Wall Street

Obama Picks NYC Prosecutor To Head The SEC

If you're gonna clamp down on Wall Street, it's probably best that you choose someone who's been doing it for years. In 1993, Mary Jo White became the first woman to ever become a Manhattan attorney at the federal level. During her nine-year tenure in the Southern New York district, she went after ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Is Finally Occupying Wall Street (Or At Least Trying)

Seven months after they first set up camp in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protesters are actually occupying Wall Street. But after a relatively uneventful week of lawfully sleeping on the sidewalk near the New York Stock Exchange, the protesters have been met with a strong police response over ... More >>

If You Want to Cross Wall Street, Get a Corporate I.D.

Rosie GrayBarriers up in the Financial District.​It's been over month since the beginning of Occupy Wall Street, and if you've been down to the Financial District lately you may have noticed that on Wall Street between Broadway and William (also on Broad Street and Exchange Place), there are m ... More >>

Transport Workers Union Votes Unanimously to Support Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street is in its 13th day, with support growing among factions veering from the "grungy unemployed hippie stereotype." There's the event led by two CUNY professors to protest the treatment of the protesters at the hands of the NYPD (Critical Mass has written they'll join in this rally, w ... More >>

There Will Be a Protest to Protest the Treatment of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Occupy Wall Street is now in its 12th day. This morning brought another march on Wall Street. In other cities, similar efforts are springing up. And, there are now efforts to protest the treatment the protesters have gotten from the NYPD -- most dramatically and media-attention-getting, the pepper-s ... More >>

As "Occupy Wall Street" Continues, I Have Other Protest Ideas

​Bravo to the "Occupy Wall Street" protestors who've been camped out in lower Manhattan, screaming about how Financial District greed destroyed the economy. While we're at it, let's also rail against...

Occupy Wall Street Responds to Release of Pepper-Spraying Cop's Information

Rosie GrayNYPD congregated across the street from Zuccotti Park yesterday afternoon.​Anonymous has leaked the personal information of the cop who, according to photographs and video, is thought to be responsible for pepper-spraying young women during the Occupy Wall Street protest on Saturday. ... More >>

Olek Yarn-Bombs Wall Street: 'Don't Steal From the Public'

Prolific New York City crocheter Olek has again hit Wall Street (remember the bull she covered in yarn last year), this time making a statement on a shopping cart: via @djbenharvey​

Wall Streeters Like to Spend the Summer Eating Themselves Sick

The new face of competitive eating. It may surprise you.​It seems that professional eaters aren't the only ones with a passing interest in cramming huge quantities of food matter down their throats. Wall Street types, never ones to shy away from the spotlight (or competition), like to spend th ... More >>

Shake Shack's Battery Park City Location Is Locked and Loaded

Coming right atcha, Wall Street.​As has been promised for almost a year now, Shake Shack has opened its doors in Battery Park City. And yes, it is selling neighborhood-specific concretes.

Banks Say Bye-Bye to Holiday Parties Again

​Some Wall Street bankers might need to forsake the glitzy office party for take-out and a movie this year -- TheStreet.com says many of the city's finance firms -- including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and UBS -- are either canceling or keeping "mum" about their par ... More >>

Dan Donovan: 'I'm No Sheriff of Wall Street'

​The most disturbing story of the day on the state political beat is the Reuters piece quoting Republican attorney general candidate Dan Donovan. It confirms my worst fears about him and makes Tuesday's Democratic primary all the more important. The headline is "NY Republican candidate: ... More >>

Reshma Saujani's Road to Congress? Right Down Wall Street. Let Me Be Your Guide.

Pretend you're Reshma Saujani, 34, dazzling, born to an Indian family expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, a Harvard and Yale Law School grad who returned to Africa to help build Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid government. It's late 2009 and everything you've done in your professional life since its i ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Trashes Chuck Schumer As He Crusades to Protect Wall Street Excess

​Politico reported today that Mayor Mike trashed his longtime buddy Chuck Schumer at an April 12 meeting in Mitch McConnell's Senate office in Washington. The attack on Schumer, who supports the financial reform bill now before the Senate, is part of the oddest Bloomberg campaign ... More >>

Another Probe for Another Ex-Giuliani Aide

There's a blast from the Giuliani past sitting atop the fold on Page B1 of the Times' business section this morning in the form of a photo of Charlie Millard, Rudy's former top economic aide who ran the city's Economic Development Corporation in the Giuliani era. The story about him includes the mos ... More >>

Celebrities Return to a Chastened America's Front Pages

Did you notice that a lot of the news this morning is about celebrities? "Morning Joe" has Pete Hamill and Peggy Noonan discussing Chris Brown and Rihanna. The Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer fight has been covered not only by us, but to a fare-thee-well in normally star-averse venues such as The Atlantic, T ... More >>

Wall Street's bonus army pulls bank robbery; Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing joins his U.S. mates in Afghanistan

In "Taliban resurgence pushes troops to change tack,"

CJ Wallace Continues Arduous Reign As Notorious Spokesman

Photo of Biggie's mom and son ringing the bell on Wall Street earlier today via Gothamist This remains the most awesome and endearing movie publicity tour ever. CJ Wallace for president in 2034!

Edible News Roundup

Daily Flog: For the recession, some remedial English lessons

Election Remainders: Toni Morrison

Governor, Others Plead D.C. for Stimulation

Student Near-Porn Briefly Titillates Tabloid Readers

Daily Flog: Wall Street down the drain; White House plumber summoned

Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

Release the news hounds!

Rough trade

Daily Flog: Wall Street's little piggies don't want to go mark-to-market; meanwhile, more huffing and puffing

Daily Flog: The worm turns . . . yet another profit

Daily Flog: Race colored; Wall Street red-faced; Bloomberg white-knighted; future black

Bloomberg: Raise Property Tax (Maybe), Cut Budget (Def)

The Backstory of the Financial Collapse

Call it Gall Street. How else to describe an industry that applauds nearly $500 million in bonuses for executives taking an entire economy down with them?

Eliot Spitzer: Willie Stark or Mr. Smith Goes to Albany?

While Schumer Slept

For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.

Rack Focus

Malice's Restaurant

What Rao's and a gangster-run school bus drivers' union have in common

Bush's Mandate From Above

From Security to Risk in One Easy Bush Plan

President trades American promise for a Wall Street gamble

Morning Report 12/28/04
You can't spell 'investors' without 'vests'

What Al Did to Jesse

Sharpton and Jackson: 'They were kind of the best of enemies'

Senior Moment

Social security turned over to Wall street? Your check's in the mail

Spitzer's Spiel

A.G. Backpedals on Schools, Dodges MTA Case

Nation

Victims of the Dragnet

After 9-11, Official Terror Kicks In

Letters

Black Interloper

Russell Simmons's 'Racial Contract' With Andrew Cuomo

Ground Hog

Jesse Jackson Raids the Graveyard—On Al Sharpton’s Watch

The Banker Who Broke the Law

Should the Board of Ed’s Bill Thompson Advance to the Next Grade?

Pat Jumps

Third Party Lock & Load

Nailing Coffin Nails

Trader Turned Activist Blasts Second-Hand Smoke