Subject: Christine Quinn

• Friendly Fencing From Speaker Seekers

  November 18, 2005

• In Like Quinn

  January 3, 2006

• Breakfast with George McGovern

  June 6, 2006

• Monserrate Rides to the Rescue of NYC Pedicabs

  April 9, 2007

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

  April 24, 2007

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

  June 11, 2007

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

  April 2, 2008

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

  April 7, 2008

• Bloomy's Dubious 'Most Honest' Award

  April 14, 2008

• City Council Scorecard: Two Indictments and an Ongoing Investigation

  April 16, 2008

• Underdog Mayoral Hopeful Tony Avella on Quinn, Bloomberg and Obama

  June 5, 2008

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

  October 13, 2008

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

  October 13, 2008

• Thousands Rally, TV Star Comes Out for Marriage Equality

  November 17, 2008

• Two Still Up to Challenge Christine Quinn

  November 21, 2008

• Bushwick Rallies Against Hate Crimes

  December 15, 2008

• Avella, Quinn Square Off on 80th Birthday Proclamation

  Rafael Martinez Alequin, the citizen journalist last seen here getting roughed up by Pedro Espada's buddies, has obtained some hilarious correspondence regarding councilmember and mayoral candidate Tony Avella and council speaker Christine Quinn. (If Alequin's scans are broken, you can see them here and here.) Avella wanted the council to issue a harmless proclamation honoring Doris Diether of Community Board 2 on her 80th birthday. But apparently the speaker, who'd had problems with Avella

  January 15, 2009

• 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 4.25 percent; those making $532,000 to $1.2 million would go to 4.45 percent, and those earning $1.2 million and above will go to 4.65 percent. The idea is to raise $1 billion and obviate a planned sa

  February 12, 2009

• 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, along with State Senator Liz Krueger and others, say they're going to propose legislation to get rid of the income tax.That would mean an extra $320 dollars a year for a whole lot of us -- but it would al

  February 18, 2009

• 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 thing for some time, though for obvious reasons none of our gamer friends ever talk about it. Apparently Amazon was selling Rapelay, though, which led to outrage from Christine Quinn and others, and then

  February 24, 2009

• Will Christine Quinn Stand Up to Commissioner Kelly?

  Two probable mayoral candidates have some unfinished business about school thugs

  February 26, 2008

• Christine Quinn's Half-Billion-Dollar Secret

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

  April 22, 2008

• Talk Ain't Cheap

  October 3, 2006

• You're Fired

  January 23, 2007

• Reader: Tom Ford's a Talentless Pimp

  May 22, 2007

• Pedicabs Don't Work with Big Wheels

  September 25, 2007

• Influence Peddlers

  February 21, 2006

• The Hate Report

  September 29, 1998

• Life After Duane

  February 9, 1999

• Letters

  February 23, 1999

• Widening the Net

  May 14, 2002

• Council Orgy

  November 22, 2005

• Slumlord Showdown

  April 10, 2007

• Hack Attack

  May 15, 2007

• 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 Gleason. The former cop, fireman, and coast guard reservist is on leave from his law practice, where he does "a tremendous amount of pro bono work." Called the the council's discretionary/slush funds an

  April 3, 2009

• 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 least the eastern part; as City Planning does its thing, the council is expected to get to the western part later this year. Developers have come and gone from the project, but Related Companies has hung

  April 3, 2009

• The City Council's Big Slush Hush

  Quinn, Bloomberg, Thompson are still hiding the pork

  April 15, 2008

• Council Priorities

  January 17, 2006

• 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 Reform Democratic Club's nomination meeting. "If you're asking me to say I'm 100 percent committed to picking a Democrat, I'm not going to do that," she added.Quinn made her no-commitment pledge in re

  April 17, 2009

• 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 landlords involved in such a forgiving enterprise might consider us anyway. Alas, the listings look a little sketchy. Several under "New York County," while attractively priced, seem to be somewhere else

  May 5, 2009

• 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 carriages from the city, accuses Quinn of overweening political ambition and turning her back on the city's gay and lesbian community. "Until this, I respected her and admired her," says Moss, a resident of Q

  June 8, 2009

• 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 City Hall has begun a major push to cut taxes for city corporations by $2.7 billion over the next decade, a gift that could eventually be worth more than half a billion dollars a year to city business

  June 8, 2009

• 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 said Quinn could "kiss my ass." We speculate that Thompson was distracted by the finger sandwiches. PolitickerNY has the tape, which reveals the source of Kavanagh-Dowsett's rage: the tripling of Tea

  July 31, 2009

• 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 signatures to put Quinn on the ballot in District 3, which spans from Soho to Hell's Kitchen. It turns out that many in Quinn's touted group of dedicated volunteers have a strong personal interest in her

  August 20, 2009

• 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 mentioned assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries' plan to turn 65 Brooklyn condos into moderate-income dwelling or homeless facilities. The Times gets to that today, and also to an alternate plan from the New York

  September 1, 2009

• 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 assistant to the provost for faculty development at Baruch College, a guitarist who as a young man played in a rock band in Liverpool, and a longtime residents of Lower East Side housing projects; he spe

  September 9, 2009

• 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 many as 18 new faces in the council, compared with when she was elected speaker in 2006 (that includes the departure of councilmembers like Mike McMahon, who was elected to congress in 2008, as well as

  September 16, 2009

• 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 2010: the first majority of minority council members. And if Quinn faces a minority challenger for speaker, there's one white vote she can't count on should the selection break down on color lines. Th

  September 18, 2009

• 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 bus trips which will be leaving from all over the city. Groups as varied as Broadway Impact, Marriage Equality New York, schools and churches have also chartered buses to attend the largest ever gay

  October 9, 2009

• 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 phone Thursday afternoon, pointing out that the speaker and the chairs of the two most powerful committees, land use and finance, have been "exclusively white." Barron says that others have told him

  November 5, 2009