COPS’ RANKS PLUNGE AS HIRE GOES LOWER
The number of city cops will plunge to levels not seen since the early 1990s, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly testified yesterday. Kelly told City Council members that he will follow Mayor Bloomberg’s...
View ArticleCOUNCIL’S 95G LEGAL ‘GUARDIAN’
Speaker Christine Quinn has quietly turned to a “white-shoe” Manhattan law firm for advice and representation in connection with a federal and local probe of the City Council’s inner workings, The Post...
View ArticleSI FERRIES TO WEATHER THE STORMS
In an effort to ensure that Staten Island Ferry boats sail smoothly during bad weather, city officials are ordering the installation of high-tech radar transponders that will guide the vessels safely...
View ArticlePARKS WITH MOST CRIME
Central Park, Flushing Meadows Park, Prospect Park and Riverside Park top the list of large parks that had double-digit instances of crime over the past 18 months, according to a survey by New Yorkers...
View ArticleMAVERICK IN MAYOR RACE
Declaring that the “revolution starts now,” City Councilman Tony Avella threw his hat into the ring to succeed Mayor Bloomberg in 2009, at a boisterous rally on the steps of City Hall yesterday. The...
View ArticleTHIS $$ IS HERS FOR THE FAKING
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office hid millions of taxpayer dollars by allocating grants to phantom organizations as a way of holding the funds to dole out political favors later – bogus...
View ArticleBLOOMY: I WAS FAKED OUT
Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that he had no idea the city budget allocated millions of dollars to phantom organizations at the request of Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office – and that he would...
View ArticleMIKE: HOW SLUSH CASH SLIPPED BY
Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that his budgetary watchdogs did not catch wind of a secret City Council fund because no money was ever actually paid to the phony entities set up as part of the scam....
View ArticlePHANTOM BUCKS STOP WITH ME: QUINN
Council Speaker Christine Quinn yesterday took responsibility for the shady bookkeeping scandal that has engulfed her office after the revelations that her aides squirreled away millions in taxpayer...
View ArticleFAUX FUND PROBE
City Comptroller Bill Thompson yesterday accused the City Council of hoodwinking the public by creating phantom organizations and announced that he will review every nonprofit contract awarded by...
View ArticleMAYOR ORDERS 3RD CASH SLASH
Six weeks after Mayor Bloomberg ordered city agencies to slash their budgets by 5 percent, he hit them yesterday with another 3 percent in cuts, worth $500 million. And that doesn’t include the 2½...
View Article‘DE$ERTED’ STATEN I.
A Staten Island lawmaker lashed out yesterday at the Bloomberg administration, claiming it has neglected the borough when it comes to economic-development projects. “It’s my belief that Staten Island...
View ArticleGREEN PARKING
A Queens lawmaker is pushing to have owners of hybrid vehicles get free parking at street meters and municipal parking lots, as a way to encourage city drivers to go green. Councilman Hiram Monserrate...
View ArticleSCRAPPY CITY TAKES ON RECYCLE THIEVES
In the five months since penalties were toughened for stealing recyclables, the city has imposed thousands of dollars in fines and impounded many a thief’s car. Last September, after officials realized...
View ArticleBAD BREAK HITS TRUMP SOHO HOTEL
The troubled Trump SoHo condo-hotel construction project was slapped with its second stop-work order when a hoisting device broke free and shattered glass on three floors due to high winds Saturday...
View ArticleNEW-LOOK HARLEM CLEARS A BIG HURDLE
Amid shouts of “Uncle Tom” and “sellout,” the City Planning Commission yesterday approved a controversial rezoning plan for 125th Street that would create condos, more performing-arts space and a...
View ArticleA PARADE WITHOUT POLS
There will be a shortage at today’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade – of politicians. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers will march 42 blocks up Fifth Avenue today in the 247th St. Patrick’s Day Parade, but...
View ArticleHACK FROM HELL
A cabby who unleashed a frightening foul-mouthed tirade on a female passenger who tried to pay him with a credit card – and then drove off with her cellphone and wallet – now faces the loss of his...
View ArticleCOOL RECEPTION FOR FROZEN SENIOR FARE
Commissioner of Aging Edwin Mendez-Santiago told skeptical lawmakers yesterday the frozen meals the city is considering for seniors aren’t the average TV dinner. “It’s not the same as when we take our...
View ArticleCITY GIVES POOR CREDIT
In the Bloomberg administration’s continuing effort to combat poverty, officials have identified thousands of residents eligible for some $15 million in Earned Income Tax Credits, but who never claimed...
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