In an ambitious push to reduce New York City’s carbon footprint, Mayor Bloomberg will announce tomorrow plans to build solar panels on city landfills, and the creation of a city-run non-profit to help building owners fund their own green upgrades, according to city officials.
More details on Bloomberg’s plans will be announced tomorrow morning Read More
In a radio interview this morning, Donald Trump said he feels betrayed by the New York Daily News, which he said he “saved” but now gives him “nothing but bad articles.”
Trump:
“I understand the Daily News. I saved the Daily News. When Mort Zuckerman and Fred Drasner came to me years ago Read More
It’s Mathew Wambua, a top aide at the New York City Housing Development Corporation, according to Adam Lisberg, who notes the challenges the new guy will face.
“Former commissioner Shaun Donovan set big affordable housing goals before President Obama tapped him as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The timeline for the plan Read More
Responding to the New York magazine story, this memo gets released, from senior adviser Howard Wolfson:
To: Interested Parties
From: Howard Wolfson
Subject: Bike Lanes
Date: March 21, 2011
In light of this week’s New York magazine article about bike lanes I thought you might find the below useful.
· The majority of New Read More
Quinnipiac is out with a hodgepodge of numbers on NYC issues:
Wal-Mart
57-36 percent say electeds should allow a Wal-Mart to open here.
68-29 percent say they’d shop there once open.
Last In, First Out
78-16 percent say teacher layoffs should be NOT done based on seniority [corrected].
63-32 percent of union households Read More
The Observer‘s very unofficial Brooklyn correspondent Eric Kuo (as in he doesn’t actually work here) is at the Atlantic Yard’s project’s Barclay’s groundbreaking ceremony and Tweeting entertaining dispatches.
Kuo: “Chant is ‘arrest Ratner now’ somehow I doubt these cops will comply.”
Daily News City Hall Bureau Chief Adam Lisberg is also Tweeting Read More
Rev. Floyd Flake and rapper Jay-Z are pulling out today from AEG, the company which bid recently won a lucrative contract to run video lottery terminals at Aqueduct, according to a source familiar with the group’s make-up.
Flake, a powerful reverend and former congressman, and Jay-Z, a multi-faceted rapper, each had less Read More
The Observer‘s Dana Rubinstein, who is at the REBNY lunch where Rupert Murdoch is speaking, emailed to say that Murdoch “voiced support” for Mort Zuckerman as a potential challenger to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
A second person at the event confirmed the remarks, and sent along this quote from Murdoch:
“You probably thought you’d never hear Read More
Here’s a slide show aides to the mayor presented to members of the New York Bar Association late last month. The focal point, according to a person who attended the presentation, was what the administration will do to help foster development on city-owned land.
Visually, the best part are the newspaper headlines on the Read More
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday designated the Paramount Hotel, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and two Eighth Avenue townhouses as landmarks.
The Paramount Hotel, at 235-245 West 46th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, was built in 1927 and 1928, according to Community Board 5, which endorsed the landmarking in June. Theater Read More
Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada said he would sponsor legislation to repeal vacancy decontrol.
Speaking at a rally organized by the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Espada was asked, in front of a crowded gymnasium, if he would support repealing that law.
“The question is answered by saying yes,” Espada said.
To make Read More
