Randy Levine

Steinbrenners Censoring Blogs? Can They Even Do That?

Have the Steinbrenner Yankees actually reached a point where they're censoring bloggers? In today's Daily News, Bob Raissman thinks so: "The offseason speculation, triggered by the signing of reliever Rafael Soriano, has been about a rift between the Yankee hierarchy (including Hankenstein, Hal S ... More >>

Dead Boss Still Stiffing Bronx From Beyond the Grave?

​Poor dead George Steinbrenner doesn't even have a grave to spin in yet, and already he's being raked over the coals for his past sins. First came Jim Dwyer's recounting of The Boss's legacy of egotism and abuse in today's Times, which recalls how Steinbrenner shook hands with Ed Koch on a l ... More >>

State Assembly Lion Richard Brodsky Sharpens His Claws

He wants to roar as attorney general

Katrina vanden Heuvel's Lame Defense of David Paterson, Using Voice Reporting

​The Nation will let you go on a fundraising cruise with Katrina vanden Heuvel for the price of "a modest used car." I've loved her for so long I'm thinking about selling my son's 1996 Honda. Her defense of David Paterson in yesterday's Washington Post, however, was the Edsel of op-eds. And, ... More >>

David Paterson's World Series of Whoppers

How a governor threw himself out of the game

Congress Considers Congratulating Yankees; Bill's Future Uncertain (Update: Bill Passes 386-17; 11 "Present," 19 Abstain)

​Among other urgent business, the House of Representatives is considering today a bill, introduced by Jose Serrano of The Bronx, "Congratulating the 2009 Major League Baseball World Series Champions, the New York Yankees." Among the bill's many Whereases: "Whereas this year the Yankees opened ... More >>

Paterson Sets World Series Record for Dumb Cover-ups

The way it was supposed to work was that David Paterson would ride out his last days in office with something resembling statesmanlike respectability. At some point early next year, he'd take that sweet post at Columbia University, or maybe an ambassadorship in a sunny clime. The baton would pass to ... More >>

Kicking It Soviet-Style: Day Two of the Yanks-Mets Stadium Hearings

If yesterday's state assembly hearing on stadium funding focused on the big guns, today was for the hoi polloi. The city Industrial Development Agency is required to hold a public hearing before voting on new projects - in this case, $342 million in new tax-free bonds for the Yankees and Mets - so ... 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 >>

Brodsky Hearing: IBO Says Mets, Yanks Stadiums Costing Taxpayers $1.2 Billion

Play-by-play of Assemblymember Richard Brodsky's hearing on the new Yankees stadium project, continued from last post: 11:29 am: Brodsky and Yankees president Randy Levine are now squabbling over which documents have and haven't been provided when. Moments later, city development chief Seth Pinsky ... More >>

Thompson Denounces Yankee Stadium Deal; Assembly Subpoenas Yanks' Prez, Pinsky

photo by Shelley Panzarella (cc) Now we're getting a little more action on Yankee Stadium. Today comptroller William Thompson denounced the "incredible mismanagement" by the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) in failing to control city costs from the construction of the new Yankee Stadium. "The or ... More >>

Mayor Mike and the Yanks: How Suite It Is

City Hall gift-wraps another present for baseball's richest team

The Yanks on Trial: Liveblogging the Kucinich Hearings

The Houses That Ruthlessness Built

Welcome to middling baseball in sleek new cathedrals

City on Yanks Bond Details: Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later

A-Rod U-Turn?

Torre's gone, but the slugger may return

The Yanks Got Balls

City Documents Show Team Billed Taxpayers for Souvenirs, Bar Tabs

Yankees Build Giant Dustbowl in Bronx

Another Yankee Sweep

How city officials snoozed while the Yanks burned public money for their new stadium

Yankee Lobbyists on Taxpayers' Tab

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

The Bronx Bomber

While rooting the Yankees to a new home, Democratic political fixer Stanley Schlein failed his other clients

Yanks' Stadium Deal Not Over Till It's Over

Sports

The Reflective Rudy

His Honor Relishes Resurrection, Plots Future Stardom

Academic Outrage

Under Reform Guise, Giuliani Turns CUNY Into Patronage Mill

Property Rights and Wrongs

East Harlem Suit Challenges Eminent Domain

Stadium Splurge

Baseball-Bonkers Mayor Will Turn Series Into a Bonanza for Owners

The Uncle Tom Dilemma

Are Blacks Like Colin Powell Asking African Americans to Sell Out?

Rudy Vs. George

Their new battle is more about the conservative party than the schools

Rudy's Role Reversal

The Mayor's Flip-Flop on Aiding Vacco Recharges His GOP Enemies