Since the surprise raid on Occupy Wall Street's encampment in Zuccotti Park last Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg's office has been in full spin mode. First defending the actions of the New York Police Department, then minimizing the magnitude of Thursday's demonstrations and now loudly arresting an Al Qaeda sympathizer and would-be terrorist the FBI had determined wasn't a major threat. Read More
Bloggers will now have a shot at getting press passes, thanks to new rules being implemented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
It's in response to a lawsuit filed by reporter/blogger/gadfly Rafael Martinez-Alequin, editor David Wallis of featurewell.com and publisher Ralph E. Smith, of The Guardian Chronicle, a blog about correction officers, and their Read More
As far as Bill Perkins is concerned, the issue of eminent domain has got legs.
"It's really a corruption of our notion of democracy," said Perkins, a Democratic state senator who represents Harlem. He was speaking Saturday at a Pentecostal church on 125th Street. The room was one-third filled by people who are concerned about Read More
As he reveled in a second place finish in the race for public advocate that will put him in a run off against Councilman Bill de Blasio, Mark Green urged supporters of candidates who didn't make the cut to join "the Green team."
Norman Siegel didn't seem too excited at the idea, and sounded Read More
It's usually the case that everyone attacks the front-runner. But in last night’s public advocate debate – the last televised one before the primary – it was Bill de Blasio who got the incoming fire from the rest of the candidates.
It’s a validation that de Blasio is the most likely to get into the Read More
Mark Green is hovering just shy of the 40 percent he needs to avoid a run-off, according to the latest USA Survey poll of likely voters, conducted from August 28 to September 1.
Bill de Blasio gained 4 points, and is now at 23 percent. Eric Gioia, who overtook Norman Siegel, gained 3 points Read More
A new WABC-TV poll is out, and Melinda Katz has moved ahead in the city comptroller race, while Mark Green slipped 9 points in the public advocate’s race.
Katz gained 5 points while John Liu, the previous leader, dropped 2 points from a similar poll last week. Katz is now 27 percent, Liu is Read More
Bill de Blasio scored a coup this weekend, winning the endorsement of The New York Times for public advocate over Mark Green, who The Times endorsed for mayor in 2001 and attorney general in 2006.
Hours after the endorsement came out on Saturday, de Blasio’s campaign put out a robocall featuring Jerry Nadler, Read More
Mark Green, the former public advocate who ran for mayor in 2001, said he does not want to run for mayor again.
Green said that during the first televised debate in the public advocate’s race, hosted by WABC-TV.
Green is hovering at the 40 percent in the polls –enough to win the Democratic primary without Read More
I’m in the Green Room at ABC's studios, about to watch the first official debate between the public advocate candidates.
Zoe Epstein of Eric Gioia’s office was hanging out in here, joking that she played Bill de Blasio in debate prep.
Mark Green walked by and told his daughter, Jenya, to say hi to us. Read More
Michael Bloomberg’s lead over Bill Thompson has grown, slightly, according to a Quinnipiac poll out today. Bloomberg leads Thompson 50 to 35 percent, up from the 47 to 37 percent lead in their July 28 poll.
Thompson’s numbers among African-Americans are lower than where they’ll probably be in November, meaning this gap will probably Read More
Bill de Blasio is up with his second ad, featuring every member of his family.
He's put more public emphasis on his family than the other candidates, Mark Green, Norman Siegel, or Eric Gioia. Certainly, he's the only candidate in the all-white field who can use the diversity of his own household as a direct Read More
Here’s a little bit more about Norman Siegel beefing up his campaign operation by signing on with Hank Sheinkopf.
"Michael Oliva will act as Sheinkopf's senior strategic adviser to the Siegel campaign," the campaign said. That's the same Michael Oliva who recently parted ways with another public advocate candidate, Eric Gioia, over strategic Read More
A WABC-TV poll has John Liu and Melinda Katz in a statistical dead heat for comptroller, and Mark Green easily winning the public advocate’s race without a run-off. (The city Campaign Finance Board is making no such assumption.)
The WABC-TV poll surveyed 2,200 city adults, with 1,914 of them being registered voters, 603 Read More
Bill Thompson and Mark Green, who top the polls in their respective primaries, did not qualify for matching funds from the city's Campaign Finance Board, which were issued today.
They’ll have another chance to qualify for matching funds on August 20.
Liz Benjamin has a good breakdown of who's up and who's down with Read More
