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May 4, 2012
After Mounting Pressure, Mayor's Office Gives Out Hard Copies of 'Final' 9-1-1 Report
Today, the mayor's office gave out hard copies of the city's controversial 9-1-1 report to reporters that asked for it. The Voice stopped by City Hall late this afternoon to grab a copy of the 133-page consultant's report that examined the city's emergency response system. It has been a topic of m ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg Defends Not Releasing 9-1-1 Report With (Another) Newspaper Analogy
Recently, we've noticed that Mayor Mike Bloomberg likes to respond to reporters' questions in a way that he thinks, perhaps, might grab their attention best: newspaper analogies. While on the defense about a controversial issue, Bloomberg seems to enjoy taking a combative stance with reporters at p ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Michael Pena, "Rape Cop," Convicted. DA Cyrus Vance Vows "No Mercy" At Sentencing
Former New York City police officer Michael "Rape Cop" Pena was convicted yesterday of three of the top charges against him for the sexual assault of a teacher last summer, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance pledges to show him no mercy when he's sentenced in May. "In this brutal attack ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2011
NYU Professor Says He Was Fired For Giving James Franco a D
One of James Franco's MFA professors at NYU had to give the actor a D after he missed 12 "Directing the Actor II" classes in one semester. The professor, José Angel Santana, now says that the school fired him over the D and he's suing NYU in Manhattan Supreme Court. He's also taken his story ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2011
Two More Bicyclists Killed in NYC Traffic This Week
Salim VirjiTwo more NYC cyclists were killed in traffic this week.Two more bicyclists were killed in New York City traffic this week. Last night a 60-year-old man was killed near Rockaway Beach as he attempted to change lanes. The cyclist, whose identity hasn't yet been released, was taken to ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Marilyn Dershowitz and Ray Deter Killed in Separate Bicycling Accidents
Salim VirjiTwo bicyclists were killed in Manhattan traffic in the last week.It's been a bad week for bicyclists in New York. First came the news that Ray Deter, the owner of the popular d.b.a bars, was hospitalized Wednesday after a silver Jaguar hit his bicycle on Canal Street. Friday, Deter ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Bronx Synagogue Bomb Plotters Get 25 Years
Prison time for the convicted bomb-plotters.Three of the Newburgh men convicted last October of plotting to bomb synagogues in Riverdale were sentenced to 25 years in prison in Manhattan Federal Court today. James Cromitie, David Williams, and Onta Williams -- along with a fourth man, Laguer ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Undisclosed New Location Very Quickly Disclosed; Is Fancy
That didn't take long! Dominique Strauss-Kahn's new lodgings have been identified as "a posh pad in Tribeca" with all the amenities, secured by his wife, Anne Sinclair, reports the New York Post. The three-story, 6,800-square-foot townhouse on 153 Franklin Street rents for $50,000 a month, wh ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Michael Bloomberg Sued by Reporter Over Cathie Black Freedom of Information Requests
Today, I am suing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Last year, Bloomberg baffled New Yorkers when he appointed publishing executive Cathie Black to be the city's next schools chancellor. Black was an unpopular choice, and for months, responses to her appointment ran the gamut of ridicul ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
NYPD Rape Trial Hears Closing Defense Argument: Accuser Just Wants $57 Million
The defense attorney for New York City cops Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, accused of raping a drunk East Village women, delivered his closing statement in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday, calling the alleged victim a golddigger. "Fifty-seven million -- that's a lot of money," said Edwar ... More >>
Columns
April 27, 2011
Chancellor Walcott: Change That Kids Can Believe In?
Is the new broom actually just, 'another mouthpiece for the mayor'?
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Paty's Taco Truck Fights Back
Amy Zimmer/DNAinfoWhen the going gets tough, the tough bring about a lawsuit. Patricia Monroy, owner of Paty's Taco Truck, has been battling the Upper East Side over the past year. Now, she is hoping to reclaim her income and the right to sell tacos in the neighborhood, where crotchety resid ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
Allegedly Fake Diamond Heist Sounds Complicated, Fails
jurvetsonTwo jewelers are accused of hiring men to fake-rob their Midtown offices in order to collect insurance money, the New York Post reports. Mahiveer Kankariya and Atul Shah went on trial today, and the specifics of their alleged scheme sound pretty fun, if not short-sighted and poorly e ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
The Empire Diner Is Trapped in a Naming Kerfuffle
The saga of the old Empire Diner's slow metamorphosis into the new, Coffee Shop-owned Empire Diner continues: according to the Daily News, its longtime owners are stuck in a legal battle with its landlord over who owns the restaurant's name.
