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It's Official: Christine Quinn Wants To Be Your Next Mayor

Yesterday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn released this video to the Internet. And her campaign tweeted the below out, too. Both were an affirmative nod to New Yorkers that, yes, she is officially running for Mayor and, yes, she is fighting for the middle class. If elected, Ms. Quinn will be t ... More >>

Will The Next Mayoral Race Turn Into a Fight For Taxes On The Wealthy?

With the news that Wall Street profits are projected to hit $15 billion this year, it makes sense that the next Mayoral race in New York City will focus on the issue New York's mega-wealthy (and, if our 'Mitt Loves N.Y.' series was any indication, there are a ton of members in this exclusive income ... More >>

Mayor Anthony Weiner? Really? Really?

Remember that guy who got himself elected to Congress, landed a powerful/gorgeous wife, then sent pictures of his dick to several women, lied about it -- repeatedly -- and then had to resign from his House seat in disgrace? Well, now he apparently wants to be your mayor, New York.That's right -- sha ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Has Eleven Homes, We Can Still Barely Pay Rent

A few months back, Runnin' Scared covered what seems to be the biggest conundrum of the Big Apple: the fact that rents are higher than ever (averaging a solid $3,418 a month) yet no one is leaving the island. Actually, recent years have shown a huge increase in Manhattan newcomers, raising the ... More >>

Mayors For Freedom to Marry Launches With Mike Bloomberg At The Helm

Being mayor of New York City is kind of like being president of the universe, so it's only fair that our very own Mike Bloomberg lead the effort in some national thangs, too. He already is one of two co-chairs for the coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns , and now he can add another "chair" to h ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Mike Bloomberg's Digs Are About As Opulent As You'd Expect

Drake Design Associates via NYT​Breaking: Mike Bloomberg is rich. Like, really rich. Uber-rich. Forbes says his net worth is $18.1 billion. As you'd expect, his living quarters are incredibly fancy, even though he's the kind of mayor who likes to make a big deal about taking the subway and hav ... More >>

The Next Mayor? You Don't Care, Do You?

Aside from voter apathy and a weak field, the mayoral race is really shaping up.

Mike Bloomberg Marries Advisers Jonathan Mintz and John Feinblatt at Gracie Mansion

​This blogger has been to a lot of weddings. This blogger, however, was keenly excited to see 1. Mayor Bloomberg marry someone, someone not his daughter or a former mayor (the two types of people he had once vowed he would only marry), and 2. To partake, even in a small way, in the first same- ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Coming to New York Sunday to Protest Same-Sex Marriage

​Yesterday, we wrote about how NOM will be protesting same-sex marriage through the state on Sunday, but at locations which appear to be keeping their distance from actual weddings. However, according to a schedule posted on godhatesfags.com, the Westboro Baptist Church will also be picketing ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Will Preside at the Wedding of Advisers John Feinblatt and Jonathan Mintz

Feinblatt and Mintz​New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, in a gesture that shows a bit of his softer side, has offered to marry his chief policy adviser, John Feinblatt, and his partner of 14 years, Jonathan Mintz, who is the city's commissioner for consumer affairs. Delicately, Bloomberg menti ... More >>

Our 10 Best Legal and Sort of Legal Picnic Spots

Robert SietsemaViewed from Inwood Hill Park, New Jersey is beautiful.​ Despite this week's sodden weather, spring really is upon us, which means that picnic season is too. New York harbors untold numbers of excellent picnic spots, be they in midtown pocket parks, an empty soccer field, or you ... More >>

New York Parties Are So Over

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 22, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 12 Wake up! The party's not over by Blair Sobol Perhaps Norman Mailer started it all. The latest craze is giving extravagantly dull parties. The bigger and more boring the better. Nowadays the success of ... More >>

Bill Clinton Remembers 'Everything' About Hookers and Steak in Times Square

​At a meeting about climate control (or something), former president Bill Clinton talked about hookers and steak. Clinton, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, were at Gracie Mansion on Wednesday morning to announce that their environmental groups, Clinton Initiative and C40, would merge, but f ... More >>

O Cuomo, All Ye Faithful

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 28, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 52 O Cuomo, all ye faithful by Joanna Mermey "This guy's the hottest piece of flesh in town," political pundit Doug Ireland informed a crowd at the Lion's Head after Mario Cuomo had mesmerized the Vil ... More >>

