City building accidents down 18%: Mayor
Posted by Rebecca Henely in Assembly, City Council, City Offices, Congress, District 14, District 25, District 26, Mayor, U.S. House on January 26, 2012 | No Comments
Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited an apartment complex under construction in Long Island City Monday to announce what he called a step in the right direction: an 18 percent drop in construction accidents citywide from 2010-11. “This is good for the agency. This is good for the public,” Bloomberg said. The mayor said there were 152 [...]
More bread for top teachers
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, City Comptroller, City Offices, District 39, Mayor on January 19, 2012 | No Comments
Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed incentives, including merit pay, so the city can retain and recruit the best teachers during his State of the City address last Thursday in the Bronx. The mayor also called on the state to pass minimum wage legislation so the pay is higher than federal standards. “The single most important factor [...]
Avella trashes city’s garbage bin policy
Posted by Rebecca Henely in District 11, Mayor, State Senate on January 19, 2012 | No Comments
State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) slammed the city Department of Sanitation Friday for fines that have been levied against residents for putting their trash cans out too early the day before collection. Avella said he suspected the levied fines, which are a minimum of $100 but can be as high as $300, were not supported [...]
Boro Muslims boycott Bloomberg’s annual breakfast
Posted by Rebecca Henely in City Offices, Mayor on January 5, 2012 | No Comments
Several Queens Muslim leaders and their allies from other faiths added their names to a letter calling for a boycott of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s annual interfaith breakfast, which was held Friday. The boycott was called in response to revelations in an Associated Press report in November that said the NYPD sent undercover officers into mosques, [...]
Haggerty gets up to four years in larceny case
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in City Offices, Mayor on December 22, 2011 | No Comments
The Queens Republican operative convicted of stealing more than a million dollars from the mayor was led off to prison Monday to begin serving a sentence of at least a year. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ronald Zweibel denied the request made by John Haggerty’s attorneys to give the Forest Hills resident probation for his October [...]
Stop horsing around city: Avella
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Assembly, City Offices, District 11, Mayor, State Senate on December 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) said a recent string of highly publicized accidents in Manhattan involving horse-drawn carriages demonstrates the need to ban the industry from operating in New York City. In 2011, there have been seven carriage horse incidents investigated by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which regulates the [...]