Blogs
November 4, 2010
Ingrates Sue Waldorf Over Bedbugs, Despite Complimentary Spa Treatments
If you're still wondering whether bed bugs are "scaring tourists away," this might help: Crain's says a Michigan family will file a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court today, suing the posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel after finding bedbugs in their room that followed them home in their luggage "and ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
Almost Half of Judge Candidates Unqualified to Run, Says NY Bar
Nearly half the candidates running for city judgeships in this year's general election on November 2 are unqualified to run, the New York City Bar Association said yesterday. Of the 34 candidates running in the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, 15 are unqualified by the Bar's reckoning ... More >>
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October 19, 2010
Cabbie-Slashing SVA Student Gets Booze-Free Bail
Michael Enright, the 21-year-old School of Visual Arts senior charged with drunkenly slashing a Muslim cab driver in August, can leave jail on a $500,000 bail package, a Manhattan judge ruled today.
Blogs
October 18, 2010
Suspect in Latest West Village Gay Attacks Was on Parole
Following the latest in a string of gay "bias attacks," police have arrested a 45-year-old Queens man for attacking two men in the West Village Friday night, including a bartender at what authorities called the city's oldest gay bar, Julius. The suspect was already on parole for a separate, s ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Shrink-Killing Schizo Unfit for Trial, Judge Rules
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge declared a mistrial this morning in the case of 42-year-old David Tarloff, the schizophrenic accused of murdering a psychologist with a meat cleaver on the Upper East Side two years ago.
Blogs
July 7, 2010
Update: City Serves Temporary Restraining Order to Bus Man Running Charters along MTA-Cut Lines
A week and a half ago, we spoke to Joel Azumah, the 27-year-old who began running charter buses along the X25, X29, X90, QM22 lines recently cut by the MTA. The city Department of Transportation sent him a cease and desist letter at the end of June, when he started his service, but he kept hi ... More >>
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December 24, 2009
Broadway Triangle Rezoning Blocked
On Monday the city council approved a rezoning plan for the Broadway Triangle in North Brooklyn that would move out several small manufacturing businesses to make way for affordable housing units. Yesterday a judge blocked the plan over the objections of the district's councilman, David Yassky, an ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Court Deals Blow to Columbia's $6.3 Billion Harlem Land Grab (Updated)
A State Court of Appeals decided this afternoon that New York State was wrong to grant Columbia University eminent domain rights that enabled it to seize land from property owners whose businesses were located in the footprint of the university's expansion. This ruling marks the culmination of a ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
Astor Trail Ending in Purple Prose
We've tried to stay away from the Astor trial but, as with O.J.'s, we've been sucked into the thrilling climax. Today we hear that superannuated boychild Anthony Marshall is "depraved" (but not, as with Officer Krupke's charges, on account of he's deprived), and that he and lawyer Francis X. Morriss ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
Barrett: Snyder's Justification for a Gun Permit Needs Updating
In Sunday's WABC-TV debate, Leslie Crocker Snyder, one of three candidates running in tomorrow's Democratic primary for Manhattan District Attorney, acknowledged that she had a gun permit, but maintained that she keeps the gun "in a vault" in her Manhattan apartment. She explained that she go ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
Even Closed, the John Dory Swims Against a Tide of Back Rent
You'd also look annoyed if you owed $75,000 in rent.For the John Dory, the end may be the beginning of even more trouble: The Daily News is reporting that Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich, who were both guarantors of the shuttered seafood restaurant, owe almost $75,000 in back rent to the buil ... More >>
Columns
September 8, 2009
History Lessons in the D.A.'s Race: Leslie Crocker Snyder's Back Pages
You'd also look annoyed if you owed $75,000 in rent.For the John Dory, the end may be the beginning of even more trouble: The Daily News is reporting that Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich, who were both guarantors of the shuttered seafood restaurant, owe almost $75,000 in back rent to the buil ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2009
Barrett: Who Screwed Up Gay Marriage in New York? All Signs Point to His Majesty the Mayor (Updated)
Does anyone remember that the Democrats came within 500 votes last year of having a 33 to 29 majority in the New York State Senate, a margin that would have averted the current chaos and maybe even led to passage of the gay marriage bill? It took three months for the Board of Elect ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
Gambino Crime Big Had an American Blast!
