Today the Media Reports Instead
NY Times Cheesecake for the Soul: A ‘Golden Girls’ Cafe Opens (NYT) The tonic that is a timeless show about four aging housemates is being dispensed in Manhattan.
Daily News Mayor de Blasio pushes mansion tax in Albany that wouldfund affordable housing for seniors (NYDN)
Sal Albanese @SalAlbaneseNYC NYC political reporting especially on local races is almost non existent. As print media sheds reporters it leaves a huge void.* I recall when @nytimes actually had a great reporter, Jonathan Hicks devoted 2 elections in NYC Currently they hardly cover the Mayor's race * I recall local press outlets covering local races with some good reporting. That's also generally history. Today they are 1 big ad * Press corps is apathetic about political reform even though it's one of our greatest problems
True News' Modest Proposal for the City's Homeless Crisis: NYT House the Homeless On the Emplty Floor of Your HQ
Instead of Cheerleading on A New de Blasio's Plan to House the Homeless (All the Others Have Failed), the NYT Should Put Their Money Where Their Mouth is and Set An Example for Community Fighting Hotel Shelters by Housing Homeless in Their Empty Headquarters Building
Fighting for New York’s Homeless: What’s Fair? (NYT) After a long, lagging period of resistance, Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced a plan to develop 90 shelters across New York, to mitigate the soaring rate of homelessness, which has characterized life in the city as profoundly as luxury-condominium construction in recent years. The plan is part of a broader strategy, outlined in a 128-page paper released by the city, to reduce the number of homeless people living in primary shelters by 2,500 over the next five years, employing prevention — fighting illegal evictions, for instance — and rehousing efforts. That figure represents only a small fraction of the 60,000 people currently in the shelter system, and if the goal seemed less than ambitious, especially for someone who came to power on the rhetoric of fighting inequality, Mr. de Blasio at least seemed willing to acknowledge it, adopting a sober tone that contrasted with Mayor Eric M. Garcetti’s recently as he addressed housing problems in Los Angeles. If fair share legislation passes, Mr. de Blasio will have to sell neighborhoods hesitant about accepting homeless shelters on the idea that economic integration is a good idea, vital to civic health. Does he have the charm to do this? *
2 Weeks After WNBC Reported de Blasio Will Meet With Federal Prosecutors the NYT Informs Its Readers of the Meet With Bharara
De Blasio May Be Interviewed by Federal Prosecutors on Friendly Turf (NYP) Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to be questioned at his lawyer’s office, not at the office of the United States attorney in Manhattan, in an inquiry into his fund-raising. It was unclear when exactly the interview would take place, but it was expected to be conducted in a conference room at offices of Mr. de Blasio’s lawyer’s firm in Midtown Manhattan, people with knowledge of the matter have said, not in the offices of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan. It was expected that the interview would last about four hours, the people said. The parameters of the session took shape after extensive negotiations between prosecutors and the mayor’s lawyer, Barry H. Berke, the people said, and it was possible that some details could change. The prosecutors overseeing the fund-raising investigation have been examining whether the mayor or others in his administration traded favorable city action for donations to his campaign or to his now-defunct nonprofit political group. They want to question the mayor about more than a dozen topics, several of the people have said. It was unclear, however, whether the negotiations that led to the meeting resulted in any sort of set agenda. The offices of Mr. Berke, of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, should be well known to the Mr. de Blasio: He held fund-raisers there in 2013 and 2014, and three meetings in 2014 and 2015, according to his public schedules. Some donors who were at the first fund-raiser there have come under scrutiny in the federal inquiry. It was unclear whether the second event came under similar scrutiny, but it was probably of interest to prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been conducting a separate inquiry. Mr. de Blasio told reporters last month that he had been questioned in connection with the state inquiry, which is focused on possible violations of election law during the mayor’s unsuccessful effort to help Democrats retake control of the State Senate in 2014.
The NYT Kill NJ Gov Christie While It Down Play de Blasio Meet With Feds on Criminal Matters "Friendly Turf" INDEED
It is unusual for federal prosecutors to question a subject of a criminal investigation in the offices of the subject’s lawyer. Such sessions, which can become contentious, are almost always conducted in the prosecutor’s offices. It was unclear why the federal prosecutors agreed to hold the meeting at the Kramer Levin offices. Spokesmen for Mr. Bharara’s office and the F.B.I. declined to comment. A federal grand jury has already heard some testimony in connection with the fund-raising investigation, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. Because grand jury proceedings are secret, few details were available about the witnesses who have appeared so far, the substance of their testimony or the nature of other evidence that may have been presented. It was also unclear whether the panel had been asked or would be asked to weigh charges against the mayor or any of his senior aides in connection with the inquiry.
The NY Times Has Been Covering-Up the de Blasio Lobbyists Shadow Govt Berlin Rosen Conflict of Interests for 3 Years That Supreme Court Justice Lobis Pointed Out
The NY Times Has Not Reported On the de Blasio Bharara Meeting That the Mayor is Stone Walling the Press On
The NY Times Which Will Not Write About Bill's Upcoming Meet With Preet Breaks the News that Mayor Will Not Meet With the SI Groundhog
Staten Island Groundhog Won’t See Mayor’s Shadow Bill de Blasio again decided not to attend the annual Staten Island ceremony, the sort of ritual appearance he seems to take pride in skipping.
Under 8 Federal Investigations the Times Keeps Printing Campaign Flyers for the Mayor's Reelection As They Continue to Bash NJ Gov Christie
De Blasio and Big City Mayors Try Pooling Their Power Against Trump (NYT) New York’s mayor, casting himself as a defender of immigrants, minorities and others, is among those rallying urban leaders.* ‘Abandoned’ in New Jersey, Chris Christie Returns to a Changed Landscape (NYT)
First NYT Pushes Clinton for Mayor Now Cuomo for President in 2010
Andrew Cuomo Raises His Profile, Stirring Talk of a 2020 Run (NYT) Though it’s premature to pick a front-runner for the next presidential race, there is reason to speculate about a possible bid by the governor of New York.*
Judge raises concerns over de Blasio’s ties to consultant (NYP)
The NY Times Has Been Covering-Up the de Blasio Lobbyists Berlin Rosen Conflict of Interests for 3 Years That Supreme Court Justice Lobis Pointed Out
The NY Times Has Not Reported On the de Blasio Bharara Meeting That the Mayor is Stone Walling the Press On
Is the NY Times Writing Stories About Clinton and Cuomo Running for More for Clicks on Their Site FAKE NEWS? Everyone NYP, DN & NY Mag
Clinton vs. de Blasio for New York Mayor? Unlikely Idea Has People Talking (NYT) From political circles in New York City to cocktail parties on Capitol Hill, two of the biggest untethered threads in New York politics are being drawn together around a single question.* Clinton vs. de Blasio for New York Mayor? Unlikely Idea Has People Talking (NYT) More Fake News Sat
Media has really fallen down on this:human cost of failed Albany policies that pushed people into poverty and drove others out of the state. **
Today the Media Reports Instead
NY Times Cheesecake for the Soul: A ‘Golden Girls’ Cafe Opens (NYT) The tonic that is a timeless show about four aging housemates is being dispensed in Manhattan.
Daily News Mayor de Blasio pushes mansion tax in Albany that wouldfund affordable housing for seniors (NYDN)
Sal Albanese @SalAlbaneseNYC NYC political reporting especially on local races is almost non existent. As print media sheds reporters it leaves a huge void.* I recall when @nytimes actually had a great reporter, Jonathan Hicks devoted 2 elections in NYC Currently they hardly cover the Mayor's race * I recall local press outlets covering local races with some good reporting. That's also generally history. Today they are 1 big ad * Press corps is apathetic about political reform even though it's one of our greatest problems
True News' Modest Proposal for the City's Homeless Crisis: NYT House the Homeless On the Emplty Floor of Your HQ
Fighting for New York’s Homeless: What’s Fair? (NYT) After a long, lagging period of resistance, Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced a plan to develop 90 shelters across New York, to mitigate the soaring rate of homelessness, which has characterized life in the city as profoundly as luxury-condominium construction in recent years. The plan is part of a broader strategy, outlined in a 128-page paper released by the city, to reduce the number of homeless people living in primary shelters by 2,500 over the next five years, employing prevention — fighting illegal evictions, for instance — and rehousing efforts. That figure represents only a small fraction of the 60,000 people currently in the shelter system, and if the goal seemed less than ambitious, especially for someone who came to power on the rhetoric of fighting inequality, Mr. de Blasio at least seemed willing to acknowledge it, adopting a sober tone that contrasted with Mayor Eric M. Garcetti’s recently as he addressed housing problems in Los Angeles. If fair share legislation passes, Mr. de Blasio will have to sell neighborhoods hesitant about accepting homeless shelters on the idea that economic integration is a good idea, vital to civic health. Does he have the charm to do this? *
2 Weeks After WNBC Reported de Blasio Will Meet With Federal Prosecutors the NYT Informs Its Readers of the Meet With Bharara
The NYT Kill NJ Gov Christie While It Down Play de Blasio Meet With Feds on Criminal Matters "Friendly Turf" INDEED
The NY Times Has Been Covering-Up the de Blasio Lobbyists Shadow Govt Berlin Rosen Conflict of Interests for 3 Years That Supreme Court Justice Lobis Pointed Out
The NY Times Has Not Reported On the de Blasio Bharara Meeting That the Mayor is Stone Walling the Press On
The NY Times Which Will Not Write About Bill's Upcoming Meet With Preet Breaks the News that Mayor Will Not Meet With the SI Groundhog
Staten Island Groundhog Won’t See Mayor’s Shadow Bill de Blasio again decided not to attend the annual Staten Island ceremony, the sort of ritual appearance he seems to take pride in skipping.
Under 8 Federal Investigations the Times Keeps Printing Campaign Flyers for the Mayor's Reelection As They Continue to Bash NJ Gov Christie
De Blasio and Big City Mayors Try Pooling Their Power Against Trump (NYT) New York’s mayor, casting himself as a defender of immigrants, minorities and others, is among those rallying urban leaders.* ‘Abandoned’ in New Jersey, Chris Christie Returns to a Changed Landscape (NYT)
First NYT Pushes Clinton for Mayor Now Cuomo for President in 2010
Judge raises concerns over de Blasio’s ties to consultant (NYP)
The NY Times Has Been Covering-Up the de Blasio Lobbyists Berlin Rosen Conflict of Interests for 3 Years That Supreme Court Justice Lobis Pointed Out
The NY Times Has Not Reported On the de Blasio Bharara Meeting That the Mayor is Stone Walling the Press On
Is the NY Times Writing Stories About Clinton and Cuomo Running for More for Clicks on Their Site FAKE NEWS? Everyone NYP, DN & NY Mag
Media has really fallen down on this:human cost of failed Albany policies that pushed people into poverty and drove others out of the state. **
Is de Blasio Meeting With NYT's Sulzberger to Respond to Expected Fed Indictments Connected to Rivington Nursing Home Deed Change and Closing of LICH?
Mayor de Blasio Vows to Shield New Yorkers From Trump’s Policies (NYT)
NYT Using Defense Lawyers, Political Consultants as Sources Fake Conclude The Feds Cannot Make the Pay to Play Case Against de Blasio
Federal Inquiry Into Mayor de Blasio Is Said to Focus on Whether Donors Got Favors (NYT) An investigation into the mayor’s campaign fund-raising has zeroed in on whether donations were exchanged for beneficial city action in several cases, people with knowledge of the inquiry said. The focus on the roughly half-dozen cases comes as investigators appear to have concluded that several other fund-raising or related matters that had been under federal scrutiny, or were the subject of state or local inquiries, now seem less likely to yield criminal charges, according to several of the people, who include defense lawyers, city officials, political consultants and others with knowledge of the matter.
NYT Which is the Official Flack of the Developers Says What Happening to the Mom and Pop Stores
The Times Called de Blasio A Good Mayor: They Must Have Meant Good At Giving Their Developers Friends Whatever They Want
A lot of people do share his view. We call them Donald Trump supporters. Mr. de Blasio has generally been a good mayor, with good programs and a good administrative team. But he can’t plausibly continue to insist on his integrity and openness while refusing to take questions he doesn’t like. In his peevishness, he is slouching toward something ugly. There are no safe zones in politics — nor should there be.
Mayor de Blasio Vows to Shield New Yorkers From Trump’s Policies (NYT)
NYT Using Defense Lawyers, Political Consultants as Sources Fake Conclude The Feds Cannot Make the Pay to Play Case Against de Blasio
NYT Which is the Official Flack of the Developers Says What Happening to the Mom and Pop Stores
The Times Called de Blasio A Good Mayor: They Must Have Meant Good At Giving Their Developers Friends Whatever They Want
NYT Death of News and A Great Reporter is All the News to Print Today is No News
Deja Vu All Over Again.... Even in death, the Times revisionists say his column was "discontinued," as if the printing press failed..
