Mayor Bloomberg has yielded to Controller John Liu’s demand that the city rein in the skyrocketing cost of its 911 system modernization. Liu refused in January to approve a new $286 million contract for defense giant Northrop Grumman to design and install computer software for a $650 million backup 911 call center the city is [...]
The Bloomberg administration may need to close 105 senior centers — 40 percent of the entire system — if Albany makes good on a budget cut of approximately $25 million, city officials said on Thursday. The proposed closing would affect 8,000 of the 28,000 people who visit the centers for meals, friendship and activities. And [...]
Just a few days after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was sworn in for a third and presumably final term, Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, established a Stringer 2013 finance committee and hired three staff members. The committee will be led by Tom Kramer, a Democratic operative from Virginia who most recently worked for [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood with 34 Americans on Monday who lost loved ones in Tucson, Virginia Tech and other gun-related tragedies to demand the federal government fix its “broken” background check system. “Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns – and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally,” said Bloomberg, who also co-heads [...]
Mayor Bloomberg started his second term vowing to take on illegal guns. And as he campaigns to win a third term, he’s trying to show voters that he’s serious about his fight. “We have to protect the people of this city today. And we’re not going to wait around for anyone else,” Bloomberg said. The [...]
The Fire Department is preparing to deactivate its street alarm boxes throughout New York City as a way to save money. Mayor Michael Bloomberg included the idea in his January budget proposal. Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano told the City Council on Wednesday that it would save $6 million in the first fiscal year. He says [...]
Former New York Mayor Edward Koch is putting together a coalition of powerful civic groups to address the state government’s gridlock. Koch says the coalition will take aim at legislators standing in the way of change. The state is mired in partisan bickering. There have been calls for scandal-plagued Gov. David Paterson to resign. Koch [...]
After being sworn in for a third term Wednesday night by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz outlined his commitment to several high-profile projects. During his state of the borough address, Markowitz discussed his desire to transform the armories in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant into recreational community centers. Markowitz said he will be [...]
The New York congresswoman representing White Plains says the city’s federal courthouse should not be considered for the trial of the professed mastermind of the 2001 terror attacks. The courthouse is part of the same federal district as Manhattan, where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed originally was to be tried. New York City officials objected, and Obama [...]
David Greenfield, who’s running in a special election to replace outgoing City Councilman Simcha Felder in Brooklyn, has picked up Mayor Ed Koch’s backing – support that could be a boost in the heavily-Jewish district. “I began my career in the City Council, and I know the kind of person it takes to do the [...]
