Subject:

Charles Schumer

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Local Pols Say Federal Government is Getting in the Way of NYC's First Outdoor Film Studio *UPDATED*

    New York City is oh so very close to being a better city for film and television than Hollywood -- if the federal government would just get out of the damn way! At least that was the message today on the corner of 36th Street in Astoria, Queens, where Sen. Chuck Schumer, flanked by relevant neighb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    Obama, Schumer and the Student Loan Armaggedon

    Over 7 million students receive some sort of subsidized student loan from the U.S. federal government. That is a ton of debt and it's getting larger every year: eclipsing credit cards and car loans, the figure right now stands at around $870 billion nationally. And, on July 1st, it could double ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2012

    Senator Schumer Ramps Up His Crusade Against Pill Thieves

    Watch out, drug store cowboys.After a bloody shootout at an East Harlem pharmacy last week, Senator Charles Schumer is stepping up the rhetoric for his Safe Doses Act, a bill he wrote that is currently crawling through the Senate.The legislation would increase the penalties for drug store robberies ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    GOP Convention Underway: Meet Your "Extreme" Candidates For Senate Right Here

    ​New York's GOP convention kicked off today in Rochester, and state Dems are using the occasion to sling a little mud at the three Republican candidates for Senate -- and by "mud," we mean facts.Three GOP hopefuls for the Senate seat held by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are Manhattan attorney Wendy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Sen. Chuck Schumer Wants to Stop TSA's Inappropriate Behavior

    You know how annoying it is when you have to take off your shoes and your belt at the airport and then security touches you, and you just feel kind of uncomfortable? Well, Sen. Chuck Schumer feels your pain, and he hopes to make it a lot easier for passengers to complain. With a new legislation pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Charles Schumer Proposes No-Ride List for Trains

    ​It's been a busy couple days in train news, what with the PATH and Second Avenue subway tunnel breaches, plus that mishap on the PATH that injured 30. There's also a new call from Senator Charles Schumer to increase rail security, which comes after reports that Osama Bin Laden may have been p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    On Gay Rights, Barack Obama Fights the Bad Fight

    Barack Obama has tried to walk a fine line between talking LGBT rights and not doing much about it, and some gays and lesbians have given him a pass on not going on the offense on their behalf during a time of two wars and a comatose economy. But the dwindling LGBT support the president has is pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Photos: Jelly NYC Pool Party Kick-Off 2010

    all photos Sam HorineChuck Schumer with the JellyNYC gang, Sarah Hooper and Alexander Kane. Full gallery from Sunday's first Pool Party here. The line-up announcement for this season's slew of Jelly NYC Pool Parties wasn't quite as mercilessly drawn out as Big Boi's solo record, but it certainly fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Midtown Immigrant Rights Protesters Reveal the Most Important Ingredients of an Ongoing Hunger Strike

    ​Ten young men and women are starving outside of Senator Chuck Schumer's Midtown office. They've gone without food for 9 days and counting to pressure Schumer to support and speed up the (often ridiculously long and involved) bureaucratic process to pass the Dream Act bill, which would allow i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2010

    Chuck Schumer Is a Congressional Hipster, the Senator Repping Williamsburg

    ​There is no arguing that Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is a fucking hipster. But is there anything of substance to speak of behind those thick frames, perhaps an Etsy account or a collection of rare 7" records? She certainly has nothing to do with the free concerts ("Pool Parties") tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Why Chuck Schumer Saved the Jelly Pool Parties

    The crowd at the last Pool Party of the summer, 2009. Photo by Sam Horine​So why did one of the most powerful senators in the United States intervene to save a free concert series in Brooklyn? Writes Ben Sisario in the New York Times:

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!

    Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Barrett: Larry Kudlow Sniffs Around For More Political Power

    ​On the heels of Scott Brown's big win, Larry Kudlow, the CNBC rudderless anchor, is apparently considering a senate run against New York's Chuck Schumer, pushed by GOP and Tea Party allies and admirers. It would make Schumer the only incumbent known to be facing two reformed cokeheads in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Chuck Schumer and Ben Nelson Go Hunting, Bring Back Health Care Reform

    ​Politico has an interesting piece about a hunting trip Senator Schumer took with Senator Ben Nelson in Nebraska last month. They note that the trip went surprisingly well, given how poorly political hunting trips can turn out for Democrats (and Republicans, too). When we heard that the Brook ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2009

    City to cover (some) revoked Section 8 vouchers

    New York's Department of Homeless Services has announced plans to cover, at least temporarily, the cost of more than half of the $800 housing vouchers the city announced plans to default on yesterday. Homeless Services Commissioner Rob Hess says that the city will cover immediate rent costs for 1, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Less-Rich Victims of Bernie Madoff May Also Get Tax Breaks As Chuck Schumer Burnishes Own Image

    Madoff left even smaller investors in the lurch.Saying he wants to help some of the not-so-rich victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Senator Chuck Schumer today unveiled a proposed change in the tax code to give so-called indirect investors some of the tax breaks that wealthier, direct investors ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Week in Review: Like a Sexy Swedish Chick in a Natural Mineral Sauna