NYT Death of News and A Great Reporter is All the News to Print Today is No News
Sydney H. Schanberg Is Dead at 82; Former Times Correspondent Chronicled Terror of 1970s Cambodia
Sulzberger killed Schanberg's column about the paper's refusal to cover the crooked Westway deal being promoted by Koch and Mario Cuomo..... it is now 2016.... the paper covers hot dog eating contests while Mayor Wilhelm-DiBlasio-Walker and his band of gonifs loot the city.... Jim Callaghan
How the NY Times Protects de Blasio by Ignoring Journalism
The Day After True News Punded the NYT for the 100 Time Protecting de Blasio NYT Finally Hit Him on CONY But Did Not Connect Dots to the Corruption Being Investigated Connected With It
Mr. de Blasio and the Spirit of the Campaign Finance Law (NYT)Mayor Bill de Blasio is clearly relieved that the New York City Campaign Finance Board did not find that he and his aides violated the law by raising and spending large amounts of money through a nonprofit organization to promote his agenda. But he should not feel absolved. The board all but accused City Hall of making a mockery of the city’s strict campaign-finance laws by soliciting big contributions from special interests for the organization, called the Campaign for One New York.The organization ran an advertising and advocacy campaign for two of the mayor’s biggest policy goals, universal prekindergarten and more affordable housing. Mr. de Blasio and his associates raised money for it from unions, developers, corporations and others in the usual cast of characters who nurture their close connections to politicians in power. Mr. de Blasio escaped legal jeopardy because the nonprofit did much of its work in 2014, too long ago to have any immediately discernible connection to the mayor’s re-election effort. On that narrow issue — whether the Campaign for One New York was actually a Campaign for Two de Blasio Terms — the board decided the case could not be made. But it wasn’t happy about it.The fund-raising conducted by the Campaign for One New York plainly raises serious policy and perception issues,” its report said. “More than 95 percent of the funds it received would have been prohibited under the laws that apply to candidates for office — including contributions from corporations, limited liability companies, and people doing business with the city. Most contributions exceeded the limit applicable to candidates, and at least a dozen were as large as $100,000.” But disclosure of donors does not cure a corrosive culture in which deep-pocketed special interests funnel boatloads of cash to elected officials — if not directly, then through organizations that the politicians create and control.If the mayor were serious about ending the influence of “pay to play” in politics — as he used to be when he was the city’s public advocate — he would endorse recommendations by the Campaign Finance Board and good government groups like Citizens Union, which have called for the City Council to make groups like the Campaign for One New York subject to the city’s campaign-finance law, with strict spending limits, full public disclosure and no connection to anybody trying to do business with the city. If Mr. de Blasio cares about ethics and accountability, he should be proposing this change.
How the NY Times Protects de Blasio by Ignoring Journalism
The Day After True News Punded the NYT for the 100 Time Protecting de Blasio NYT Finally Hit Him on CONY But Did Not Connect Dots to the Corruption Being Investigated Connected With It
NYT Still Trying to Prop Up de Blasio to Show He is A Play in Albany While In Florida On Vacation
Mayor de Blasio and Assembly Speaker Coordinate Closely in State Budget Fight (NYT) Mayor Bill de Blasio keeps in touch with Speaker Carl E. Heastie to make sure New York City ’s interests are represented in budget talks in Albany .* Bronx leader to protect its interests in the budget battle..* Timing of Mayor de Blasio's Florida vacation raises eyebrows (NYDN) Mayor de Blasio surprised some Albany Democrats by taking a four-day Florida vacation this past week as the state budget negotiations were coming down to the wire.
NYT Still Trying to Prop Up de Blasio to Show He is A Play in Albany While In Florida On Vacation
Mayor de Blasio and Assembly Speaker Coordinate Closely in State Budget Fight (NYT) Mayor Bill de Blasio keeps in touch with Speaker Carl E. Heastie to make sure New York City ’s interests are represented in budget talks in Albany .* Bronx leader to protect its interests in the budget battle..* Timing of Mayor de Blasio's Florida vacation raises eyebrows (NYDN) Mayor de Blasio surprised some Albany Democrats by taking a four-day Florida vacation this past week as the state budget negotiations were coming down to the wire.
How is A Historic Progressive Mayor the Hero of Business Leaders and the NYT?
De Blasio’s New York Feels Effects of Recovery to Relief of Business Leaders
(NYT) With tourism, construction, wages and employment all up, Mayor
Bill de Blasio appears to have won over many economic leaders who feared
his “tale of two cities” speeches.* When Bill de Blasio was running for
mayor on a starkly liberal platform in 2013, some of New York ’s
business leaders feared the city’s economic well-being was doomed. But
now that he has settled into the second half of his four-year term, the opposite has happened.
How the NYT Cherry Picks the News to Help Those They Support With Meaningless Anecdotes to Distract From the Real Story
Even the NYT is Against the Central Park Horse Deal, But Says Nothing About the Mayor's Pay to Play Pay Deal With the Council Central Park Conservancy Pressuring the NYT
Three major NYC daily newspaper editorials reject mayor's horse carriage plan; will @NYCCouncil listen? Zero community support for plan.
Suzannah B. Troy l@unitedNYblogs is this like Bloomberg Quinn slush money to buy an illegal 3rd term, Bill trying to buy 2nd term?
Why All 3 Paper Editorials Oppose Mayor's Horse-Carriage Plan Means Nothing to Council Members
Three major NYC daily newspaper editorials reject mayor's horse carriage plan; will @NYCCouncil listen? Zero community support for plan.
As True News Follows Thomas Nass Using It's Editorial Pictures to Explain Corruption the News and Post Go Fleet Street Selling Sex to Get Internet Hits
NYT Continues to Does All It Can To Flack Protect de Blasio
A modest decline in crime is expected by the end of the year in New York City , despite rhetoric to the contrary and high profile problems like the shooting of officers and growing homelessness, The New York Times writes: New York City , despite rhetoric to the contrary and high profile problems like the shooting of officers and growing homelessness, The New York Times writes: * * New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to have a fragile peace with police officers, receiving praise for being more “pro-cop” after public feuds early in his administration , the Daily News reports: * The Daily News Josh Greenman writes that New York CityMayor Bill de Blasio is "in the toaster," in danger of not being reelected, because he tends to over promise and under deliver and has failed to connect with voters: * Returning to His BronxNeighborhood on Christmas Eve, a Teenager Is Fatally Shot (NYT) * The @AP looks at @BilldeBlasio's 2015: a yeardefined by feud with @NYGovCuomo …
David Frum @davidfrum NYT hed: "Anxiety Aside, New YorkSees Drop in Crime.” (pls don’t read the story, which shows both rape & murder up)
Cuomo de Blasio War the Housing Battle as the NYT Like Aways Sides With the Mayor
A battle over housing policy is rekindling the feud between Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who opposes the governor’s proposal to add state oversight of the city’s affordable housing bonds, The Wall Street Journal reports: * * If Cuomo were serious about solving the affordable housing crisis, he would not be trying to place new layers of state control over the city’s use of federal tax-exempt bonds to build and preserve affordable rental apartments and may be purposely sabotaging the mayor, The New York Times writes: * A battle over housing policy is quietly rekindling the feud between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Cuomo administration wants to add oversight to the city’s affordable-housing bonds, a measure the city fears will slow development and cause uncertainty among developers—and imperil the top item on the mayor’s agenda. * The New York Times: “Cuomo, who should be using his power to make New York City more hospitable to working-class and middle-class families, has instead slipped a little poison into his executive budget that could cripple the city’s ambitious efforts to build affordable housing…It’s not a stretch to call this sabotage (of de Blasio’s agenda).”
More on Cuomo
NYT Should Have Asked Quinn Why She Did Not Push to Combine HRA and Dept Homeless Services During Her 8 Years Speakership
More Designer News From the NYT to Protect Their Guy de Blasio on Homeless FU
Cuomo’s executive order on homeless people was confusing and seems like a move to exploit de Blasio’s weaknesses, but to really end the problem the pair needs to cooperate to build supportive housing and improve shelters, the Times writes:
So far, neither de Blasio nor Cuomo has real answers on the homeless (NYP) Sometimes Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio truly deserve each other — as when it comes to dealing with the homeless. Because so far neither man seems serious about getting these folks off the streets — even in the cold. Recall that when The Post spotlighted the surge of aggressive panhandlers and vagrants using streets as bathrooms, de Blasio denied it. Half a year later, he still has no plan to fix the problem. Even now, he claims “temperature alone doesn’t necessarily constitute” a reason to take a person to a shelter. “If someone’s not in danger, the law says that they still have rights to make that decision themselves.” Huh? Who wouldn’t be “in danger” living on the streets in below-freezing temps? Yet Cuomo isn’t moving to change the law — let alone to take folks off the streets in warm weather, which is only slightly less cruel.* Cuomo’s order to remove homeless people during frigid weather angered some living in the streets who fear it would lead to harassment, complained about shelter conditions or called for more affordable housing, the Times reports: * Cuomo took another swipe de Blasio’s handling of the homeless, charging that people live in the streets because they’re afraid of the city’s unsafe and dirty shelters, the Post reports: * As part of the de Blasio administration’s effort to overhaul homelessness services, the city will end its use of private apartments, known as “clusters,” to house the homeless, and convert them into low-rent housing, the Observer writes: * Daily News says that Cuomo’s executive order ongetting homeless people off the streets in freezing temperatures would “change lots,” writing that New York City’s response will show how in sync de Blasio and Bratton are with the governor* The city’s homeless shelters are a last resort for many New Yorkers, but they’re attractingan increasing number of people from out of town. Roughly 1 in 6 adult couples and 1 in 10 families with kids who enter the shelters gave a previous address from outside the five boroughs.* City-run lodging for homeless families has become a wretched refuge, plagued by thousands of serious code violations, a comprehensive new report by NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has found. In response, de Blasio will announce a “substantially increased” effort to identify problems and quickly upgrade shelter conditions. * Cuomo’s executive order on homelessness is drawing a mixed, muted response from municipalities across the state: Some are taking incremental actions and others aren’t doing much of anything.
The Wicked NYT Whose Lives is de Blasio Improving? Homeless? NYCHA Tenants? Bad School Students?
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The Feds Sent Over A Dozen Queens Pols to Jail and the NYT Says the Problem With DA Brown is That He Has Been In Too Long?
More Creative Flacking and His NYT's Mini Me NYT on Vet Homelessness
Decrease in Homeless Veterans in New York Far Outpaces National Drop (NYT) Even as homelessness has surged, the city has recorded a drop of 80 percent in the number of veterans living in shelters or on the street since 2009 — though some advocates question the counts. * De Blasio's Pride Over Ending 'ChronicHomelessness' Is Premature: Veterans (DNAINFO)
"If you are homeless person who lives in a homeless shelter you are still homeless. Are you chronically homeless? No. But you still don't have a permanent home," said Kristen Rouse, executive director of the NYC Veterans Alliance. * De Blasio can claim a victory in his battle against homelessness, as New York City succeeded in getting every U.S. military veteran struggling with mental illness, disability or addiction off the streets, the Daily News writes:
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But unlike Mr. Johnson in the Bronx , who presided in a courthouse with extensive delays and was criticized for a seeming reluctance to aggressively pursue corruption cases, Mr. Brown has a solid reputation. Statistics highlight his office’s successes. In 2014, Mr. Brown’s staff had the highest percentage of convictions in the five boroughs after arrests for violent felonies and domestic violence, a point of pride for the office. The borough’s average arrest-to-arraignment time that year — just over 18 hours — was the lowest in the city. The voters in Manhattan and on Staten Island have had more choices in recent elections. Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Democrat, was elected district attorney in Manhattan in 2009 after defeating two others in the primary. He succeeded Robert M. Morgenthau, who served for 35 years before retiring at 90. On Staten Island , Michael E. McMahon, a Democrat, defeated a Republican for the post last month. But change did happen in Brooklyn after the longtime incumbent, Charles J. Hynes, a Democrat, was ousted by voters in 2013. He had been in office since 1990. His successor, Ken Thompson, a fellow Democrat, announced in 2014 that the office would stop prosecuting most low-level marijuana cases. Mr. Thompson also set up a Conviction Review Unit, and 17 convictions have so far been overturned.* The last time Queens DA Richard Brown, who has been re-elected six times, faced an opponent was 1991. He’ll become NYC’s longest-serving prosecutor in January. In an era when criminal justice reform is an increasing part of the conversation in New York City, and district attorney seats in Brooklyn and Manhattan have turned over in recent years, some people find his longevity a problem.
NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal Reporting Drip Drip Drip
Prosecutors named Mr. Litwin as a co-conspirator during a sidebar conference with the judge and defense lawyers that went largely unnoticed. In addition to its role at the heart of the government’s case against the Skeloses, both of whom were convicted of bribery, extortion and conspiracy this month, Glenwood also figured prominently in the federal corruption trial of Sheldon Silver, The name of Mr. Litwin was just one example of the way the two corruption trials revealed how entwined the interests of Glenwood and other developers are with the business of the state. Testimony, documents, emails and other evidence provided the most detailed look to date at the ways in which Glenwood and others deftly worked the levers of power to marshal tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions through a maze of limited-liability companies, trade associations and political groups, with Senator Skelos himself soliciting and directing the money at times.
NY Times Failed Kingdom
In NYT's 10,000 Word Story On Corrupt Glenwood RE Not One Mention of U.S. Attorney Bharara
Glenwood’s entanglement in the Skelos case was so pronounced that a senior executive with the company, Charles C. Dorego, testified under a non-prosecution agreement. Testimony and company records presented at trial showed Glenwood had sought and received favored treatment in Albany by spending more than $10 million on campaign donations since 2005 alone. Few pockets were spared: Glenwood’s largess was documented in a 54-page printout admitted as evidence that covered the developer’s political contributions over the last 10 years, funneled through 26 different limited liability companies. The money, according to Mr. Dorego, Glenwood’s senior vice president and general counsel, was used to ensure the developer would continue to benefit from tax breaks, government financing and favorable rent laws. One program alone saved them as much as $100 million, he said.
NYT Last To Realize Three Men In A Room Has Ruled Albany For Decades
In NYT's 10,000 Word Story On Corrupt Glenwood RE Not One Mention of U.S. Attorney Bharara
NYT Last To Realize Three Men In A Room Has Ruled Albany For Decades
Taken together, the two trials also brought into sharp relief a view of the broader Albany landscape, where critics say a thin veil of representative democracy had obscured the unchallenged exercise of power by the state capital’s ruling triumvirate: Mr. Skelos and Mr. Silver, until their arrests earlier this year, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat.
The Only Reason Albany Renews 421-a Every Two Years or So is to Milk the Real Estate Contributions
Both the Skelos and Silver trials underscored Glenwood’s philosophy that its generous political support was a minor cost of doing business. Mr. Dorego told the jury the company reaped an estimated $50 million to $100 million in savings over an unspecified period from one state program alone, a real estate tax-abatement law called 421-a. The State Legislature must renew the law periodically through a process essentially controlled by the two legislative leaders and the governor.
