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In Like Quinn

Breakfast with George McGovern

Monserrate Rides to the Rescue of NYC Pedicabs

Pedicab Smackdown: City Council Defies Bloomberg, Reins in 'Green Transport'

Matt Dillon, Patron Saint of St. Brigid's?

Tony Avella is Mad as Hell (And Running for Mayor)

Bloomberg Administration, Council Speaker Quinn on Congestion Pricing's Defeat

Bloomy's Dubious 'Most Honest' Award

City Council Scorecard: Two Indictments and an Ongoing Investigation

Underdog Mayoral Hopeful Tony Avella on Quinn, Bloomberg and Obama

Quinn Backs Bloomberg on Term Limits; Blogs Say, Hell No

Curtis Sliwa Blasts Bloomberg's 3rd Term, Quinn's Orange Hair

Thousands Rally, TV Star Comes Out for Marriage Equality

Two Still Up to Challenge Christine Quinn

Liveblogging Quinn's State of the City: Cuts, Tax the Rich, Not Sales

At her upcoming State of the City speech, which she is expected to bellow at any moment, Council Speaker Christine Quinn is expected to propose an income tax hike on richer New Yorkers, says Liz Benjamin. Citizens making between $297,000 and $532,000 would see their rate rise from 3.683 percent to ... More >>

A City Income Tax Cut?

About 700,000 city residents live in households that earn less than $45,000 a year. Those households aren't required to pay state or federal income tax, but they still have to pay income tax in the city.Looking for ways to stimulate spending in a recession, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, alon ... More >>

Rape Game Stirs Outrage, Insane Rightwing Column

Over in Japan, they have this video game where you chase a woman and her two daughters and try to rape them. To make matters worse, it's not called "Jackson County Jail" or "Abu Ghraib Fantasy" or anything like that but, rather coldly, "Rapelay." Something Awful and others have known about this thi ... More >>

Will Christine Quinn Stand Up to Commissioner Kelly?

Two probable mayoral candidates have some unfinished business about school thugs

Christine Quinn's Half-Billion-Dollar Secret

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Talk Ain't Cheap

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

You're Fired

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Reader: Tom Ford's a Talentless Pimp

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Pedicabs Don't Work with Big Wheels

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Influence Peddlers

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

The Hate Report

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Life After Duane

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Council Orgy

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Slumlord Showdown

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Hack Attack

Another hefty chunk of taxpayer-funded projects that council leaders would rather not discuss

Candidates for Council, Comptroller, DA Pitch at VID

Democratic candidates for city council seats in districts 1, 2, and 3, district attorney, and comptroller came to the Village Independent Democrats last night to make their cases, under strict time limits and with screened questioning, for the venerable club's endorsement. In District 1: Pete Gle ... More >>

Council Clears Part of West Side Rail Yards Plan

Along with the clinic access bill, protecting patients and medical personnel at abortion clinics, passage of which Christine Quinn bragged on at the VID meeting yesterday, the council yesterday also cleared the way for a $15 billion business and housing complex in the West Side Rail Yards -- at leas ... More >>

The City Council's Big Slush Hush

Quinn, Bloomberg, Thompson are still hiding the pork

Council Priorities

Quinn, Bloomberg, Thompson are still hiding the pork

Democratic Mayoral Candidate Shouldn't Count on Chris Quinn's Backing

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told a Democratic Party club in her home base of Chelsea last night that she's not about to pledge to back her own party's mayoral nominee -- whoever it is. "When the Democratic primary is all said and done I will choose one candidate," she told the Chelsea ... More >>

Allegedly Good Rental Market Drives Us to Section 8 Housing

We continue to lament that, despite all the news about falling rents, there seem to be few affordable apartments available. That's why we were so excited to learn about We Take Section 8. True, we are not eligible for the New York emergency housing program -- not yet, anyway -- but we figured land ... More >>

Donny Moss Takes Aim at Christine Quinn in Short Film

Whoa! Documentary film maker and animal rights advocate Donny Moss really lets City Council Speaker Christine Quinn have it in a short video he has posted on YouTube.In the 10 minute piece, Moss, 37, the maker of a film called "Blinders," which documents the failed effort to ban horse-drawn carriage ... More >>

