Mario Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo's PR Flack Kept "File" On "Generally Snarky" Reporter

Andrew Cuomo cheerleader/New York Post state capitol bureau chief Fred Dicker may have the right idea with his incessant butt-smooching of his main-man Cuomo -- if you don't want the gov's office to keep a "file" on you, that is. An aide to the governor reportedly kept a "file" on a reporter who he ... More >>

City Panel Votes to Approve $128 Million FreshDirect Payoff (liveblog)

Last Tuesday, the city Industrial Development Agency announced that it and several other city and state bodies planned to hand over $128 million in grants, tax credits, and assorted vouchers to FreshDirect, which would use the cash to move its headquarters to the Bronx waterfront ... all the way fro ... More >>

Chancellor Walcott: Change That Kids Can Believe In?

Is the new broom actually just, 'another mouthpiece for the mayor'?

Queens Pol Tony Seminerio, 75, Dies in a Federal Pen

​Former Queens assemblyman Tony Seminerio died today in a federal prison hospital in North Carolina where he was serving out the six-year fraud sentence he received in February. Seminerio, 75, had long been in poor health. Prior to his sentencing by federal Judge Naomi Buchwald for taking hund ... More >>

The Sick Looting of Home Health Care

A connected company's license to loot—at the expense of the taxpayers, elderly, and infirm

Does Cuomo's Favored AG Candidate Have Her Own Pedro Espada Problem?

Rice​It sounds like an exotic Sandra Lee recipe: pigeon and rice. Lee is the Andrew Cuomo gal pal who took time off from her Food Network on-camera cooking duties to appear with him at his gubernatorial announcement and was famously asked by Roseanna Scotto recently on Fox Five when Andrew wo ... More >>

Primary Culler: Green Leads in Public Advocate Race, But Can He Dodge a Runoff?

​Mark Green was the first New York City public advocate -- a sort of Mayoral VP and public busybody -- and, after a two-term interregnum by Betsy Gotbaum, he looks good to become the third. But it's not such a sure thing as it once looked. When Green announced for the race he actually scared ... More >>

Mario Cuomo's Mark Green Snub Recalls 2006 Green-Andrew Cuomo Throwdown

​Former Governor Mario Cuomo, father of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, made a rare endorsement today: He likes Bill de Blasio for Public Advocate. The Times sees it as a snub to Mark Green, and no kidding: as Wayne Barrett observed in 2006, Green was not gentle with Cuomo fils in a debate dur ... More >>

Inside the Mayor's Studio: NYC-TV's Secrets of New York

The many scams of Bloomberg's hip TV execs

Paterson Drops More in Poll -- But Gay Ploy Popular

The latest Siena Poll reports Governor Paterson down a couple more popularity points to 27 percent. But it might have been worse: the Governor's gay marriage stand may have prevented an even worse slide, as 53 percent of poll-takers support the Senate gay marriage law. Still, they would prefer the ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Easter Eggs, Notre Dame, Earth Hour, Etc.

In earlier Obama days, when the market was tanking, rightbloggers talked about the "Obama Dow Jones Death Watch," "Change we cannot afford," "DOW Collapse Signaling Fear of Socialist as President?" etc. Politics West huffed that Obama, "has essentially never been an investor," and that he and hi ... More >>

Wilbert Tatum, 1933-2009

Photo via the Amsterdam News. Wilbert "Bill" Tatum, the feisty former publisher of the Amsterdam News who took on everyone from Ed Koch to the New York Post, died today in -- of all places -- a hospital in Croatia. Tatum, 76, was a world-traveler despite the diabetes that kept him confined to a w ... More >>

Paterson Joins Crowd, Denounces Non-Diverse Judge Picks

Paterson's Possible Picks: The Short List

The Hidden History of the City's Greatest Era

Days of whine and poses

The Mourning After: More Tim Russert Coverage

Mike's Well-Armed Pal

Anti-gun Bloomberg buys ammo for pro-NRA Bruno

Twisted Spitzer

Note to good-guy governor-elect: 10 reasons to stay Hevesi’s execution

Yankee Lobbyists on Taxpayers' Tab

Circling the bases: Documents reveal city paid the team's lobbyists and execs—for lobbying city and state officials

Bliss or Miss

Getting over the gay-wedding jitters

Test Pattern

City wants fewer entry points to its program for developmentally disabled children

Northern Exposures:

Clinton Does the Democratic Primaries

Papa Smurf Runs for Mayor

The John Roberts Sideshow

Hillary walks tightrope! Schumer frolics in spotlight!

Land Doesn't Pay

The city's $7 billion-a-year property tax gap—no wonder we're broke

Letters

Jack Newfield, 1938-2004

A Labor House Divided

After the Investigators, an Electoral Battle at City’s Biggest Union

Building Public Power

An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

Homeless Profit-Taking

Brooklyn Developer Pulls Bait and Switch on Neighborhood

Letters

McCall's Mess

Is the Media Hit on His Lieutenant Governor Legitimate?

What Ever Happened to Human Rights?

City and State to Discrimination Victims: Drop Dead

Code Unknown

••• How to Play the Race Card

The Race Factor

A View From behind the Scenes

Green for Mayor

Public Advocate Is the Best Choice

Jesse Jackson: The Desperate Hours

Inside the Civil Rights Power Struggle

The Nuremberg Menace

An Alleged Doctor Killer Is Arrested, and an Antiabortion Web Site Returns

The Five Worst Republican Outrages

Remembering How a President Who Promised to Unify a Nation Fixed an Election

A Readers' Guide to the Good Stuff From Rudy!

63 Hot Newsbreaks in the New Giuliani Biography

Letters

The Son Also Rises

Train Runs Over Rudy

Mayor Stands Up For City, Gets Clobbered By Runaway Commuter Tax Cut

Watershed Waffle

Rudy Takes a Dive on City Wetlands for Upstate GOP

Pataki Uncovered

Empty in the Middle

Owners Opt Out of Mitchell-Lama for Market Rents

Westside Wonderland

Are Giuliani and Pataki Planning a Stadium December Surprise?

Sticks & Stones

Is the Party Over?

Ray Harding Throws His Weight Behind the Improbable Betsy

Sliding Speech

Do Some People Deserve More Free Speech than Others?