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Bloomberg and Liu’s losing investment

How the mayor and the comptroller who wants to replace him fumbled a chance to save the city billions

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Titanic II on the Hudson

City Economic Development Corp. explored digging West Side berth for replica of the doomed cruise ship

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Breakable bonds leave city a winner in smoking slowdown

New York City sold Wall Street on the idea that a multibillion-dollar tobacco industry settlement was a cash cow. Now investors are staring down default, helped along by the mayor’s anti-cigarette crusade.

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Comptroller opens Checkbook 2.0

Sequel to city’s public contracts database offers code and content to help outsiders watchdog government spending

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Campaign fundraiser gets gig at Thompson-tied Battery Park City Authority

Ex-Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro raised $30,000 weeks before deal to provide legal services

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Gulf Coast collected billions from flood insurance, repays with ‘no’ votes for Sandy

Texas alone received $5.5 billion — and cast eight votes in the House against replenishing program’s funds

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Senators say no to storm aid — after their states received it

FEMA funding to protect against future disasters proves popular in states now resisting Sandy relief package in Congress

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New York a leading provider of subsidies to assault weapons makers

Eight states have lured assault weapons makers with $19 million tax breaks and other aid — including New York, which ranks No. 2 in the nation.

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State of visibility for City Comptroller Liu

Adding up the proposals from the city’s chief accountant as he hurtles toward the 2013 mayor’s race

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Real estate giants push for break on buildings’ Battery Park City payments

Request follows similar deal last year that cost public authority $279 million

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