Self-Inflicted Wounds Doom Ferrer’s Campaign
Fernando Ferrer sought to turn the contest for New York City Mayor into a brawl last weekend. Who could blame him? Up until Sunday’s first public debate, nothing had gone right for Mr. Ferrer. His...
View ArticleSelf-Inflicted Wounds Doom Ferrer’s Campaign
Fernando Ferrer sought to turn the contest for New York City Mayor into a brawl last weekend. Who could blame him? Up until Sunday’s first public debate, nothing had gone right for Mr. Ferrer. His...
View ArticleClarke on Racial Carpetbagging
Each time we start to wonder if we’re not over-scrutinizing the race angle in the congressional contest in the 11th district, the candidates do something to reassure us we’re not just imagining things....
View ArticleAl Sharpton and Una Clarke
Al Sharpton recently explained his support for Carl Andrews in the 11th Congressional race — or, more precisely, his opposition to Yvette Clarke — by explaining that he was still annoyed that he...
View ArticleSilent March
Tomorrow, on the day Sean Bell’s daughter turns four years old, Rev. Al Sharpton and others will silently march down Fifth Avenue to protest police misconduct in minority communities and press City...
View ArticleEvents for Thursday, February 1, 2007
At 10 a.m. Mayor Bloomberg will tour parts of Sderot in Israel with a pool report to be filed by Michael Saul of the Daily News. At 10:45 a.m. Bloomberg will announce renovation of Jerusalem’s main...
View ArticleRuben Diaz on Sean Bell Verdict
Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr. told me just now, "Once again it’s a travesty of the judicial system where it seems like this verdict is going to have black and Latino communities feel like the system...
View ArticleCrime Waves: Denied Love and Killer Milkmen
Hiram Monerrate has been “spared jail, denied love,” writes the Post: he received a sentence of three years probation, a $1000 fine, domestic violence counseling, and community service–plus a continued...
View ArticleA Candidate Named Diallo
He has an extra H in his first name and only raised $50 so far. But Ahmadou Diallo is running for a City Council seat in the Bronx, the borough where another man — Amadou — was shot and killed by...
View ArticleYusef, Amadou and Kimani: East Flatbush Shooting Injects Race Into Election
Last year, when the cops who were part of a street narcotics unit shot and killed unarmed teenager Ramarley Graham in the Bronx after kicking in the door to his grandmother’s apartment, it was a...
View ArticleCuomo Calls for Statewide Police Reforms After ‘Damning’ Garner Video
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images). Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a sweeping, if somewhat vague, package of changes to policing and prosecution today that he hopes the state legislature...
View ArticleAfternoon Bulletin: Wet Wipes are the Bane of NY Sewer’s Existence and More
The Department of Environmental Protection is urging New Yorkers to stop using "demon snowball" wet wipes, even those labeled flushable.
View ArticleRampage in Central Park May Signal Changing Times
One of the cheapest thrills of history or historical fiction is spying on the average unperceptive soul as his world falls apart: Chaliapin performing in St. Petersburg the night the Winter Palace is...
View ArticleThe Crime Blotter
Grateful and Wary, East Siders Embrace Their Finest The first thing you notice these solemn days when you walk into the 19th Precinct station house-a landmark building, though not one known for...
View ArticleThe Bronx Is Burning
We’ve been watching and wondering for months as Freddy’s home borough simmers. The relationship between County Leader Jose Rivera and his predecessor, Roberto Ramirez — Freddy’s top advisor — is one of...
View ArticleFingering Freddy
Mark your calendars – today was a day that Freddy just might relive in his nightmares. Speaking at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network “Politics of the 21st Century: The Changing of the Guard”...
View ArticleFerrer’s Sharpton Problem: The Reverend May Walk
It’s easy to overestimate Fernando Ferrer’s problems in the Democratic Mayoral primary. Despite his slip in the polls and his frustrating inability to untangle his views about the 1999 shooting of...
View ArticleTo Combat Gun Crimes, Resurrect the NYPD’s Street Crime Unit
The murder of Police Officer Randolph Holder last week on the FDR Drive should haunt New Yorkers, just as the tragic killing of Amadou Diallo in February of 1999 does. Officer Holder was killed...
View ArticleManhattan Democratic Boss Eyes Harlem State Senate Seat
Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel‘s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend...
View ArticleFeds Dropping Case of African Man Killed by NYPD
After acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said that he would not move forward with the case of a 28-year-old Guinean immigrant killed by police officers in 2012, his mother said she will “fight all the way...
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