Michael Bloomberg Archives - Page 21 of 89

Why Wait For The State? City Racing To Budget Deal

Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council are aiming to strike a handshake agreement on a city budget by Friday, three days before the state's self-imposed deadline to complete its long…

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Back To Basics: Challenges at the Community College Door

For her mere 20 years, Gina Ortiz speaks with the polish and poise of a person used to impressing her elders. She says she loved the small public high school…

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Economy

No Entry: Why Is Teen Unemployment So High?

The woman sweeping floors at the McDonald’s on 204th Street had gray hair tracing her temples, and her colleague at the register looked to be at least 50. Down at…

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Government

In This Fight, Public Advocate Is The Underdog

When the New York Times delivered its all-important endorsement to then-City Councilman Bill de Blasio in last year's race for public advocate, the paper noted that the winner's chief task…

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Government

Question Facing Beeps, Public Advocate: To Be Or Not To Be

The New York City Charter Revision Commission meets Thursday night to hear testimony about whether borough presidents and the public advocate should vanish or get more power.The hearing at 6…

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News Uncategorized

Affordable Housing Project Aims For Six-Figure Incomes

The 5 million square feet of new apartment space that the city wants built on the Queens side of the East River will include 3,000 apartments of affordable housing, according…

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Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Tenants & Pols Protest Handling of Housing Vouchers

It's been six months since the New York City Housing Authority went back on a promise to help 2,600 low-income New Yorkers pay the rent. In that time 27 families…

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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Reviews: A City on Fire

The Fires By Joe Flood, 325 pp. Riverhead Books. $26.95In 1961, President Kennedy hired Robert S. McNamara away from his job as president of the Ford Motor Company to,…

ByDavid Alm 0Comments

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May 2010