When it comes to elections most people are focused on the biggie this November. But not New York City pols! They’re already focused on next November when Gracie Mansion, long left vacant by Mike Bloomberg, is once again up for grabs. And the early front runner is … still City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. [ more › ]
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Election 2013: Speaker Quinn’s In The (Public) Money!
After a week of trash talking , the underperforming Jets and Giants are gearing up for Saturday’s thoroughly mediocre “battle of NYC.” Both teams still have a chance to make the playoffs, but the loser of tomorrow’s game may be done for the season. We’re just relieved one NY team can win this week, after last week’s twin slaughters. And while Mayor Bloomberg tried his best to stay out of the inter-city rivalry, NJ Gov. Chris Christie made no secret of who he is rooting for: “J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets. Absolutely. Rex and the boys win by seven.” [ more › ]
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Mediocre Royale: Bloomberg And Christie Weigh In On Jets/Giants Battle
Ready for another story about people doing good around the holidays? Last night a Department of Sanitation worker doing shopping at the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus heard a woman screaming as she was being mugged. He was unable to catch up with the crooks, but he was able to pull out his pocket knife and stab it into the crook’s car tire, allowing cops to quickly catch him and his accomplice. [ more › ]
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Grinch Mugger Stopped By Tire-Slashing Sanitation Worker
The Museum of Moving Image has decided to extend its amazing Jim Henson’s Fantastic World exhibit (as Kermit would say, ” Yaaaaaay! “). We checked it out earlier this year and highly recommend visiting before it closes on March 4th (originally it was meant to shut down on January 16th). According to Arts Beat it “has drawn nearly 90,000 visitors since its opening on July 16th… and is expected to have more than 100,000 visitors by the time it closes.” [ more › ]
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You Now Have Until March To Visit Mayor Bloomberg’s Muppet At The Museum Of Moving Image
With job prospects increasingly dim for many Americans, thousands of moms around the country are reportedly turning to the phones to put food on the table. Specifically, they are working as sex phone operators. Y’know, like Jennifer Jason Leigh did in Robert Altman’s classic Raymond Carver movie Short Cuts . “I look at what I do as a business,” one a single mom explained to Good Morning America . “It happens to deal with sex.” [ more › ]
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Recession Report: More And More Moms Turning To Phone Sex Work
And the winner of New York City’s high-tech campus sweepstakes appears to be… Cornell , by $350 million dollars . Mayor Bloomberg is expected to announce the news later today at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Ithaca-based Ivy is apparently so eager to get started they want to have their first classes going by next September—a year earlier than the Bloomberg administration initially asked for! [ more › ]
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Cornell Set To Build New York’s New High-Tech Campus
Yesterday, police arrested Jerome Isaac for the stunningly brutal murder of Deloris Gillepsie. Police say that Isaac set the 73-year-old woman on fire in her Prospect Heights building’s elevator on Saturday afternoon, and that he made incriminating statements to the cops : “I set the fire in the hallway, and I set the fire in the elevator.” [ more › ]
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Brooklyn Murder Suspect: "I Set The Fire In The Elevator"
Grinchy fraudsters are wiping out holiday gift cards before the intended recipients can even get to the mall and go wild buying beer pong supplies at Spencer Gifts . In one of his Sunday Special press conferences, Senator Schumer surfaced at Greeley Square and West 33rd Street to warn shoppers about about the devious scam. [ more › ]
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Gift Card Fraud: The Silent Christmas Killer?
It seems Mayor Bloomberg still gets a bit pissy if you question him about his perfect handling of Occupy Wall Street : during his weekly radio appearance this morning, Bloomberg was asked about the November raid on Zuccotti Park , during which several reporters were arrested and others were forcibly removed from the park. Bloomberg insisted that there was no media blackout during the early morning raid: “We didn’t keep anybody from reporting, you just had to stand to the side. You don’t have a right as a press person to stand in the way just in the interest of getting the story…the police [showed] amazing restraint. This is the greatest police department in the world. The number of times police fire their weapons here is so much less than any other police department.” [ more › ]
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Bloomberg Claims NYPD Didn’t Prevent Press From Reporting On Occupy Wall Street Raid
Today’s mid-day links include the passing of actor Harry Morgan, the feds hate Bloomberg News, Arianna Huffington’s bathroom etiquette involves yakking on her phone and more. Follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook . You can also get the top stories mailed to you— sign up here . [ more › ]