At 5 a.m. on the morning of Monday, March 9, after many months of planning, NBC Universal at long last unveiled its 24-hour hyper-local newslike cable channel, called New York Nonstop (Channel 161 on Time Warner cable!). Some 12 hours later, Chuck Scarborough, who for decades has been the face of NB...

After Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall, it quickly became clear to the Bloomberg administration that the spiraling economic crisis was going to hit New York especially hard. The financial sector had been the city’s economic engine, driving real wages and estate prices up citywide. So the Bloomb...

After Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall, it quickly became clear to the Bloomberg administration that the spiraling economic crisis was going to hit New York especially hard. The financial sector had been the city’s economic engine, driving real wages and estate prices up citywide. So the Bloomb...

Michael Bloomberg's campaign manager Bradley Tusk, emailed supporters this morning seeking volunteers, and pointing them to a fancy new campaign web site. The site urges supporters to volunteer because Bloomberg "is willing to make the hard choices – independent of politics and the specia...

As the 2009 mayoral campaign draws closer, Anthony Weiner, the intense, rail-thin Brooklyn congressman, is playing it suspiciously cool. After having spent much of last year outside New York as a presidential-campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton, he has remained immersed in Washington issues, gett...

Today a group of LGBT rights and sexual freedom activists gathered just down the block from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Upper East Side mansion to protest the false arrests of gay men in NYC's adult bookshops. Robert Pinter, a victim of this campaign, gave interviews to a number of local and national ...

Tomorrow at noon there will be a protest at Mayor Bloomberg's Upper East Side home over the NYPD's practice of falsely arresting gay men for prostitution at the city's adult bookstores. Duncan Osbourne at Gay City News has been following this story for months; I first mentioned his coverage here in ...

Queens County Republican Chairman Phil Ragusa—whose borough has the most registered Republican voters—isn’t ruling out letting Michael Bloomberg run in the party’s mayoral primary, but said he’s still upset the at the treatment he and the Republican Party have gotten from City Hall for the...

We think of progressive taxation, if we think of it at all, as a ten-dollar term for making the rich pay more of their fair share. But Thursday at Noon NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn Member David Yassky, advised by the Drum Major Institute, give it a newer twist: let lower income New Yorkers pa...

ALBANY-A week before the process to appoint New York's junior U.S. senator reached its messy end, Governor David Paterson stood onstage at an event with Hillary Clinton and compared his experience in the state's highest office to a dirty movie. "I've been governor for nine and a hal...