Keeping the Senate in Control of the GOP Was Needed By Glenwood RE to Keep Making Millions With the 421-a Tax Break Program
The NYT Covers-Up The Fact That Lobbyists Runes and Meara Were At the Center of Silver and Skelos's Corruption
The Media Ha Not Done One Story That Bharara Went After Silver and Skelos Shut Down Moreland
One of Cuomo’s bold moves was creating another Moreland Commission designed to weed out all aspects of wrong doing. That grandiose plan faded within months, when the governor suddenly decided to shut down the panel. As a result, Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, had sufficient grounds to probe into that decision too. Some critics on Capitol Hill are still convinced that the governor may have felt intimidated by what direction the commission seemed to pursue. Was the investigation perhaps moving too close to the Governor’s Office? Albany , especially reform advocates, were calling for a special legislative session focusing on ethics and changes required to restore the public confidence in government. Cuomo, never keen on calling back the lawmakers for that reason, said he could not legislate morality or intelligence and that his administration had already proposed every ethics law imaginable.* Asked about Moreland commiss in light of Silver, Skelos convictions, @NYGovCuomo says, "It was a temporary process. ... It did its job."
Media and Good Govt Groups Cover Up How Lobbyists Were at the Center Of Corruption In Both Silver and Skelos Convictions
Lobbyist Cites Unease Over Payments to Sheldon Silver (NYT) The meeting at the State Capitol in Albany took place nearly four years ago, but Richard Runes, a lobbyist who oversees government relations for Glenwood Management, a major real estate developer in New York, recalled his unease at what he had discussed with Sheldon Silver, then the speaker of the Assembly. The two men had spoken about an agreement between Mr. Silver and Glenwood, in which Mr. Silver received undisclosed payments from a law firm to which Mr. Silver had allegedly pushed Glenwood to refer some of its tax business. Mr. Runes, testifying on Monday in Mr. Silver’s federal corruption trial in Manhattan , said he felt “shock and surprise” at the news of the payments. Mr. Runes’s testimony, which began on Friday, is part of the second prong of the government’s case, in which prosecutors say Mr. Silver received about $700,000 in illegal payments from the law firm Goldberg & Iryami in return for having referred it certain tax business from Glenwood and a second developer, the Witkoff Group.
For Months True News Has Been Reporting the Interlocking-Directorates of the Corrupt Shadow Govt That Controls NY
On Friday, another Glenwood lobbyist, Brian Meara, testified that while vacationing in Florida in 2011, he received a call from Mr. Silver, who mentioned how he might need to file new forms disclosing certain fees he had received. Mr. Meara said he was “surprised and concerned” and called either Mr. Runes or Charles C. Dorego, a Glenwood executive. Mr. Runes testified that he spoke with Glenwood’s owner, Leonard Litwin, and Mr. Dorego. Yet Mr. Runes said he remained “uncomfortable with the arrangement,” and did not discuss it with anyone else. “It was too hot,” he said. Ultimately, Mr. Silver’s fee-sharing arrangement was described in a side letter that the speaker signed, but it was omitted from the retainer agreement between Glenwood and the law firm. Mr. Runes, asked by the judge, Valerie E. Caproni, what he thought was being accomplished by putting the agreement in a separate letter, said he believed that retainer documents were filed publicly, “whereas the side letter would not be.” * Albany lobbyist Richard Rune said he felt uneasy over payments to then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for referring tax business to a firm and for outlining related terms outside of the main retainer, The New York Times reports:
Cuomo vs de Blasio is Now All About the 2016 Fight for Control of the State Senate
With the state Board of Elections deadlocked on a decision to close the LLC loophole, the issue will probably be taken up in the state Legislature, where state Senate Republicans and big money will do everything they can to buy the outcome, theTime Union writes: * As the battle for control of the state Senate heats up, the chamber’s Democrats have filed a formal complaint over a $1 million contribution to the Republicans from their former leader Joseph Bruno, the Daily News’reports: * As the battle for control of the state Senate heats up, the chamber’s Democrats have fileda formal complaint with the state Board of Elections over a $1 million contribution to the Republicans from their former leader, ex-Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.
TIMES SHUFFLE: New York Times Albany bureau chief Susanne Craig will soon be leaving her post at the Capitol to lead the paper's coverage of City Hall, several people briefed on the Times' plans told POLITICO. A Pulitzer Prize finalist who previously covered Wall Street, Craig arrived in Albany late in 2013, and was the lead byline on a July, 2014 story about the Cuomo administration's interactions with its ostensibly independent Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption. Craig will replace Michael Grynbaum, who announced on Twitter that he is leaving the paper's City Hall bureau after five years to cover television. Craig did not comment; Times metro editor Wendell Jamieson said in a brief phone interview that he expects to make an announcement today. -- Jimmy Vielkind * Susanne Craig of The New York Times will leave the state Capitol to lead the newspaper’s coverage of New York ’s City Hall, and Jesse McKinley will be promoted to Capitol bureau chief in her place.
Mayor 15 Year Plan to House the Homeless As the NYT Stand By Their Man de Blasio
Bill puts up the money (NYDN Ed) No one can now say that Mayor de Blasio stands by idly as the mentally ill homeless sleep on subway grates. On Wednesday, he announced a $3 billion commitment to house and serve 15,000 suffering souls over the coming 15 years.*City creating 15K units of supportive housing (NYP) * City Moves Forward Without the State to Build Housing for the Homeless(NYO)* New York’s Rise in Homelessness Went Against National Trend, U.S. Report Finds (NYT) An annual homelessness report by the federal government found that New York’s homeless people accounted for 14 percent of the national total * Tackling the Homeless Crisis, Without Mr. Cuomo NYT EDITORIAL BOARD The ill will between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the governor makes it harder to find a solution to homelessness in New York City .* The NYT says that in a “better world” de Blasio and Cuomo would work together to address homelessness in the city, but they “are stuck in a malfunctioning relationship that has turned once-routine city-state partnerships and problem-solving exercises into an unusually fraught psychodrama.”* Asked in a radio interview to describe his greatest failure in office, de Blasio said he “didn’t explain to people well enough what we were doing to address homelessness,” though he was proud of the efforts, theDaily News writes * De Blasio said fail
True News Wags the Daily News to Show Outrage Against Silver, But Paper Still Not Investigating and Connect More Corruption Dots
The governor’s creation of the anti-corruption panel in 2013, known as the Moreland Commission, brought high hopes; it began to uncover what many of its members believed were the institutional problems forming the bedrock of Albany ’s troubled culture. Among them were two broad issues that are expected to figure prominently in both trials: ineffectual campaign finance laws that give moneyed interests — especially large real estate developers — outsize influence; and lax financial disclosure rules that allow corrupt lawmakers to list part-time jobs or consulting work to mask political payoffs. Often, this work is listed at law firms that represent clients with business before the state. These laws and rules, largely written by the lawmakers themselves, are seldom enforced. The cases against Mr. Silver and Mr. Skelos, who remain in office but who relinquished their leadership positions after their arrests, were among several investigations that either grew out of or were spurred by the work of the Moreland Commission, which Mr. Cuomo abruptly shuttered in March 2014, outraging good-government groups. He closed it in a deal to pass modest ethics reforms that year, but the move led Mr. Bharara’s office to examine the shutdown and the governor’s role in it. The status of that investigation is unclear.
Sheldon Silver'scrimes against New York (NYDN Ed) Federal prosecutors appear poised to give New Yorkers a civics lesson in how their state government has really been working. Silver rigged financial disclosure rules so as to hide the sources of his income, thus facilitating a hidden flow of money while brazenly claiming that he was living up to the letter of the law. He controlled internal Assembly ethics investigations, and perverted outside probes by maintaining secret sway over supposed watchdogs. And he perfected one-person rule of the Assembly so that he could decide which bills passed and on what terms
Insiders are Are Saying It is A Miracle
That Developers Who Paid the Bribe, Lobbyists Who Arranged the Deal and Law Firms That Made Money Where Not Charged
“As the U.S. attorney has clearly outlined, Weitz & Luxenberg had no knowledge of the alleged scheme described by prosecutors,” a spokeswoman for the firm said. Both Litwin Glenwood's Charles Dorego and Glenwood's Lobbyist and Silver Pal Brian Meara were not charged with a crime in exchange for become a federal rat.* Last Week • As Assemblyman Silver and Skelos head to trial, lawmakers, lobbyists, aides and others involved in state politics are bracing For A Proctology Exam of Albany’s culture and Corruption
For Some Reason the NYT Does Not Give the Name of the Govt Witnesses Litwin Glenwood's Charles Dorego and Glenwood's Lobbyist and Silver Pal Brian Meara
"Prosecutors in the case against Mr. Skelos have contended that the developer funneled a $20,000 payment to the senator’s son and helped him get work as a consultant at an environmental technology company, a field in which he had no experience. They are expected to present evidence, including testimony from a Glenwood executive and a lobbyist for the company, that the senator pressured the developer to help his son and the developer did so because of concerns that Senator Skelos would take action to hurt the company. Two lobbyists for Glenwood are expected to testify at Mr. Silver’s trial.
NYT Attacks Cuomo On NYCHA Security $ Warning flags are often but not always present in criminal cases, and they are perfectly reliable predictors of danger only after the fact — which is usually when policy makers step in with quick fixes. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for example, who has been locked in disagreement with the city over state funds to repair
The NYT Calls the National Political Consultant A Racket That Makes Campaigns More Expensive and May No longer Be Effective
The NYT Ignores Local Campaign Consultants Who Also Function As Lobbyists and As the Skelos and Silver Trial Showed At the Center of the Albany Corruption
The PoliticalConsultant Racket (NYT) But for all those millions, Mr. Bush’s spending has not translated into support in the polls — he currently stands at about 5 percent nationally, compared with 38 percent for the front-runner, Mr. Trump. Mr. Bush’s difficulties show that giving voters a steady diet of television ads is great for the consulting industry, but it offers diminishing returns for the candidate and turns off some voters in the process. Political consultants are not entirely to blame for this state of affairs, but they do benefit from a flawed system that they helped create. Political consultants earn fees and commissions by turning the billions of dollars given to candidates, political parties and “super PACs” — like Mr. Bush’s Right to Rise — into the products and services of contemporary campaigns, especially TV (and Internet) ads. More money means more ads, and more ads means more money. Spending on consultants has surpassed the previous two campaigns at this stage — even setting aside Jeb Bush’s big media budget. Figures in millions of 2015 dollars. The result is a system of big money donors, expensive campaigns and incessant political ads. Free speech is not really free. Money talks in American politics, and the political consulting industry is the main beneficiary — no matter which candidate eventually wins.
NYT Sees Flacking As Journalism and Lobbyists As News Sources
Sweet Smell of Not Today: Press Agents Wait Out ‘This Pope Thing’ (NYT) With Pope Francis in town, those who toil in public relations struggled to have their entreaties heard on the holiest of busy news days. Mortimer Matz has been cajoling reporters and buffing reputations in New York City for 55 years. Papal visits, he said on Friday, rank among his toughest days on the job. Pragmatism can be employed, too. “This is the perfect day to announce a crisis, and no one would care,” said Maureen Connelly, a former press secretary to Mayor Edward I. Koch, who recalled disclosing resignations and other unpleasantness on busy days. Put out bad news when the pope is in town, said George Arzt, another Koch aide, “and you get a box in the paper. It’s terrific.” John Gallagher, an executive at Mercury Public Affairs, said his advice for clients on Friday was simple: Wait.
NY Times Continues Spin For the Mayor Instead of Focusing On What is Causing the Homelessness New York City is planning to add more housing for homeless adults and children fleeing domestic violence, the latest effort by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration to deal with the homelessness problem, The New York Times reports:
Times Continue to Flack for de Blasio Using the Pope Visit
Mayor Bill de Blasio is determined to harness the influence and celebrity of Pope Francis whose populism, he believes, has much in common with his own goals of combating inequality and injustice, The NewYork Times reports:
NYT Official Flack HQ for Team de Blasio
NYT Defends de Blasio for His Albany Failures
Monday Update
Despite Cuomo’s Claims, de Blasio Hails ‘RealProgress’ on 421a (NYO) * * *
New Yorkers get a break: Crucial reforms to the 421-aprogram survive Albany,giving the city the chance to accelerate affordable housing production (NYDN Ed) * New York City’s Burden Grows Heavier in Albany (NYT Ed) Cuomo and Republicans in the State Senate worked hard to make life miserable for Bill de Blasio this year. It is always galling to see the mayor of the nation’s biggest city begging for the bare essentials inAlbany . Without the approval of New York State ’s lawmakers, New York City ’s elected leaders can’t raise most taxes, can’t really control traffic, can’t even run their own public schools. This week, as legislators finished their annual session, the anti-urban agenda seemed even more pointed than usual, a direct aim at New York City ’s Mayor Bill de Blasio. Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Republicans in the State Senate this year worked hard to make life politically miserable for Mr. de Blasio and his 8.5 million constituents. NYT de Blasio A Victim? Veterans in the state capitol suggest that lawmakers are taking their revenge for Mr. de Blasio’s meddling in last year’s elections. The mayor, a Democrat, vigorously campaigned against Republican state senators. (Only in Albany are legislators supposed to run for office without real opposition.) And when Republicans won, they took aim at the mayor. Mr. de Blasio also pushed Governor Cuomo into firmly declaring his support for a more progressive than usual agenda last year in order to gain support from the liberal Working Families Party.* Cuomo’s Bid to Make Albany Work Was Tested (WSJ) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s claim that he cured the capital of dysfunction has been complicated this year by a protracted legislative session thrown into disarray by corruption charges against both legislative leaders. * Mayor Quiet as City Officials Slam Final Albany Deal (NY1) * Cuomo's AlbanyIs Pricing Us All Out Of NYC (Gotamist) * How Andrew Cuomo Sold Out New York City Renters to a Pack of WealthyLandlords | The Nation * 421-a deal brings more anxiety for real estate developers (Capital) Requires unions, developers to negotiate on wages * The 421-a tax break deal enacted in Albany has developers worried and rushing to get planned buildings into the ground, but new rental projects seem to be out of the question, Capital New York reports * The short-term Big Ugly deal on 421-a has real estate developers gearing up for the next round of negotiations. * New York City developers are questioning a deal on the 421-a program, including a provision to negotiate a wage mandate for construction workers, with insiders predicting court challenges, Crain’s writes:
Despite Cuomo’s Claims, de Blasio Hails ‘RealProgress’ on 421a (NYO) * * *
New Yorkers get a break: Crucial reforms to the 421-aprogram survive Albany,giving the city the chance to accelerate affordable housing production (NYDN Ed) * New York City’s Burden Grows Heavier in Albany (NYT Ed) Cuomo and Republicans in the State Senate worked hard to make life miserable for Bill de Blasio this year. It is always galling to see the mayor of the nation’s biggest city begging for the bare essentials in
Its Not Shocking That the NYT Called City Boy Cuomo de Blasio's Political Bully
Governor Cuomo, ‘City Boy’ (NYT Ed) He needs to use his power to make sure his hometown gets the help it needs. Mr. Cuomo should now put pressure on his Republican allies in the State Senate to give the city’s mayor full control of schools. The Times accuses Cuomo of political bullying and says that the issues de Blasio pushed in Albany this past week—schools, housing and mass transit—need real solutions, not political one-upmanship
Why the NYT Kisses Developers Asses Ads
"Everything you love about Brooklyn"?: marketing push for 550 Vanderbilt condo begins (AYR) It was hard to miss, the half-page advertisement on Page 4 of the New York Times Real Estate section yesterday for 550 Vanderbilt, with thatdeceptive rendering we have gotten to know.
