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Bloomberg’s Goodbye to All That
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,...
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Bloomberg’s Latest Budget Cuts
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...
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Christine Quinn: No Rebate Checks for Christmas
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,...
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Muggers of Albany, Beware
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...
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DiNapoli’s Message to the Senate
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...
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DiNapoli’s Message to the Senate
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:...
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Skyler on the Working Relationship With Bill Thompson
Ed Skyler is out with his response to a request from Bill Thompson, the comptroller and mayoral candidate, for paperwork on how Michael Bloomberg spent his discretionary funds. Skyler, a deputy mayor...
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Bloomberg by Numbers
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...
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Staten Island Room
Michael Bloomberg has said he removed politics from government. Not so easy to do, though. From the New York Times: In the days after the mayor had emerged, victorious, but badly bruised, from his...
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Skyler Says It’s Time
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...
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Mr. Skyler Goes to Wall Street
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...
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Today’s Stock Market Crash Was Not Citi’s Fault, Says Citi; Goldman Remains...
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...
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'Tom Who?' Publisher Allon Explains His Ink-Stained Mayoral Run
Publisher Tom Allon said, in hindsight, it was a mistake to support Mayor Bloomberg’s push to extend term limits, putting the newly announced 2013 mayoral candidate at odds with two of the leading...
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After Quick Departure, Some Question Goldsmith's Role in Bloomberg's Admin
Mayor Bloomberg today appointed Stephen Goldsmith, the nation’s premier expert on innovation in government and the former Mayor of Indianapolis, as Deputy Mayor for Operations. April 30, 2010 (Photo...
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