Does New York have the juice to forge Time Warner-MSG truce? Since the beginning of the year, Time Warner Cable’s 2 million New York subscribers have not been able to view any Madison Square Garden games, causing many upset New York Knicks fans to miss all the Linsanity surrounding the team. Yes, even 23-year-old Jeremy […]
What is a ‘community of interest’? Starting today, the New York World Daily Q will occasionally bring in experts to answer a timely question about a big story in New York news. For the first installment, we’ve invited Susan Lerner, executive director of the good-government organization Common Cause New York. She addresses a question that has […]
Which cities supply financial data to tech developers? The office of New York City Comptroller John Liu recently revealed that it is developing Checkbook NYC 2.0, which would greatly expand on the information already publicly available via the Comptroller’s website on the city’s payments to contractors and other recipients of funds. As first reported in […]
How many New York City workers earn minimum wage? A bill backed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver would increase the minimum wage in New York from $7.25 to $8.50, The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports this morning. The state last hiked the minimum wage hike in 2009. Since then, the number of minimum wage […]
What’s the Council Speaker’s track record on State-of-the-City promises? First Governor Andrew Cuomo, then Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and now it’s City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. New York’s second-most powerful figure in city government will be giving her annual State of the City speech today at noon, her sixth since assuming the position in 2006. While […]
How often do district attorneys decide not to file charges? Yesterday, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr., announced that it will not pursue rape charges against Good Day New York co-host Greg Kelly, son of New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. After a two-week investigation into claims Greg Kelly assaulted a […]
What parts of lower Manhattan are off limits this morning? Today the New York Giants celebrate their Superbowl victory with a tickertape parade up lower Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes, on Broadway. In preparation for the event the NYPD closed roads and the MTA will suspend stops at several stations surrounding the route. Roads highlighted in […]
On Friday, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against the nation’s largest banks, alleging that their use of a private national mortgage database run by a company called Mortgage Electronic Recording Systems (MERS) has facilitated systematic fraud in foreclosure filings. The suit alleges that financial institutions that rely on MERS have moved to […]
What will the mayor propose in his budget? Today in City Hall at 1 p.m., Mayor Bloomberg will reveal his preliminary budget for fiscal year 2013. What are his likely targets to boost or slash? You’ll find the answers here later today. In the meantime, we offer eight budget predictions, based on past years’ proposals and […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that New York consumers seeking to make energy-efficiency upgrades to their homes – such as installing insulation or low-fuel boilers – can now obtain inexpensive loans and repay the debt on their monthly utility bills, as part of a new program called On-Bill Recovery Financing. On-bill financing allows consumers to […]