Bloomberg's Three Chefs Cost $245,000

​New York Daily News writer Juan Gonzalez is incensed that while steps to address New York City's troubled budget include "threats of layoffs to thousands of teachers and other city workers, and the deep cuts in basic services," Mayor Michael Bloomberg is using $245,000 in taxpayer money to pa ... More >>

Jon Stewart Named to 9/11 Museum Board

​The Daily Show host, who used his program as a forum to push for health care for September 11th first responders, has been rewarded with a place on the board of the forthcoming 9/11 museum and memorial, the New York Times reports in Friday's paper. "We see him as helping raise awareness, and ... More >>

NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror Flick

Experiments in Terror

Tavern on the Green Will Remain in the Dark

Tavern: Lights still out.​Looks like the second coming of Tavern on the Green won't be coming anytime soon: according to the Post's Steve Cuozzo, a meeting last week between Dean Poll, Tavern's new operator, and Peter Ward, chief of Local 6 union, was not a fruitful one. Poll and Ward have bee ... More >>

Bloomberg and Thompson: The (Really) Odd Couple

Now it can be told: The surprising ties between the billionaire mayor and the poor slob who ran against him

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ "I thought these only existed in cartoons." Twitpic by nataliemorales. Well, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are done and the War on Christmas is getting closer! How's that going? On the one hand, the Satanists managed to keep the sidewalk Santas out of New York; on the other, Christers mus ... More >>

10 Arrested at Gracie Mansion for AIDS Protest

Happy World AIDS Day. Mayor Bloomberg was hosting an Annual World AIDS Day Breakfast at Gracie Mansion when 10 activists from Housing Works conducted a sit-in outside, and chanted "People with AIDS under attack, what do we do? Act up, fight back!" and "Bloomberg, billionaire, people with AIDS, he ... More >>

The Mayor's Press Pass

The unexamined world of Mike Bloomberg

Upper East Side Gay-Bashing Epidemic?

Assemblyman Micah Kellner, one of the officials to whom state senator Tom Duane reached out when Joe Holladay got gay-bashed on the Upper East Side last week, has told WCBS that there have been other incidents in the neighborhood recently that are disturbingly similar -- "Three of which are curren ... More >>

Blood on Tracks in Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

In this subway series, the original Pelham wins

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

President Obama graciously escorted GM into bankruptcy.Enemies decried his kind words and big speech to the Muslim world, but it still went over big. Can't touch this! We're beginning to think that Obama's letting total lunatics attack him on a government website just for the laughs. Patriots ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg launches preemptive trip to Israel; invasion of NYC unlikely

Waltz With Bashir, a movie that sprang from a previous Israeli invasion of Lebanon, won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics. A free Madoff Watch T-shirt to the reader who suggests the best title for the first movie spurred by Israel's current invasion of Gaza. On an overseas t ... More >>

The Yule Log Returns

Bloomberg Wants to Get in Your Genes

Compared to the present mayor’s contempt for civil liberties, Giuliani was a piker

Rudy's Brain

Candidate whisperer: The ex-bartender who's got the ear of the GOP's top contender

Public Displays of Disaffection

Now Rudy begs for privacy for his kids? Recalling his very public humiliation of his family.

Enough Is Enough

At two prominent jazz festivals, bright moments and cloudy forecasts

Reader: A Classic Case of Madman Giuliani

Plus: The 'Brokeback' take on Clemens's return

The Yankees' Clean-Up Man

Rudy went to bat for the Yanks, and look what he scored.

Wiped Out

Mayor Mike Makes His Case

A feisty Bloomberg sells his record on schools, health, crime, budget & jobs

Lost Horizon

The ego, libido, ambition, and adolescent energy of New York's most volatile art scene

Dog Runs

Unleash the Hounds

Close-Up on Yorkville

Building Public Power

An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

The Reflective Rudy

The Ex-Mayor Writes His Own Farewell to Donna

DCA Agenda: Help Small Groups

Can the New Commissioner Stretch the Dollars Without Bending the Rules?

Late Bloomer

The Skirt Chaser Wins

But in an Alternate Universe, Mayor Michelle Bloomingdale Rules

Take It or Leave It, Mark Green

Brooklyn Assemblyman Roger Green’s Challenge to a Turncoat Liberal

What Black Vote?

The City’s African American Electorate is No Longer Predictable

Sports

Marriage License

The Mayor’s Been Taking His Girlfriend to Gracie Mansion, and Donna Hanover’s Gone to Court to Bar Her. Who’s Right?

Photographic Memory

The Season Envisions a 101 Lesson in the Medium

The Hate Report

Antigay Crime Is the Last Growth Sector