From the NYT: "City housing is another problem that cries out for the governor’s help. Instead, the governor is criticizing the mayor’s efforts at compromise as “a giveaway to the developers.” What would really be a giveaway is a simple extension of rent laws and tax breaks for developers. The city loses thousands of affordable rental units a year, and that will continue unless the state gives those with rent-stabilized apartments a better chance of staying put."
NYT Reports On Landlords and Developers Buying Up Bed-Stuy But Ignores the Cancer (421-a) Driving the Gentrification Market
In Bed-Stuy Housing Market, Profit and Preservation Battle (NYT) A tall and slender man of 60, he has lived several blocks from the cleaners for close to a year now, during which he has watched investors and developers canvass the streets looking for properties from which they might extract significant profits. “They’re up and down here every day,” he told me, as he recounted getting approached by someone who offered him money to unearth information about the owners of a neighboring townhouse. It is standard in Bedford-Stuyvesant to see posters calling on locals to join the dubious mission of turnover.
“If you find someone who want to sell you will get up to $20.000.00 for finder fee,” reads one, somewhat inexplicably. In response to all of this, fliers in the neighborhood recently warned older black homeowners, many living in brownstones passed down through generations, to protect themselves from getting bilked by predatory, and by implication, racist real-estate interests. (“Free leg or thigh if you sell your grandma’s deed!” one of them proclaimed. This particular enticement to fury ran under the headline “Landgrabbers Realty Corp.,” and featured a drawing of a drumstick.) It is hard to overstate the acquisition frenzy that hangs over Bedford-Stuyvesant, and to reconcile it with some of the realities that persist in the neighborhood, where the felony assault rate is more than three times what it is in Park Slope. When I met Mr. Leow and his team last week — a team that includes a young broker named Mipam Thurman, the brother of the actress Uma Thurman, who told me he had to move to Flatbush because he couldn’t afford to buy anything in Bedford-Stuyvesant — they showed me a house on Lafayette Avenue that had just gone into contract for slightly under the asking price of $1,550,000. * Anti-Gentrification Fliers Plastered Throughout Stuyvesant Heights in Bed Stuy (Brownstone) *
True News Wags the NYT On the Harm the 421-a Program Does
NYT Responds to True News Reporting That 421-a Is Destroying NYC Housing
De Blasio’s Housing Push Spurs Anxiety Among Those It’s Meant to Help (NYT) Mayor Bill de Blasio’s drive to build 80,000 apartments to combat income inequality has aroused fears of more gentrification and more displacement.* The New York City Independent Budget Office released a report on the effect the 2008 changes to the 421-a tax credit have had on the location of the buildings that utilize the tax exemption: *vCalls to Reform 421-a Grow As Deadline Looms(YNN) * A coalition pushing for a “prevailing wage” for building trades workers at developments getting 421a tax breaks has lined up the support of the New York State AFL-CIO, the state’s 2.5 million-member umbrella labor group.
Last Week True News Wrote:
The NYT Real Estate Ruse Distruction Blinders
The Victims of 421-a, Gentrification, Closed Hospitals Ignored by NYT
Are the Homeless the Real Victims of the Developers, NYT?
Homeless in New York City, an Unending Crisis (NYT Ed) Without support from political leaders, the number of people forced to live on the streets will continue to rise.
Are the People Being Forced Out of Bushwick By Gentrification the Victims, NYT?
Displaced, Dispersed, Disappeared: What Happens toFamilies Forced Out of Bushwick? (City Limits)
Are the Tenants Who Landlord to Push Out In Gentrifying Neighborhoods Victims, NYT?
Are the Tenants Who Landlord to Push Out In Gentrifying Neighborhoods Victims, NYT?
BrooklynLandlords Accused Of Trashing Apartments Arrested (WCBS) An alleged Brooklyn slumlord and his brother were arrested Thursday morning, accused of creating appalling and squalid conditions for tenants. Joel Israel and his brother, Amram, were led in handcuffs into the courthouse in downtown Brooklyn on Thursday for their arraignment, CBS2’s Valerie Castro reported. * 2 Brooklyn Landlords Accused of Making Units Unlivable AreArrested (NYT) *Brothers Joel and Aaron Israel—collectively forming JBI Management— made headlines last year for taking such drastic measures as blasting a crater-sized hole in the middle of one family's Bushwick apartment at 98 Linden Street, as well as incurring similar miseries on the occupants of other properties in Greenpoint and Williamsburg.* NYT Calls the Speyer's Victims of Skelos. But the Real Victims Are the New Yorkers On the Short End of Speyer's and Their Real Estate Gang Tax Break Development Ripping Apart People's Lives
Do the People Who Will Die Because of Closed Hospital by Developers Victims, NYT?
Rudin's St. Vincent's site will have five individualized condo ...(NYT) * De Blasio’s proposal to reform the 421-a tax abatement program would allow some landlords whose benefits are scheduled to expire soon to keep them under certain conditions, Capital New York reports:
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There is No Crying In Baseball or Shame Over At the NYT
De Blasio’s support of the Boston Red Sox has complicated his reception in the city, yet his passion for baseball has informed his management philosophy, vocabulary and kept him awake beyond his bedtime, theTimes reports:
When BdB's flacks r looking 2 get a puff piece published they go straight 2 the Times and that rookie reporter.
From the NYTs on Charges That Were Dismissed Against Bharara by the Court
News of the investigation follows the arrest this year of AssemblymanSheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, and his resignation as speaker; any criminal case against Senator Skelos, the majority leader, would throw the Capitol into further tumult. His critics have accused him of grandstanding, and say his unusually blunt public condemnations of how business is done in Albany have crossed the line for a federal prosecutor. Mr. Bharara’s office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to comment.
De Blasio-allied group defends LICH deal to brownstone Brooklyn (Capital) The outside group that advocated for Mayor Bill de Blasio's pre-K plan is sending out a mailer praising a deal that resulted in a dramatic downsizing ofLong Island College Hospital
NYT Leaves Out Berlin Rosen Illegal Campaign and Lobbying Work
Or the Firms Cheney Like (Brainwashing) and the Privatization of Tammany Hall Corruption
De Blasio-allied group defends LICH deal to brownstone Brooklyn (Capital) The outside group that advocated for Mayor Bill de Blasio's pre-K plan is sending out a mailer praising a deal that resulted in a dramatic downsizing of
In 2011 NYT Took A Deeper Look At Skelos's Law Firm Lobbyist's Arm . . . And Never Followed Up
Where is the Follow Up?
The law firm that employs Mr. Skelos, Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, has an independently run lobbying division, Empire Government Strategies, which notes on its Web site that it has “solid relationships with elected officials in every region of New York.” The chairman of the lobbying operation, Arthur J. Kremer, a former assemblyman, said he had no contact on official business with Mr. Skelos, a Nassau County Republican. Albany North Hempstead Cavalry Portfolio Services, LLC $75,000.00, Canon USA , Inc. $72,000.00, Association of Wholesale Marketers and Distributors (NYS) $65,000.00, Jetro Cash-and-Carry $65,000.00, Great Neck Water Pollution Control District $60,000.00, Caithness Long Island, LLC $27,
Bagdad NYT and the Rest of the Media Sees Not Corruption in NY Real Estate . . .
While the Feds Indictments Connects the Dots Between Family Lobbyists and Albany Pols
Skelos Son's Glenwood Corruption Connection According to people familiar with the questions being asked by federal authorities, investigators are seeking to determine whether Senator Skelos exerted any influence in matters involving AbTech. They are also examining whether his son’s hiring as a consultant was part of a scheme in which the senator, in exchange, would take official action that would benefit AbTech or another company, Glenwood Management, a politically influential real estate developer that has had ties to AbTech. * .@edmangano testified before grand jury probing @SenatorSkelos & his son, was one of several LI pols to do so * Survey: New YorkMost Corrupt State
NY Real Estate Uses Lobbyists Like Meara and Berlin Rosen to Do Their Dirty Work Protecting Themselves From the Law
NY Real Estate Uses Lobbyists Like Meara and Berlin Rosen to Do Their Dirty Work Protecting Themselves From the Law
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Gray Mommy NYT Protects Her Mayor From Bully Cuomo
NYT Does Not Want PO Healey Who Was Attacked With An Ax to Only Get A Pension of $27 Dollar-A-Day, But Took $100 Million from A Mexican Billionaire for Themselves
After the Death of Two Cops and A Police Crisis Council Finds $$$ to Buy New Effective Bullet-Proof Vests
NYPD finally getting new bullet-proof vests(NYP) Brooklyn . * City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-ViveritoPhoto: Brigitte Stelzer “It’s sad that it takes this long and a tragedy to make them realize there are more important things to spend money on,” said a law-enforcement source.
.Leaked SONY Emails Catches Dowd's Show and Tell
Is the NYT Sending A Message to de Blasio to Keep Sharpton At A Distance
There are more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against the Rev. Al Sharpton and his for-profit businesses, and his balance with the state, at least, has grown in recent years
Questions About Sharpton’s Finances Accompany HisRise in Influence(NYT)
No Follow Up to the NYT Investigation Into Cuomo's Appointed Anticorruption Commission During the Entire Governor Campaigns . . . Did the Storm Out Work?
NYT Pushes Mayor's Housing Ideology Plan Because He Means It
From the NYTs: Can New York Be Affordable Again?(NYT Ed) "Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mission to create housing for all, including working- and middle-class families, is timely and exciting. Albany ,” sounds vague and impossible. But Mr. de Blasio seems to mean it."
Fact and Reality: Stop the Gentrification Push Out In Crown Heights Before Promising to Do it City-Wide Hundreds of Black Residence Are Being Push Out of Crown Heights and the City Has Nothing to Stop It. Why doesn't the NYT demand the mayor stop the push out in Crown Heights to demonstrate that it is possible to stop gentrification push out with his increased development that he promised in his Stat of the City speech.
Raging Gentrification is Creating A New Racial Divide in Crown Heights
Racially Charged Shouting Match Heats Up Crown Heights Rezoning Debate (DNAINFO) CROWN HEIGHTS — An already heated debate over possible new development rules in Crown Heightsturned into a racially charged shouting match Wednesday night. * The Community Board 9meeting — which was supposed to give the public a chance to discuss the shaping of a City Planning Department study about how the neighborhood should be rezoned —devolved into arguments after a local rabbi urged the community to leave race out of the conversation. Rabbi Eli Cohen of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council condemned “the rhetoric that’s gone out trying to [set] one neighbor against the other, one race against another, one religion against another," alluding to recent brochures and emails distributed by the activist groupMovement to Protect the People.
The NYT calls de Blasio's housing plan timely and exciting mission. His plan is to build aggressively and densely, and demand that a significant portion of new units be permanently affordable. Use all means possible to protect what’s there, including strengthening rent regulations and tripling, to $36 million a year, the amount the city spends to protect tenants from greedy landlords in housing court.
Mr. de Blasio’s skeptics are right about some real estate truisms; the people with lots of money are poised to win no matter what — they will get their water views and dog salons — and developers will profit mightily. And in parts of the city on the churning edge of the gentrification wave, as in stretches of Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights Barclays Center Manhattan , giant luxury towers still sprout skyward, while rich foreigners park their money in luxe apartments that stay empty.
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The NYT's Wind Cartoon About Cuomo Is Proof That Their Ideology Has Destroyed Their News Judgement
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The Gothamist Says the NYT Endorsement of Cuomo is An Old Fish Story
For millions of years, Barracuda have hunted us down and torn our flesh with their enormous jaws. But barracuda are also really shiny, and hopefully they will stop devouring us. For this reason, we are endorsingBarracuda for governor. Sardines chose not to make an endorsement in the primary to send a strong message to the Barracuda that their sedulous pursuit of sardine mass murder was unreasonable. So far, Barracuda have ignored this gesture; Barracuda seem to take special joy in eating our children. Barracuda denied harming any sardines, promised a full and independent investigation ofthe food chain, and appointed a group of sardines to lead the investigation. No one has seen those sardines since. Still, Barracuda's opponent, Bluefish, have not shown a willingness or the experience to lead (Bluefish also eat sardines). Barracuda can be counted on to strike quickly and painlessly. You can see Barracuda coming. For these reasons, despite the concatenation of carnage that has characterized Barracuda's relationship with sardines, we support Barracuda for reelection. This time it will be different.
