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Ralph McDaniels Celebrates 30 Years of Video Music Box

New York is not only the birthplace of hip-hop culture, but the home of the first television program to broadcast rap videos. Video visionary Ralph McDaniels launched "Video Music Box" 30 years ago and now, three decades and a global phenomenon later, the hip-hop nation is ready to celebrate. Among ... More >>

New Yorkers Not So Hot For Stop and Frisk Campaign, But Still Like Ray Kelly

New Yorkers aren't so pleased with the NYPD's stop and frisk campaign, though at the same time, they give Police Commissioner Ray Kelly high marks, according to a new poll from the folks at Quinnipiac University. Only 39 percent of folks approve of the stop and frisk campaign, including just 19 per ... More >>

Grace Meng Raises $300,000 for Congressional Race; Says it Will Be a Historic Campaign

Queens Assemblywoman Grace Meng, who would be New York's first Asian-American member of Congress, has raised $300,000 in ten days. Obviously, she's thrilled. "We are definitely excited. I think this is going to be a historical campaign that people all throughout New York and the country are lookin ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's State of the City: Education, Jobs, Innovation, Lady Gaga, Innovation

​Not a lot of surprises at the mayor's State of the City speech today at Morris High School in the Bronx. In an auditorium inside the school, Mike Bloomberg spoke for about an hour on how to improve public education and the economy and how to make this great city the capital of innovation. Tha ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg and Christine Quinn Cut Ribbon for Bronx's First City-Sponsored Business Incubator

Mayor Mike Bloomberg fondly remembers his days as a small business owner and likes to share the joy of successful entrepreneurship with New York City start-ups. This time, in the Bronx. The mayor announced today the first city-sponsored business incubator in the borough, which will be part of the ... More >>

Fall Arts: Juan Puntes Likes to Poke at Things Inside the White Box

Bob Turner To Claim Liberal Party Endorsement, Worth To Be Determined

​The once-potent Liberal Party, which lost its ballot line in 2002, has decided to back Republican Bob Turner in the tightening race to replace Anthony Weiner in the 9th Congressional District, former party chairman Henry Stern told the Voice today. Stern, the former parks commissioner, is a ... More >>

Andrew Stein, Ex-City Council President, Spends Community Service Reading, Chatting

​Andrew Stein, the former City Council president in NYC under Mayor Ed Koch, was sentenced to 500 hours of community service for tax evasion stemming from a Kenneth Starr-assisted Ponzi scheme, but he's been getting off easy. The Daily News reports that Stein, instead of picking up trash or sc ... More >>

Pat Singer's Sad Chapter to Her Brighton Beach Memoir: Activist's Office Flooded Out, Her Tchotchkes Washed Away

Brighton Beach memoir: Pat Singer with Ed KochThe Brighton Neighborhood Association's administrative office used to be known as a colorful Brooklyn spot awash with all sorts of memorabilia and historic photos collected by founder Pat Singer. Now the office, at 1121 Brighton Beach Avenue, is just awa ... More >>

Was Margaret Cho Too Gay for Dancing With The Stars?

Talking with the stand-up rebel, followed by a heavy dose of—remember this?—nostalgia

Carl Paladino and Yehuda Levin: Made for Each Other

​Not that he'd appreciate the metaphor, but now that Carl Paladino has jumped into bed with veteran local loon Rabbi Yehuda Levin, maybe he'd like to take ownership of some of Levin's greatest hits. The 56-year-old rabbi from Borough Park has been glomming onto TV cameras since the early '80s, ... More >>

Angry Man Carl Paladino: 'You think these people who voted for us yesterday just crawled out of a space ship?'

​Less than 24 hours after winning his first election, Carl "Angry Man" Paladino sat down in a TV studio to prove that just because he's now the official Republican standard-bearer for governor doesn't mean he's going to put a cork in it. Paladino sat somewhere in Buffalo while NY1's Elizabeth ... More >>

Ground Zero Mosque Haters Go Dutch

Intolerance—imported and domestic—invades a 9/11 anniversary

Howard Fineman and the Harmans: a Match Made in Journo-Political Hog Heaven

​It's one thing for a reporter to have a billionaire in his pocket and pick his own next owner. It's another for the reporter, Newsweek's esteemed Howard Fineman, to have pocketed the billionaire by boosting his wife in print for years. I went to the Columbia Journalism dinner in 2006 when Fi ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Biggest Rival Won't Be the G.O.P.

