By Amanda Sakuma City Council member Eric Ulrich of Queens' 32nd district proved he's no longer "just a kid," reclaiming not only his seat in yesterday's election, but also his title as the counc...
Continue reading "Ulrich Turns Seven Months of Incumbency to His Advantage" > ' [...]The key question coming out of this election is whether Mike Bloomberg got the message. Can he listen to voters he'll never face again? If Bloomberg L.P took a hit like he did Tuesday, wouldn't th...
Continue reading "Barrett: Just How Strange and Pathetic was Bloomberg's'" [...]On Sunday a little after midnight this guy at caught a ride from a livery driver near the Ferry Terminal on Staten Island. He had the driver take him all the way out to Mariners Park on the othe...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Staten Island" [...]By Aaron Howell. Yesterday incumbent city councilmember Diana Reyna defeated challenger Maritza Davila by 4,000 votes, 60 percent to 35 percent. It was a far cry from the last time the two wom...
Continue reading "Reyna's Big Council Win a Defeat for Dem Boss Vito Lopez" > [...]We want to make this clear before tonight's game: We're not second guessing Joe Girardi's decision to pitch A.J. Burnett on three days rest Monday night. We called it before the game. It was fooli...
Continue reading "Jockbeat: Yanks Chances for Finishing Things Tonight" > ' [...]New York's got some weird addresses. Heard about the Chinatown tenement at 81 Bowery where residents live in cubicles? It stinks of piss and fish paste, yet when it was closed briefly for fire vio...
Continue reading "This Week in the Voice" >November 4, 2009. 11/4. Andy Pettitte is pitching in his 11th postseason with the Yankees. If he wins it, it'll be his 4th of the year. Pedro Martinez is pitching his 11th postseason game. If h...
Continue reading "Crazy Yankee Chick: This ends tonight." > ' [...]Affiliates of the Bloods were allegedly running the Jackson and Melrose Projects in The Bronx, leading to dozens of shootings and about 20 unsolved murders. So the feds stepped in. As the gangst...
Continue reading "Bloods Sweep in Bronx Projects Nets 53, Gun, Drug, Other Charges" [...]OK, now it's getting serious: a cat has been diagnosed with swine flu. The unnamed feline lives with humans who caught the virus and apparently passed it on to her*; she tested positive for the di...
Continue reading "Cat Gets Swine Flu" >You think your commute is bad: In Philly SEPTA is on strike, which has screwed up transit especially much for the poorer folks who live furthest from their workplaces. Such trains as there are, ar...
Continue reading "We Pay More for Trains Even If We Take" [...]Thanks, Brooklyn Paper! Implied Bay Ridge homoeroticism aside, councilman Vincent Gentile's 60-40 win over Republican Bob Capano was closer than most council races. Capano had run against Gentil...
Continue reading "Headline of the Day" > [...]We have always believed that you aren't a real New Yorker until you've been thrown out a cab for getting cozy in the backseat, but Paul Bruno and his partner did not see the honor when cabbie Medh...
Continue reading "Guys Cuddle in Cab, Driver Ejects" [...]It's officially a meme: The New York Times, following in the footsteps of WNYC and WCBS-TV, has an article today on how business at stores on 161st Street has cratered after the new Yankee Steak...
Continue reading "Series Returns to Bronx, Bringing Thin Trickle of Business" [...]Mayor Bloomberg is getting the first critical coverage of his campaign the day after it ended. "NYC mayor bruised by surprisingly close victory," says AP. They also seem surprised that "Some vote...
Continue reading "Media Amazed By Narrow Bloomberg Victory They Helped Achieve" >Republicans won two governors' races, which is characterized by the press (customarily known as the liberal media) as a "sweep." "GOP sweeps gov races," says Politico. "Christie win completes GOP...
Continue reading "After Two Losses, Liberal Media Declares Obama Doomed" >Yahoos displeased by the results in NY-23 may take comfort that Maine appears to have rejected the marriage equality bill that was passed by its state legislature in May. For example, National Re...
Continue reading "Gay Marriage Revoked in Maine" > [...]Last week conservatives were telling us that the revolution was beginning in New York's 23rd Congressional District, where Conservative Party insurgent Doug Hoffman had knocked not-rightwing-enoug...
Continue reading "Tea Party Over? Hoffman Concedes in NY-23, Democrat Owens Takes Seat Held by GOP Since '93 (Update: Rightbloggers'" [...]The author of a new book on Scientology reveals to the Village Voice details of his experience being "audited" by Tom Cruise, who asked him to talk to a book, a bottle, and an ashtray for hours at...
Continue reading "'Tom Cruise Told Me to Talk'" [...]Holy Tyr! Queens voters made American history tonight, when they chose Dan Halloran as the nation's first openly heathen elected official. Halloran will serve as the City Council member from the...
Continue reading "Halloran Wins Race, Queens Elects America's First Heathen" > [...]It was well past 11:00 p.m., and a couple thousand Bloomberg supporters were still waiting in the Metropolitan Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel for the mayor to show up. They were an enthusiastic g...
Continue reading "Bloomberg's Election Night Party -- Actually Fun" > [...]Hang on a second. Five points? A week ago Quinnipiac had Bloomberg up 18 points. Yesterday they had him up 12 points. If the polls were anywhere near right, and the shift in their numbers ref...
Continue reading "12 Points Up in Monday Polls, Bloomberg Wins by 5. Was" [...]Roy Edroso, Graham Rayman, Tom Robbins, Julia, Tony Ortega, Ward Harkavy, Harkavy, Steven Thrasher, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Allen Barra, Mackenzie Schmidt, Araceli Cruz, Neil deMause, Alan Scherstuhl, Brian Parks, Angela Ashman, Allison Benedikt, Camille Dodero
