Posted by in New York on 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg’s Meetings With Obama, Biden Start Rumor Mill
Bloomberg’s Meetings With Obama, Biden Start Rumor Mill
Are Biden and Bloomberg walking and talking ? Page Six claims that Mayor Bloomberg is being wooed by President Obama to join his team at the White House: Building upon the mayor’s golf outing with the Commander in Chief on Martha’s Vineyard last Friday, “Now there are whispers that...
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Posted by in New York on 08 27th, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg Discusses Mosque On Daily Show
Bloomberg Discusses Mosque On Daily Show
Mayor Bloomberg and Jon Stewart (Kristen Artz/NYC Mayor’s Office) Last night, Mayor Bloomberg appeared on the Daily Show to discuss the most controversial topic New Yorkers have ever encountered: The sliced bagel tax , which Jon Stewart suggested was “anti-Semitic.” The Stewart asked...
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Posted by in New York on 08 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Joe Biden’s Meeting with Mayor Bloomberg Ends Happily
Joe Biden’s Meeting with Mayor Bloomberg Ends Happily
Mayor Bloomberg contemplates the supposedly “bitchin’” rope swing at Joe Biden’s favorite upstate quarry. After finally making it through long boring meeting about some pointless B.S. at Gracie Mansion today, Joe Biden yanked off his tie, loosened his collar, and peer-pressured...
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Posted by in New York on 08 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Mosque Mania: Lawsuit Looms, Republicans Retch!
Mosque Mania: Lawsuit Looms, Republicans Retch!
Mayor’s Office Flickr Immediately after the Landmark Preservation Commission removed the last hurdle standing in the way of the ” Ground Zero mosque ,” The American Center for Law and Justice announced plans to file a lawsuit to block it on behalf of the family of a firefighter who...
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Posted by in New York on 07 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Saggy Pants Okay in Bloomberg’s Nanny State
Saggy Pants Okay in Bloomberg’s Nanny State
Don’t be deceived by his crisp uniform; this man is not the fashion police. The notoriously regulatory Mayor Bloomberg—whose administration hasn’t hesitated to tell New Yorkers what they can eat , drink , and inhale —is refusing to use his power to protect citizens from the ubiquitous...
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Posted by in New York on 06 26th, 2010 | No Comments
City Moves to Nix Street Alarm Boxes
City Moves to Nix Street Alarm Boxes
Flickr user emilydickinsonridesabmx Just as we were wrapping our heads around losing the V and W trains and the Crown Vics , the Bloomberg administration is r enewing efforts to get rid of another city classic : streetside emergency-help boxes. They’ve asked a federal court to lift an injunction...
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Posted by in New York on 06 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg Sets Sights on Mr. Softee
Bloomberg Sets Sights on Mr. Softee
Flickr user Triborough When asked about new rules that would limit art vendors and food trucks around crowded city parks, Mayor Bloomberg seemed to have one enemy in mind: the beloved/ infuriating Mr. Softee. Fran from Queens called into the Mayor’s radio show this week, complaining of the incessant...
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Posted by in New York on 06 9th, 2010 | No Comments
New Bill Could Be Big Trouble for Food Trucks
New Bill Could Be Big Trouble for Food Trucks
Wafels and Dinges ( Oliver 62’s Flickr ) City Council members Jessica Lappin (from the UES) and Karen Koslowitz (from Queens) have introduced a new bill that would, according to Midtown Lunch , “give the Department of Health authority to suspend any vending permit issued to a truck with...
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Posted by in New York on 06 7th, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg’s "Bromance" With Jeb Bush
Bloomberg’s "Bromance" With Jeb Bush
Bush and Bloomberg in 2007 (NYC Mayor’s Office) According to the Post , “insiders” are wondering why Mayor Bloomberg and former Florida governor Jeb Bush are so buddy-buddy. A “City Hall veteran” says, “There’s something going on there. This is a lot more than,...
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Posted by in New York on 05 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg Answers 311 For 100 Millionth Call
Bloomberg Answers 311 For 100 Millionth Call
NYC Mayor’s Office Twitter Though he may have been MIA during this weekend’s ferry crash, Mayor Bloomberg was ready and willing to serve his city’s information line during a milestone call today. The 311 line, created by Bloomberg in 2003, continued growing in popularity this year,...
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