New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to present a preliminary budget that will cut 4,286 employees from city payrolls for the 2011 fiscal year beginning July 1, administration officials said. The administration intends to fire 934 workers and reduce 3,352 through attrition, according to the plan. No police, firefighters, sanitation or corrections officers would be [...]
State Assemblyman Marc Molinaro is being urged to run for Congress, but the man who once was a 19-year-old mayor isn’t sure he’s going to heed that call. I’m inclined to continue taking on the challenges and the issues facing new York,” said Molinaro, R-Red Hook. “That said, I wouldn’t want to rule (a run [...]
The rebuilding schedule at the World Trade Center site is once again up in the air. Arbitrators have given the Port Authority, which owns the land, and developer Larry Silverstein 45 days to renegotiate a construction timetable. The decision was handed down after Silverstein sought damages and rent abatement for infrastructure delays. The arbitration panel [...]
Expect some state parks to be closed this season and others to have reduced hours under budget cuts proposed by Gov. David Paterson, state Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Carol Ash told a panel of state lawmakers Tuesday. Ash told a joint Senate and Assembly meeting on the governor’s proposed 2010-11 budget that her [...]
A proposal by a city lawmaker to begin Common Council meetings with a prayer has reignited the electric debate about the appropriateness of religious expression in government. Newly elected Councilman Anton Konev, sworn in four weeks ago, wants to amend the council’s rules to include an opening prayer at its biweekly meetings, right between the [...]
In a twist on the City Council’s much-maligned practice of including lawmakers’ names on taxpayer-funded public trash cans, one politician actually promoted himself on the steel bins by making sure his name and title appeared after he left office. Former Councilman Michael McMahon (D-SI) spent $24,000 in city funds on 46 bright green bins bearing [...]
State Senate Majority Leader John Sampson said he will not decide for at least a week whether to push for the expulsion or censure of Queens Senator Hiram Monserrate. A senate committee made a recommendation that senators should expel or censure Monserrate. Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos said a decision is overdue and the full [...]
The city’s Panel for Education policy voted to shut down 19 chronically underperforming schools. The hearing, which began Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, stretched into the morning before a single vote was held. The panel voted 9-4 to close the schools at 3 a.m. after a raucous nine-hour meeting. The hearing was [...]
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday he has “no plans” to run for president and insisted that hiring Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former media strategist is not a step toward a future White House bid. But the billionaire Republican-turned-independent appeared to enjoy the speculation when asked about the political implications of Howard Wolfson joining his [...]
A former Long Island legislator pleaded guilty day to lying to the IRS about nearly a quarter of a million dollars in unreported income. Roger Corbin, 63 admitted to filing false tax returns and to tax evasion. A developer who was awarded more than $15 million in contracts in Corbin’s district wrote $229,000 in checks [...]
