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May 7, 2012
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 >>
News
November 9, 2011
NYU Students: Debt and Debtor
NYU is number one in student debt. But is it really worth it?
Blogs
November 9, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Occupy! Gazette Flooding the Occupy Wall Street Print Media Zone
KickstarterBecause 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 >>
Blogs
October 17, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
October 17, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
October 16, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
October 16, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
October 15, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
November 29, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
September 26, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
September 21, 2010
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 >>
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September 13, 2010
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.
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June 8, 2010
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 >>
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June 8, 2010
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.
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June 4, 2010
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 >>
News
June 1, 2010
Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker?
Debrahlee Lorenzana says her no-account bosses fired her over her looks
Blogs
April 3, 2010
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.
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January 22, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
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 >>
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October 27, 2009
We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?
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 >>
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May 7, 2009
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 >>
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May 1, 2009
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 >>
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February 4, 2009
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 >>
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February 3, 2009
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 >>
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February 3, 2009
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 >>
News
January 28, 2009
What Cooked the World's Economy?
It wasn't your overdue mortgage.
Blogs
January 27, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
December 17, 2008
Dying GM Drops Yankee Deal, Sticks with Mets
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 >>
Blogs
November 26, 2008
Councilmembers Join Mob, Mock Citi Field
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 >>
Blogs
November 25, 2008
Should Mets' Park Stay Citi-fied After Citigroup Collapse?
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 >>
Blogs
November 25, 2008
What's Behind Mort Zuckerman's Citigroup Crush?
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 >>
Blogs
November 24, 2008
Daily Flog: Feds bail out Citibank, automakers. You're still at the end of the bread lines.
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 >>
Blogs
November 21, 2008
It's not a wonderful life
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 >>
Blogs
November 18, 2008
Banks Screwing Customers Even More
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 >>
Blogs
October 30, 2008
Start Your Own Bookstore: Only $250,000 Down
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 >>
Blogs
October 14, 2008
Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'
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 >>
Columns
September 23, 2008
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?
News
June 19, 2007
Brickbats and Baseballs
Hey, Mets fan, spare a few dimes?
Art
March 6, 2007
I Lost It at the Guggenheim
Hey, Mets fan, spare a few dimes?
Film
February 27, 2007
Interest-Free!
James Scurlock's debt doc not worth price of admission
NYC Life
October 12, 2004
We Don't Need No Thought Control: Marketers' Dirty Tricks
James Scurlock's debt doc not worth price of admission
News
March 9, 2004
The Ambition Tax
Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care
Columns
February 24, 2004
Horoscope
Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care
NYC Life
August 21, 2001
Listings
Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care
News
June 26, 2001
Drug War on the Web
‘Narco News’ Ready for Libel Suit in New York
News
April 10, 2001
Spank the Bank
Students Challenge Citigroup’s Hand in Bad Lending and Environmental Devastation
News
March 28, 2000
Will the Citi Ever Weep?
Students Challenge Citigroup’s Hand in Bad Lending and Environmental Devastation
News
November 30, 1999
Russian Cons and New York Banks
Students Challenge Citigroup’s Hand in Bad Lending and Environmental Devastation
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