Manhattan Institute

Rudy Giuliani returned on April 25, 2006, from his first, unofficial forays on the presidential campaign trail to accept an award from the heterodox, New York-based conservatives who made him.

“It’s like coming home,” Mr. Giuliani told the members of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.  read more »

I just got a copy of the prepared remarks Michael Bloomberg delivered this morning in midtown to the Manhattan Institute, the conservative think tank that recently was in the news for providing Rudy Giuliani inaccurate data about cancer rates for a presidential campaign ad.

From the prepared remarks, which I haven't checked against actual delivery:

"By fundamentally re-thinking how we use our land, we’ve been able to disprove the conventional wisdom that you just can’t get big projects done anymore. When the West Side Sports and Convention Center didn’t win State approval, it was popular to say that the conventional wisdom was right. But it wasn’t."

Bloomberg also boasted of being able to keep the city "moving forward in directions that the Manhattan Institute has pointed the way on."

The full (prepared) speech is after the jump.  read more »