Financial Markets

Twitter Inventor Jack Dorsey Helps Launch Reshma Saujani Campaign for NYC Public Advocate

Reshma Saujani, 37, and a quintet of journalists are tucked inside the green room at swanky Village cabaret, Le Poisson Rouge. Every so often a staffer or groomed coiffe of the NYC tech glitterati will poke around the door, but Ms. Saujani has staked out five minutes--not easy after stepping offstag ... More >>

Fairway IPO Announced Today, Could Be Higher Than Whole Foods'

Fairway Market will go public today and could soon be worth more than fancy-food competitor Whole Foods. Bloomberg reports that the supermarket chain's IPO is scheduled to be $453.6 million. The company, which currently has 12 stores throughout the East Coast and aims to expand to more than 300 shop ... More >>

Lead Us Not Astray, Reverend James Cooper

In August 2011, Trinity Church's rector was asked to leave. He stayed with a vengeance.

Occupy Wall Street, Year Two

Approaching its anniversary, the movement isn't dead. It's growing up.

Mitt Loves N.Y.: Marc Rowan

With Mitt Romney as its de facto go-to candidate, the roster of Restore Our Future, Romney's designated Super PAC slush fund, reads like a laundry list of New York City's wealthiest denizens. And, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and contrary to popular belief, Sup ... More >>

London's Big-Deal Art Fair Hits New York, Occupy Hits Back

Seize the frieze

BREAKING: Facebook Files IPO, 'Friending' and 'Liking' Jokes Ensue

​Facebook wants your money! The social networking behemoth filed its initial public offering today, so now you will soon be able to spend time and cash on the site by becoming a stockholder. (It's the American way!) Facebook, which was birthed in a Harvard dorm some 8 years ago, the New York ... More >>

'Invade Wall Street': Occupy Wall Street's Evil (And Probably Fake) Twin

Occupy Wall Street is in its 18th day. Things are picking up steam a bit: the protesters have a big rally with the Transport Workers Union planned for tomorrow and they've also teamed up with a fancy PR firm, though they deny that they asked for any professional help with their media relations. But ... More >>

Robert Burnham Jr.'s 1983 Testament: An Astronomer-Recluse Inscribes His Universe (Part II)

Burnham in his Prescott, Arizona home lab, circa 1960.​ Yesterday, we published the first half of a 24,000-word "self-interview" by Lowell Observatory astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. on what would have been his 80th birthday. Burnham died in 1993 at the age of 61. He was known not only for hi ... More >>

New Mets Co-owner Destroyed World Economy, Is Brewers Fan

​Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat: This week, Mets owner/accused Bernie Madoff unindicted co-conspirator Fred Wilpon 1) was the subject of a New Yorker profile in which he dissed his three best players, then had to apologize via clubhouse speakerphone, 2) was the subject of ... More >>

Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met

A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'

Blank City: A Self-Defeating User-Friendly Primer on the 'No Wave' Science

Rabbi Milton Balkany Gets 4 Years in Prison for Extortion Scheme

Crooked rabbi Balkany​Political heavyweight Rabbi Milton Balkany was sentenced today to four years in prison for trying to shake down a hedge fund. As the Post reports, federal judge Denise Cole took the unusual step of ordering the 64-year-old rabbi jailed immediately, saying she was "seriously c ... More >>

Meet The Mets, Sue The Mets

​The trustees for Bernie Madoff's victims have filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Mets claiming they ignored pointed and repeated warnings that Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme. The New York Times reports that Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz are accused of looking the other way as Madoff's swe ... More >>

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (By Way of Brooklyn) Lets It Rip

​Those looking for the passion missing from the Democratic and White House response to the demands of the GOP/Wall Street/Murdoch media coalition, should tune in to the one man rebel band now playing in Washington named Bernie Sanders. The 69-year-old independent senator from Vermont let loose ... More >>

The Ritz's Norm Bukofzer Talks Big Tabs, What the Young Ladies Are Drinking These Days & Why He Doesn't Like Basil in His Drink

Norm!​For the past 30-odd years, he's been the man behind the bar at the Ritz Carlton on Central Park. His Facebook fan club has 122 members. In this world of mustachioed mixologists and bar pyrotechnics, Norm Bukofzer reminds us all what a bar should be. What is it like being one of the city ... More >>

Dan Abrams, Man, to Write Book About the Superiority of the Female Gender

​If you Google image search "Dan Abrams," along with his pretty mug, you will also see quite a few beautiful women. In this age, that is something of an accomplishment. (Some he even dated!) Paired with a law degree, that is enough of a qualification to write a book entitled Man Down: Proof Be ... More >>

Jersey Shore and the New York Stock Exchange: The Guido Effect (Updated!)

