Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Home taxes through the roof By DAVID SEIFMAN, NY Post Taxes on the typical single-family home in the cash-strapped Big Apple are going up next year by 8.8 percent, from $3,233 to $3,519. But if the City Council hadn't acted to protect those homeowners, the increase would have been 14.3 percent, to $3,695, officials said yesterday. The average co-op faces a 10.3 percent hike, from $4,467...
The Hankster (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... PRIMARIES/ NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS Local African-American voters weigh in on nonpartisan voting (David Anderson, ENC Today) “When I vote I look at the person, listen to their views, then I compare them to the person they’re running against; that’s how I make my decision.” Republicans decide to retain the "open primary" system (Beaufort Observer - NC) State...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
City workers get record number of 'free' rides By DAVID SEIFMAN, NY Post Mayor Bloomberg presides over a driven government. Documents released yesterday by the Office of Payroll Administration in response to a months-old Freedom of Information request show that the number of city workers commuting in their official vehicles matches the record of 2,409 set in 2005. In 2007, a total of...
Sliding Into Home (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Besides just being an overall better team, the Yankees also put more money in the city treasury than there cross-town rivals. From David Seifman : The Yankees can now legitimately claim to be twice as good as the Mets -- at generating cash for the city. The World Series champs produced "at least $200,000" by selling seats in the luxury suite turned over to the city in the new...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Bloomberg was the LESSER of two evils'?? New York Post : 1993 WTC 'plotter' and Mike meet By SALLY GOLDENBERG and DAVID SEIFMAN Last Updated: 11:08 AM, November 12, 2009 Posted: 3:27 AM, November 12, 2009 A controversial imam who was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was among a group of Muslim leaders invited yesterday to a meeting with Mayor...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This being Veterans Day, when we honor the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our right to freedom and democracy, I thought it would be fitting to finally wrap up exactly what happened on November 3rd. Here we go... From Room Eight : The following is a quote from David Seifman's New York Post column of this morning: "Mayor Bloomberg's campaign crew's excuses...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
By DAVID SEIFMAN, City Hall Bureau Chief
Room Eight (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The following is a quote from David Seifman's New York Post column of this morning: Mayor Bloomberg 's campaign crew's excuses for his shockingly close 4.6 percentage-point win over Bill Thompson go something like this: * No matter that we consistently told everyone publicly he was leading by double digits, we knew that it was going to be very close. We did this to hurt Thompson's fund-raising...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
'Third fare hike' alarm By DAVID SEIFMAN and TOM NAMAKO, NY Post The new MTA chief yesterday wouldn't rule out another fare hike in 2010 -- which would mean a third consecutive year of increases hitting subway and bus riders. "We don't know yet what the circumstances will be and I don't want to be in the range of conjecturing what's going to happen," said agency CEO Jay Walder....
Room Eight (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... all of the shenanigans in order to provide Quinn the cover she so desperately needed. Just today David Seifman wrote an article in the New York Post about the City's purchase of expensive hybrid SUV's which were doled out to Deputy Mayors and Commissioners as opposed to the lower staff who would have truly given them a test run. When Quinn's spokesperson was questioned about this...
