A Bronx cop shot a teenager in the face after the adolescent reached for a BB gun on Holland Avenue yesterday afternoon. A plainclothes narcotics detective fired on 15-year-old Marcus Bonner at around 5 pm, hitting the aspiring rapper in the cheek [...]
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As part of Mayor Bloomberg's H1N1 flu plan for NYC, the Board of Health has opened vaccination centers this weekend in all five boroughs for middle school and high school students. Elementary scho...
Continue reading "Weekend student vaccination centers open" > [...]The October edition of the NYSAC Economy Watch continues to give indications of a stabilizing New York Economy but no clear signs that the state has begun to experience any real sustained growth. More Economy Watch data is available on the NYSAC website at www.nysac.org.
“This Economy Watch gives us both [...]
They say he runs the city like a business, so it's only fitting that after a poorer-than-expected performance in last week's election, Mayor Bloomberg's campaign workers are afraid they won't get big bonuses this year. In past elections, the billionaire former bond trader and' [...]
Bank of New York Mellon is blaming a bank processing error for $189 million in pension payments for retired school teachers which disappeared Thursday night. UFT President Michael Mulgrew said tha...
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After Cyrus Vance Jr. was elected to Manhattan DA, his campaign issued a press release noting a 30+ person transition team, made up of other lawyers, union leaders, and others. The Daily News notes the inclusion of Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason, best known [...]
The half ton of recycled confetti provided to buildings lining the Canyon of Heroes in downtown Manhattan for the Yankees' victory parade yesterday turned out not to be enough for some people to s...
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The Queens woman found guilty of suffocating her abusive stepfather and cutting off his penis in 2007 was sentenced yesterday to five to 15 years in prison — the maximum sentence for the charge of second-degree [...]
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Last year, I used my Election Day vacation in an effort to help make Malcolm Smith the State Senate Majority Leader;
Having seen how that worked out, this year I used my day off to take care of my sick son Dybbuk and his new [...]
Hundreds of New Yorkers fought on Thursday to become Times Square "restroom ambassadors" — a highly coveted gig that pays $10,000 for just six weeks of employment. The toilet paper manufacturer Charmin is looking for five hosts and hostesses who [...]
Leaf peeper map of NYS What little there is left, we have here, and we're at peak leaf (according to the News, we owe that information to the city's official foliage monitor, Cori Carl). Local fol...
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Uh oh! For some unknown reason, Bank of New York Mellon, which had electronically deposited $185 million in pension funds into retired NYC teachers' and staffers' accounts a few days ago, decided to withdraw the money yesterday, causing—besides overdrafts— worries, chaos, and outrage. A 70-year-old [...]
Today, the USS New York, which was partly made from World Trade Center steel, will be officially commissioned as a naval warship today and besides the military flyover, there's also going to be a cannon firing repeatedly: "During the Commissioning of the USS" [...]
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[Representative Eric Massa is voting no on the health care bill, damn it, no matter what the outside consequences or what Barack Obama says.
"The president of the United States is coming to Capitol Hill tomorrow morning on a'" [...]
On Thursday, a 20-pound engine tail cone fell from a Boeing 777 plane headed from JFK Airport to Tokyo and onto the front yard of Michelle Russell in Roosevelt, Long Island. The Delta crew only realized the four-foot piece of metal was missing after it [...]
Congressman Eric Massa, Democrat from NY-29, will be voting against HR 3962, the current iteration of the health care reform bill. Whether you’re for or against health insurance reform of any kind, you have to hand it to Massa for standing on principle. At Netroots [...]
The nation watched in horror at the toll of dead and injured from the evil carnage at Fort Hood. Yet President Obama seemed insensitive about it. In his comments on the incident it was like he was reading a traffic report on the beltway. Even worse it was not even [...]
After a while, it stopped being parody, and practically became a carbon copy of the Dr. Beck Feelings Hour:
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Tom Tancredo is one of the most detestable xenophobes ever to have darkened the halls of congress. Lou Dobbs has got nothing on this guy. It’s also quite ironic, given the fact that Tancredo’s last name ends in a vowel.
The other day, Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas was debating Tancredo [...]
Cavaliers 100, Knicks 91: Is finishing within nine points of the Cavaliers a moral victory. What about holding LeBron James to 33 after he scored 53 in his final trip in the building last year. To answer the first question, not when the team [...]
The main $3 billion mortgage for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village has been transferred to a "special servicer," according to the rating agency Fitch, a significant step taken when loans are in default or on the verge of default.
The owners of the giant 11,200-unit Manhattan [...]
Patience. Death has more than enough. Thursdays papers carried two articles: one about NYS Trooper David Lane. The 30-year old stationed at the Catskill barracks was driving northbound on 32 Wednesday afternoon when his cruiser bumped a vehicle he was trying to pass, sending the police [...] “Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human [...]
