John Lindsay

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As an addendum to today's story on Bloomberg's strategic plan, let us pass on this reminiscence from Sylvia Deutsch, the former city planning chairwoman. The other day, she recalled that she joined the commission shortly after Mayor John Lindsay's 1969 master plan for the city appeared.

It was a really exhaustive look at each and every neighborhood: does it need more social services, does it need more transportation?... The question arose a year or so later when we were in executive session: what do we do with it now? What was finally decided was that we would-quote-file it.

Now, it turns out there is a difference in planning-speak between a "master plan," which is how Lindsay referred to his oeuvre and a "strategic plan," which is the term Bloomberg has used, and which planners say denotes a more flexible, broad-brush approach. Let's hope the Mayor knows the difference.

-Matthew Schuerman

A cast of pols and pranksters, drunk on venom and tabloid ink, has been staging the gradual collapse  read more »

Michael Bloomberg doesn’t do anonymity.  read more »

Michael Bloomberg doesn’t do anonymity.  read more »

The Bloomberg campaign plans to circulate independent nominating petitions to put Mike on the November ballot on the Liberal Party line, The Politicker has learned.

Also on the petitions: D.A. Robert Morgenthau.

Technically speaking, they're doing this independently of the old Liberal Party, which lost its ballot line in 2002 when Andrew Cuomo failed to get 50,000 votes for Governor. But the move has the blessing of Liberal Party chairman Henry Stern.

The campaign plans to begin petitioning later this week, and needs to file 7,500 signatures between August 16 and 23.  read more »

A side-note: If Bloomberg remains on the Republican and Independence Party lines and adds the Liberal Party, he will still appear on the fall ballot only twice: "Republican/Liberal" (That has a nice ring to it...); and Independence. If he loses the Independence line, he'll appear on two separate lines, Republican and Liberal.

Shades of John Lindsay indeed.

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The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, by Vincent Cannato.  read more »

Is there still a cult of nostalgia for the 1970's?  read more »

As the great men and women of municipal government shooktheir umbrellas and hats and chatted to each  read more »