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Senator Chuck Grassley Has Tough Questions for NYU

It's been a rough few weeks for the central administration at New York University. Last Friday, the faculty of NYU's School of Arts and Sciences voted to support a statement of no confidence in President John Sexton and his administration. In the weeks surrounding the votepress attention (including ... More >>

Even the Banks are Paying a Penalty for Sandy

Winter is coming

Manhattan Millionaires Dupe Government Into Giving Them Nearly $200K In Welfare Benefits

A couple of Manhattan millionaires were arrested this morning on charges that they ripped off the government to the tune of nearly $200,000 over the past six years by pretending to be poor in order to collect welfare benefits.We're not sure what's more disturbing: the fact that millionaires are alle ... More >>

Bike Share Program Hitting Streets in July; Mike Bloomberg May Actually Ride One...Once

The city will officially launch its bike share program in July -- and Mayor Bloomberg might actually give one a ride...at least once. But that's only so that if someone asks him how it is, he'll be able to respond. "I will certainly pay and ride one," the mayor told reporters this morning, standin ... More >>

NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

NYU is number one in student debt. But is it really worth it?

David R. Yale, Queens Man, Issues Pink Slip to Citigroup CEO

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, still unaware of his termination. ​We got an interesting e-mail this morning from a man in Bayside, Queens. David R. Yale, a 67-year-old consultant, is firing Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup. Yale mailed a pink slip to Pandit that notifies him of his terminati ... More >>

Occupy! Gazette Flooding the Occupy Wall Street Print Media Zone

Kickstarter​Because the Occupied Wall Street Journal apparently doesn't fill the print media needs of the movement, n 1 is following up their personals ads with the Occupy! Gazette. According to the project's Kickstarter, n 1 recruited Astra Taylor, the documentary filmmaker who made Zizek! an ... More >>

Jay-Z And Kanye West Will Be At Madison Square Garden Next Month

​Jay-Z and Kanye West will follow up their Izod Center performances as The Throne with two shows at Madison Square Garden, November 7 and 8. Tickets go on sale to those people who have an in with Citibank on Wednesday at 10 a.m., and the rest of the world can get tickets on Friday at 10 a.m. ( ... More >>

Marshall Garrett Tells the Voice About Being Arrested For Occupying Citibank

Garrett was arrested in Citibank's lobby.​On Saturday, a group of Occupy Wall Street protestors were arrested in the LaGuardia Place Citibank. Among them was freelance photographer and actor Marshall Garrett. Garrett, who has a bank account with Chase, had originally intended to go to that ban ... More >>

74 Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protests; MLK Memorial Dedication; Demonstrators Killed in Yemen

​A total of 74 people were arrested yesterday as Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Times Square. 24 people were arrested and charged with criminal trespass at a LaGuardia Pl. Citibank. Witnesses and protesters say some of those arrested were trying to close their acco ... More >>

Citibank Releases Statement Regarding Arrests

Yesterday, we reported that 24 people were arrested after protesting at a Citibank near Washington Square Park. The above video shows the demonstrators locked inside the branch and police arriving on the scene. Some protesters say they were merely trying to close their accounts, while the police ch ... More >>

Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protest of Citibank [VIDEO]

​About 20 people were arrested this afternoon after entering a Citibank near Washington Square Park. The New York Observer reports that about 20 demonstrators entered the bank on LaGuardia Pl., some with the intention of closing their accounts. Once inside, security is said to have asked them ... More >>

Banks Say Bye-Bye to Holiday Parties Again

​Some Wall Street bankers might need to forsake the glitzy office party for take-out and a movie this year -- TheStreet.com says many of the city's finance firms -- including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and UBS -- are either canceling or keeping "mum" about their par ... More >>

Morning Links: White House Christmas Ornaments in Peril; Time Warner Visitors Getting Handsy With Nude Statue

The 2009 tree, with ornaments.​• Wyoming is having trouble finishing their ornaments for the White House Christmas tree this year. They have only 1,600 of the 5,000 they're responsible for. Apparently these ornaments have to be handmade, weatherproof, a foot tall, and in a Western theme. And ... More >>

Sexy Banker Debrahlee Lorenzana Passes on Playboy

​The Village Voice's story of Debrahlee Lorenzana, the banker too hot for her job at Citibank, penned in June by Elizabeth Dwoskin, still has legs. The media went wild for the tale when it broke -- and the pictures didn't hurt -- but months later, after Facebook groups, TV appearances and more ... More >>

Police Seek ATM Mugger Who's Struck Twice on the West Side

​The NYPD is asking for the public's assistance identifying a suspect (pictured) wanted in connection with two muggings at ATMs on the West Side of Manhattan this month. At 12:47 p.m. on Friday, September 3, he approached a 27-year-old hispanic woman from behind at the Citibank ATM at 4 Columb ... More >>

Citi to Women: Grow a Pair, But Don't Be Too Hot?

