It isn’t just teachers getting arrested in our schools. According to new data released by the NYPD [ PDF ], an average of five students were arrested every day in the city’s school system last fall, and nine more were issued summonses. Things look especially bleak for black students who, despite comprising only 29 percent of the student population made up 60 percent of the arrests (add in Latino students and the number climbs to 90 percent). The news led Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, to again point out that ” If the Bloomberg administration is truly serious about helping young men of color succeed, then they must address these disparities and focus more attention on educating children—not arresting them. ” [ more › ]
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5 Students Arrested Each Day In NYC Schools, 90% Are Black Or Latino
Recently Mayor Bloomberg reiterated on Twitter his opinion that the Staten Island Ferry makes a great first date—and some of the staff here at Gothamist was a bit aghast . Some of us, however, are quite fond of Status Island and the boat that goes to it. There was some inter-office squabbling, even. So we decided to turn to some experts to find out how Bloomberg’s suggestion stacks up. Turns out, lots of people agree with our billionaire mayor on this one. [ more › ]
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Bloomberg Right? Stats Show SI Ferry Is A Popular Date Spot
Mayor Bloomberg may tell you to “deal with it” when it comes to blizzards , paying for the FDNY to respond to your crash , smoking , cutting the number of teachers , brazen corruption , and police raiding your stupid protest , but let’s face it: When he announced he’d donate up to $250,000 to Planned Parenthood , you liked him for at least five minutes. [ more › ]
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Mayor Bloomberg Gets <3 After Planned Parenthood Donation
New England Clam Chowder at Panera: One serving contains more saturated fat than an entire package of bacon. [ more › ]
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Some Of The Most Unhealthy Things You Can Eat On Super Bowl Sunday (Or Any Day)
Pimping out celebrity connections to listed homes has become a “frenetic little industry,” according to the Times, who today runs a piece on the guy who believes he lives in Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s former NYC studio. Bloomberg denies it, insisting that the kitchen is positioned wrong; Curbed NY has the floorplan. [NYT; Curbed NY ]
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Celebrity (?) Real Estate: Pimping out celebrity connections to listed…
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Help Wanted at Curbed Tech: Enjoy Curbed? The Ruby programming language?…
It is safe to say that our billionaire mayor from Boston will not be following in the footsteps of former mayor Ed Koch when he leaves office. Where Koch has spent almost a decade now reviewing movies as a side gig (see: The Mayor at the Movies ), Mike Bloomberg ” once told a friend he had seen only 10 movies in his life. ” Make that 11— he admitted he went to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . [ more › ]
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Culturally Ignorant Bloomberg Should Never Start A Book Club
Shame is one of society’s most powerful motivators ( except when you’re a billionaire ). Mayor Bloomberg knows this, and that’s why he told reporters yesterday that he will veto legislation that bans those giant yellow sanitation stickers the Sanitation Department slaps on scofflaw vehicles. “Stickers are an enforcement tool that have shown that they keep our streets clean and if you take them away there’s no reason to believe that we won’t go back to the dirty streets that we had before,” Bloomberg said. Indeed it’s a shame that Errol Morris’ documentary, The Thin Yellow, Sticky Line, wasn’t given the Oscar nod this year. [ more › ]
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Bloomberg Stuck On Parking Stickers, Will Veto For Love
Marriage equality hasn’t just been good for gay New Yorkers—its also been good for the economy, Republicans , gay men’s health , and religious recruiters . And now a group of mayors—including our own Mike Bloomberg—have teamed up to try and bring the freedom to marry to the rest of the country. [ more › ]
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Bloomberg Joins With 75+ U.S. Mayors To Support Gay Marriage
Following some video hijinks involving Ed Koch and turtle-esque jiggling , Mayor Bloomberg got down to business delivering his 11th annual “State Of The City” speech in the Bronx today. Besides serving as a kind of summary of his achievements in office as well as a glimpse at what he’d like his legacy to be , Bloomberg’s speech most notably touched on a plan to shake up the school system by offering monetary incentives to high-performing teachers while booting the worst ones: “We need to be able to identify those ineffective teachers and give them the support they need to grow,” he said. “And if that doesn’t work, we need to be able to move them out.” [ more › ]
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In "State Of The City," Bloomberg Vows To Boot Bad Teachers