Christine Quinn

Friendly Fencing From Speaker Seekers

In Like Quinn

Breakfast with George McGovern

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)

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

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

The Nightlife Summit didn't solve every club owner's problems, but it's an overdue start

Life After Duane

Four Candidates Vie for 'the Gay Seat'

Council Orgy

Erasing term limits and contribution caps amid a speaker battle

Slumlord Showdown

Mayoral wannabe Chris Quinn treads cautiously in housing fight

Hack Attack

A disbarred lawyer wins a patronage job with Christine Quinn's council

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

The new City Council Speaker doles out some surprising assignments

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Christine Quinn Weighs the Possibility of a Fast-Food Ban

iboy daniel/FlickrKinda sums it all up.​This hasn't been the best week for our nation's fast food chains: Yesterday, President Obama signed the new health care bill, which included legislation requiring any restaurant with at least 20 outlets to post nutritional information on their menus. Rig ... More >>

Want to See a McDonald's Get Submerged by Flood Waters?

SUPERFLEX The consequences of capitalism are wet and wild.​ If, like Christine Quinn, you've always dreamed of seeing a fast-food restaurant get slowly swallowed by rising flood waters, here's your chance: for three more days, Chelsea's Peter Blum gallery is presenting SUPERFLEX: Flooded McDon ... More >>

Subway to Send More 'Undercover Bosses' to Stores; Carnival Cruise Line Denies Serving Spam

​A Subway executive who recently appeared on the CBS show Undercover Boss has called for more upper management to go into stores to see how they work. [Nation's Restaurant News] City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is calling out Mayor Bloomberg for a policy that forces people who receive foo ... More >>

City Council Rethinks Alternate Side Parking

​Having a car in the city can be trying at the least, because not only do you have to navigate the traffic on a daily basis, but even when you're not driving the car you still have to move it to make way for street-cleaning services. Lucky for car owners, life might be getting much sweeter. Ne ... More >>

The Observer Names The 50 Most Powerful Gays In NYC

Christine Quinn, who came in at #1​A reporter from that other weekly paper recently called me, and in the course of the conversation, he asked if I'd be amenable to being on the list. I replied, "Sure, I love being on lists." But then he got to work trying to pick my brain about which real e ... More >>

I Made Christine Quinn Laugh

​It can't be easy being City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the powerful lesbian who runs around making speeches and pushing things forward. But at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Post Pride bash the other night, I gave Quinn a light moment.

TMI On Prune Chef's Affair; What the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Eating

​Government officials will not be asking food companies to remove cartoon characters from their ads and packages. [ABC News] A creepily detailed item on Gabrielle Hamilton exposes the Prune chef's affair with her sister's husband. [NY Post] Chefs like Heston Blumenthal and Grant Achatz are t ... More >>

City Council Planning Lawsuit Over Homeless Shelter Policy

​City Council plans to try and stop a new policy from the Mayor's administration that would require homeless people to prove they have nowhere else to go before they can be admitted into a shelter. Council Speaker Christine Quinn described the policy as "cruel and punitive"; the pending suit r ... More >>

Christine Quinn Presents Living Wage Bill Compromise, Pols Are Generally Happy

​Some important news in the ongoing living wage battle in New York -- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed today a compromise that would require higher wages at city-subsidized developments. Companies subsidized by the city would have to pay employees $10 an hour plus benefits, instea ... More >>

Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, On the Living Wage Bill

Stuart Appelbaum​When Speaker Christine Quinn presented her compromised version of the Living Wage Bill last week, we immediately wondered how it would affect retail-clothing workers, #47 on the Voice's list of the 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers. We got in touch with Stuart Appelbaum, presid ... More >>

It's Christine Quinn's Turn! Mayoral Hopeful Delivers State of City Speech

Sam Levin​This story might sound familiar. A mayoral hopeful gets on stage and delivers a speech about the state of things. The elected official takes the opportunity to set the groundwork for a mayoral campaign -- appealing to future voters through announcements of new initiatives and prior ... More >>