Who is Paying to Plant News In the NYT?
r governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, making theirs a shockingly successful protest. But the controversial decision by the editorial board in the governor's race is one of the few in this primary that fell on the right side of history. While the Times did not endorse Teachout, the paper did endorse Wu, who lost to Kathy Hochul. In State Senate District 34, covering parts of the Bronx and Westchester county, the Times endorsed Oliver Koppell, who lost a nasty campaign against Independent Democratic Conference leader Jefflein. In Queens ' District 11 the Times endorsed John Liu, whose challenge to incumbent Tony Avella, another I.D.C. senator, failed.
Endorsement Power Meltdown
In the Assembly, the Times endorsed former investment banker Gus Christensen in the 76th Assembly District, covering parts of the East Side of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island . He lost to attorney Rebecca Seawright. A race in which the Times-endorsed candidate won was, in this sense, an outlier: the primary in Brooklyn 's Assembly District 52, where the paper supported Jo Anne Simon over the longtime Working Families Party activist Peter Sikora (who had the endorsement of mayor Bill de Blasio). After Christine Quinn had seemed to work hard to gain the Times' endorsement for mayor last year only to lose to de Blasio, there was muttering that a Times endorsement might not be the agenda-setter it has historically been presumed to be in New York 's downstate Democratic primaries. Last night's results won't make the presumption any easier to maintain.To be clear, the mixed record shouldn't be taken as evidence that the Times endorsement doesn't matter. While some of its candidates of choice ended up losing in competitive races—Liu and Christensen—other of the Times' "failed" endorsements, like Koppell and Wu, were principled suicide missions. So a pure win-loss analysis would punish the paper for having the courage of its convictions, rather than being cheaply transactional. About that, though: The Times no longer appears to be completely sure what its convictions are, when it comes to the mission of the editorial board itself. Part of the board's justification for that odd, tradition-defying Cuomo-Teachout non-endorsement was that Teachout wasn't thought to a plausible candidate for governor. But that didn't stop them from endorsing Wu, who had even less political experience than Teachout, and who duly proceeded to outperform his unendorsed running mate by more than 20,000 votes.
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In the Assembly, the Times endorsed former investment banker Gus Christensen in the 76th Assembly District, covering parts of the East Side of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island . He lost to attorney Rebecca Seawright. A race in which the Times-endorsed candidate won was, in this sense, an outlier: the primary in Brooklyn 's Assembly District 52, where the paper supported Jo Anne Simon over the longtime Working Families Party activist Peter Sikora (who had the endorsement of mayor Bill de Blasio). After Christine Quinn had seemed to work hard to gain the Times' endorsement for mayor last year only to lose to de Blasio, there was muttering that a Times endorsement might not be the agenda-setter it has historically been presumed to be in New York 's downstate Democratic primaries. Last night's results won't make the presumption any easier to maintain.To be clear, the mixed record shouldn't be taken as evidence that the Times endorsement doesn't matter. While some of its candidates of choice ended up losing in competitive races—Liu and Christensen—other of the Times' "failed" endorsements, like Koppell and Wu, were principled suicide missions. So a pure win-loss analysis would punish the paper for having the courage of its convictions, rather than being cheaply transactional. About that, though: The Times no longer appears to be completely sure what its convictions are, when it comes to the mission of the editorial board itself. Part of the board's justification for that odd, tradition-defying Cuomo-Teachout non-endorsement was that Teachout wasn't thought to a plausible candidate for governor. But that didn't stop them from endorsing Wu, who had even less political experience than Teachout, and who duly proceeded to outperform his unendorsed running mate by more than 20,000 votes.
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As Profits Dive NY Times Get High On Pot
New York Times Profit Slips(WSJ)* 'New York Times' legalize pot editorial pushes debate USA TODAY * The New York Times' Explanation for Why It Still Drug-Tests Employees Is ...The Slatest (blog) * The New York Times Co. Posts $88.1 Million Loss ...(NYT) * New York Times Profit Sinks 85% - Wall Street Journal * New York Times Earnings Fall 54 Percent In Second Quarter(Huff Post)
As Profits Dive NY Times Get High On Pot
New York Times Profit Slips(WSJ)* 'New York Times' legalize pot editorial pushes debate USA TODAY * The New York Times' Explanation for Why It Still Drug-Tests Employees Is ...The Slatest (blog) * The New York Times Co. Posts $88.1 Million Loss ...(NYT) * New York Times Profit Sinks 85% - Wall Street Journal * New York Times Earnings Fall 54 Percent In Second Quarter(Huff Post)
It is Clear That the NYT Can't Play the Game of Journalism Anymore in this Town
More News Traffic and Weather From the NYT (Just Like Local TV News)
Another Nail in the Kingdom's Coffin: Who Are the Local Opinion Writers? Stengel,Berra?
The NYT is losing the power to effect elections in NYC. Does not look like their endorsement attracted any of their readers to vote against Rangel
Before There Was the NYT City and State Cracked the Moreland Staff in April
* Exclusive from May 11: Internal Moreland Commission documents obtained by City & State reveal the Commission investigated the questionable campaign spending of around two dozen state lawmakers, including state Sens. George Maziarz, John Bonacic, Patrick Gallivan and Greg Ball:
NYT Silent On Local Impact of Citizens United Even After Two Councilmembers Were Fined
NYT's Not Even One Story today About the CFB Fines
The NYT has written several times on the national impact of Citizens United but never on the impact of that special interests big money supreme court decision on the 2013 NYC election. Not Even Today after the CFB fined two city council members who were helped by the Advance Group campaign consultant who used the Citizens United PAC they controlled to help their candidates. Both the Daily News and NYP which reported on the fines, limited their coverage on the fines without comment on how far the CFB could go. Nobody except this blog is doing the investigative reporting that shows the depth of corruption of the Advance Group and the Citizens United PACS in the 2013 city elections. Have these PACs made NYC government worse (if that is possible)? Have these PACs and lobbyist consultants committed crimes? Stay Tuned.
NYT's New Editor Confirms His Role In Jill Abramson's Firing(Huff Post)
NYT Losses the Spelling Bee Today . . . The Curse of Jill Abramson
An Era in the 70's When the NYT's Investigtions Protected A City
More on NY Times Failed Kingdom and Jill Abramson
BREAKING McCain calls for sending US troops to quell crisis at the
FIRED FOR BEING A BITCH?
Why Jill Abramson Was Fired: Part III (Auletta, New Yorker)
N.Y. Times explains Abramson firing(Politico) New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. released a statement on Saturday stating that former executive editor Jill Abramson was fired because "she had lost the support of her masthead colleagues and could not win it back."Sulzberger also dismissed what he said were "incorrect reports that Jill’s compensation package was not comparable with her predecessor’s," and said her efforts to achieve a salary raise played no part in the decision to terminate her."During her tenure, I heard repeatedly from her newsroom colleagues, women and men, about a series of issues, including arbitrary decision-making, a failure to consult and bring colleagues with her, inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues," Sulzberger wrote in the statement.* The Media Equation: Editor’s Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display(NYT)
More on NY Times Failed Kingdom and Jill Abramson
AN-GREY LADY!”
“Mom’s new hobby,” Abramson’s daughter (Instagram)
--NYT SALARIES – “Jill Abramson and the Times: What Went Wrong?” by The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta: “As executive editor, Abramson’s starting salary in 2011 was $475,000, compared to Keller’s salary that year, $559,000. Her salary was raised to $503,000, and—only after she protested—was raised again to $525,000. She learned that her salary as managing editor, $398,000, was less than that of the male managing editor for news operations, John Geddes. She also learned that her salary as Washington bureau chief, from 2000 to 2003, was a hundred thousand dollars less than that of her successor in that position, Phil Taubman.”What the Internet is Saying * The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta has a second report on the reasons for Ms. Abramson’s firing, which he attributed to Ms. Abramson’s dissatisfaction with her compensation. He provides salary numbers. (The New Yorker) * Jill Abramson Refused to Go Quietly From the Times(NY Mag) Jill Abramson, fmr Exec Editor of
NYT: Albany Developer Pay to Play Opportunity to Protect Tenants
Editorial States the Real Estate Corruption Problem, Harm Done by the State's Housing Programs and Then Offers No Real Solutions
NYT Says Up to Cuomo to Protect Tenants, But Offers Nothing on 421-a
Or on How to Stop Developer Pay to Play Albany Corruption
Mr. Cuomo has suggested that because of all the turmoil in Albany , now is not the best time for housing reform. He seems to want to preserve the laws and the tax break as they are. That would be a poor choice, and a horribly missed opportunity. The governor should distance himself from Albany ’s status quo and join Mr. de Blasio in leading a coalition of the honorable, to give some relief to more than two million New Yorkers in rent-regulated apartments, who live in constant fear of crippling rent increases and displacement from their homes.* * Mayor de Blasio’s Plan Aims to Spur More Affordable Housing in New York (NYT) Housing programs and tax incentives would be overhauled to promote the construction of tens of thousands of units for poor New Yorkers, who are being priced out of the booming real estate market. * A pair of left-leaning advocacy groups criticized de Blasio’s plan to reform 421-a – a controversial real estate tax break – calling on the progressive mayor to extract more concessions from the city’s powerful real estate industry. * Mayor Bill de Blasio’s push for affordable housing is causing anxiety for many New Yorkers, in particular the people the program is designed to assist,The New York Times writes:
Jill Abramson, the New York Times' top editor, is abruptly stepping down after less than two years
Jill Abramson out over 'management issues,' NYT publisher says
'New York Times' Replaces Jill Abramson As Executive Editor
NPR (blog) *Jill Abramson to exit New York Times Politico * Jill Abramson, NYT's first female top editor, will be replaced by Dean Baquet, its first African-American editor This is probably the first time in years anyone's said, "I can't wait to read Bill Keller's column on this." *New York Times Keeps Changing Story About Jill Abramson’s Salary(Gawker)* The New York Times innovation report, which was recently leaked, is “one of the key documents of this media age.” (Nieman Journalism Lab) * The scoop on Jill Abramson's firing from the NY Times (NYP)
Jill Abramson’s daughter posts an Instagram photo of her ready to hit a punching bag: “Mom's badass new hobby
Jill Abramson’s ‘badass new hobby’ after Times fires her* Part of what makes Jill Abramson's firing puzzling is the NYT is thriving as a business:(Vox)* Of all the
More on NY Times Failed Kingdom and Jill Abramson
NYT: Legislative Corruption - Who is Responsivle for It?
Published: April 27, 1860 From the Buffalo Express
The NEW-YORK Times, in an article specially intended for the consideration of the members of the last Legislature, as well as for all its readers, inveighs with great severity against the corruption which it alleges pervaded and controlled it, and warns the people against the ultimate consequences of such corruption. The TIMES may have been incited to unusual vigor in its denunciations, by the fact that the legislature passed sundry bills affecting the City of New-York, the contents of which are not acceptable to that, paper. The merit of the article is not diminished by this, and we think the TIMES deserves great credit, and it certainly has heretofore earned reputation for its watchfulness of the City interests, and for its pointed; forcible und fearless exposition for all schemes for public plunder, and just rebuke of all men who have attempted to live and grow rich at the expense of the tax-payers. It is today, with its kindred journals, held in greater dread by all such men than its courts of justice, and all the machinery of the law. It is doubtless the fact that property owners are better protected by the vigilance and fearless outspokenness of the leading New-York papers, than by all the cumbrous and ineffective paraphernalia of law, which is supposed to protect the rights of its citizens. This is lamentable, but it is true. The great fountain-head of all the streams of corruption that flowed in on the Legislature is the City of New-York; and it is entirely proper that the City should have the benefit of such advice and rebuke as the TIMES or any other paper may have to bestow. This fact, however, does not shield the Legislature if it has been corrupt, and words are not forcible enough to express the indignation which should be visited on the offending members. Not one word shall we offer in their behalf, and can only say if there is ground for charges which are made against certain of them, they should be forthwith indicted and tried for the offence. It is indeed no pleasant prospect to contemplate, which at this stand-point opens before us. The people are at, the mercy of corporations and rich and bad men, and the day has come when the voice of the people has no influence in shaping legislation, nor can constituencies rely on the integrity of representatives. The City of New-York, which paid no attention to the complaints of the means and appliances brought to bear on the Legislature by the railroads, but, with its usual selfishness, promoted all their schemes, has found out that the corruption which could aid the railroad could also be brought to aid the mercenary and selfish schemes of the speculators from the City. The blade has two edges, and it is quite as likely to cut the manipulator as the object at which it is aimed; and while the City groans under the infliction which its own citizens have brought on it, we say it is a matter which concerns the City alone; let the City bear it -- suffering of this kind may end in its ultimate benefit. While the country cordially concurs with the City of New-York in its opinion, that the corruption and bribery will sooner or later end in the ruin of the State, it has no more of pity for the agony which the City suffers under the inflictions of selfish and corrupt speculators, whose names are to be found in their annual directory.
NYT On Going War On Women
New Yorkers Says Abramson Asked for Equal Pay
37 Years Ago the Paper Refused to Endorse A Women Bella Abzug For Senate . . .
Stunning new claim: Jill Abramson was fired by The Times after asking to be paid as much as her male predecessor (New Yorker)* Interesting, the NYT editorial board editorialized not too long ago about the pay gap for women (NYT)
Public Editor
Margaret Sullivan
Worth a look: From just a couple of weeks ago, @JillAbramson interviewed on "leaning in, leadership and legacy"Fired NYT editor Jill Abramson recently challenged boss over what she perceived as "unequal pay" compared to Bill Keller - NPR* #Breaking: N.Y. Times says Abramson's compensation 'was not less than' Bill Keller's @DylanByers but @kenauletta
says the pay gap was closed. more an issue of her finding out,
complaining about gap, and damage she incurred* NYT corporate statement
also says Keller's compensation higher due to longer years of service to
NYT; pensions frozen in 2009.* The Best Examples of NY Time's 'Wage Gap' Hypocrisy
You need balls to go to war with the Sulzbergers. I've done it. Who else has done it? Who?
Richard M. Nixon
Meanwhile, Congressman Michael Grimm raged against a New York Times op-ed linking veterans to hate groups. “How can someone that is apparently so well educated be so darn ignorant? This is one of the most outrageous and ignorant things I’ve ever seen written–even for The New York Times,” Mr. Grimm fumed last night on Fox News’ The Kelly File. “You shouldn’t even be allowed to use this under your birdcage.
