earn the Respect of the Business Community’(NYO) * Juan Reyes knocked the mayoral prospects of Malcolm Smith.* DCCC Knocks August Recess(YNN) * Ed Towns To Endorse Jason Otano (City and State) * Dov Hikind will lose the Republican line, but that won’t affect his Democratic primary. * Errol Cockfield is leaving the Senate Democrats while Dan Halloran’s spokesman Steve Stites is moving over to David Storobin. Eric Ulrich also poached Bob Turner staffer Bob Capano to run his own campaign.
Bloomberg Buy Support With $$$ No Reform
Cuomo: Transparent Enough
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office has an interesting way of responding to FOIL requests.* Cuomo: “From the press in Albany, I don’t know that you could have an administration that is transparent enough.”
Cover Up Continues of CityTime Scandal: Key Play Under House Arrest
A key figure in the CityTime scandal landed under house arrest yesterday — after prosecutors said he’d been communicating with two fugitive co-defendants and may have been planning to flee the country, Bruce Golding reports. * Interesting Gerard Denault -- house arrest and yet TechnoDyne owners flew the coop and the USA....(Artist)
NY1 Online: Business Columnist Explains City’s Jobless RateCrain's New York Business columnist Greg David why the unemployment rate in the city is more than 10 percent and rising * The Holes In The Salary Ceiling (C&S) Laura Nahmias reports:
It has been a year since Gov. Andrew Cuomo set out to reform nonprofit exe
NYPD less ‘frisk’y(NYP) The number of stop-and-frisks conducted by cops plummeted by an
astonishing 34 percent between the first and second quarters of the
year * After a public outcry, the number of stop-and-frisks in New York City plummeted by a third. * An activist who recorded a cop body-slamming a suspect wants everyone to start videotaping the NYPD. * Sources: Number Of NYPD Stop-And-Frisks Plummets(NY1) *After Complaints, Number of Frisk Arrests Drops 34%(NYT) * Police stop-and-frisk numbers on the decline(NYP) * NYPD: stop-and-frisk searches decline(Fox 5) * Number Of NYPD Stop-And-Frisks Plummets, Stats Show(NY1) * Street Stops in New York Fall as Unease Over Tactic Grows(NYT)
Daily News KeepPounding NYC Housing Authority Leaders
Letter to Mayor Bloomberg last year warned of NYCHA’s failures(NYDN) City leaders turned blind eye to complaints as wasted funds, delayed repairs and health risks added up. The News calls out Bloomberg for
ignoring a civic group’s letter warning of the city’s public housing
authority’s “incompetence and sloth”* NYC housing officials, in addition to sitting on nearly $1 billion in
federal funds, were too inept to collect another $600 million in
available revenue, a civic improvement group charged last year.* @MikeBloomberg: DailyNews subjecting NYCHA head to "character assassination."* Bloomberg continues to defend NYCHA chief John Rhea (NYDN)
Using Cameras to Bust Gangs While Backing Off Installing More Cameras in Housing Authority Projects Promise
New York City Housing Authority
Chairman John Rhea praised the use of security cameras in a Harlem drug
bust, one day after backing off a promise to install new cameras in 80
housing projects NYCHA boss' double-talk on security cameras John Rhea backs off promise as he praises takedown of drug gang * City public housing officials, in
addition to sitting on $1 billion in federal funds, did not collect
another $600 million in revenue, the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation
charged last year in a letter to Bloomberg, the News writes: * 19 charged in crack-dealing sweep in Manhattan(WABC) * Cy Vance’s office said they broke up two well-known gangs in Harlem with a score of arrests.
