Bill Thompson has cut Mayor Bloomberg's 20 point lead in half, in the latest opinion poll. New York City won't be getting federal stimulus dollars meant to pay cops who would otherwise be laid off because the city's crime...
According to the New York Post, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is non-committal when it comes to endorsing changes made in the Senate's version of the mayoral control bill. Porking Out: The Gotham Gazette details which State Senators have acquired...
The Downtown Express reports: District 1 City Council candidate Margaret Chin has raised more money than any of her competitors - almost $114 thousand. PJ Kim has raised $91 thousand. The man they're looking to beat, City Councilman Alan...
The Daily News looks at this election year's biggest lightning rod: NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein. New York's power bills are the highest in the nation. The Museum of Chinese in America has "soft" opened on Centre Street. Mike...
Joel Klein believes a pilot program at M.S. 131 in Chinatown could point the way to the school of the future. Caught on tape: a bicyclist at the corner of Delancey and Allen appears to pummel a pedestrian with his...
The New York Times reports NYC's retail vacancy rate is at its highest point since the early 90's. One in 10 retail spaces in Soho are vacant or about to be vacant. The City Council is looking at legislation...
Mayor Bloomberg and Senate Democrats argue about who's more "meshugenah" when it comes to control of the New York City schools. City Hall News rails against New York City's arcane petitioning rules candidates for City Council and other offices...
The State Senate is likely to go home for the summer without acting on mayoral control of the schools. From Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: another LES hotel might be getting the neighbors riled up. The latest on the mural...
Lower East Side teen Shaquana Gardner earned an invite to President Obama's keynote address before the NAACP Convention. Read her inspirational essay, part of a scholarship application for the Henry Street Settlement, in the Daily News. Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez...
The State Senate could deadlock again today, with the mayoral control bill and several other key proposals hanging in the balance. The problem: the Dems lost their slim 32 seat majority when Senator Daniel Squadron left for his honeymoon....