​Blogs on Friday lit up about a memo handed out to Citibank employees which suggested that female employees needed to act more like men in order to succeed at work.

What Not to Wear: Sizing Up Debrahlee Lorenzana's Much-Discussed Wardrobe

​As the official fashion editors of the Voice, Araceli Cruz and Angela Ashman have a lot to say about what's in, what's out, and what's spot-on for Diddy's White Party. In the occasionally heated, occasionally catty, always fashion savvy back-and-forth that follows, they apply their expertise ... More >>

Iran Institutes Same-Sex Bank, Narrowly Avoiding a "Debrahlee Lorenzana" Incident

​Melli, a state-owned Iranian bank, has opened its first women-only branch. Why? To "safeguard women's virtue," or at least that's what the bank's (male) director says. Because, you know, Men Women Money = Bad Shit Is Gonna Go Down.

Questions That May Never Be Answered: Where Did Sexy Banker Debrahlee Lorenzana Get Her Pushup Bra?

Lorenzana shows one of her many pairs of Uggs on her Facebook page.​If you've watched a TV or seen a paper or glanced at a computer this week, there's no way you haven't heard about the hot-hot-hot lady banker who may have been too hot to bank. The whirlwind of responses to Elizabeth Dwoskin's ... More >>

Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?

Debrahlee Lorenzana says her no-account bosses fired her over her looks

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.

Have You Seen... This Mustachioed Upper West Side Bank Robber

This guy is suspected of bank robbery at 2350 Broadway (between 85th and 86th) on the Upper West Side. At 2:06 p.m., January 20 (Wednesday), he entered a Citibank branch, passed a note demanding money, got an unknown amount, and fled on foot. No one was injured. He's described as 30 to 40 years old ... More >>

Have You Seen... First Bank Robbers of the New Year

​ The parties are over, and Monday it was back to work -- at bank-robbing, for some folks. The man at left robbed the Chase at 2824 Broadway around 11:40 a.m. Monday. He's described as 35, 5'10", 180 pounds, glasses and a goatee, wearing a black ski hat, brown or burgandy jacket, grey hoodi ... More >>

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

Stress Tests: Banks Need to Raise $75 Billion to Stay Afloat

The results of Obama's stress test on the banks, for which 150 government agencies examined TARP-funded U.S. financial institutions to determine their states of health, are in. The bad news first: 10 of the 19 banks examined will need to raise $75 billion in additional capital to be deemed sufficien ... More >>

Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama b ... More >>

Could the Feds Cash In on Citi's Mets Stadium Deal?

Given that construction of the Mets' new stadium began under a cloud of controversy about its name, it's probably fitting that that's all anyone can talk about as its first Opening Day approaches. So far, we've had Congressmen and newspaper columnists demanding that the Treasury Department force C ... More >>

Citifield To Lose Ugly, $400M Name?

The Wall Street Journal says that Citigroup is looking at forfeiting their naming rights to the new Mets ballpark. Citigroup claims not to be using their TARP funds from the federal government to pay for putting the name "Citifield" on the park -- just as they said the corporate jet they recently ha ... More >>

The stadium-naming deal? Make Citigroup and the New York Mets bail the public out for a change.

In what's obviously a P.R. move, Citigroup says it's looking into pulling out of a $400 million marketing deal with the New York Mets. Here's the current situation: Citigroup is supposedly on the hook to pay $400 million to the Mets for the naming rights to the unwarranted new stadium. Meanwhile, ... More >>

What Cooked the World's Economy?

It wasn't your overdue mortgage.

Citi Cancels Jet, Continues to Hold Back TARP Funds

When the New York Post revealed that CitiGroup, recipients of $45 billion in public largesse, had ordered a $50 million corporate jet ("JUST PLANE DESPICABLE"), reaction was swift and brutal. The Times noticed that Barney Frank had removed a TARP provision that would have prevented such a purchase. ... More >>

Councilmembers Join Mob, Mock Citi Field

Should Mets' Park Stay Citi-fied After Citigroup Collapse?

What's Behind Mort Zuckerman's Citigroup Crush?

Daily Flog: Feds bail out Citibank, automakers. You're still at the end of the bread lines.

It's not a wonderful life

Banks Screwing Customers Even More

Start Your Own Bookstore: Only $250,000 Down

Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

The Backstory of the Financial Collapse

Call it Gall Street. How else to describe an industry that applauds nearly $500 million in bonuses for executives taking an entire economy down with them?

Brickbats and Baseballs

Hey, Mets fan, spare a few dimes?

Interest-Free!

James Scurlock's debt doc not worth price of admission

We Don't Need No Thought Control: Marketers' Dirty Tricks

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Drug War on the Web

‘Narco News’ Ready for Libel Suit in New York

Spank the Bank

Students Challenge Citigroup’s Hand in Bad Lending and Environmental Devastation

Will the Citi Ever Weep?

Russian Cons and New York Banks