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November 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street National Day of Action: Live Updates From Downtown Manhattan
Nick PintoThe NYSE, which protestors did not stop from opening todayGood afternoon, and welcome to the evening edition of the Village Voice liveblog of Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action. Today, November 17, marks the two month anniversary since Occupy Wall Street began in Zuccotti Park. Pro ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Mike Bloomberg: OWS is 'Cathartic' and 'Entertaining' In a Bad Way
Video by Azi Paybarah at Capital New York from this morning shows our mayor saying that it's Congress that caused the financial crisis, not the big banks. He also describes Occupy Wall Street as "cathartic" and "entertaining" -- though not in a good way.
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September 7, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg Is Looking For a New Speechwriter
Could you be Mike Bloomberg's next speechwriter? A source forwarded an email from head City Hall speechwriter Francis Barry to Capital New York's Azi Paybarah. There's an opening for you budding Ted Sorensens out there! Barry even notes that City Hall is "casting a wide net," so apply away:
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August 17, 2011
Capital New York Gains Staffers, Money; New York Loses Chris Rovzar
Press Clips has returned, or rather a short, bastardized version of Press Clips has returned, special for today. There's a fair bit of media news today, most of it involving highbrow New York news startup Capital New York. It's gaining some new staff members and also $1.7 million from an ange ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
What Does Bloomberg Think of Picasso?
New York Observer politics reporter Azi Paybarah brings us all this video of Mayor Bloomberg at a press conference this morning at New York City's Armory Art Show. "To change the topic, any thoughts on Picasso's Blue Period?" asks a reporter from the Paris Review. There's laughter and Bloomberg says ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Mike Bloomberg Hits Third-Term Poll Wall, Still Mum on Pre-Blizzard Whereabouts
Every political pundit gave Mike Bloomberg the same look-out as soon as he said he wanted four more years as mayor: Be careful what you wish for; third terms can be killers. The killing has begun. Today's latest Marist poll shows Bloomberg's approval rating at 37 percent, down 13 points from ... More >>
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December 4, 2010
Carl Paladino Blames the Media in Slightly Batshit, Sore Loser Letter
Carl Paladino was pretty much crushed by Andrew Cuomo in the race for governor of New York, and if you thought he was going to be a gracious failed candidate then you weren't paying attention to any of the campaign. Yesterday, he sounded off about the media in a letter to political journalist ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Nobody's Good Enough for Mayor Bloomberg to Serve Three Terms, Except for Mayor Bloomberg
Remember that time Michael Bloomberg decided he would override the conventional standards in place to avoid politicians usurping too much power by breaking the two term limit on mayors, and run for a third? As it turns out, Mayor Bloomberg thinks the only person good enough to run for three t ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
How Carl Paladino Went From Gay-Basher to Gay-Sympathizer in Less Than 24 Hours
Remember that time New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino said those ugly things about The Gay Population of the World? WNYC reporter Azi Paybarah first reported yesterday Paladino saying that he didn't "want [kids] brainwashed into thinking homosexuality is an equal valid...option." ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
What Does Mayor Bloomberg Think of Paladino's Gay-Bashing?
Earlier today, we looked at the fascinating path Carl Paladino's views on America's gay population have taken over the last day or so. The mayor of our fair city has not, up until this point, weighed in on the various things that make no sense that have come out of Carl Paladino's mouth, like ... More >>
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October 10, 2010
Carl Paladino: Homosexuality is Not an 'Equal, Valid Option'
Amid a flurry of nationwide anti-gay attacks and a sudden, subsequent media awareness, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, Carl Paladino, said on Sunday, "I don't want [kids] brainwashed into thinking homosexuality is an equal valid...option," according to local political repor ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Charlie Rangel's Birthday Party Makes for Easy Attack Ads on Guests (Video)
Less than 24 hours after scandal-plagued Democratic congressman Charles "Charlie" Rangel's birthday party took place, Republican opponents are turning around footage from it for their own attack ads. Target number one? U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, as fired from campaign of her challenger David M ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Charlie Rangel Responds to Barack Obama's "Retire With Dignity" (Video)
Is New York congressman Charlie Rangel great blogging fodder this week, or what? First there was Charlie Rangel talking about Charlie Rangel in the third-person. Earlier this morning, Tom Robbins gave us the scoop on the Rangel news being broken during Rangel's birthday party last night. Late ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Charlie Rangel Finally Speaks Out on "Charlie Rangel" (Audio)
Via WNYC's Azi Paybarah, here's a hysterical interview of Charlie Rangel referring to himself in the third person. Also, who's holding this guy's thesaurus these days? "Scintilla," huh? Even if he's not convicted of ethics fraud, he should still be convicted of sounding ridiculous. He's like ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Capital New York: New York's Newest Media Launch is ALIVE! Kinda. (UPDATED)
Beloved New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson left the paper late last year to go work on a secret, hush-hush project. This was after Jared Kushner -- the son of a disgraced Jersey real-estate scion and now Ivanka Trump's husband -- purchased the legendary pink paper (whose ... More >>
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May 25, 2010
When Rick Lazio Loved Andy Cuomo
By Scott Greenberg Speaking earlier this month about Andrew Cuomo's 1997-2000 tenure at HUD, gubernatorial rival Rick Lazio blasted him: "He was the head of an agency that was the worst-rated agency in the federal government, which is really saying something." That's the exact opposite of what Laz ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg and Germie: Photo of the Day
The folks who are pushing the Paid Sick Leave Bill in the city council sent their representative, Germie, to confront the Mayor outside City Hall today. Bloomberg has vacillated on the issue, even though some Republicans have endorsed it. Maybe once he's washed his hands vigorously, the Mayor will ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Liu and Thompson Tag-Team on Bloomy Bank Accounts
Mike Bloomberg got a taste of the kind of needling he may be getting next month when incoming comptroller John Liu takes office. Yesterday, Liu double-teamed with Bill Thompson to let the Mayor know that they're both a little disturbed that the Bloomberg team somehow lost track of 2,700 bank ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Cherry Jones Calls for "Astounding Mandate" for Bloomberg -- Which is How Much, Exactly?
