With a month left in the legislative session and unmatched conflict behind them and elections ahead of them, state lawmakers are quietly talking about putting off the remaining thorny issues until after the November elections. On Tuesday, Gov. David Paterson held his last in a series of closed-door meetings with legislative conferences. And as with [...]
If Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein were looking for allies in his latest battle with state officials over education funding, he would have found few in the City Council chamber on Tuesday. During a nearly four-hour hearing filled with skepticism that bordered on hostility from council members, Mr. Klein testified that the city badly needed [...]
After Labor Day, vacationers on cruise ships to the Caribbean and motorists to Canada will be able to apply for a new driver’s license that meets tougher federal identification requirements to re-enter the United States, beginning in June 2009. Officials said Tuesday that New York would be only the second state in the country, after [...]
A New York City panel has approved a 12-year cable television franchise agreement for Verizon. Most city households now have only one cable provider: Time Warner, which covers Manhattan, Queens, western Brooklyn, and Staten Island; or Cablevision, which serves the Bronx and eastern Brooklyn. Verizon would offer cable service in all five boroughs. Verizon must [...]
Delayed flights in the metropolitan area cost the local economy $4.9 billion in 2007, and Sen. Charles Schumer says he has a plan to fix the mess. In a report released yesterday, researchers working for the Senate Joint Economic Committee, which Schumer chairs, found that flights delayed by slow fueling, bad weather and chronically overburdened [...]
Dangling millions, sometimes billions in incentives to big companies to become part of the latest megaproject is often the cost of doing business in the city’s development market. But the lure of big business reached a new level when a developer offered last week to redesign a building in the hope that Merrill Lynch & [...]
The second-most-powerful member of the state Assembly is grappling with what one of his aides has described as a “bookkeeping nightmare.” The chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee of the Assembly, Herman “Denny” Farrell Jr., is trying to account for incongruities in the balance sheets of his multiple campaign committees, which show a [...]
More than a year after buying Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan for a record-breaking $5.4 billion, Tishman Speyer Properties has accused hundreds of rent-stabilized tenants of living somewhere other than their apartments, a tactic that residents and their lawyers say is part of an aggressive attempt to drive out low-rent tenants to [...]
City Council members are taking cabs, buying MetroCards, hiring photographers and paying pricey consultants on the taxpayers’ dime, the Daily News has learned. Lawmakers spent $7,364 on MetroCards last fiscal year, $11,234 on photographers, $254,480 on consultants and $17,502 on travel, which includes black cars, E-ZPasses and cabs, documents show. The perks are allowed under [...]
Two Democratic state senators loom as the top targets for Westchester Republicans as they gather to choose their candidates tonight. The GOP’s nominating convention, which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza in White Plains, is expected to focus heavily on the contests against Sens. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, and Suzi Oppenheimer, D-Mamaroneck, Republican leaders [...]