Say what you will about him, John Gotti considered himself a bona fide red-white-and-blue patriot. Back in the day, the dearly departed Dapper Don mounted a 4th of July fireworks show for his Ozone Park nabe that was the biggest and best thing east of Macy's barges. And maybe that was the inspiratio ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2009
Cocaine Cunnilingus Cop Firing Upheld
In 2006 NYPD pilot Dan Goldin, was suspended without pay after a positive cocaine test. He argued that he had "passively ingested" the coke while eating out girlfriend Coreen McCarthy (pictured, we think? We like to think, anyway), of whose drug habit he was unaware. The NYPD didn't go for it, and f ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2009
Troubled Tropic Zone Sued for Racist Non-Hiring of Bikini Girl
As if the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, whose management has recently been hit with rape and sexual harrassment accusations, isn't having enough trouble, now the Daily News reports that "former Hooters girl" Melody Morales is suing them for rejecting her because, the managers are alleged to have told her, " ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2008
Ponzi schemer Norman Hsu claims stories about Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff are 'prejudicial'
Hot Air's Ventilators sing "Runaround Hsu." If you hunger for a good snicker and you're somewhat of a news junkie, what's better than a concise roundup of the best Bernie Madoff news stories — the good parts, the adjectives, the apoplexy? Look no further than a December 22 court document in ... More >>
News
June 17, 2008
Mob Curse at a Midtown Hotel
Everything goes wrong for the wiseguys at the Park Central. Well, almost everything.
Blogs
March 1, 2007
A tanned McLaughlin back in court
Everything goes wrong for the wiseguys at the Park Central. Well, almost everything.
Blogs
December 6, 2006
Shooting Rally: Public Enemy No. 1?
Everything goes wrong for the wiseguys at the Park Central. Well, almost everything.
Blogs
August 24, 2006
St. Brigid's Gets 2nd Reprieve
Everything goes wrong for the wiseguys at the Park Central. Well, almost everything.
Blogs
August 7, 2006
'The Place' No More
Everything goes wrong for the wiseguys at the Park Central. Well, almost everything.
Blogs
July 28, 2006
Judge Calls Off St. Brigid's Demolition!
Everything goes wrong for the wiseguys at the Park Central. Well, almost everything.
Blogs
June 23, 2006
NEST-y Fight Ends
Everything goes wrong for the wiseguys at the Park Central. Well, almost everything.
News
December 6, 2005
Same-Sex Nups Squeeze Mayor Again
Bi-positional Bloomberg and the gay-marriage ruling
News
November 1, 2005
Grand Theft Jobs
Millions are missing at a powerful union-backed worker-training group
Specials
October 18, 2005
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Millions are missing at a powerful union-backed worker-training group
News
September 27, 2005
Mike's Mixed Message
Bi-positional Bloomberg assails gay marriage in court
News
July 19, 2005
Hard Time for Harding
Porn, coke, and embezzlement: A former Giuliani aide's shameful path to prison
News
September 21, 2004
City Goes Judge Shopping
Held in contempt for convention detentions, the city gets a Pataki court to step in
News
November 11, 2003
Taken for a Ride
Transit Union Leaders Find an Old Real Estate Deal Smells
News
July 22, 2003
Spitzer's Spiel
A.G. Backpedals on Schools, Dodges MTA Case
NYC Life
December 3, 2002
Who's the Boss?
A.G. Backpedals on Schools, Dodges MTA Case
News
August 6, 2002
Pataki's Poster Boy
State's Top Expert in Schools Case Has Controversial Racial History
News
July 2, 2002
Ticket to Nowhere
Pataki Court Decision Cites Schools as Track to Service Careers
News
May 22, 2001
Hip-Hop Under Heavy Manners
The Police’s Sunday-Night Tunnel Vision
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