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Subway Commuters Should Expect a Repeat of Thursday's Long Lines on Friday and Possible Delays for "Next Several Years"

"This is bullshit," a Hispanic twenty-something said. Fidgeting, he looked at the subway entrance, then to his phone, then down the block to the ever-growing line of tired commuters, then back to his phone. "It's my girl's birthday. I'm supposed to go see her." He took one last glance toward the ent ... More >>

For-Profit Colleges Only a Con Man Could Love

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice

The world-renowned composer is still a neighborhood staple

This Week in the Voice: Tracking Down the City's Moonshiners

​This week in the Voice, Lauren Shockey tracks down the moonshiners of New York City so she can sample their wares. After she sips moonshine with Lance, a young college professor in Brooklyn who makes shine in his spare time, Shockey explores the trend that moonshining has become in recent yea ... More >>

Bloomberg View Gathers All-Star Roster of White Males

​Bloomberg View, the forthcoming editorial page at Bloomberg News -- under the umbrella of the media and data company Bloomberg L.P., founded and owned by Michael Bloomberg, New York City's three-term billionaire mayor -- has finally released its list of high-powered editorial board members and co ... More >>

Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert Leaves New York Times as Departures Continue Before Paywall

​A New York Times veteran of nearly two decades, Bob Herbert is leaving the Op-Ed page, the paper announced in a memo on Friday. Saturday will be his last column. Herbert's resignation comes in the wake of Frank Rich's departure for New York magazine after nearly three-decades in various roles ... More >>

Will the New York Times Paywall Be a 'Wasteland' For Writers? It's Coming Soon!

​The New York Times had a big, important meeting today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, in which the people in charge talked about how the business side is going. For most everyone that reads the paper, the discussion is boring beyond belief. ("The improvement in p ... More >>

Michael Psilakis Expounds Upon the Economy, Fish, Headaches

It's a slow news week, so slow that Bloomberg TV's Surveillance Today decided to dip its little toe into the roiling waters of the restaurant world. Yesterday, host Tom Keene invited Michael Psilakis onto his show, and after introducing him as "the Mario Batali of Greek American cuisine," asked t ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Foundation Growing -- in Cayman Islands

​Mike Bloomberg's idea of charity still stops at U.S. taxpayers. The latest filings for the mega-foundation run by New York's richest resident shows that he pumped a whopping $420 million last year into his do-gooder operation - cue the cheers! -- while parking $75 million in offshore tax have ... More >>

Al Sharpton Attacks Rush Limbaugh, the Last White Guy He Isn't In Bed With

​Thank God for Rush Limbaugh. So long as he's calling George Steinbrenner a "cracker" who "made a lot of African-Americans millionaires," there's still a white guy with power in America that Al Sharpton is free to attack. So yesterday, "Silent Al" found his voice and called Rush "repugnant." ... More >>

NYC Media Stonewalls Council on Hiring Questions

Jumaane Williams​Part of the ritual of every City Council hearing is the "we'll get back to you" response by city officials on the hot seat who are stuck for an answer. That was the steady refrain more than two months ago when the two top officials of NYC Media, the city's TV station (yes, the ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Aide is Key Witness in Campaign Cash Probe

​Mayor Bloomberg and his campaign are not -- repeat NOT -- targets of the criminal probe of the mysterious $750,000 in Bloomy bucks routed to an Independence Party consultant in last fall's election. But isn't it interesting, as reported today, that the mayor's special assistant, one Allison J ... More >>

A-Rod's Winning New Strategy: Collect on Your Debtors, the Texas Rangers

​How's A-Rod doing this season? Well, you know, he's batting .291, having produced 29 runs and 48 hits out of 165 at-bats. Could be worse, but as they say: "It's early." Even better, however, is the other strategy he's employing against rival teams (and we're not talking about his fielding abi ... More >>

Bloomberg Roots for Wall Street

The Mayor remembers the Titans, at any cost

Citigroup Plans to Raise Executive Salaries Up To 50%

​According to Bloomberg News, Citigroup Inc., which got $45 billion dollars in bailout money from the federal government, will be raising the base salaries of their investment bankers and traders as much as 50%. Citigroup's market value dropped 84% in the past year.

New York Noise Update from NYC Media: 'If You Liked Our Music-Video Show So Much, Why Don't You Make It Yourself?'

Been publicly tracking the dispiriting, and unexplained, departure of NYC-TV's terrific local music show New York Noise for over a month now, along with monitoring the "Bring Back New York Noise" citizen petition and the Facebook group that's 747 members strong (including yours truly) full of comm ... More >>

Robert De Niro Gets (Some of) Dad's Paintings Back from Art Scamster; Other Creditors Get Auction

You may remember that last year, art dealer Lawrence Salander was indicted for scamming a lot of rich and famous people out of tens of millions of dollars -- including Robert De Niro, whose father's paintings, it was alleged, Salander sold without permission and without paying the actor his cut. T ... More >>

Sex in Bathrooms and Other Celebrity Blind Items!

Your one-stop shopping spot for the finest in blind gossip.