A Piece of Tape Took Down A President . . . NYT Says Horses Taking Up Mayor's Time
Times Forgot to Blame the Horses for the Mayor Always Running Late, Keeping the Schools Open During A Snow Storm and For Trying to Close Down Charter Schools
Only the Washington Post Took A Taped Door Seriously
For de Blasio, Carriage Horse Ban Is No Walk in the Park(NYT)
The New York City mayor has seemingly avoided Central Park and is
struggling to turn public attention toward other issues on his agenda:
housing and wages. “The horse carriages have reached the point where
they have the potential to divert the mayoral agenda. “Mayors in the
past have used the park to enhance their stature. Now,
the issue of the park is diminishing his stature,” Kenneth Sherrill, a
longtime teacher of political science at Hunter College, said of Mr. de
Blasio. “Everybody knows that this issue is not what he wanted to have
people talking about right now.” The horses show few signs of leaving
the news. Animal-rights activists
and the carriage industry have hired high-priced political consultants
to aid their cause. Scott
Levenson, a political consultant involved in the anti-Quinn effort,
said in an interview on Friday that he had “not been contacted by any
investigative agency regarding the Anybody But Quinn campaign.” He
said that his firm’s activities were “democracy as usual” and that he
had not coordinated his activities with Mr. de Blasio or his campaign
aides, which could be a violation of election law.
Memo to the NYT's Editorial Board:
PAC Corruption Came To NYC In the 2013 Not With Judge Crotty Ruling This Week
Unlimited Koch Cash Comes to New York(NYT) Judge Paul Crotty reluctantly allowed unlimited contributions to independent political groups in New York State. He wrote that he was bound to follow the high court’s directives “no matter how misguided the court [referring to himself may think it to be.” And he explained in detail why the Supreme Court’s rulings, in both the Citizens United case and more recent McCutcheon case, were so imprudent. With only a few exceptions, he said, political donors give money “in the hope — indeed the expectation — that the contribution will affect the candidate’s votes or actions.
But Soros cash for state Senate Democrats and Eric Schneiderman is ok? Unlimited Koch Cash Comes to New York
Fredric U. Dicker
More About the Advance Group
5 problems with The New York
Times’ ambitious, influential series on the life of one homeless Brooklyn
girl
Why was ‘Dasani’ shut out of the Pulitzers?
5 problems with The New York Times’ ambitious, influential series on the life of one homeless Brooklyn girl
- See more at: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/why_was_dasani_shut_out_of_the.php?page=all#sthash.IyzGWXtR.dpufWhy was ‘Dasani’ shut out of the Pulitzers?
5 problems with The New York Times’ ambitious, influential series on the life of one homeless Brooklyn girl
- See more at: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/why_was_dasani_shut_out_of_the.php?page=all#sthash.IyzGWXtR.dpufWhy was ‘Dasani’ shut out of the Pulitzers?
5 problems with The New York Times’ ambitious, influential series on the life of one homeless Brooklyn girl
- See more at: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/why_was_dasani_shut_out_of_the.php?page=all#sthash.IyzGWXtR.dpufThe demise of the Moreland Commission has angered and disappointed some government watchdogs, because while the state budget does include new ethics laws, it left intact a loophole allowing unlimited donations to housekeeping accounts
NYT's Fake Tears . . . If the NYT Just Went After Albany Corrupt Like They Gone After Christie, Spitzer, Liu or Grimm
New York’s Unfinished Budget(NYT) There are enough flaws in the deal that was just announced that state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo should take the time to get this right The budget agreement announced Saturday also threatens to chip away at the mayor’s ability to control city schools. Having the mayor fully in charge of public education in the city has mostly worked over the last dozen years. This is no time to start diluting that authority and responsibility over the largest system in the country. * The New York Times writes that the state won’t suffer from a budget that is a little late, so lawmakers should take the time to address flaws in the spending plan
Why Did the NYT Publish This Puffery BS After It Was Known Wills Was A Crook?
Did the NYT Wills Puff Piece in 2011 Have Something to Do With Corrupt Flack Arzt Who Was Paid $20,000 By Wills in 2011 After the councilman election?
NYT Puffery: "Wills approaches the job with enthusiasm and irreverence, distrustful...of back room politics."
Newest City Council Member Is Learning on the Run (NYT, March 11, 2011) * Quinn Backs Council Member Accused of Stealing(WSJ, Aug 18, 2011)* NYC Councilman Ruben Wills facing jail time over 14-year-old larceny case(NYDN, June 25, 2011)* Attorney general investigates $33,000 state grant tied to City Councilman Ruben Wills' nonprofit(NYDN, June 11, 2012) Eric Schneiderman files motion to compel New York 4 Life to open its books Ruben Wills, Queens city councilman, busted as part of a corruption investigation: source (NYDN)* The "drip drip" of NY corruption continues. Accused CM Wills should b stripped of comm chair and lulu.
The New York Times is now paying some of its interns minimum wage.
Media: Slim Buys More of the NYT
The world's richest man, Carlos Slim is a crony capitalist whose world's
largest personal fortune was made by charging Mexico's telephone
customers monopoly prices. His monopoly stranglehold over Mexico's
telecommunications market (75 percent landlines, 70 percent broad bands
and 70 percent mobile phones) dwarfs the meager shares of Sprint,
Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. If the crusading Times considers them monopolies (Bad Connections), what must it think of Slim's America Movil?
Jerry Skurnik
howard wolfson
Jimmy Vielkind
OrthodoxPundit
The NYP and DN Editorial Attack Bloomberg While the NYT Talks Gibberish About A Yellow Cab Ride
The Times says something - we can't figure out what - about the experience of riding a yellow cab in Manhattan * Mayor Mike’s snow job(NYP Ed) * Mayor Bloomberg didn't shoot straight with public about ex-Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's arrest(NYDN Ed)
NYP And Daily News Call For Quinn to Cut Off Seabrook's Member Items Funds . . . NYT No Comment
Carolyn Ryan NYT Metro Editor Boycotting the Seabrook Slush Fund Story?
Quinn Under Fire for Seabrook's Spending
(WSJ )Under a barrage of criticism, Council Speaker Christine Quinn
stood behind her decision to give Councilman Seabrook access to a pool
of funds he allegedly abused. Democratic mayoral hopeful Tom Allon
lashed out at Quinn and argued that she failed to properly police
Seabrook. The editorial boards of the New York Post and the Daily News
also excoriated the speaker. * Despite the firestorm of criticism she’s
receiving for allowing NYC Councilman Larry Seabrook continued access
to the very member item funds he’s accused of abusing, Council Speaker
Christine Quinn is standing firm.
The NYT Public Editor Was Gone Shortly After He Exposed the Bias of the Papers Metro Editor Carolyn Ryan Against Bloggers and Freelance Journalists
Brisbane sent Carolyn Ryan, The Times’s metro editor, an appeal from Ms. Ludtke
to give such credit in part two. But it didn’t happen. And after the
second article’s publication, I heard from others complaining about
uncredited foundational reporting — scores of articles in recent years —
by additional publications, including The Jewish Daily Forward, the FailedMessiah.com blog, New York magazine and more. * Opinion: Will Weberman case be a catalyst for change ?(Jewish Star)
Tammany Hall Still Runs the BOE
NYT Repeats Daily News Editorial on the Board of Elections incompetent counting system. Give up its arcane paper balloting system before the April primaries City Board of Elections still stuck in its impotent rut - NY Daily News
History of BOE Corruption (True News) * More on the Problems with the BOE
If the NYT Can Go After David Paterson, John Liu and Michael Grimm Why Can't They Go After the Corrupt Bums That Run the BOE?
WNYC Radio and Others Reported He Was Fired And DOI Was Investigating Him on October 26, 2010
Now the NYT Has Dowd Campaigning for Quinn
Who’s That Candidate in the Teal Toenail Polish?(Dowd, NYT) Even Maureen Dowd can't make Christine Quinn interesting. "It matches my campaign literature, that's the point of it!" @Quinn4NY tells @NYTimesDowd of her teal toenail polish. * ICYMI: Anti-Quinn group got $320K above legal limit http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130804/BLOGS04/130809963 …
The NYT Blew Out Paterson
Tied to Knock Out Rep Grimm, But Nobody Reads the NYT on Staten Island
Strange Anti-Gambling Team
The unlikely duo of Democratic state
Sen. Liz Krueger and state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long plan to
begin an outreach campaign opposing a ballot measure that would expand
casino gaming in the state,Casino Opposition Comes Together(WSJ) * ‘Vote With (Mario) Cuomo, Vote No On Prop. 1′
A new ad released today by the Committee Against Proposition 1 quotes
Mario Cuomo calling casino gambling “economically regressive to a state
and a community” and a mechanism to merely redistribute wealth, not
generate it. The former governor wrote those words in “The New York
Idea: An
Experiment in Democracy,” which was published in 1994 – the year he lost
his bid for a fourth term to a little-known Republican state senator
named George Pataki.
The NY Times Discovers After the Election That There Are Two Manhattans
A Tale of Two Manhattans
In Manhattan, new census data reveals 80-fold difference in mean income between top 5th & lowest 5th, biggest gap of any large US county. De Blasio says his whole campaign is about addressing income inequality.New census data shows that even though New York City is coming out of a recession its poverty rate continues to increase and its income inequality gap is still high,Poverty Rate Is Up in New York City, and Income Gap Is Wide, Census Data Show(NYT)
Quinn Leadership: NYT OK's Buying Votes to Maintain Order
If the NYT Thinks Getting things done is a key qualification for electing a mayor maybe they should endorse Mussolini or John Gotti or Bernie Madoff they all got the job done while breaking the law. So Did the NYT's pick to become New York's next mayor. Unless the NYT has changed their minds that member item slush funds are a good way to govern and lead. Two weeks after the council member items slush fund scandal broke in 2008, Quinn in an attempt at damage control held a news conference to unveil a plan to allocate member items through a competitive process. When word got out that she was taking away councilmembers member item slush funds, they planned a rebellion to dump her as their speaker. Immediately after Quinn got word of her members reaction to her reform she back down completely. Quinn begged for forgiveness, telling he fellow members she had blundered badly in her response to revelations about the Council’s appropriation of money to fictitious organizations. In 2011 the NYT wrote an editorial End the Slush. In that editorial the old gray lady explained how Quinn rewarded her friends and supporters with more member item $$$. The NYT demanded member items be ended.
A Bounty, But No Mutiny
NYT is Racing While NYers Are Dying
Today the NYT write about a A Race Like No Other. A read who would assumes that they are writing about the 2013 mayoral race, would be wrong. It is an editorial about the America's Cup boat race. In face there beside sex stories they is nothing in today's papers to inform the city's residents on the candidates they must choose from in 38 days to run their city. As New Yorkers on dialysis who use the closing LICH Hospital to clean their blood look to stay alive we learn from the NYT from their summer homes in Martha Vineyard that a catamaran that, at top speeds and racing downwind, seems to fly above the water.
NYT Boston Globe bought for $1.1b, sold for $70mThe NYT Public Editor Was Gone Shortly After He Exposed the Bias of the Papers Metro Editor Carolyn Ryan Against Bloggers and Freelance Journalists
NYT Against Campaign Slush Funds In Iowa, But Not About Slush Funds Given to A Corrupt Pol Like Seabrook
Last week both the NYP and Daily News Demanded that Speaker Quinn cut Councilman Seabrook's Member Items. Still no comment from the NYT on an action that can help cut the political crime wave going on in the city in which they publish. The Slush Funds of Iowa(NYT Ed) New and unlimited reserves of cash from so-called independent groups are bankrolling a constant stream of negative political ads.
Tammany Hall Still Runs the BOE NYT Repeats Daily News Editorial on the Board of Elections incompetent counting system. Give up its arcane paper balloting system before the April primaries City Board of Elections still stuck in its impotent rut - NY Daily News
An Absurd Vote-Counting System(NYT) With the New York primaries fast approaching, the Board of Elections in New York City has a lot of work to do to ensure that voters can cast ballots with confidence.
True News Has Written for Years How Tammany Hall Still Runs the BOE . . . 5 Mayors Have Failed to Reform the BOE
History of BOE Corruption (True News) * More on the Problems with the BOE
If the NYT Can Go After David Paterson, John Liu and Michael Grimm Why Can't They Go After the Corrupt Bums That Run the BOE?
The NYT Has the Power to Change the BOE All They Need to Do is Demand DOI do Its Job
Once
law enforcement gets the goods on how Gonzalez Tried to Fix An
Election, he will reform the BOE by spilling the beans on corruption,
cleaning the place out
Head of Board of Elections Fired One Week Before Election (WNYC) Sources at the Board of Elections say Gonzalez was fired over irregularities that initially appeared on the ballot of a special election in Queens for the City Council seat in the 28th district. His lawyer is Stanley Schlein who runs the Bronx county and helped Bronx DA Johnson win and residency case against him the first time he ran for district attorney. Schlein is also represented the losing bidder for new voting machines that the BOE brought last year and is now being investigated by the feds.
The ballot in question had all of the candidates lined up one slot to the right of where they should have appeared. For example, the name of the first candidate on the ballot slot, Democrat Reuben Wills, was listed under the slate of Republican candidates. However, the ballot that voters will receive on November 2 has been corrected. The issue is still under investigation by the New York Department of Investigations. Tammany Hall Board of Election Control Goes On and On (True News)
Innocent NYT Leaders Creditability Is Being Hurt By Slime Shady Thompson
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson says she and new Times CEO Mark Thompson
have a strong relationship, and that in meetings, Thompson “seems full
of energy and ideas.” She added that she has “every confidence [in
Thompson] as CEO.” Abramson made the comments at the Business Insider
Ignite conference in New York.
