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The historic and mostly dormant Coney Island amusement park district in New York City will be revived by next summer with some new attractions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and developer Joseph Sitt said Thursday.
After Mayor Michael Bloomberg was nearly unseated by his little-known challenger, the ever-confident billionaire declared it a "great week" and threw a ticker-tape parade.
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars to get inside the head of every New York City voter, hundreds of thousands of whom will get pre-recorded "robocalls" narrowly targeted to appeal to their tastes and urging them to get out and vote.
Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Democratic challenger bickered vigorously about money in city politics during their first debate, trading accusations about who has bought support and who has been bought.
Private unlicensed gun dealers were captured on video selling weapons to undercover investigators who admitted they couldn't pass background checks in a sting operation by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to highlight the "gun show loophole."
The arrest last week of former coffee vendor Najibullah Zazi on charges of plotting to attack New York City gives added urgency to the city's pleas for federal funding to deter nuclear attacks, Mayor Bloomberg and area lawmakers said Sunday.
New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. has cruised to victory in the Democratic mayoral primary and will face billionaire incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The nation's largest school district said Tuesday it will offer free swine flu vaccinations to its 1 million-plus schoolchildren as New York City takes bold steps to avoid becoming the country's flu epicenter again in the fall.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday he's not really running against anyone in this year's mayoral election, and sought to cast his challengers as irrelevant.
Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical companies and their chief executives on Friday, declaring that they "don't make a lot of money" and shouldn't be scapegoats in the health care debate.
The leader of a powerful labor union that recently endorsed Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his re-election campaign was charged Wednesday with taking bribes from contractors who were scheming to cut labor costs.
Summer on Coney Island was sweetness by the sea for generations who reveled in the tacky splendor of the Brooklyn beachfront.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is tapping a Morgan Stanley executive to be his new finance commissioner.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has apologized for letting his SUVs idle for long periods of time.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has pushed an ambitious green agenda and cast himself as a national environmental leader, routinely runs afoul of his own anti-pollution policy by letting his official SUVs idle, sometimes for more than an hour.
The owner of ground zero and a developer are talking past a deadline set by New York City's mayor to work out their differences.
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel says it was "entirely inappropriate" that he made a comment about President Barack Obama needing to be careful when visiting Harlem, where a black police officer was fatally shot by a white colleague last week.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has blown through a record $18.6 million of his own cash on his campaign for a third term, nearly double what he had spent by this point in the race four years ago.
Students streamed into St. Francis Preparatory School on Monday morning, happy to return after an outbreak of swine flu but wary of close contact, and some equipped with hand sanitizer in their backpacks.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's election-year budget spares teachers, police officers and firefighters from his layoffs, but the billionaire former CEO refuses to consider proposals to raise taxes on the rich.
A federal appeals court concluded Tuesday there are no constitutional obstructions to letting Mayor Michael Bloomberg run for a third term this year.
City officials announced a rising toll of the largest cluster of swine flu cases in the nation Monday as anxious New Yorkers rushed to drug stores to buy face masks in response to a global health scare.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign ads are already all over television and radio, and now they'll be popping up online as well.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants wind-powered city buildings and a green Empire State Building, but admitted Thursday that the only way he saves energy at his private homes is by using efficient light bulbs.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a New York City fried chicken restaurant named after President Obama could probably find a more appropriate name.
Pray for Liberals: "Helping Restore Poor Leaders to Right Thinking"I heard the guy behind this "prayer in action" being interviewed on the BBC World Service over night. He's serious. This is another example of how the right wing takes a good, time-honored idea -- praying for others -- and turns it into a political-religious farce.
The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal. The phrase "knowledge is power" is a cliché in our culture.
Recession Woes Lead To Holiday Shoplifting SpikeNEW YORK (CBS) -- The bad economy has been particularly hard on retailers, but now they are getting hit again -- this time by shoplifters. There has been a shoplifting surge across the country.
US: Mentally ill woman left to die in hospital waiting roomThe WSWS reports and comments: A videotape aired on national television showing a patient dying in the waiting room of the Kings County Medical Center in Brooklyn last month has provoked a wave of revulsion.
McCain and Bloomberg bond in Brooklyn over boosting small bizPresidential hopeful John McCain ventured to Brooklyn Thursday to talk about the importance of small business, but not before he got a big welcome from a one-time big businessman-turned-politician - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Inept while we slept.so those in new york are unable to stop some "coward hooded bicyclist" from setting off an improvised explosive in downtown new york, yet all the fear mongering and terror statuses, desire to have complete control over the US citizens, track and monitor us, desire to continually …
Bloomberg Rebukes Albany on NYC Congestion FeeJuly 17, 2007 Bloomberg Lashes Out at Lawmakers on Congestion Plan By ANAHAD O'CONNOR and DANNY HAKIM
Bloomberg: Swift-Boating Hillary?The presidential candidacy of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is already a smashing success. A mere change of registration from Republican to independent has garnered him a cornucopia of free and favorable publicity some candidates do not receive in a year of campaigning.
New York City Will Be Hailing Hybrids by 2012 New York City has always been a trendsetter for our country and now, with these hybrid taxis, it is taking a major step toward our energy independence. Often times, what starts in New York City ends around the world.
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