Rupert Murdoch: Won't Die Until WSJ Quenches Thirst for Sulzberger Milkshake with $100K Coffee

​ Good Media Magnate Monday Morning! screams New York's website with media reporter Gabriel Sherman's deliriously fun cover story of an old, cranky, combative, elbows-out Rupert Murdoch who basically wants to destroy the New York Times with his most recent purchase, the Wall Street Journal, be ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Deposition In FDNY Discrimination Case: Highlights of Obfuscation

​The two places that men reveal their inner selves, the adage goes, are behind a steering wheel and on a basketball court. All that contained aggressiveness grandstands to the surface. For Mayor Mike, though, who neither duels with taxis nor elbows under a hoop, it is apparently depositions ... More >>

The Reinvention of Andrew Cuomo

A Prince of Darkness turns White Knight

No, seriously? Jay Leno to host White House Correspondent's Dinner

​At first blush, it looks like a pretty damn edgy move for the White House Correspondents' Association to choose Jay Leno, the current supervillain of late night, to speak at their dinner this year. They even announced it on the day of Conan's last show. You forget, this is the White House C ... More >>

Bloomberg's NYC-TV Boss to Pay $5K Fine

City conflict of interest officials yesterday rendered their verdict on the misdeeds of the former top executive at the city's own television station. The penalty for ex-NYC TV general manager Arick Wierson who copped to using city workers for his many personal computer needs and heavily co-minglin ... More >>

New York's Community-Labor Divide

A nasty split as the Council finally bucks the mayor

Giuliani beats the 9/11 drums

​The baseball season is over, and both Michelle Obama and prominent example of his terror-fighting judgment Bernie Kerik stepped on whatever good press Rudy Giuliani might have gotten from his sweet World Series seats. So what's a putative gubernatorial candidate to do for a little free media? ... More >>

Barrett: Just How Strange and Pathetic was Bloomberg's Victory?

​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 the company take stock and make real changes? Bloomberg spent $80 million in 2005 and won by 19 p ... More >>

Barrett: Builder Blamed In Firefighter Deaths Is Building Bill Thompson's Wife's Museum

​Bovis Lend Lease, the contractor whose admitted failings contributed to the deaths of two firefighters at the Deutsche Bank fire in 2007, is building the $180 million museum and condo project on Fifth Avenue spearheaded by Elsie McCabe, the wife of mayoral candidate and Comptroller Bill Thomp ... More >>

Guilty Plea Expected By Ex-Bloomberg City TV Exec

​A former top exec at the city's television station is expected to plead guilty this afternoon to looting some $60,000 in ad revenues due the city. It's hardly the biggest ripoff by a municipal employee, but what makes Trevor Scotland's appearance today a 'matter of interest' - as the Manhatta ... More >>

The Mayor's Press Pass

The unexamined world of Mike Bloomberg

Stuy Town Owners Back in Court to Defend Jacked-Up Rents

After nearly three years of veritable civil war between two powerful real estate executives and thousands of tenants, the owners of the historic downtown residential complexes, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, will appear in court again today. Landlords Jerry and Rob Speyer, and their part ... More >>

Barrett: Bloomberg All Fired Up for Builder Bovis

 By Wayne Barrett and Lucy JordanThe Voice's cover story this week, "Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal--the Deutsche Bank Fire--Should Be His Downfall" -- examined the determination of top city officials, including Bloomberg's longtime top deputy Dan Doctoroff, to ignore the risk of installing Bovis ... More >>

Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal—The Deutsche Bank Fire—Should Be His Downfall. Why Isn't It?

The Bloomberg Dilemma: Favorite? Or Just No Obvious Alternative?

Being for the mayor while against him

Times Spreads Slander that Bloomberg is Rich, Favors Rich People

Because he's so rich and popular, local news outlets can only gently hint that our Mayor's interests may not entirely coincide with those of ordinary New Yorkers. A ripe example is the item in today's Times that shows Bloomberg's strong public support for rich losers like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon ... More >>

Daily Flog: Wall Street's broken brokers go for broke; McCain's lie is buried by meltdown news

Daily Flog: Edwards, faux Rockefeller both screwed; Olympic preening; a gated NYC; Bush's pardons list; defense of high gas prices

TABLOIDED: Barack Obama's "Cheesy" Wisconsin Victory and Fidel Castro's Retirement

Polls Shoved Down Our Throats

Bloomberg: Piranha or Pariah? In or Out?

Morning Report 1/23/06
Going Nuclear

Morning Report 9/29/05
You Don't Know Jack

Ooze Travels Fast

Campaign and Caviar

Bloomberg's wealthy-and-above-suspicion argument? Too rich.

The Jets' End Run

Will Bloomberg and Pataki spend billions without legislative approval?

Pay Your Share

Out-of-Towners, Stock Speculators, Unions Must Ante Up in Fiscal Crisis

Compromises, Compromises

Bitterness Pervades Former 'NLJ' Staffers

Rich Man, Poor People

The Billionaire Mayor and the Income Gap

Mayor’s Choice

Bloomberg Backs a Bold New Abortion-Training Plan

Bloomberg Radio

How Black Talk Jocks Sold ‘We Like Mike’ to African Americans

Scouts Dis-Honor

Antigay Policy Could End City and Corporate Support