Mayor Bloomberg's Mini-Victory
For a normal mortal, Michael Bloomberg's 5-point mayoral win would be a healthy victory. For him, it looks like a desperate scraping of the barrel.
For a normal mortal, Michael Bloomberg's 5-point mayoral win would be a healthy victory. For him, it looks like a desperate scraping of the barrel.
brooklynpaper.com | Tom Callan | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg rolled to a third term on Tuesday, but he didn't win Brooklyn. Challenger Bill Thompson won a majority of the ballots cast by borough...
AP | MIKE FITZPATRICK | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Paint the town in pinstripes! Nearly a decade after their dynasty ended on a blooper in the desert, the New York Yankees are baseball...
nydailynews.com | John Marzulli | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
El Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 gang allegedly put out a contract on the federal agent responsible for a crackdown on its New York factions, the Da...
nydailynews.com | Frank Lombardi | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
White City Council members will be in the minority for the first time based on Tuesday's general election results. And, as expected, voters certified ...
Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
Minutes before Mayor Bloomberg announced his victory, Bill Thompson delivered his concession speech to a disheartened crowd. After a brief surge of...
AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
NEW YORK - Politically pedigreed trial lawyer Cy Vance has been elected as Manhattan's first new district attorney in 35 years. The Democrat had 92...
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — President Barack Obama's decision in June to appoint a Republican congressman to a Pentagon post has paid dividends in November n...
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg won a third term as New York mayor Tuesday in a closer-than-expected race against a Democratic challeng...
The National | David Samuels | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
New York City has been battered and bruised by the economic crisis, but now the Yankees are headed to the World Series. In a season at the team's new ...
HuffingtonPost | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
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Crain's New York Business | Aaron Elstein | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Bank of America's leaders have long been drawn from the crew who transformed a once-modest North Carolina-based lender into a nationwide institution. ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology
eBay will open a temporary "holiday store" in New York City on November 20, according to WWD. WWD says that shoppers at the popup store "will have ...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Dede Scozzafava's eventual loss, or maybe it should be bracketed as the eventual rise of the tea party class candidate, was inevitable. GOP party bosses are o-u-t, because they've failed to deliver.
AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making...
nytimes.com | TIM MCKEOUGH | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Cooler temperatures often drive people indoors, but not everyone is disappointed by the change of seasons. Douglas Wright, an architect with Hart Howe...
NY1 | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Law enforcement sources say the off-duty police officer accused of a DWI that killed a Bronx woman had a blood alcohol level of .21....
AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
LINCOLN, Neb. — The mother of New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain faces up to 20 years in prison when she's sentenced next month on a felo...
nytimes.com | PATRICK McGEEHAN | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Less than two years ago, the Brooklyn Brewery found itself in a bind that had squeezed many companies out of New York. It wanted to expand, but the ra...
B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Today we will see the crawl, but next year we will see the running. The bouillabaisse of discontent has been churning, and this year's minority will be a movement looking to step up.
AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city. Proulx, whose works include the P...
nytimes.com | Randy Cohen | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
It is election day, and here in New York we are voting for mayor, or, more accurately, not voting. The campaign of the current mayor, Michael Bloomber...
nydailynews.com | Kerry Burke and Jonathan Lemire | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
A Bronx high school senior who stepped out for lunch Sunday was shot in the shoulder during a robbery attempt, police said. ...
nydailynews.com | Robert Gearty and Greg B. Smith | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
On the eve of his corruption trial ex-NYPD top cop Bernard Kerik was offered a plea deal that would get him out of jail in under three years, the Dail...
Posted 11.03.2009 | Comedy
As the New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies this week, the Eagles were crushing the Giants. This unprecedented moment in the New York/Phila...
Dan Collins | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York