State Senate Democrats lit a fire under Gov. Paterson Thursday to collect taxes from cigarettes sold on Indian reservations. The group argued that bootleg cigarettes bought at Indian reservations and sold on the street at a steep discount cost city bodegas, grocery stores and newstands $250 million a year in lost business – and $30 [...]
Michael Allegretti, the candidate hoping to take on Democratic Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon in the general election, has his work cut out for him in his own GOP primary – his fundraising last quarter was just over a third of his rival’s. Allegretti, who has been seen as the favored candidate by the National [...]
The Suffolk Conservative Party has endorsed Republican Lee Zeldin for the 3rd Senate District race against freshman Democrat Brian Foley. Walsh said Zeldin was chosen over two Islip contenders Tom O’Hara, a Suffolk emergency services official, and Tax Pac-er Andrea Vecchio. All three were interviewed by the 30 member executive committee in West Babylon Wednesday [...]
If Donald Trump has his way, orphaned Manhattan apartment complex Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village could one day be called TrumpTown. The Post has learned that the real estate mogul and TV personality has thrown his hat into the ring to either buy or manage the massive apartment complex, whose fate was cast into doubt this [...]
As Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo readies his candidacy for governor, one industry is helping him amass a huge fund-raising advantage: real estate. New records show that even as the industry has confronted its worst crisis in decades, developers, construction executives and real estate lobbyists have given millions of dollars to Mr. Cuomo, providing one [...]
Facing growing opposition to its plans to hold the Sept. 11 terrorist trial in New York City, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings elsewhere. Two administration officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Friday the Justice department is drawing up plans for possible alternate locations to try professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh [...]
As she tries to shore up support for her election bid, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has reportedly received the backing of one of the country’s most powerful Democrats. Former President Bill Clinton is supporting Gillibrand’s election, according to the Daily News. The paper cites a Clinton aide, who says the former president thinks Gillibrand is doing [...]
Assemblywoman Joan Christensen’s announcement that she plans to retire from the state Legislature puts the 119th Assembly District up for grabs, but no political hopefuls seized the opportunity Wednesday to announce their candidacy. Democrat Jane Fahey-Suddaby, 54, of Onondaga, is the only candidate who has said she is running for the job. Two other Democrats [...]
State Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt plans to launch her re-election campaign during a fundraiser Thursday. “I feel like I make a difference. I think I really understand – being a business owner, a wife and mother – what the demands are of the average New Yorker,” she said. Rabbitt, R-C-Greenwood Lake, represents District 97, which includes [...]
Charles Schumer says the $8 billion in federal stimulus awards for rail projects the White House is announcing Thursday include $151 million for seven projects in New York. Most of the money – $147 million – is for five improvements along the east-west Empire Corridor, including installing a second track and warning devices between Albany and Schenectady, [...]