DA Johnson Confused He Got the Wrong Guy
US inquiry: 5 convicted in NYC killing not guilty(NYDN) * US Atty investigates DA's case and concludes DA convicted wrong guys. Feds also report the Bronx DA's
misconduct on using same witness on 2 cases. Guys spent 16 years in
prison and notice DA Johnsons response. He's confused. Pathetic Shocker in 1995 cab slay(NYP) 5 cons ‘innocent’* 5 Jailed in ’95 Killing of Cabby Didn’t Do It, U.S. Inquiry Says * Manhattan Borough President Demands Changes In NYCHA Structure(NY1)
NYPD Pepper Spray Cop is On His Own
City Declines to Defend Sued Officer(WSJ) New York City has distanced itself from a high-ranking police
official accused of firing pepper spray at Occupy Wall Street
protesters, taking the unusual step of declining to defend him in a
civil lawsuit over the incident. * Officer Is Accused of Rape(WSJ) * The city has declined to defend Anthony Bologna, the high ranking NYPD officer videotaped pepper spraying Occupy activists in the face last year, in a civil lawsuit.* City won't defend NYPD officer in Occupy pepper-spray s …(NYP) * City To Not Back Officer In OWS Pepper Spray Suit(NY1)
Yogurt May the Schwartz Always Be With You
Big Daddy's owner guilty . . . of trying to keep his business (NYDN)Davy Crockett Ravi Batra
Ethics Panel Criticized(WSJ) A New York state ethics commissioner threatened to resign Thursday,
saying the agency was illegally shielding the identity of donors to
lobbying groups, including one allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. * Ravi Batra threatened to quit the state’s new ethics panel unless they reversed a decision to allow some donors to keep their names shielded from the public.* Andrew Cuomo defended the panel,
saying “We tend to frown on retroactive laws because people operated
under one set of laws and one set of expectations, and then you change
the rules…to do that retroactively, we frown upon as a state and a
society and I understand why.” * Cuomo defended JCOPE’s new donor disclosure rules for lobbying organizations against criticism from
commissioner Ravi Batra, saying: “We tend to frown on retroactive laws
because people operated under one set of laws and one set of
expectations, and then you change the rules.”* A Classic Batra-ism(YNN)
No Walmart for Willets Point(NYDN)
Education
It’s better gradu-late than never(NYP) The city will held a special graduation ceremony to those students wrongly denied the right to graduate 8th grade due to test scoring error.* Students Urge Teachers to Embrace Digital Tools(NYT) *
Stuyvesant High School principal Stanley Teitel resigns (NYDN) Cheating scandal *Nonprofit Group to Aid Horace Mann Alumni Who Say They Were Victims of Abuse(NYT) * Brooklyn Principal Suspected Of Hiring, Underpaying Uncertified Teachers(NY1)
How Did Brooklyn Elected Officials Allow Hospitals In Their Borough to Fail So Badly
Final Beam With Presidential Message Installed On WTC Skyscraper(NY1)
Federal prosecutors argued the city and the police department are illegally calculating pension benefits for officers who served in the military and shortchanging them, according to a class-action lawsuit, the Journal writes: http://on.wsj.com/Pr96g9
'Yellow Trees' Growing(WSJ) The black netting that typically drapes buildings under construction around New York City can look like shrouds, each of them etching a forlorn negative space into the skyline. The netting going up on a Manhattan site next week will look more like a celebration.
Sunset Park tenants use their own photos of shoddy conditions (NYDN)The Making of A President 2012
Law and Order
19 Indicted in East Harlem Drug-Dealing Operation WSJ) Authorities broke up “an open-air drug market” operating throughout an East Harlem housing project with the indictments of 19 alleged members of two drug gangs * Brooklyn dad dead in store(NYP) * B’klyn kidnap nightmare(NYP) * Bust in 4 muggings(NYP) * B’klyn ‘Bin’ drug bust(NYP) * Floyd Mayweather released from jail after two months (NYP) *Cuomo: Say cheese, sleaze!(NYP) * Good cuz gunned down with drug thug(NYP) * 2 Harlem Gangs Broken by Arrests, Officials Say(NYT) * Man Held Woman and Tortured Her, Police Say(NYT) * Goldman to Invest in Rikers Program(WSJ) * Apparent Fetus Discovered Near Children's Playground In Brooklyn(NY1) * Police Bust 19 Gang Members In East Harlem Drug Op(NY1) * ASPCA arrests Bronx woman for abandoning dog(NYDN) * Imprisoned, tortured woman in his apartment for a month:(NYDN) * Shopkeeper found dead in store by customer(NYTDN) * Park Slope Woman Refuses To Back Down When Confronted By (WCBS) * ‘Rob’ jerk in cab nab(NYP) * What’s this suspect been smoking?(NYP) * BK Shopkeeper Found Dead in 99 Cent Store(NBC) * NYC Cop Pleads Not Guilty to Rape(NBC) * The governor said the synthetic drug problem is “literally exploding,” and he’s talking to the Legislature about possible solutions. He offered no specific solutions to the problem. * Brooklyn Store Owner Found Dead; ME To Determine Cause(NY1) *Juror's audition for 'Law and Order' delays B'klyn attempted murder trial(NYP) * A federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision upholding the arrest of two protesters who refused to leave a no-demonstration zone across from Madison Square Garden during the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC.* Mob guy (Mike the Butcher) takes final cut (NYDN) * No lower bail for wife of alleged tix-fix cop(NYP) * Massachusetts man sentenced for fatal Queens stabbing(NYP) * Surveillance of iPhone robbery in Chinatown(WABC) * Man accused of holding, torturing ex-girlfriend(WABC) * Lower Manhattan mugging suspect arrested(WABC) * UES Stabbing Victim Recounts Random Attack(NBC) *Subway Employee Charged With Bathroom Voyeurism(NBC) * Medical Examiner Rules Death Of Brooklyn Store Owner A (NY1) * Bed-Stuy Man Accused Of Torturing Woman In His Apartmen(NY1)
Serial mugger suspect nabbed by cops(NYDN) * NYPD Makes Arrest In Troubling Lower East Side Mugging(NYDN) 
Police: Man Found Dead Inside Brooklyn Store(NY1)