Bloomberg, Quinn Seek Billions in Breaks for Businesses

You might think that the middle of a recession spawned by massive corporate malfeasance wouldn't be the best time to propose a giant tax break for corporations. But then, if you're Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn, you might not. Crain's reports today that the dynamic duo of ... More >>

Bloomberg Shops Tape of Man Calling Christine Quinn a "Whore" in Front of Bill Thompson

We see Mayor Bloomberg is getting serious about his election campaign. The Post says his operatives sent them a tape of Bill Thompson not reacting when the co-owner of the delightful West Village Brit boite Tea and Sympathy called Christine Quinn a "whore." Restauranteur Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett also s ... More >>

Speaker Quinn Pads Campaign Staff with Council Staffers

In Mid-July, Jan Messerschmidt, the manager of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's re-election campaign, sent out a letter to supporters. In just over a month, Messerschmidt bragged, the campaign's "more than 90 volunteers" had logged thousands of door-to-door man hours, garnering enough signatu ... More >>

New Idea for Ghost Condos: Developer Grants to House Families Making About $100K

The Bloomberg Administration has been talking lately about what to do with moribund condos left under-tenanted and sometimes unfinanced in the recession -- what Christine Quinn called the "tarnished trophies" of the late boom. Some have been opened to the homeless. Last week Elizabeth Dwoskin mentio ... More >>

Primary Culler: Incumbents Stay Strong in Council Districts 2 and 3

​In City Council Districts 2 and 3, incumbents have much more of a lock than Alan Gerson does in District 1. In the former, first-termer Rosie Mendez built the right connections as a district leader, makes meetings, and has all the big endorsements. Her challenger Juan Pagan (pictured) is ass ... More >>

Barrett: Quinn's Surprisingly Weak Victory

​Council Speaker Christine Quinn's unimpressive win in her Chelsea district, garnering only 52 percent of the vote in a three-person race, has raised questions in many minds about whether she'll be able to hang on to her leadership post when the 51 members vote next January. There may be as ma ... More >>

Election Shake Up, Continued

​By Grace Smith At the start of her historic third term as council member, Christine Quinn will seek re-election to speaker. But the council she'll be trying to sway will look substantially different. Two days ago, Wayne Barrett pointed out another likely historic council moment for January 2 ... More >>

City To Be Less Gay This Weekend

​Expect the city to be a little less gay this weekend. Thousands of gay and lesbian New Yorkers will be heading out of town to attend the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and presumptive incoming Queens City Councilman Danny Drom have organized ... More >>

Barron To Run for Speaker?

​By Grace Smith "I would be an excellent speaker," Charles Barron, the Democratic councilman from Brooklyn said today, and if another person of color doesn't run against Christine Quinn in January, he will. "We need someone to be a check on the Mayor, not a deputy mayor," he said over the ... More >>

Crime Beat: Don't Shoot! I'm the New York City Council Speaker!

Trigger-unhappy council chief Christine Quinn demonstrates the wrong way to shoot your spouse. You know the holiday shopping season is in full gear when politicians step to the podium to rail against realistic-looking toy guns. Council Speaker Christine Quinn is the one not being realistic. Get a ... More >>

Broadway Triangle Rezoning Blocked

On Monday the city council approved a rezoning plan for the Broadway Triangle in North Brooklyn that would move out several small manufacturing businesses to make way for affordable housing units. Yesterday a judge blocked the plan over the objections of the district's councilman, David Yassky, an ... More >>

Barron Snares a Vote for Council Speaker

Brooklyn city councilman Charles Barron launched a long-shot campaign for City Council Speaker this afternoon and it was a one-man, one-vote affair: 48 votes for incumbent speaker Christine Quinn; one vote - Barron's own - for Barron. Still, the Nehru-suited Barron pulled no punches. He was running, ... More >>

Barrett: John Liu Names a Deputy Comptroller, Simcha Felder, Who Has Some Explaining To Do About His Views on Christine Quinn's Lesbianism

Given Simcha Felder's non-votes on Quinn, is he the best choice for deputy comptroller?​John Liu's announcement last week that he was appointing Brooklyn city councilman Simcha Felder to the post of deputy comptroller has stirred no controversy. Yet Felder is so out of step with Liu on gay and ... More >>