Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s approval rating is at its lowest point in eight years. According to a newly released Quinnipiac University poll, 51 percent of New Yorkers disapprove of the job he’s doing. Thirty-nine percent of those polled approve of his performance. That’s the worst rating Bloomberg has received since November 2003. The director of the [...]
The federal government isn’t doing enough to make low-cost buses like the one that crashed Saturday safe, Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday. He said he would ask the National Transportation Safety Board – the agency that investigates plane crashes – to examine the entire low-cost bus business. “They are in charge of safety across the [...]
There’s a new housing scam to report. Bad landlords, reportedly lining their pockets with taxpayer dough for housing the formerly homeless — but in deplorable conditions. The public advocate told CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer it’s got to stop. “My kids are uncomfortable. Every day they tell me that they want to move. They see people [...]
Officials are calling the city’s 520 miles of shoreline the sixth borough. It’s more shoreline than Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Portland have combined. And, they say it’s a resource that has long been neglected. “If you asked most new Yorkers how much waterfront mileage we have, they would not come anywhere close to the [...]
State Senator Carl Kruger is expected to turn himself into authorities Thursday on unspecified charges brought forth by the U.S. attorney’s office, sources tell NY1. The veteran Brooklyn lawmaker and the former finance chairman of the state Senate has been implicated in an FBI influence peddling probe since 2008. Kruger’s surrender comes a week after [...]
Governor Cuomo plans to meet with prominent gay activists in order to push for a bill that legalizes same-sex marriage in New York, sources tell NY1. They say the governor will attend a brain storming session on Wednesday in order to put together a solid measure and introduce it by June. Source: NY1 Continue reading [...]
Well-connected New Yorkers have taken the unusual step of suing the city to remove a controversial bicycle lane in a wealthy neighborhood of Brooklyn, the most potent sign yet of opposition to the Bloomberg administration’s marquee campaign to remake the city’s streets. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, comes after [...]
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has improved security despite delays and cost overruns, but says the transit system is still at risk for a terror attack. A new report by DiNapoli’s office says the MTA has completed 11 planned security projects and parts of five remaining ones. They include reinforcing bridges, [...]
Dozens of Assembly Democrats have sent a letter to Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker, criticizing Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed cuts to state education aid and calling on Mr. Silver to push for the extension of a temporary income tax surcharge on high-earning New Yorkers. In the letter, the Democrats said that Mr. Cuomo’s proposed [...]
High water bills due to leaky pipes can drain one’s bank account, but new technology from the city Department of Environmental Protection could change that. The DEP is using wireless water meters across the city and will contact residents if it sees their bills spiking. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in Douglaston, Queens today that the [...]