    Yup, this photo was taken in 2009, by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week Chuck Schumer became a bike-riding, Williamsburg Pool Party-saving hipster man of the people, we roamed far and wide over his most precious borough, from an Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to the very likely defunct N8 to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Grizzly Bear Was Also At Grizzly Bear's Williamsburg Waterfront Pool Party

    Sam HorineHey, look, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste went to that Jay-Z show yesterday in Williamsburg. ​A whole summer's worth of Jelly NYC Pool Parties on the Williamsburg waterfront took a bow yesterday, as Grizzly Bear, Beach House, and Vega played the final Sunday of the 2009 series. Solange Kno ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    The Sotomayor hearings commenced with protesters. Chuck Schumer did his bit. Lindsey Graham copped out, or so the rightwingers said -- so he hassled Sonia on her temperament. Jeff Sessions tried to get cute. A rightwing Representative and a "flaming liberal" discussed the case amicably. Finally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8: Gay Marriage Still Banned

    The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8, the anti-gay-marriage law passed last November. The vote was 6-1. The justices ruled the approximately 18,000 Californians married to members of their own gender during the brief window between the legalization and criminalization of marriage e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Massa, Schumer Force Time Warner to Drop Tiered Internet Pricing

    We mentioned Monday that Congressman Eric Massa (pictured) has been pushing a bill to outlaw tiered internet service, inspired by Time Warner Cable's attempt to introduce higher rates for heavy users in Rochester, New York, part of Massa's district, and two other jurisdictions. It looks as if Time W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    New Moynihan Train Station Getting Closer

    Moynihan Station projection from the Municipal Art Society. Remember that Moynihan Station people have been trying for years to put at the site of the Farley Post Office at 34th Street? The project that's supposed to restore some of the glory eradicated when the old, beautiful Penn Station was des ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Stimulus for Atlantic Yards? New Depression Suggests Not

    New York state will get some kind of stimulus money, but as a final bill hasn't been written yet, sources vary on how much assistance we'll get. Newsday says "at least" $20.5 billion; the Times says "more than $21 billion." The Jamestown Post-Journal says "$12.6 Billion in Direct Budget Relief," r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Poll: NYC Mixed on Gillibrand, Negative On Her Gun Stand

    NY1's new city poll suggests that New Yorkers aren't sure about Kirsten Gillibrand. Her approve/ disapprove/ don't-know split is 34/36/30. But she would certainly have done better if her gun-friendliness were not so well-known: while 18 percent said it made them more less likely to support her, 37 p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Wayne Barrett: Is Gillibrand Too Republican to Replace Clinton?

    Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 23, 2008

    When Is Obama Going to Start Talking About Bush's 'Dark Side'?

    Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Daily Flog: Lennon killer gets laid regularly and Edwards doesn't, Russia rips Georgia, China rips U.S., Con Ed rips us off

    Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2008

    The Mourning After: More Tim Russert Coverage

    Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2007

    Schumer, Levine Rally for Ball Field Vendors

    Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    April 3, 2007

    A Different Kind of U.S. Attorney Scandal

    Or, how to stay in the good graces of Karl Rove

  • News

    March 6, 2007

    Letters

    Or, how to stay in the good graces of Karl Rove

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2006

    Crunch Week for Immigrant Groups

    Or, how to stay in the good graces of Karl Rove

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2005

    Chuck & Hil Back Freddy

    Or, how to stay in the good graces of Karl Rove

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Senator Hillary becomes a 9-11 hero, centrist chameleon, and Iraq hawk

  • News

    June 8, 2004

    Untrue Confessions

    Senator Hillary becomes a 9-11 hero, centrist chameleon, and Iraq hawk

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Gang Planks

    Pols Push Tougher Policing for City's Gang Problem

  • News

    March 25, 2003

    New York's Bush League Democrats

    From Hillary on Down, Pro-War Pols Expect to Pay No Price

  • News

    February 11, 2003

    The Facts: Schumer v. Pickering

    Glaring Racial Insensitivity?

  • News

    February 26, 2002

    Pataki Patronage

    The Guv's Attempt to Name a Prosecutor Lays Bare His Own Scandal

  • News

    December 1, 1998

    That Girl

    New York Senator Hillary Clinton?

  • News

    November 17, 1998

    Autopsy on Alfonse

    A Look at the Real Numbers in '98 Sweepstakes

  • News

    November 10, 1998

    Slur Blur

    The Bandito Was A Gunman

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    D'Amato's Final Days

    Oy! is foul-mouthed Fonz headed for a fall?

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    Money Talks

    Well-heeled incumbents heavily favored in city congressional races

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    Absentee Al

    D'Amato Missed 966 Votes When He First Ran for Senate

  • News

    October 27, 1998

    Good For The Gays?

    A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

  • News

    October 27, 1998

    Needs Sleep

    A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

  • News

    September 15, 1998

    The Ubiquitous Candidate

    In the final days of the primary, Chuck Schumer is everywhere

  • News

    September 15, 1998

    On the Mark

    Green's populist campaign appeals to Hollywood and Harlem

  • News

    June 9, 1998

    Becoming 'Dem-ato'

    Schumer Morphs Into Alfonse: Fires Assault Weapon at Green, and Praises His Own Miss

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