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Bloomie’s Poll Numbers Hit New Low

Despite pledges to send out “scout teams” with video cameras in all five boroughs and sanitation trucks equipped with GPS tracking devices in Brooklyn to face this Friday’s snow storm, it seems nothing that Mayor Bloomberg does is going to help his approval rating with New Yorkers this month. A recently released NY1-Marist Poll of [...]

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Second Time’s a Charm

With another snow storm making its way toward the city, the MTA has announced that it will activate its highest level winter weather response plan. Although the forecast only predicts five or six inches of snow, the agency hopes to avoid a repeat of the recent snowpocalypse unpleasantness. Tonight chains will be put on bus [...]

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Panel on Life & Legacy of Mayor Koch

Tonight the Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a panel discussion, “Ed Koch and the Remaking of New York,” to discuss the mayoralty and legacy of Ed Koch. It will feature author Jonathan Soffer of NYU Polytechnic, who recently released a new biography of Koch, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New [...]

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Frank’s Barber Shop in College Point.

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Bronxdale Houses Renamed for Sotomayor

The New York City Housing Authority’s Board recently voted to rename the Bronxdale Houses and the Bronxdale Community Center for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The Bronxdale Houses were built in 1955 and are composed of twenty-eight seven-story buildings housing 3,479 residents in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Sotomayor moved into Building 24 at [...]

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Bing May Get Primary Challenge

State Assembly Member Jonathan Bing (D-UES, E. Midtown) may face a primary challenge this fall from Gregg Lundahl, a high school government teacher from Manhattan’s East Side. The potential challenge is the result of Bing’s recent introduction of a bill that would give principals the power to choose–on the basis of “merit” instead of seniority–which [...]

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BP Protest at Houston Street Service Station

On Friday evening demonstrators gathered at a downtown BP service station to express their outrage at the unprecedented oil spill affecting the Gulf Coast. Protesters fanned out along the Lafayette Street side of the BP gas station at Houston Street and Crosby Street. Police ringed the service island with metal barricades to prevent entry. The [...]

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