As the Wall Street Journal launched a "Greater New York" section, its direct competitor, The New York Times, was moving City Hall staff around. First was the recent introduction of Javier Hernandez, who had been covering business. He's now in City Hall. Most recently, he wrote a story about how a fight over Read More
New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos is transferring from the City Hall beat. Santos, who covered upstate New York before coming to Room 9, will be transferring to the paper's Queens beat. (Yes, they have one!)."I'm a street reporter at heart, so this is a beat that suits me better," she said in an email.During Read More
David Chen is up with a story saying the relationship between Jon Corzine and Michael Bloomberg – Wall Street guys who entered politics at the same time - has become strained.
“I was at a dinner party with him, maybe, two months ago,” Bloomberg told reporters at Union Square this afternoon, when asked about Corzine. Read More
Michael Bloomberg’s endorsements yesterday by John Podesta was, according to David Chen “is the clearest indication yet that Mr. Thompson should not expect a political lifeline anytime soon” from Podesta’s former boss Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. (Podesta led Obama’s transition team.)
It’s the latest slight Bloomberg’s Democratic rival, Bill Thompson, has Read More
David Chen, the longtime Trenton reporter for The Times, is replacing Diane Cardwell as the paper's City Hall bureau chief, according to an internal memo. Mr. Chen will join Michael Barbaro and Fernanda Santos in Room 9.
Mr. Chen's departure means there's a vacancy in Trenton, but at this point it's unclear whether the paper has Read More
Governor George Pataki was exhausting his working knowledge of
Chinese as he worked a room of 300 senior citizens in Chinatown on Feb. 15. " Gung hey fat choy ," he said. "Happy 4700! Nihoma ! " A bright red and yellow dragon, accompanied by loud drummers and dancers dressed in green satin, followed the Governor Read More