Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

Pace University holds a conference titled "Aftershock: Rethinking the Future Since September 11, 2001" at Pace University's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.

Jonathan Tasini goes on a five borough "cost of war" tour beginning at Manhattan's VA Hospital and visiting a Post Office on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, the Queensbridge Housing Project, Brooklyn College, and Bayley Seton Hospital in Staten Island.

Eliot Spitzer visits the Shinnecock Fishing Village in Hampton Bays and later speaks at a NYC Meet-up at Luna Park in Union Square.

A town hall meeting with the Democratic candidates for the 11th congressional district will take place at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn at 7pm.

Despite the enthusiastic postering, there wasn't much of a crowd at Pace University for last night's town hall meeting with the five AG candidates, who appeared in front of audiences around the state and were televised live at Pace's Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. Most of the people following the race were probably waiting for the candidates to debate tonight.

Still, the event was supposed to have been all about the audience. They asked. They heard. But did they like?

One undecided voter who sat near me said he heard only one candidate talk about experience that's relevant to the job. "But I'm a Democrat," he said, and left still undecided.

During the forum, Sean Patrick Maloney stood out as the only candidate who responded to his first question with an actual answer, and did not include what felt like a mandatory shout out to the viewers and television stations in other cities.

Mark Green stood out, but in a different way. In keeping with his aggressive new Anti-Cuomo strategy, it was he who offered the closest thing to an attack on another candidate.  read more »

Afterwards, the sidewalks were deserted. No pep rallies. Not many reporters looking for man on the street reactions. The street looked as empty after the town hall as when it started.