It's Shelly Silver and the old-school Dems in his race to Governor

Coney Island's Grand Past and Grim Future

Requiem for a dreamland

Furloughs? David Paterson Backs Himself Into a Bad Position, Again

​Maybe it's just David Paterson fatigue. The media is so tired of kicking the governor around that we're letting him posture as a bulwark against fiscal madness when he's one of its causes. It took a federal judge a minute or two to figure out that Paterson's furlough plan was an illegal vio ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Gets Mixed Report Card on Massive Spending

​Mike Bloomberg met Diana Taylor at a luncheon of the Citizens Budget Commission, a business group known for its salty independence and telling assessments of city budgets. Diana was a trustee, and Bloomberg became a fan of the group almost as quickly as he became Diana's number one fan, all w ... More >>

R.I.P. St. Vincent's Hospital

A murder in the Village when downtown's guardian goes under

Mayor Bloomberg's Carbon Omissions

He starts his third term backpedaling

Mayor Funds de Blasio, Defends Gay Cab Duo; Is Snubbed By Liu, Who's Attacked by Koch

​Despite winning his third term, Mayor Bloomberg is still giving away money, offering an extra $850,000 to incoming Public Advocate Bill de Blasio to supplement his tiny budget, which had been cut by more than half by the Mayor and his city council allies last year. The Mayor photogenically m ... More >>

Barrett: Just How Strange and Pathetic was Bloomberg's Victory?

​The key question coming out of this election is whether Mike Bloomberg got the message. Can he listen to voters he'll never face again? If Bloomberg L.P took a hit like he did Tuesday, wouldn't the company take stock and make real changes? Bloomberg spent $80 million in 2005 and won by 19 p ... More >>

Staten Island's McMahon Latest Dem to Endorse Bloomberg; Calls Him "Our Mr. October"

​Previously Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz, both former council speaker Peter Vallone Sr. and current councilman Peter Vallone Jr., and former Mayor Ed Koch had endorsed Mayor Bloomberg for reelection, and now Staten Island Democratic Representative Michael McMahon has joined them. McMahon is " ... More >>

New Yorker's Bloomberg: Great Mayor, If Cranky, Democracy-Distorting

​This week's New Yorker features a major article about Mayor Bloomberg that is mostly very positive, though it tweaks the Mayor a little --- in sneaky journalistic ways that will be beneath his notice -- about his ways and means of being so wonderful. Reporter Ben McGrath chronicles the May ... More >>

Clip Job: Ed Koch in Mississippi

 Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 3, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 46The Mississippi FrontBy Edward I. KochOn August 17, 1964, I left Jackson, Mississippi, to attend a court hearing in Laurel, Mississippi, two hours away by car. Court started at 3 p.m. at City Hall. The hear ... More >>

Rebel With a Cause: Brooklyn Priest Father John Powis

His half-century on the streets of New York

Bloomberg's Golden Republican

The mayor's best—and only—GOP pal is a pork- and patronage-loving conservative

The Shame of Speaker Shelly Silver's Resistance to Seward Park Redevelopment

A stretch of the Lower East Side stands desolate and empty after 'urban renewal,' thanks to the Assembly Speaker

Willets Point Redevelopment Hits Potholes

No Wafer for Rudy

Giuliani campaigns as a Catholic, but he's on the outs with God

Delirious New York

Revisiting Ed Koch, Sally Jessy Raphael and 1980s Manhattan

VH1's Hip-Hop Honors: A Running Diary

The Harder They Come

The subversive mainstream friendliness of John Cameron Mitchell's sex-positive cheer

Show Me the Money

Trump continues to claim that he's not a worthless human being

The 2005 Wacko Awards

With everyone chasing a Bloombucks bonus, only the most craven can win

Marching to Montgomery: The Cradle Did Rock

Close-Up on Kips Bay

Vote Yes for Nonpartisan Elections

Bloomberg's Proposal Is Better Than Our Sham System

Fixer Fonz

The Ex-Senator Brags About Bonanzas, Hides Behind Pataki

From Baghdad to Brooklyn

Immigrants Brace for Backlash but Fear Alerting NYPD

Nation

Bestselling Bigotry

Rudy's Book Bares a Black & Latino Hit List

Homeless Profit-Taking

Brooklyn Developer Pulls Bait and Switch on Neighborhood

Take a Bike!

Ditch the Subway. Keep the Cab Fare. Miss the Bus. Try a Two-Wheeled Commute for a Change.

The ABCs of the RGB

A Primer on the City’s Rent Guidelines Board

Rookie Candidates in NYC to Be Schooled by Experienced Pols Like Koch

It's Not Too Late to Sign Up for Crash Course

Black Slaves Not News in New York

‘Running, I Can Smell the Horses’

A Wounded Mayor

Diallo Deconstructs Rudy's Racial Rule

The Storm at DC 37

Rumblings of reform are finally breaking through at the city's powerful municipal union

The Last Reformer?

Mark Green's Senate Campaign Ignores the Isms (as in Leftism)