Traveling by subway may be an overpriced headache (especially on weekends!) but at least now you can use Google Maps to plan your treacherous trip through it. They've just improved their NYC subway system mapping in their "Transit" layer, making it easier to plot' [...]
While some think that focusing on how Citigroup and Goldman Sachs received swine flu vaccines is distracting, this is kind of annoying. The NY Times reports, "Citigroup has received 1,200 doses, more than half of what it requested, health officials said, and in late October, Goldman received 200 of" [...]
This would have made a great Halloween costume. Fred Lebain has a new series of photographs that blend New Yorkers right into New York. Animal notes that "After shooting the scene, Lebain returned with a large-format print that he then photographed again using" [...]
Daily Intel: New York Observer owner Jared Kushner twice asked New York Times business reporter wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin to be editor of the paper. Looks like he settled for Portfolio's Kyle Pope instead.
Raucous crowd Weds PM at the Elks Lodge in albany bemoaning the pending closure of the underused Pine Hills Post Office. Jeepers, if you wanna save it so badly, GO there - BUY stamps - BUY money orders instead of using checks - SEND packages outta [...] 
Life in a notoriously squalid Chinatown boarding house only got worse after the city tried to bring the building at 81 Bowery up to code, the Village Voice reports. For years, poor immigrant tenants have paid around $100 a month for tiny cubicles on [...]
City Comptroller Bill Thompson has no regrets about his mayoral campaign or his narrow loss, telling the Daily News, "I just stopped [the what if thoughts]. That's not helpful. When I woke up Wednesday, I would have liked to have woken up having won." [...]
Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch told his staff this afternoon that he will be stepping down in April after five years on the job.
Mr. Gourevitch, who is also a New Yorker staff writer, said in an interview that his decision to resign was motivated by a desire [...]
Due to votes on the Hill today, newly sworn-in Congressman Bill Owens wasn’t able to meet with President Barack Obama.
The meeting will be rescheduled, according to the White House press office.
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TIME cover from Nov. 23, 1970 As you've probably noticed from Google's art this week, it's Sesame Street's birthday! Oh the times we've shared. The television show is in its 40th year (here's the pitch), and there's lots of celebrating [...]
After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, ...
Continue reading "Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared" >After complaints during the campaign about their connection with Data and Field Services and related unfavorable press reports, the Working Families Party has retained the law firm of Skadden, Arp...
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Photograph of Joe Girardi waving his key to the city by Julie Jacobson/AP Yankees manager Joe Girardi had a particularly busy Wednesday-into-Thursday evening, between winning the World Series and helping out a crash victim. Girardi stopped his car on his was home [...]
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We're not sure how many Glenn Beck fans read FishbowlNY, but if you are familiar with the talk show host's conspiratorial style, you'll appreciate Jon Stewart's impression from last night's "Daily Show."
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Tomorrow around noon expect to see a lot of action in the sky — a military flyover is scheduled! You'll see ospreys and harrier jets over the Hudson River from the Verrazano to the George Washington Bridge. But have no fear, it's all in celebration' [...]
On Friday, three days after the his Marist Poll was shown to be off by a significant margin in the New York City Mayoral Election for the second election in a row, poll director Lee Miringoff claims an unreleased poll was actually right!
A Marist poll completed the [...]
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There were also Republican successes, albeit slightly less high-profile, in Monroe, [...]
After months of press scrutiny and a lawsuit alleging improper ties between the Working Families Party and its for-profit field operations arm, Data & Field Services, the labor-backed party has retained the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom to conduct a thorough review of the structure and relationship [...]
On Sunday, the snobby, pedantic atmosphere that often dominates wine tastings will get rocked by the smug, over-sharing culture that always permeates Twitter! This City Winery event (which merits mention if only because of its name) is called "Spit & Twit." Who can [...]
Whenever there's a story about the site of the World's Fair you can be certain the words neglected and/or deteriorated will be used. Last year the city was criticized for not better preserving the 130' x 166' terrazzo replica of a Texaco New [...]
The Republican Assemblywoman strikes back in an interview with the site’s Michael Smerconish. A sample:
“I have every intention of staying in the Republican Party. This is my party, too. There are a lot of moderate people—Republicans, like me—and I’m hearing from an awful lot from them. And I think [...]
Click on the film stills for more details and reviews for this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Precious, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Fourth Kind, A [...]
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Pirate Radio, tthe new comedy starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, from the creator of Love Actually. In theatres 11/13.
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Is Oprah Winfrey ready to ditch her syndication deal and take her talk show to her new cable network OWN? Yes, according to Nikki Finke, who reports that the queen of daytime will soon announce that she will not be renewing her syndication contract [...]
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