Stu Loeser

Oprah, Ivanka, and More in City's Newly Released Cathie Black Emails

As we reported yesterday, the Bloomberg administration lost its lengthy and expensive legal battle against a Freedom of Information Law request by Sergio Hernandez, then a Village Voice intern, requesting the administration's emails concerning the ill-fated hiring of former Schools Chancelor Cathie ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg, Gun Hypocrite: City Sells 28,000 Pounds Of Shell Casings To Georgia Ammo Store For Re-filling

A report was released earlier this week by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives showing that of the 8,793 guns seized in New York in 2011, only 1,595 were actually purchased here.Numbers like that fuel Mayor Mike Bloomberg's incessant call for other states to implement tougher reg ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg On Stop-And-Frisk: We're Better Than Philadelphia And D.C.

New Yorkers who don't like stop-and-frisk can go live in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. and see how they like the murder rates there! This is what a pretty braggy Mike Bloomberg said yesterday in response to a question from the Voice about the logic behind his repeated defense of the NYPD's cont ... More >>

Pressed on 9-1-1 Report, Mayor Bloomberg Says 'I Didn't Even Bother To Read It'

After mounting pressure, the mayor's office last week released a 133-page report on the city's emergency response protocols, which says that the 9-1-1 system struggles with inefficiencies, errors, and delays. Questioned about the findings and recommendations of the consultant's report yesterday af ... More >>

Nevermind, People, Mayor Bloomberg Doesn't Want to Take Away Your Booze

After a massive fervor must have ensued (we're guessing that liquor businesses, like liquor patrons, can be quite vocal) following the New York Post's story on the Health Department's possible plan to make New Yorkers healthier by limiting their access to alcohol through fewer stores (and ads), the ... More >>

Stanley Patz, Father of Etan, Says Kids Should Have 'Leiby Phones' in Light of Kletzy Case

Etan Patz in 1978​Stanley Patz is the father of 6-year-old Etan, who disappeared from a lower Manhattan street in 1979, making him, arguably, the most well-known missing child in New York City, as well as the first to appear on the side of a milk carton. Until last week brought another missing ... More >>

Bloomberg News Announces Editorials Reflecting Founder's Beliefs, as CityTime Scandal Blossoms

​ Big day yesterday in Bloomberg Land: First there's the $80 million computer ripoff right under the mayor's nose. If you thought that might have been embarrassing, you thought wrong. The mayor's soon-to-be-world's-largest-media-company also chose yesterday to announce that it will start publi ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Foundation Growing -- in Cayman Islands

​Mike Bloomberg's idea of charity still stops at U.S. taxpayers. The latest filings for the mega-foundation run by New York's richest resident shows that he pumped a whopping $420 million last year into his do-gooder operation - cue the cheers! -- while parking $75 million in offshore tax have ... More >>

Harry Wilson Gets Backing By Our Media Overlords

Wilson​All three New York City newspaper owners have endorsed GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, who is also backed by our mogul mayor. The real Gang of Four hasn't caballed like this since the term limits extension of 2008 and the re-election of Bloomberg in 2009. Like term lim ... More >>

NYPD Tapes 5: The Corroboration

Another police officer secretly tapes his precinct—this time in the Bronx

As Polls Go Against the Mosque, Bloomberg Preaches Religious Liberty

The Mayor stands tall

Mike Bloomberg New 'Mighty Whitey' Title Holder at City Hall

Mayor with pal, Uncle Jr. Soprano​ The Times has taken a long overdue meter-reading of Team Bloomberg's diversity hiring performance and the results are not good. Consider: --Since being elected to a third term last year, of the mayor's nine major appointments -- three deputy mayors and six co ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Wants To Make Sure No One Ever Again Pulls a Mike Bloomberg

​No one wants to read about the city charter. It's too important. Yet, every couple of decades a mayor decides that the city's constitution requires a top-to-bottom rewriting. That's what Mike Bloomberg did in March. He's appointed a 15-member commission and told it to do anything ... More >>

Barrett: The Post and Daily News Rush to Defend Bloomberg's FDNY Apartheid

​The Daily News and the Post have rushed to the defense of Fire Department exams that have given us the whitest rank and file of any big-city department in the country, with 303 black firefighters out of 8,998, a percentage that's actually lower than the last time a federal judge ruled the sam ... 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

Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate From His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!

Mayoral Candidates' Drinks: Jack & Coke "in a Dirty Glass," Tap Beer, Coke Straight

​ We tip our hat to the Examiner's alcohol reporter Dan Manzel for asking the leading New York mayoral candidates what they like to drink. Bill Thompson campaign spokesperson Janet Dickerson, obviously in a good mood, tells Manzel, "Bill would order a Jack and Coke in a dirty glass... We'll ... More >>

Sparking Resentment: Bloomberg, FDNY Top Brass -- and Media -- Skip Deutsche Bank Fire Memorial Service for Firefighters (Updated)

Mike Bloomberg boycotted the second memorial service yesterday for the two firefighters, Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia, who died at the Deutsche Bank site, so the media boycotted it with him. Not a line about it appeared in any newspaper, and only Grace Rauh of NY1 bothered to report about it ... More >>

Kyra Sedgwick Pleads for Fellow Performers in Letter to Bloomberg

​Actress Kyra Sedgwick wants Mayor Mike Bloomberg to help some visiting circus elephants she thinks are being tormented. The celeb has faxed Mayor Bloomberg a letter (which PETA provides a via its blog.) in which she asks him to assure he'll never again let allegedly elephant-torturing Ringli ... More >>

Bloomberg's Biggest Scandal—The Deutsche Bank Fire—Should Be His Downfall. Why Isn't It?

Barrett: Delaware a Tax Haven for Bloomberg? Oh, Never!

The Times recently pointed out that while President Obama makes a lot of noise about shutting down overseas tax havens, there's an "onshore Cayman Islands" right here on the eastern seaboard: the little state of Delaware.Two thirds of the Fortune 500 use Delaware to cut down on their state taxes, th ... More >>

Barrett: Bloomie, Sonia, and Barry -- A Tale of Influence?

OK, say you're on an early May visit in the Oval Office with the new president. Say you didn't support the man in 2008, won't answer press questions about who you did vote for, and are reported to have quietly told Republican leaders back home that you backed John McCain. Say you're not a lawyer and ... More >>

Wayne Barrett: Why Bloomie is Campaigning for Caroline Kennedy

Want to Work for Mike Bloomberg? What's Your Batting Average?

Softball, campaign promises, and the miserable minority-contracting record of the Bloomberg administration

Bloomy's 'All Stars'

City arranges new multimillion-dollar financing for Fulani's crew

C'mon, You Call That 'Porn?'

Shy Recruit

Shut Your Mouth

Big-Bucks Bloomy buys corporate silence in six sex and race cases

Democrats Notch a Win

Who's mad at Weiner's decision to drop out? Not his supporters