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Absent the Mayor, Gracie Mansion Still Needs a New Kitchen
Maybe the problem is Jay-Z did not like his eggs? If Gracie Mansion were our friend, we’d lightly slap her face and tell her to snap out of it. “Put down that compact mirror, girl,” we’d chide. “You...
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Mayor Bloomberg Might Be Giving Staten Island a Lift… on a Giant Ferris Wheel
Previous plans for a Governor's Island ferris wheel. (WSJ) Who doesn’t want a giant ferris wheel in the middle of Staten Island? We’re assuming this is the exact inquiry Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
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Bloomberg Appoints Housing Recovery Director, Giving Displaced Residents a...
Brad Gair, center, in Indiana in 2005. (FEMA) It's been a week since Hurricane Sandy hit, demolishing houses in Staten Island and the waterfront communities of Brooklyn and Queens. Tensions have been...
View ArticleWe Had the Time of Our Lives: The New York Observer Offers Parting Glimpse of...
Sure, you've seen a hundred shots of Katie Holmes celebrating at The New York Observer's 25th Anniversary Party by now. If you didn't know what Rex Reed looked like, now you do. And those pictures of...
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NYPD Stats Show that Brooklyn is Still Bloodiest Borough
Though Brooklyn may seem like a happy hipster haven populated by vintage clothing stores and indie music venues, the borough remains New York’s bloodiest. According to an annual NYPD report released...
View ArticleWaste Not
Imagine eight million street-hardened New Yorkers separating scraps of food from their dinner plates and putting them aside to be recycled. Yeah, right. What next? Telling us we can’t light up in a...
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Bloomberg Puts the BLT into LGBT at Annual Pride BBQ
He's Gay-OK! (Patrick McMullan) Mayor Bloomberg was warmly received last night at his annual lettuce, gay, bacon and tomato (LGBT) barbecue at Gracie Mansion. Well, technically it's called the Mayor's...
View ArticleBloomberg Shocked and Boggled by City’s Inability to Fire ‘Heroin Teacher’
New York City’s efforts to fire what it calls the “heroin teacher” received a setback this week that has Mayor Michael Bloomberg fuming. Read More
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg Hopes to Score Tickets to the NBA All-Star Game
Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t known for his ravenous sports fandom, but the term-limited billionaire really hopes to score a ticket to the NBA All-Star Game festivities in 2015. Read More
View ArticleThe Company Man: Seth Pinsky Reflects on EDC and Looks Ahead at RXR
In July, Seth Pinsky, then the president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, announced he would soon shift from the public sector to the private sector. In his decade-long stint at...
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