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2 By Drew Grant 10/04/11 6:15pm

Occupy New York

City Councilmen Dan Halloran and Ydanis Rodriguez visit Occupy Wall Street HQ

City Councilmen Break Out In Spontaneous Debate in Liberty Plaza

Normally we'd say that there is no way New York City Republican Councilman Dan Halloran just happened to be at the Occupy Wall Street protests today, and just happened to run into his Democratic coworker Ydanis Rodriguez, and those two just happened to break out with an impromptu civil argument about taxes. But that's what both of these elected officials'' spokespeople are saying to Capital New York, so who are we to argue that this was a pre-planned event?

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By Cora Lewis 7/06/10 10:09pm

Arts Editorial

The Arts Are Safe—For the Moment

New Yorkers seeking refuge in cool museum halls, botanic gardens and library reading rooms can stop sweating-the arts are safe, for now.

The City Council capitulated to reason and restored $20 million of arts funding in the city budget, putting back in most of a proposed $30 million cut that had threatened 33 of Read More

By Eliot Brown 5/19/09 10:31pm

For Related Companies, the City Planning Department Acts Promptly

If there was a race to get large development projects started in the city’s lengthy land-use review process, Stephen Ross and his Related Companies would be the clear winners.

On Monday, May 18, the Department of City Planning launched a long list of projects and initiatives into the seven-month-plus public approval process, two of them—the Read More

By Eliot Brown 5/19/09 10:30pm

For Related Companies, the City Planning Department Acts Promptly

If there was a race to get large development projects started in the city’s lengthy land-use review process, Stephen Ross and his Related Companies would be the clear winners. On Monday, May 18, the Department of City Planning launched a long list of projects and initiatives into the seven-month-plus public approval process, two of them—the Read More

By Glenna Goldis 10/28/08 2:03pm

Teachers Against Bloomberg: Notes From the Rubber Room

Before the New York City Council decided last week to vote in favor of Michael Bloomberg’s plan to extend term limits, attorneys were already challenging the new law in court.

Reports after the Council voted made note of two lawsuits, one filed by members of the Council who opposed the majority and the other, filed Read More

By Josh Benson 10/19/08 11:44pm

Term-Limits Hearings: Thompson Thunders, Velazquez Jokes

More from intern Glenna Goldis at the Council term-limits hearings:

The second set of testimony on term limits today included Comptroller Bill Thompson, who yesterday said he would run for mayor even if it meant challenging Bloomberg. Several times, the audience began to clap but then stifled itself to avoid censure from the chair. Read More

By Josh Benson 10/17/08 4:59pm

Term-Limits Hearings: Thompson Thunders, Velazquez Jokes

More from intern Glenna Goldis at the Council term-limits hearings:

The second set of testimony on term limits today included Comptroller Bill Thompson, who yesterday said he would run for mayor even if it meant challenging Bloomberg. Several times, the audience began to clap but then stifled itself to avoid censure from the chair.

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By Azi Paybarah 5/20/08 2:25pm

Quinn on Her Legacy

At a Crain's business breakfast in Midtown this morning, Christine Quinn said she doesn't think her career as City Council speaker will be "defined" by the "problem" the council has in the slush fund scandal.

Quinn said she, and others, will be judged by the solutions they propose to problems as they arise.

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By Tom McGeveran 3/24/08 1:03pm

Green Day: March 24, 2008

More than 70 major corporations will meet with environmental scientists at The Wild Center in the Adirondacks in June to "produce a slate of possible policy and regulatory options to overcome market and other barriers that are inhibiting implementation of substantial low-cost greenhouse gas emission reductions." [usclimateaction.org]

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of Read More

By Tom McGeveran 4:48pm

Dealing With New York City’s ‘E-Waste’ Problem

 Take a look in the back of your closet and haul out that old laptop running on Windows 95 with less computing power than your Blackberry.

In fact, go ahead and open your sock drawer and take out that first-generation Ipod that stopped working after it went through the rinse cycle in your blue jeans.

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By Azi Paybarah 2/12/08 6:03pm

Five-Borough Quinn

In a speech that will inevitably be viewed through the lens of her mayoral ambitions, Christine Quinn has embarked on a State of the City address touching on her ability, as Council Speaker, to get involved in parts of the city outside her home borough of Manhattan. “Instead of governing from City Hall, we've gotten Read More