Image via NPR/Getty.​"Is nothing sacred?" asks NPR today of the picture you see to your right. Because -- if you haven't heard -- the creatures of MTV's Jersey Shore (and Village Voice cover models!) rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange today. At the half-way mark of the day, h ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Draws Praise for the Same Budget Decisions That Reap Tabloid Ridicule for Shelly Silver

The recently passed Bloomberg and state legislative budgets each contained precisely the same, optimistic assumption that New York would get hundreds of millions of additional federal Medicaid funds even though the bill to provide the windfall was stalled in Congress. The Daily News said Bloomber ... More >>

How to Get Banned From Trading: Get Blackout Drunk and Spend $520M in 19 Hours

​Remember the first time you were grounded? Or the first time you were suspended from school? Or the first time you violated your probation? Surely, none of these firsts amount to the epic, awesome carnage Steven Noel Perkins -- an oil futures trader -- wrecked after (what else?) a weekend of ... More >>

BP Agrees to Create $20 Billion Cleanup Fund; Oil Spill Estimate Now at 60,000 Barrels per Day

​In today's meeting at the White House, BP has "tentatively" agreed to create a $20 billion fund to pay claims for the oil spill, now being called "the worst in American history," reports the New York Times. Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw the 9/11 victims compensation fund, will run this one as ... More >>

Goldman Sachs Tries to Uncover the New York Times' 'Shoddy' Reporting, Fails Miserably

Jason Cott on Bar Seven Five's Portable Bar Program, Cocktail Consulting & Getting in on the Tiki Craze Before it Started

Jason Cott (left) and Toby Maloney (right) of Alchemy Consulting​ Andaz Hotels enlisted Alchemy Consulting to craft the classic cocktails for Bar Seven Five, set to open January 25 in the new Andaz Wall Street hotel. Jason Cott, one of the partners in Alchemy, reveals what to expect from the n ... More >>

Crime Beat: Bernie Madoff Breaks Hearts -- He's Cited in Split of Uma Thurman and Her Rich Fiance Bilked by Bernie

HarkavyLosing his ass: Uma Thurman reportedly splits from fiance Arki Busson over money issues. Busson was bilked by Bernie Madoff to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars. Will the flood of Bernie Madoff victims never stop? The latest casualty may very well be the relationship of New Yorker U ... More >>

Madoff's CFO Pleads Guilty; Faces 125 Years

Bernie Madoff's longtime finance chief pled guilty in federal court this afternoon to helping his boss carry out a $65 million dollar Ponzi scheme. The accountant, Frank DiPascali, had been employed at Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities for more than three decades. He was responsible for manag ... More >>

PUSSY FAGGOT

The name says it all

Scumbag Bank Bets Against Solvency of States

Bloomberg Hawks Bloomberg (L.P.) To Finance Guys

An unprecedented situation

'Voice' Spreading Paranoia Every Which Way

Google: The New Port Authority

A juggernaut gets ready to inject a big glob of silicon into New York City

How to Imagine the Party They Fought for the Right to Never Let Up

Morning Report 3/15/05
The Shots Heard 'Round the World

Dean Takes Over

Blasted by the pundits, the Democrats' new party chair can't be all bad

Listings

It's the Economy, Stupid

Listings

The Axers of Evil

Pentagon Spokesman Jerry Bruckheimer; Buffy's Dread

Nation

Labor in Mourning

Seven Months Later, Unions Raise the 9-11 Flag

Bushido—The Way of Oil

America Goes Into the Energy Business With the Former Evil Empire

Economic Terrorism

Markets Fall as World Watches Cities Burn

The Battle of 2016

Progressives and Bush’s Wall Street Go to War Over Your Social Security Benefits

From the Subprime to the Ridiculous

Mayoral Candidates Huff and Puff on Predatory Lending

Fast-Food Politics

Jesse Jackson–Al Sharpton Beef Over Burger King Boycott

Virtually Selfless

News Flash: There Is Life After Shopping

Vulture Press

Wired Like Me

Linking Minorities Online Is a Major Challenge

The Next Battle in Washington

Social Security Mobilizes Troops