After this afternoon's Wall Street crash, an executive at one of Citigroup's rivals told The Observer that a "trading error at Citi" caused the gargantuan tumble. At the same time, CNBC was reporting that a Citi trader may have accidentally "entered a 'b' for billion instead of an 'm' for million in a Read More
Even if he is the youngest deputy mayor in New York City history, and one of the most important advisers at City Hall, 37-year-old Edward Skyler is a starched and unthrilling man. He wears two phones on his belt, on different networks in case one is getting bad reception. He doesn’t drink much, and if Read More
Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler told reporters at City Hall he felt it was time, after more than eight years with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to leave and find work somewhere else. Skyler is heading to Citigroup to head up their communication operations, internally and externally, he said.Surrounded by reporters in the Blue Room, Skyler declined to Read More
Michael Bloomberg has said he removed politics from government. Not so easy to do, though.
In the days after the mayor had emerged, victorious, but badly bruised, from his fight to rewrite the city’s term limits law, Mr. Bloomberg and his three top deputies, Edward Skyler, Patricia E. Harris and Kevin Read More
Michael Bloomberg just released his annual Mayor’s Management Report, a collecting of data about life in New York City gathered by city agencies. (It'll be posted here shortly.)
Some oddities stood out: there are more noise complaints, but fewer noise violations being written up by police. There are also more accidents on construction sites Read More
Skyler, a deputy mayor and former spokesman, said the relevant information was already sent to Thompson on May 13 and September 23 last year.
“Those memoranda Read More
At City Hall this afternoon, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli defended his decision—effective today—to begin withholding paychecks from the deadlocked State Senate.
“The message is to the Senate: get organized, sort out leadership issues, get back to enacting legislation that has an impact not only on the state but on the city budget as Read More
At City Hall this afternoon, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli defended his decision—effective today—to begin withholding paychecks from the deadlocked State Senate. “The message is to the Senate: get organized, sort out leadership issues, get back to enacting legislation that has an impact not only on the state but on the city budget as well,” DiNapoli Read More
--compiled by Azi Paybarah and Jimmy Vielkind
ALBANY—I took this picture a few minutes ago: Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler talking with former Deputy Mayor Marc Shaw and Michelle Goldstein, New York City's lobbyist in Albany.
Skyler is going on Fred Dicker's show now. He made news last week for knocking down a mugger. I'm assured that he's just in town Read More
The $400 rebate checks wouldn’t reach home owners in time for Christmas, said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
“Just numerically, it is not possible for these checks to arrive before Christmas, even if they were sent out, you know, today, it’s just not possible,” said Quinn in a scrum with reporters in City Hall. She Read More
Michael Bloomberg’s aides called to cut $1.4 billion from city agencies – and cancel indefinitely the incoming class of 110 firemen.
“Clearly we’re in a dire situation,” Deputy Mayor Ed Sklyer told reporters in City Hall yesterday. Skyler, surrounded by reporters in the Blue Room, noted that these reductions for Fiscal Year 2010 are based Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has returned to planet Earth. With a white-cheeked gibbon swinging from branch to branch and a Malayan Tapir drooping its head over a muddy puddle behind him at the Bronx Zoo, on Nov. 24, Mr. Bloomberg explained why, after all the talk over the last couple of years about the stratospheric national Read More
When billionaire term limits activist Ron Lauder was speaking to Ed Skyler earlier this week, he was, for all intents and purposes, speaking to the mayor.
That's because Michael Bloomberg was traveling oversees with two top deputy mayors, Patti Harris and Kevin Sheekey. So, the person who was left in charge was Read More
Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler released a list today of Michael Bloomberg’s member items -- the City Council members’ projects that the mayor funded directly from 2003 to 2008.The request came amid closer scrutiny of discretionary member-item allocation, which is being investigated by a U.S. prosecutor after fake names were found to have been inserted into Read More