A ‘smoking gun’ (NYP) New
evidence reveals that Mark Thompson, the former BBC
director-general who now heads The New York Times Company, was
personally e-mailed about a scandal at the British broadcaster. Thompson
was alerted several months before he left the corporation.
correspondence released under Freedom of Information laws shows that in
February two e-mails about the claims were sent to an address reserved
for matters requiring his personal attention.* News Corp confirms News
Intl CEO Tom Mockridge, brought in after hacking
scandals, steps down; Rupert Murdoch says "entirely" his choice
A ‘smoking gun’ (NYP) New
evidence reveals that Mark Thompson, the former BBC
director-general who now heads The New York Times Company, was
personally e-mailed about a scandal at the British broadcaster. Thompson
was alerted several months before he left the corporation.
correspondence released under Freedom of Information laws shows that in
February two e-mails about the claims were sent to an address reserved
for matters requiring his personal attention.* News Corp confirms News
Intl CEO Tom Mockridge, brought in after hacking
scandals, steps down; Rupert Murdoch says "entirely" his choiceNYT, NYP and DN Editorial Boards Give Up On Out of Control Albany
Can't the Media Play This Game Anymore?
Question of Influencein Abuse Case of Paterson Aide (NYT) 2/24/2010
Tied to Knock Out Rep Grimm, But Nobody Reads the NYT on Staten Island
NYT Took the Air Out of Liu's Mayoral Race in 20011
NYT Vote No On Gambling
Strange Anti-Gambling Team
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Reality TimesThe NY Times Discovers After the Election That There Are Two Manhattans
In Manhattan, new census data reveals 80-fold difference in mean income between top 5th & lowest 5th, biggest gap of any large US county. De Blasio says his whole campaign is about addressing income inequality.New census data shows that even though New York City is coming out of a recession its poverty rate continues to increase and its income inequality gap is still high,Poverty Rate Is Up in New York City, and Income Gap Is Wide, Census Data Show(NYT)
Quinn Leadership: NYT OK's Buying Votes to Maintain Order
If the NYT Thinks Getting things done is a key qualification for electing a mayor maybe they should endorse Mussolini or John Gotti or Bernie Madoff they all got the job done while breaking the law. So Did the NYT's pick to become New York's next mayor. Unless the NYT has changed their minds that member item slush funds are a good way to govern and lead. Two weeks after the council member items slush fund scandal broke in 2008, Quinn in an attempt at damage control held a news conference to unveil a plan to allocate member items through a competitive process. When word got out that she was taking away councilmembers member item slush funds, they planned a rebellion to dump her as their speaker. Immediately after Quinn got word of her members reaction to her reform she back down completely. Quinn begged for forgiveness, telling he fellow members she had blundered badly in her response to revelations about the Council’s appropriation of money to fictitious organizations. In 2011 the NYT wrote an editorial End the Slush. In that editorial the old gray lady explained how Quinn rewarded her friends and supporters with more member item $$$. The NYT demanded member items be ended.
A Bounty, But No Mutiny
Today the NYT write about a A Race Like No Other. A read who would assumes that they are writing about the 2013 mayoral race, would be wrong. It is an editorial about the America's Cup boat race. In face there beside sex stories they is nothing in today's papers to inform the city's residents on the candidates they must choose from in 38 days to run their city. As New Yorkers on dialysis who use the closing LICH Hospital to clean their blood look to stay alive we learn from the NYT from their summer homes in Martha Vineyard that a catamaran that, at top speeds and racing downwind, seems to fly above the water.
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Media Blinders on the BOE
True News Starts the Wag on the NYT of the BOE, But What About Corruption and $95 M Scanner That Don't Work?
The
NYT's Eleanor Randolph reports about the slow count and patronage at
the BOE, but does not write about its history of corruption and why it
spend $95 million on scanner which could run the runoff. Randolph should
reread True News cover of the corruption at the BOE and try again. True
News Says If Tammany Hall is Not Pushed Out of Running the BOE the Old
Machines Will Be Back in 2017. BOE History of Corruption and Incompetence Timeline, More The Board of Elections: An Ongoing Disgrace(NYT)
NYT On De Blasio
Breaking
"NYT: "Once a Mayor de Blasio saw his boldest ideas smashed on the rocks of Albany, then what? De Blasio campaign immediatley slams edit board for endorsing term limit extender. NYT (and all major edit boards) backed Bloomy third term. *
Mud Fight
de Blasio Vs Quinn Started By NYT's Dowd
And the New York Times fixed their original Chirlane McCray article, whoops: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/opinion/dowd-bills-turn-at-bat.html?smid=tw-share …
Sonia Ossiorio, in Quinn email: "The statement is unfair, outrageous & offensive to Chris & men & women across NYC who don't have children" not letting up. Liz Abzug, a Quinn supporter, emails: "@Chirlane & @DeBlasioNYC owe the women of New York City an apology today" #nyc2013
Maureen Dowd’s Frankenstein Quote Gave @Quinn4NY a Temporary Opening on @deBlasioNYC http://nym.ag/1f2tKRu
.@Quinn4NY spox: "We stand by our statement, as the essence of Ms. McCray's quote is the same."
the pile-on continues. 20 minutes ago,@BillThompsonNYC supporter @KarimCamara emailed: "@DeBlasioNYC should discontinue his misleading ad"
UPDATED: Christine Quinn Takes Offense At Chirlane McCray's "Children" Comment | New York Daily News http://nydn.us/19Jx3A9#NYC2013
.@rweingarten: "@McCray should know better. She should apologize for her unwise & unwarranted criticism of Quinn."
Maureen Dowd’s column corrected again: “It was the Good Stuff Diner, not the Good Times coffee shop.” http://nym.ag/1f2tKRu
Quinn hits back at de Blasio's wife after 'inaccessible' remark during interview
Sonia Ossiorio, in Quinn email: "The statement is unfair, outrageous & offensive to Chris & men & women across NYC who don't have children" not letting up. Liz Abzug, a Quinn supporter, emails: "
.
the pile-on continues. 20 minutes ago,
UPDATED: Christine Quinn Takes Offense At Chirlane McCray's "Children" Comment | New York Daily News http://nydn.us/19Jx3A9
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Maureen Dowd’s column corrected again: “It was the Good Stuff Diner, not the Good Times coffee shop.” http://nym.ag/1f2tKRu
Quinn Versus de Blasio And The Battle Over Ray Kelly And Maureen Dowd(YNN)
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said comments by Bill de Blasio’s wife, suggesting Quinn is “not the type of person” you can talk about child care issues with, were over the line, The Wall Street Journal writes: http://on.wsj.com/16d7cIt
Comments by Bill de Blasio's wife lead to dispute with Christine Quinn http://nyti.ms/18KDPkt
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said comments by Bill de Blasio’s wife, suggesting Quinn is “not the type of person” you can talk about child care issues with, were over the line, The Wall Street Journal writes: http://on.wsj.com/16d7cIt
Comments by Bill de Blasio's wife lead to dispute with Christine Quinn http://nyti.ms/18KDPkt
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Hey
@NBCNewYork, political comments between@ChrisCQuinn and@Chirlane are NOT a "cat fight"!#RespectWomen
Maureen Dowd: "I screwed up." http://politi.co/16MutHp
NYT Pushed Quinn Hard With Several Feature Stories Over the Campaign
Real story That the NYT Left Out of Its Quinn Video, is that Campaign Consultants Josh Isay and Bradley Tusk are clueless, when not playing with Bloomberg's money
NYT Who Endorsed Quinn Writes She Was Treated Unfairly
Ties to Bloomberg cost Quinn in primary(NYP)* Behind Quinn's Collapse(WSJ) * Giving
@deBlasioNYC free reign on LICH didn't help Quinn as she ran rose-garden campaign w/ no rose garden. http://nyp.st/1e50JbP *In Quinn’s Loss, Questions About Role of Gender and Sexuality(NYT)\ * There have only been 3 NYC Council speakers. All 3 have run for mayor and lost badly in the Dem primary.
* Trounced in Primary, Quinn Returns to Council, Seeking the Old Normal (NYT)
How
@ChrisCQuinn became the target for a naked Citizens United shakedown, by@jimdwyernyt. http://nyti.ms/1eJpJUC * Christine Quinn Got a Raw Deal From Voters — Because She’s a Woman(NY Mag)
Quinn Consultant Losers Josh Isay Without Bloomberg Buck is A Losing Bum
The Quinn team: Ms. Quinn's political
consiglieri—strategists Josh Isay and Mark Guma, pollster Joel Benenson
and others—appeared to underestimate the liberal bent and anti-Bloomberg
sentiment in the Democratic electorate. For much of her speakership Ms.
Quinn was positioned as the logical successor to the mayor. By the time
it became clear that Mr. Bloomberg was a major liability, they could
not disentangle the speaker from him. Josh Isay and his firm SKDKnickerbocker long dominated city politics,
aided by B-52s filled with sacks of the mayor’s campaign treasure. Then
he went to work for Ms. Quinn. No billions of dollars and no B-52s. She
did an electoral header, and Mr. Isay followed.* Hordes of consultants who spent millions designing, printing and jamming
voters’ mailboxes with candidate mail got taken to school by Bill de Blasio
campaign, which instead relied on voter-driven social media and saved
the money for television ads.* SKD has had many big wins in the past and
is sure to have many more in
the future, but on Tuesday they were at the helm of the two biggest
losses in the state: Christine Quinn and Tom Richards’ campaigns. Sure,
the mega-consulting company won with Scott Stringer, but it’s hard to
take credit for a victory, when every elected official, union, and
advocacy group in the city is on your side.* Quinn strategist Josh Isay:
"We believed that people thought that the city was heading in the right
direction" http://capi.tl/1822rog
The Times They Are A Changing
Out of Touch NYT
Gray Lady
Regime Change Needed
Another loss for the@nytimes edit page. they backed Squadron; The Daily News and the NYP, NYO All Were Loser. All Three Newspaper Editorial Eat Crow Over Quinn and James.
Winds of A NYC Media War
Politico Already Changing Old Gray Lady
Interested in NYC politics? Get behind-the-scenes e-mails from New York Times journalists: http://nyti.ms/1bNkbsS
NYT Says Vote Down Redistricting Amendment
NEW YORK Proposal One is a constitutional amendment to revise the state’s redistricting procedure. This is a phony reform that purports to establish a new system of drawing legislative districts. Legislative leaders would appoint a committee charged with drawing new districts. If the legislators don’t like the first two tries, they can draw the districts themselves. The net result would be to reinforce, not reform, a system that virtually guarantees job security for incumbents and discourages competition. State Senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat from
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New Media Wars
Abramson Where is the NYT 's Analysis of Citizen United Effect On Local Elections?
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson says she worries about the trivialization of politics by publications like POLITICO, but offered no defense when asked about the Times' own coverage of the political horse race.
True News, Bharara an Politico (Capital) Push the NYT to Demanding That Cuomo Let Moreland Do Its Job
Will New York’s Political Watchdog Pass the Test?
The Times is concerned that after a promising start, Cuomo’s Commission to Investigate Public Corruption is becoming little more than a branch of the governor’s political network. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had the right idea when he formed a commission to help end the scandal epidemic in New York State. He appointed a respected group of experts, asked them to come up with ways to cut the sleaze, promised them independence and asked for a preliminary report by Dec. 1. As that deadline nears, however, there is growing concern that the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, also known as the Moreland Commission, could become little more than a branch of the governor’s political network. If so, it will be another Potemkin committee, issuing another report. The independence Governor Cuomo promised will clearly be compromised if not wholly sabotaged if he or members of his staff tell the commissioners what to do and what not to do.* Governor Andrew Cuomo Quashes Moreland Commission’s REBNY Subpoena and Other Follow-The-Money Subpoenas Hitting Too Close To Home(Noticing New York)
Governor Cuomo's Crusade (sort of) Against Corruption Comes With Too Many Asterisks. My Gotham Column(NYT) "a commission member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as he desires to continue living peacefully" in NYS. “That’s fundamental, except maybe not for this governor.” “The politicians in Albany won’t like it, but I work for the people, and I won’t stop fighting until we all have a government that we can trust.”— Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, in a commercial shown more than 100 times last summer.
Both the NYT and Times Union Today Say Cuomo Will Pay A Price for Killing Moreland
Even worse, doing so would destroy the confidence of an already wary public that anything meaningful can be done to curb the way money corrupts politics in Albany.* “What gives, Mr. Cuomo?” the Albany Times Union writes on the Moreland Commission. “As dismal as this all is, it may not be too late for this commission to succeed — if Mr. Cuomo can keep his hands off it, regardless of whose feathers get ruffled, and if the commissioners haven’t lost their vision of the original goal and their will to do something about it. If not, Mr. Cuomo should be prepared to own a failure as embarrassing as the system he vowed to fix.”
Bharara: New Media End NYC's Journalism of Sheep
Quotes Murrow Preet Bharara: “fresh news outlets like BuzzFeed … bent on doubling down on political investigations will provide grist” 4 corruption probe Bharara, SDNY US Atty, bullish on@buzzfeed,@politico/@capitalnewyork, & new@WashingtonPoint, in testimony tonight to Moreland Commission * In testimony, Bharara laments loss of investigative journalists, and puts high hope in new outlets and revived old * U.S. Attorney To Commission: Political Corruption Is Out Of Hand In N.Y. State(WCBS)* Top Lobbyist Patricia Lynch Sees Income Loss Since 2011(NYDN)
The Old Bulls At the NYT Editorial Board Embarrassed to Get Off Their Ass Today
Were is the Outrage From the Goo Goos and Reforms?
New York Legislators’ Secret Income(NYT Ed) The state anticorruption commission must press for details about outside money sources that lawmakers have kept hidden for decades.Considering the scandals in the New York State Legislature, one would think that battered lawmakers would be eager to clean up their reputation. Instead, they’ve hired lawyers to fight a new anticorruption commission’s efforts to find out precisely where they earn outside income. This fight, they insist, is all about maintaining a separation of powers and protecting the Legislature from an intrusive executive..
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The NYT is Melting, Media
Continued downsizing at Times Co. tower(NYP)A lengthy story in Monday’s New York Times about how the Times Co. has shed assets to better focus on its “central product” — the newspaper — left something out: continued downsizing at the 620 Eighth Ave. headquarters tower.The Times Co. is about to unload the last of seven floors it still owns in the 52-story, Renzo Piano-designed skyscraper at West 40th-41st Street, where it once owned more space than its development partner Forest City Ratner.
