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He’s So Vain: Carly Simon and The Wannabe Madoff

On a recent Thursday morning, Internal Revenue Service agents walked up to a shiny new building on East 74th Street. Bernie Madoff's younger son has a $4.4 million condo on the fifth floor, but they were looking for his neighbor. "Tell them I'm not here," the money manager Kenneth I. Starr said to the Read More

Pas de Galifinakis? Comedian Makes Surprise Showing at ABT’s Swish Gala

When we caught up with comedian Zach Galifinakis at the American Ballet Theater’s spring gala on Monday, May 17, he seemed annoyed that he’d been noticed. And this wasn’t the overstated peevishness that’s helped him gain his newfound fame. It was the regular kind. “To be honest with you, I don’t really know a lot Read More

The Governor of Accidents

In Hollywood, they say, it can take a lifetime to become an overnight success. In Albany, it can take a lifetime to become an overnight failure.

Governor David Paterson has spent a lifetime in Albany.

Before his six-day-old campaign came to a halt last week—and long before he became Topic A for the New York media—Mr. Paterson’s Read More

Items! Ethics Panel and NBC Consider Going Public

The state ethics commission won't ask David Paterson how Caroline Kennedy's confidential records got out.

Norman Oder takes some questions on Atlantic Yards.

The Goldman Sachs p.r. offensive gets borderline offensive.

Would NBC Universal really go public?

Famous people will put on scrappy plays.

A female writer recalls the bad old days at the Read More

Kennedy Helps Vance Raise Money

Caroline Kennedy will be a guest at a fund-raiser for Manhattan district attorney candidate Cy Vance on Tuesday, June 23, according to this invitation. One bit of related trivia: The firm Kennedy hired when she was in the hunt for a Senate appointment, Knickerbocker SKD, is representing one of Vance’s rivals, Leslie Crocker Snyder.

Kennedy Helps Vance Raise Money

Caroline Kennedy will be a guest at a fund-raiser for Manhattan district attorney candidate Cy Vance on Tuesday, June 23, according to this invitation.

One bit of related trivia: The firm Kennedy hired when she was in the hunt for a Senate appointment, Knickerbocker SKD, is representing one of Vance’s rivals, Read More

Lots of Counties for Gillibrand, But Brooklyn Still Won’t Take Her Calls

I found Assemblyman Vito Lopez, also chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, on the floor Read More

Lots of Counties for Gillibrand, But Brooklyn Still Won’t Take Her Calls

ALBANY—Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's campaign announced today she had been endorsed by the leaders of 52 of the 62 Democratic county leaders in New York. Among the holdouts: the chairmen of all five boroughs of New York City. I found Assemblyman Vito Lopez, also chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, on the floor of the chamber Read More

Obama-rina! At Ballet Gala, Gals Bare Arms in Solidarity; Al Roker Stays Awake

At around 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 18, a procession of women in billowing gowns was making its way in the courtyard of the Metropolitan Opera House for the American Ballet’s spring gala.

“I cannot wait to see Michelle Obama!” said the fit morning-talk-show host Kelly Ripa, adding that she was wearing fake eyelashes for the Read More

Paterson Camp Accuses Cuomo of Sabotage

David Paterson's campaign and supporters are accusing Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of deliberately undermining the governor in the press. Last week, The New York Times reported that the state's ethics panel had been reviewing a request from three good-government groups to investigate the Paterson administration for leaking the confidential information Caroline Kennedy provided during the Read More

Paterson Camp Accuses Cuomo of Sabotage

David Paterson's campaign and supporters are accusing Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of deliberately undermining the governor in the press.

Last week, The New York Times reported that the state's ethics panel had been reviewing a request from three good-government groups to investigate the Paterson administration for leaking the confidential information Caroline Kennedy provided during Read More

Shades of Troopergate: Winner Sees Foot-Dragging on the Kennedy-Leak Investigation

ALBANY—State Senator George Winner, who led an investigation in his own chamber into the "Troopergate" affair, said the members of the Commission on Public Integrity are "dragging their feet" in dealing with a complaint concerning leaks about Caroline Kennedy from David Paterson's office. "The fact that they're dragging their feet is once again typical response Read More

Shades of Troopergate: Winner Sees Foot-Dragging on the Kennedy-Leak Investigation

"The fact that they're dragging their feet is once again Read More

Investigating the Caroline Kennedy Leak, Maybe, Eventually

Here’s the letter three Albany watchdog groups sent to the Committee on Public Integrity asking for an investigation into the leaks from the governor’s office about Caroline Kennedy. (According to The Times, the committee has been reviewing the request for two months.

Investigating the Caroline Kennedy Leak, Maybe, Eventually

Here’s the letter three Albany watchdog groups sent to the Committee on Public Integrity asking for an investigation into the leaks from the governor’s office about Caroline Kennedy. (According to The Times, the committee has been reviewing the request for two months.)

When Read More