Actress Cherry Jones -- Tony-winner, and the President on 24 -- told the crowd at a recent Women for Bloomberg rally at the Hammerstein Ballroom that "Mayor Bloomberg deserves not only to be reelected mayor of New York City, he deserves an astounding mandate, because the mayor, and those who ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
Primary Day Continues with Flag-Burning Flyer
Primary Day looks like it's going pretty much as usual -- that is, quietly -- though Azi Paybarah has found this last-minute flyer calling Manhattan city council candidate Ydanis Rodriguez an "anti-American flag burner." Rodriguez, considered the front-runner, has seven opponents and none has ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
Primary Culler: Snyder and Vance Spar in Manhattan D.A. Race; Might Aborn Be the Odd Man In?
The Manhattan D.A. primary race is a big deal; for the first time since 1975, Robert Morgenthau is not in it, and the three contenders are sprinting hard for the finish line: Richard Aborn brought back former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and a chainsaw attack victim for his "closing argum ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
Holder's CIA Investigation Unleashes Rightblogger Rage Over 9/11, Marc Rich
Attorney General Eric Holder is going to do a "preliminary review" of the CIA to see if any of the techniques their operatives used on detainees -- which the Inspector General's report reveals included threats to rape the detainees' female relatives in front of them and kill their children, m ... More >>
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August 14, 2009
Barrett: Recalling When Mr. Tough-Guy Bloomberg Wasn't Too Tough to Purchase DC 37's Endorsement
Kissing union butt in 2005Mike Bloomberg is now boldly declaring that he "will not make irresponsible promises to win an endorsement," the tough-guy-standing-up-for-taxpayers stance he's using to explain why the largest municipal union, 125,000-member District Council 37, endorsed his opponent, Dem ... More >>
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August 10, 2009
Thompson Said to Be DC 37's Choice
Looks like Bill Thompson's getting a break in his race of mayor: Liz Benjamin says he's rumored to have the DC 37 endorsement locked up. That's the city's largest municipal workers union, whose name came up last week when the city council, like the Mayor's office, followed their example by raising ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
New York Press' Roommate Buying Ads for Mike Bloomberg (Updated)
If you were wondering why there are so many Mike Bloomberg campaign ads in the New York Press*, here's a clue: the man who runs Manhattan Media, which owns that paper and other such like including Our Town, now also has a business called Madison Square Partners operating out of Manhattan Medi ... More >>
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August 4, 2009
Cy Vance-Spitzer Fundraiser, Seen to "Overshadow" Issues, Cancelled (Updated)
We thought this was a great idea: a Cy Vance fundraiser hosted by Eliot Spitzer. What synergy! The Manhattan D.A. candidate has a famous name, albeit mostly thanks to his father, the former Secretary of State; so does Spitzer, for various reasons. Alas, it not to be: the event, scheduled fo ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
de Blasio Petition Crisis Settled; Gerson (and now Jackson!) Still Waiting
The petition problems of Bill de Blasio (pictured) have been settled with the Board of Elections and he's back on the Democratic primary ballot for the public advocate nomination. No word yet about councilmember Alan Gerson, whose petition rejection we announced earlier and whose case is supposed to ... More >>
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June 30, 2009
City Council Honors Michael Jackson, White People Walk Out
Today the city council held a moment of silence for Michael Jackson and councilmembers Inez Dickens and Helen Diane Foster gave the King of Pop a nice tribute, but just as things got underway several members walked out. Staten Island's James Oddo confirmed to Azi Paybarah that he walked out in resp ... More >>

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