Martha Stark

A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Swine is the word! It started out as a mere public health emergency. Some kids got sick in Queens and they closed their school. Then it went viral, so to speak, becoming the new thing everyone's enemies caused. Another Queens school closed. A kid died in Texas. Two Brooklyn schools closed. The Isr ... More >>

Martha Stark, Modest Political Embarrassment to Mayor, Resigns

You might not have noticed (and, gotta be honest, we didn't either) that Martha Stark, the city finance commissioner, was being investigated for a... well, a few things. Stark was thought to have conducted a possibly inappropriate relationship: she had been dating her now-former assistant commission ... More >>

Finance Commissioner, Modest Political Embarrassment to Mayor, Resigns

You might now have noticed (and, gotta be honest, we didn't either) that Martha Stark, the city finance commissioner, was being investigated for a.. well, a few things. Stark was thought to have conducted a possibly inappropriate relationship: she had been dating her now-former assistant commissione ... More >>

When Elephants Fight: Not-quite-liveblogging the Brodsky Yankees Hearing

This morning in Yankeefunland: Assemblymember Richard Brodsky's surprise last-second hearing on the latest round of taxpayer-financed Yanks and Mets stadium bonds, with promised testimony (under duress) from Yankees president Randy Levine and city Economic Development Corporation chief Seth Pinsky ... More >>

E-mails Show City's Tricky Math in Yankee Stadium Deal

This morning in Yankeefunland: Assemblymember Richard Brodsky's surprise last-second hearing on the latest round of taxpayer-financed Yanks and Mets stadium bonds, with promised testimony (under duress) from Yankees president Randy Levine and city Economic Development Corporation chief Seth Pinsky ... More >>

The Yanks on Trial: Liveblogging the Kucinich Hearings

This morning in Yankeefunland: Assemblymember Richard Brodsky's surprise last-second hearing on the latest round of taxpayer-financed Yanks and Mets stadium bonds, with promised testimony (under duress) from Yankees president Randy Levine and city Economic Development Corporation chief Seth Pinsky ... More >>