Email Author Harry Siegel

2011 Stories by Harry Siegel

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  99% Rising - Poll Shows 67% of New Yorkers Support the "Occupation" [Updated]

  published Oct 17, 2011

  A poll released Tuesday showed widespread support among New Yorkers for the Wall Street "occupation," despite sustained criticism from Mayor Michael Bloomberg about its impact on working class New Yor... More >>

• 

  BEST OF NYC®
  Stoops to Conquer

  published October 19, 2011

  Growing up here, Ditmas Park was “all the way out in Brooklyn,” a tough place to entice friends to make the trek, let alone brand-new... More >>

• Right-Wing Sites Succumb To Silly Occupy Wall Street Conspiracies

  published Oct 10, 2011

  A wave of reports "exposing" the secret liberal money behind the Wall Street occupation has been cresting over the right-wing blogosphere, which has been at a loss to explain how a movement of dumb di... More >>

• Mayor Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street 'Trying To Destroy the Jobs of Working People'

  published Oct 07, 2011

  Mayor Bloomberg fired a warning shot Friday at the city unions who have backed the Occupied Wall Street protests, saying "we're not going to have money to pay our municipal employees" if the financial... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Second Council Member Alleges NYPD Mistreatment

  published Oct 04, 2011

  A second City Council member has now come out with claims of bad treatment by rank-and-files police officers at a parade. In a remarkable letter sent today to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's office and ... More >>

• Spinning Out of Control

  published October 5, 2011

  As the NYPD has struggled through a brutal month, its main mouthpiece and Commissioner Ray Kelly's most trusted adviser, Deputy Commissioner of... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Mayor Bloomberg Exposed On the Stand

  published Oct 03, 2011

  Just being there was humbling. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg LP and the city's wealthiest citizen, sat in criminal court answering a hot series of questions about shady political... More >>

• Mayor Bloomberg: "We'll See" If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue

  published Sep 30, 2011

  New Yorkers need "to help the banks" was Mayor Michael Bloomberg's message to the Occupy Wall Street crowd in his weekly radio appearance on the John Gambling show. "The protesters are protesting aga... More >>

• Casinos Head to NYC. You Lose.

  published September 28, 2011

  If the people weren't so old and shabby, they would look like a shift clocking in: streaming swiftly and silently past a few solitary smokers... More >>

• 

  Ray Kelly Finally Does the Right Thing with Weed Arrests

  published Sep 23, 2011

  After a decade of aggressively using stop and frisks to produce hundreds of thousands of bogus marijuana arrests, Commissioner Ray Kelly seems to have belatedly reversed course, judging from an intern... More >>

• Parading While Black

  published September 14, 2011

  Seeing what appeared to be the needless arrest at the West Indian Day parade of two black men, Councilman Jumaane Williams and Kirsten John... More >>

• Forget Rome: Jesus Gonzalez Takes on Brooklyn

  published Sep 09, 2011

  There's nothing like a nicely dressed young man standing just in front of the turnstiles handing out fliers with JESUS in big print at the top to get people to whip out their Metrocards, drop their he... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  The 9/11 Eulogies

  published Sep 09, 2011

  "If you're the mayor's speechwriter, what's your job" after the Towers fallr You're going to start thinking about "how do you find something redemptive out of this attackr How do you try and encapsula... More >>

• Ground Zero Tolerance

  published September 7, 2011

  A decade into its unhappy and unexpectedly long life, Ground Zero has undergone its annual if short-lived transformation from New York... More >>

• Marv Wolfman on What's Got To Die For a New DC World To Live

  published Aug 31, 2011

  ... More >>

• Koch v. Obama

  published August 24, 2011

  To answer Ed Koch's famous question, he's doing pretty damn well these days. With his early endorsement and vocal support, Koch has... More >>

• Sports Vs. Sounds: The Staff Of The Classical Runs Down The Best Post-Punk Sports Songs

  published Aug 18, 2011

  During my discussion with the fellows behind The Classical, the forthcoming sports site named after the Mark E. Smith composition that reportedly cost the band a recording deal with Motown thanks to t... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  The Classical Talks: The Voice Interviews the Writers Behind the New Sports Site

  published Aug 17, 2011

  While the coming new sports site, The Classical, feels to us an awful lot like what people hoped Grantland would be, the writers involved tell the Voice they see it as more like a sports version of th... More >>

• Sharpton's Racket

  published August 17, 2011

  The Reverend Al Sharpton has proven that it's a waste of ink to detail his decades of bad behavior: the payoffs, shakedowns, conflicts of... More >>

• Bob Turner To Claim Liberal Party Endorsement, Worth To Be Determined

  published Aug 12, 2011

  The once-potent Liberal Party, which lost its ballot line in 2002, has decided to back Republican Bob Turner in the tightening race to replace Anthony Weiner in the 9th Congressional District, former ... More >>

• Whip It Good

  published August 10, 2011

  The modern prison era begins in 1961, the first of eight consecutive years when the incarceration rate plummeted while the crime rate spiked as... More >>

• The Next Mayor? You Don't Care, Do You?

  published August 10, 2011

  The early returns are in, and New Yorkers are so keen on that old standby, None Of The Above, the latest Marist poll shows twice as many voters... More >>

• Chris Quinn and the Slow Motion Return of the Slush Fund Scandal

  published Aug 02, 2011

  The latest round of two-years-out mayoral polls shouldn't be taken too seriously: They mostly track name recognition (so there's no need to lose sleep fretting about Mayor Markowitz), and in any case ... More >>

• Bloomberg's Machine Politics

  published August 3, 2011

  Last week, I asked the mayor's press office for what seemed like simple information. Two sources with firsthand knowledge had told me that... More >>

• Donald Trump Remains An Asshole

  published Jul 26, 2011

  What's the difference between Donald Trump and your uncle who stares at everyone's breasts at Christmas, and spends the rest of his year calling in to talk-radio showsr Not much these days, though th... More >>