Governor Cuomo has two more days to sign Mayor Bloomberg’s taxi bill that would put 1,500 more yellow cabs in the city, allow livery cabs to pick up street fares almost everywhere in the city and (in thoery) generate more than $1 billion in revenue. But Cuomo has pushed back against the legislation, countering that it doesn’t do enough to provide cabs for the disabled . According to the Daily News, Cuomo spent the weekend devising a plan that he finds acceptable, or the legislature can try their luck in January. “This could be ‘Gov. Steamroller again steamrolling on behalf of the yellow cab medallion owners who oppose the bill,” one statehouse source said. [ more › ]
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Cuomo Offering Ultimatum On Soon-To-Expire Taxi Bill
Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed plan to legalize livery cab hails in the outer-boroughs is being held up by Governor Cuomo , who feels there are still some unresolved questions (like how many livery and taxi cabs are handicap-accessible, how many get to go to the airport ). Cuomo’s sudden indecisiveness is curious to the Daily News, given that he did, after all, steamroll tax reform . [ more › ]
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Cuomo Still Not Sure About NYC Livery Cab Bill, Which Would Generate $1 Billion In Revenue
Yesterday, an off-duty cop shot an ex-con with a long rap sheet during a confrontation at a Harlem subway station after two teenager girls accused him of groping them. Jacob Sanford, 22, is accused of groping the two teens on their buttocks in the subway station at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue around noon yesterday. And in the ensuing struggle with the off-duty officer who arrested him, Sanford was himself shot in the butt. [ more › ]
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Suspected Groper Shot In Butt During Tussle With Off-Duty Cop
NYPD officers assigned to the World Trade Center site have been warned to stay away from “Fred,” a brown and orange pigeon who reportedly has been dive-bombing officers. The Post quotes a supervisor at the First Precinct scolding his charges: “Your appearance in public has to be professional. We’re receiving complaints about police officers’ demeanor regarding a bird.” Maybe Fred just wanted to dance? [ more › ]
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NYPD Brass In Fowl Mood After WTC Cops Fraternize With "Frank" The Pigeon
Every year, decent, red-blooded Americans attempt to celebrate the humble holiday of the birth of their savior. And every year, more and more government bureaucrats paper over Baby Jesus because of some antiquated “separation of church and state” policy. At least the Rockefeller Christmas Tree-Corpse is still a Christmas tree. But the same can’t be said of Rhode Island’s “Holiday tree,” which Governor Lincoln Chafee lit up last night. “He’s trying to put our religion down, one man told the AP. “It’s a Christmas tree. It always has been and it always will be, no matter what that buffoon says it is.” [ more › ]
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"War On Christmas" Spreads To Catholic-Drenched Rhode Island
To everyone not reading this on an iPad in the CORE Club: you may have your taxes cut. Earlier today Governor Cuomo along with Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver hammered out an agreement to that representing “the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle class New Yorkers taxpayers.” In a release [ pdf ], Governor Cuomo says, “We are cutting taxes on middle class New Yorkers and small businesses…This would be lowest tax rate for middle class families in 58 years.” Sounds like somebody’s gonna need a cheer-up weekend in Bermuda. [ more › ]
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Cuomo & Legislature Announce Tax Cuts For Everyone But Rich People
Get a little culture with your cutlets this weekend at UnionDocs , a Williamsburg documentary center that’s screening some meat-centric programming , with a helping of commentary from a handful of the city’s top chefs and butchers on the side. [ more › ]
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Top Chefs Talk Meat On The Big Screen
The rumors are true ! Governor Cuomo’s office has sent an op-ed written by the governor expressing his support for tax reform. You can read the whole thing below, but here’s one key paragraph: ” In New York under the permanent tax code, an individual making a taxable income of only $20,000 pays the same marginal tax rate as an individual making $20 million. It’s just not fair. While New York’s earned income tax credit, child care credit, and high standard deduction help working poor families, New York has left the middle class with an undue burden which also hinders our economic recovery.” [ more › ]
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Income Tax Reform Now: Cuomo Officially Declares Current System "Unfair" To Middle Class
As a bunch of college kids recently proved ( once again !), sometimes it can be absurdly hard to get a cab to take you from Manhattan to one of the outer boroughs. So what to do when you’ve been rejected for a ride? Call 311 before you forget the cab’s medallion! But if you hate talking on the phone or waiting on hold, well, there’s an app for that . And it’s kinda slick. [ more › ]
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Report Taxi Driver Misbehavior With New iPhone App
At a press conference today, Mayor Bloomberg was asked his opinion about reports that Governor Cuomo is planning to make new tax brackets for rich people. Although the plan is far from finalized , Bloomberg tentatively shared some thoughts about taxes (before his press secretary intervened). “I think you have to look at everything, but fundamentally you cannot tax your ways out of problems,” Bloomberg told reporters, according to City Room . “You’ve got to get your expenses under control and build the economic base so that if you have tax revenue increases they should come from expanded — an expanded economy, as opposed to expanded — to tax rates.” [ more › ]
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Bloomberg Not Too Thrilled About Cuomo Raising Rich Folks’ Taxes