New York Times Reporter’s Email Attacking Arthur Sulzberger Leaked(Fishbowl)
The NYT In the 1870's Had A Passionate Leader Who Help Put Boss Tweed in Jail
NYT: Aloof Disconnect Clueless
In the 1860 and 70's George Jones, the NYT’s founding publisher understood that corrupt politics was destroy the potential of growth of NYC. Today's big wigs at the NYT watch pol after pol go to jail and are only concerned making sure the establishment can elected the next mayor of the city. The paper does not understand it is the corruption tax and stupidity of the elected officials supported by the machines that is driving away their readers and small business that the city needs to stay strong. Instead of looking to bring the passion of publisher Jones back to the paper they sit in the bankrupt 42nd Street bunker hoping that a failed business model of paywalls will stop the bleeding of profits. Getting rid of term limits to elected Bloomberg for a third term did not stop their fall and neither will electing the mayor puppet Quinn in 2013. It the NYT thinks that electing Quinn who has never worked in the private sector will save NY's business community they should go out of business.
1870's NYT Publisher Jones Passion to Go After the Bums
Jones Did Not Just Do An Occasional Editorial on Reform, he Got the Bastard and Changed NY
1870's: The paper’s biggest scoop was to obtain ledger items that showed, penny for penny, how Boss Tweed planned to pocket public money intended for the furnishing of a new courthouse. The Tweed forces offered Mr. Jones $5 million — equivalent to $100 million today — to back off. He refused, and the articles were published in July 1871. Two years later, Tweed was convicted of theft and sent to the Ludlow Street jail.The Man Who Helped Stop Boss Tweed George Jones, this newspaper’s founding publisher, who was born 200 years ago this week, turned down a $5 million bribe and published articles in 1871 that helped bring down Boss Tweed. (NYT)
Do SomethingDavid DinkinsArthur SulzbergerToday's editorial says it is rewarding to ensure civic honesty. What the leaders of the NYT do not understand is the the public is so ready to revolt against the kind of politics they support. Many of the people getting hurt by the economy might vote against incumbents or the power structure because they are fed up with the spin. We are not far away from a upset in the 9th congressional district and the election of Perry or Bachmann as president. The NYT must now count on two of the most corrupt pols in NY Vito Lopez and Congressman Crowley to elected a dummy and to stop a major loss for the interest of the Times. Turner winning the Weiner seat will send shock waves through NY politics. The problem NYT faces is both of those bosses are great at using the election law to stop primaries. They are not so go at winning competitive elections. The same NYT knew what to do to get rid of David Paterson. Why do they lack the will to get rid of Lopez and Crowley? Once the public revolts it will be too late to change.
Some red losses for a Gray Lady(NYP) (7/22/11)
Details of threat to close Globe emerge
Rattner: Toxic Conflict of Interest; Is the NYT at Risk?
Is the NYT Jealous of WSJ Success? The news column by a Mr David Carr today is yet more evidence that The New York Times is uncomfortable about the rise of an increasingly successful rival while its own circulation and credibility are in retreat," says Ben Smith of the Politico. The changes at the Journal (Smith Politico) *Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at The Journal (NYT) *** WSJ's Robert Thomson Takes Swing at NYT's David Carr, Bill Keller
*** Wall Street Journal vs. New York Times: Robert Thomson Lashes Out After David Carr Column (Huff Post) *** Times Editor Accused of Undermining Prize (NY Magazine)
NY Times Wimps Great Balls on Fire Now that the president said "We Blew It" the former paper of record comes up with an editorial that The System Failed. The Daily New, NY Post and almost every other paper in America understood from the Christmas day attack that our security system failed. On Planet Janet (NYP Ed) * Homeland insecurity: Secretary Janet Napolitano just doesn't get it * The System Needs Fixing - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post *** Protect us from Homeland Security ? Chicago Tribune Today's Daily News Editorial President Obama's initial reaction to recent terrorist act lacked urgency, decisive leadership' *** Obama Cites Intelligence Failures in Plot - Meyer, Nicholas & Semuels, LAT Janet A Long Way from the System Worked in 3 Day US Will Find & Fix System's Vulnerabilities - Janet Napolitano, USA Today *** Letting Down Our Guard - Michael Chertoff, The Daily Beast * Cheney: Obama pretends we're not at war * Obama Gets an 'F' for Protecting Americans - Toby Harnden, The Telegraph *** We Got Lucky - Chicago Tribune
More Arrogant Players Times says editing of staff done for now In a memo brazenly entitled "We can exhale now," Executive Editor Bill Keller said he has reached the goal of reducing the Gray Lady's newsroom head count by 100 people, including 26 ousted over the past three days. The Times' misspelled memo
Staying Alive The NYT avoided bankruptcy in party by laying off workers but mostly by reorganizing the mortgages and getting loans on the new headquarters they just built. One of the biggest mortgages on the building is kept by GMAC. A bankruptcy of GMAC could have put the NYT out of business. Steve Ratner who is the former Auto Czar and is in the center of the Hank Morris pension fund scandal is also a close friend to the owner of the NYT and a key figure in keeping them in business. The NYT headquarters was financed in part by GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation after the company could not get its hands on 9/11 Liberty Bonds. With this kind of friends is their any doubt that GMAC Gets $3.8 Billion More in Aid from the feds. Rattner: Toxic Conflict of Interest; Is the NYT at Risk?
The Dwindling Power of Newspaper Endorsements, The Media Panics
After being denied Liberty Bond financing, Bruce Ratner has found another way to pay for his $850 million New York Times Tower project.Ratner racks up NYT loan.
By Misonzhnik, ElainePublished on AllBusiness.com
GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation has announced that it will provide a $320 million construction loan for the 1.67 million s/f tower in the heart of Times Square. In addition, Ratner has filed an application with the Department of Environmental Conservation in the hope of getting additional tax breaks from the government because he claims the site on which the building will be constructed has been contaminated.
Ratner has had some difficulty arranging the financing for the project. After he failed to find a lender last year, the New York Times Company decided to postpone construction for six months. In addition, he has been hoping that Liberty Bonds would allow him to build at low interest rates, but New York State denied his application.
Though the terms of the GMAC loan were not disclosed, a representative from the company said the transaction was standard and "market rate."
"The primary term of our construction loan is 48 months," said Vacys Garbonkus, executive vice president and head of construction lending with GMAC. "As far as the pricing goes, the only thing I can tell you it's really market rate pricing. There is nothing unique about the loan, but I can't reveal the absolute specifics."
Garbonkus also denied that Ratner had difficulty finding a lender.
"It might be more appropriate to say that he had to negotiate the overall deal with the New York Times and the City of New York, and that process took a substantially long period of time," he said. "The deal didn't really come together from a financing point of view until about eight or nine months ago, when we began to take a serious look at the project. They weren't really asking us for financing proposals before then. From nay point of view, you have a premier developer in Bruce Rather, a premier building and name recognition in the New York Times. Given that and our strong understanding of the New York marketplace, we didn't have any problems lending the money."
However, Ratner is still hoping to lower the cost of the project. His application with the DEC claims that the tower will be built on a site that once contained several fuel oil tanks and that has shown signs of PCB and lead contamination. If Rather deans up the site, he might become eligible for 10 years of tax credits and remission insurance credits.
"Mr. Rather has already filed an application in accordance with the existing legislation," said Michele de Milly, a spokesperson for Forest City Ratner.
But de Milly denied reports that Ratner is aiming for $170 million in tax credits.
"$170 million is a fabrication, it's not a number that means anything," she said. "There is a very precise formula for determining whether the site is eligible for credits and how much of them. We have no idea what he would be eligible for and how long it will take for DEC to [reach a decision]. That is a determination made entirely by the state government."
There is a chance, however, that Ratner will not get anything from the DEC because his project would be completed regardless of whether he would get funding for contamination mitigation.
"I think the key issue is whether contamination is complicating the re-use or re-development of a property," said Larry Schaapf, of the Environmental Business Association Brownfield Taskforce. "In this case, it sounds like the project was going forward anyway, so there is a question of whether is should be eligible for tax credits. The state legislature is trying to attract people to redevelop properties, but to say 'I already have a project and the tax credits are the icing on the cake'--that's not what the program is intended for."
The New York Times Tower will be the centerpiece of the Empire State Economic Development Agency's Times Square redevelopment project. The 52-story building, located on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street, has been designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano.
It will house the New York Times headquarters on the lower floors and a yet-to-be determined tenant on floors 29 through 52.
Ratner takes the risk at Times Square tower.
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After months of unsuccessful appeals to the lender community to fund his New York Times headquarters project, Bruce Rather decided to play it by ear.
The developer has confirmed plans to go ahead with construction this summer, while the details of a construction loan are reportedly still being worked out with GMAC Commercial Mortgage.
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"It's our goal to close a loan this summer and begin construction thereafter," said Ramer's spokesperson Michele de Milly. "We are currently working towards financing."
Moreover, Ratner has had to abandon his plan to fund the project partly with low interest Liberty Bonds. Earlier this month, the State of New York has rejected his application for $150 million in Liberty Bond notes.
But though Ratner's construction expenses are now expected to skyrocket--a private loan is likely to carry a much higher interest rate, especially since Ratner has still not found a tenant for his part of the tower--industry insiders say the project should be successful in the long-term.
"He has several years to find a tenant because the building is still in the construction phase," said David Lebenstein, a leasing specialist with Time Equities, Inc. "He is a very reputable figure in the industry, so he should be able to find somebody to fill the empty space."
"But the banks will underwrite it more cautiously [as it is today]."
Robert Sammons, director of research with Colliers ABR, thinks New York's ongoing economic recovery should help Ratner find a tenant within a reasonable period of time.
"Sure he's taking a risk, but the economy appears to be recovering, so there will be need for class A space," Sammons said. "I am sure he'll find a tenant--he's still got a couple of years to go."
Ratner's leasing agent for the New York Times headquarters--CB Richard Ellis' Mary Ann Tighe--refused to comment on the matter. She has been searching for tenants to fill the 700,000 s/f space for about six months.
Located on Eighth Avenue, in the heart of the Times Square district, the New York Times headquarters is expected to become one of the most architecturally significant buildings in the City and complete the area's redevelopment. The project was undertaken by Forest City Rather in a joint venture with The Times Co. Once the building is completed, the newspaper will occupy the first 40 floors of the 52-story tower, with the rest being allotted for Ratner's tenants.
NYT Supports Older Judges
For Extending New York’s Judicial Terms(NYT Ed) Proposition 6, which would extend the retirement age for certain judges, deserves the support of state voters. The Times urges voters to approve a ballot referendum that would “modestly” extend the age limits for certain state judges and help ease court system backlogs by allowing judges to stay on past age 70* Newsday’s Dan Janison writes that the ballot referendum on raising the retiring age for state judges pits Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman against Cuomo, the latter of whom would not want his option to fill vacant court seats to be delayed:.
.Berlin Rosen Grew With the Help of WFP's Data and Field Swamp to Be A Member of NYC's Shadow Government
Berlin Rosen Operates In the Dark Pools of Power Illegal Unchecked Campaign Funding and NYC LobbyistA couple of weeks back, I called the mayor’s press office and asked about Mr. de Blasio’s perhaps too-optimistic cost projections for prekindergarten. Twenty minutes later, I heard from Dan Levitan of Berlin Rosen, which is the “it” P.R. firm of the city’s left and a close adviser to the mayor. He advised that I should study the mayor’s proposals carefully if I presumed to take “a skeptical look” at prekindergarten. I asked if Berlin Rosen had a contract to handle queries placed with the mayor’s office. He replied that he handled the “campaign” for pre-K. Lobbyists Search for Berlin Rosen * When Campaign Aides Are Lobbyists, Questions Mount - City Limits(City Limits) * 8 Lobbyists Consultants and Citizen United * True News (The Bund): Dark Pools * City Hall's new 'in' crowd of lobbyists (CrainsNY) Lobbyists behind the campaigns of ascendant power brokers are now poised to cash in.* The Perma-Campaign: For Bill de Blasio, the Race Never Ends(NYO) * When Campaign Aides Are Lobbyists, Questions Mount - City Limits(City Limits)Berlin Rosen Causes New Yorkers to Face Cheney Like Fake Reality (Brainwashing) and the Privatization of Tammany Hall Corruption
(Capital) The outside group that advocated for Mayor Bill de Blasio's pre-K plan is sending out a mailer praising a deal that resulted in a dramatic downsizing of Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill. The Campaign for One New York is the new iteration of UPKNYC, the advocacy group run by the mayor's former campaign aides that spent more than $1 million promoting the mayor's universal pre-K plan. When its name change was announced in May, the group's spokesman, former de Blasio campaign aide Jonathan Rosen, told the Wall Street Journal that it would "build on the grassroots energy of UPKNYC and last fall's campaign to support the mayor's bold, progressive agenda as it continues to move forward — building the affordable housing we need, fighting inequality, and ensuring that every child receives a great education." The mayor got arrested during his mayoral campaign protesting the prospect of the hospital's closure. *True News:The Privatization Of The Tammany Hall
Sugar Fix: City Hall's Inhouse Lobbyist Political Consultant Lobbies for Developers
Real Estate developers now understand if you want to get an OK for your housing plan hire Berlin Rosen.Apr 24, 2014 - Congratulations to whole team @TwoTreesNY on the approval of Domino Sugar Refinery. Amazing project for NYC. Proud to be a part of it.
NYT Covers-Up Lobbyists Berlin Rosen and Shadow Government Out of Mayor's Slush Fund 1NY StoryA video touting de Blasio’s pre-k program was sent from a City Hall address, under the city seal, to a list of de Blasio’s campaign supporters, among others, raising questions among legal experts and good-government groups about whether it was an appropriate form of official communication, The New York Times writes
Bloomiedammerung!(Slate)
Two elections defeat gun control, stop-and-frisk, and everything else Michael Bloomberg likes.
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