NYC Taxpayers Help Sponsor Bloomberg’s Gun Control Group
8:06 AM, Jun 22, 2013 • By JIM SWIF
Reports surfaced earlier this week that the webpage of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) appears to have been purchased and hosted by City of New York.
The group was co-founded by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor Thomas Menino to “share best practices, develop innovative policies, and support legislation at the national, state, and local levels that will help law enforcement target illegal guns.”
In a phone call with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Mayor Bloomberg’s press secretary Marc La Vorgna confirmed the City of New York’s involvement with the domain’s purchase and hosting.
When asked whether the purchase and subsequent hosting of the domain by New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications was accidental or intentional, La Vorgna replied that the purchase had “definitely been vetted.”
NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Government has right to ‘infringe on your freedom’
By Cheryl K. Chumley
The Washington Times
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday: Sometimes government does know best. And in those cases, Americans should just cede their rights.
“I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom,” Mr. Bloomberg said, during an appearance on NBC. He made the statement during discussion of his soda ban — just shot down by the courts — and insistence that his fight to control sugary drink portion sizes in the city would go forth.
NYC beckons new parents as North Jersey suburbs no longer seen as only place to raise kids
Sunday February 17, 2013, 12:35 AM
BY DAVE SHEINGOLD
STAFF WRITER
The Record
In a striking reversal, growing numbers of young parents are choosing the bustle of New York City over the calm of suburban life as a place to live, a trend that is already changing the face of some neighborhoods across North Jersey and could have long-term implications for schools, the housing market and beyond.
The number of children under the age of 5 has fallen 20 to 40 percent in many wealthy communities, with an overall drop of 12 percent across Bergen and Passaic counties since 2000, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. At the same time, middle- and upper-income areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn have seen virtually the opposite shift in both the number of young adults as well as preschool children, an analysis of the data by The Record found.
The trend, a break in a pattern that has held since before World War II, has left Bergen County with 6,000 fewer children younger than 5 years old than it had in 2000. Passaic’s figure, meanwhile, has slid by about 6,000 since 2005. Similar declines have appeared in suburban Westchester and Nassau counties in New York, the analysis found.
The Port Authority announces PATH to resume between Newark and 33rd Street in NYC Monday
Ridgewood NJ , PATH service will resume at 5 a.m. Monday morning at the Newark Penn and Harrison stations in New Jersey to Manhattan, Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sunday.PATH Trains will run in both directions until 10 p.m. between Newark Penn, New Jersey and 33rd Street in New York, according to the release.
The temporary line also will include stops at Journal Square, Grove Street and Newport stations in New Jersey and at the 14th, 23rd and 33rd Street stations in Manhattan.
Trains will bypass both Christopher and 9th streets in New York, and disabled passengers will only have access to the platforms at Newark, Journal Square and 33rd Street.
PATH still remains suspended at the Hoboken, Exchange Place and the World Trade Center stations due to significant damage from flooding during superstorm Sandy.
The Port Authority estimates that it will be several weeks before service is reinstated on the Newark-World Trade Center line and the lines to and from Hoboken station. Port Authority officials said passengers may experience extended waits until service returns to normal.
The Port Authority and New Jersey Transit also will begin operating a new ferry service from the Hoboken Ferry Terminal on Monday. NJ Transit customers can take a bus to the Hoboken Ferry Terminal and then transfer to a ferry that will take passengers to Pier 79 at 39th Street in Manhattan. The fare is $5 and ferries will run back and forth between Hoboken and Manhattan from 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. Free shuttle buses will be provided from Pier 79 to midtown Manhattan.
Bloomberg Diverts Food, Generators from Devastated Staten Island to NYC Marathon
by Michael Patrick Leahy 1 Nov 2012
Fresh off his “climate disruption”-driven endorsement of President Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has chosen to divert critical food supplies and power generators from desperate residents of Staten Island to Sunday’s New York City Marathon. Gothamist reports:
[T]hose urging the city to halt the run believe that the thousands of Marathon volunteers could direct their efforts towards post-Sandy relief and cleanup, “and they also argue that the event will divert thousands of police from important hurricane-related duties.” But despite petitions circulating, work started up again yesterday on the Marathon route.
A tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, told us there were lots of workers in and out of the park today, who had “started before the storm and then came back starting yesterday.” Trailers are lined up from around 71st to 66th Streets on Central Park West, a food truck was set up today, and “generators have been sitting there at least a week.” The tents that were taken down prior to the storm have also been set back up, and there is a stage set up near 73rd Street.
Considering all the volunteer help and NYPD attention that’s already being diverted to the Marathon, the added sight of generators and food being channeled to the event is probably going to strike some New Yorkers as a little misplaced—we’re thinking of the ones who are currently lined up waiting for the National Guard to ration out MREs and bottles of water.
Staten Island residents are frantically calling for help, ABC News reported on Thursday:
The residents of Staten Island are pleading for help from elected officials, begging for gasoline, food and clothing three days after Sandy slammed the New York City borough.
“We’re going to die! We’re going to freeze! We got 90-year-old people!” Donna Solli told visiting officials. “You don’t understand. You gotta get your trucks down here on the corner now. It’s been three days!”
Staten Island was one of the hardest-hit communities in New York City. More than 80,000 residents are still without power. Many are homeless, and at least 19 people died on Staten Island because of the storm.
Christie fights gambling in NYC shadow as Atlantic City sputters
Once a week, New Jersey resident Joe Coleman drives 20 minutes into Pennsylvania to play slots at the Parx Casino in Bensalem. While it doesn’t have the beach or glitz of Atlantic City — an hour and a half the other way in his home state — it costs him less in gas and tolls.
“I’d never come here if it wasn’t so close,” Coleman, 48, an unemployed plant manager from Bordentown, said in front of Parx at 11 p.m. on a Sunday, up $20 after a night of slots.
New gambling halls including Parx have walloped the industry in New Jersey. Its casinos, all in Atlantic City near the state’s southern end, reported $3.3 billion in revenue last year. That’s down 37 percent from a peak of $5.2 billion in 2006, the same year Pennsylvania’s first slots parlor opened. Last year, that state’s gambling revenue jumped 10 percent to $3.14 billion after it introduced table games in 2010. (Dopp, Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-26/christie-fights-gambling-in-nyc-shadow-as-atlantic-city-sputters.html
First Soda, Now Milk: NYC Wants To Extend Ban to Popcorn, Milk Drinks…can the dolts in Trenton be far behind?
We warned you when they went after smoking , power mad politicians will always look to run your life
Wednesday, 13 Jun 2012 11:35 AM
By Andra Varin
First it was large, sugary soft drinks. Now, the New York City diet police want to take away moviegoers’ jumbo tubs of popcorn as well.
The city’s Board of Health plans to hold a public hearing on July 24 on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to ban sales of 16-ounce soft drinks in restaurants, movie theaters, and sports arenas. Bloomberg says getting rid of the supersized, high-calorie beverages will help stem the obesity epidemic.
At a meeting Tuesday night, Board of Health members — who are all appointed by the mayor — expressed support for Bloomberg’s plan, and suggested broadening it to include other fattening snacks.
One member, Dr. Bruce Vladeck, said it would be a good idea to limit the sizes of buttery popcorn sold in movie theaters.
“Popcorn isn’t a whole lot better from the nutritional point of view than soda is, and may have even more calories,” Vladeck said.
Milk-based drinks are also coming under scrutiny.
“There are certainly milkshakes and milk-coffee beverages that have monstrous amounts of calories,” said board member Dr. Joel Forman. “I’m not so sure what the rationale is not to include those.”
April 26, 2012 Help Fight NYC’s Proposed Commuter Tax
Dear Friend,
Recently there have been news reports that the Manhattan Boro President, Scott Stringer, has made statements that he wants to re-institute a “Commuter Tax” on anyone who works in New York City, but does not reside in New York City.
When I learned of this, I and my Republican colleagues on the Senate Budget Committee sent a letter to Mayor Bloomberg expressing our outrage that this idea was even being discussed. The unfair impact this tax would have on New Jersey residents is something that I felt could not go unaddressed.
Since then, Boro President Stringer and I have exchanged letters where he has attempted to justify this tax, syaing that it was perfectly reasonable to impose an additional tax on 301,702 New Jerseyans who work in New York City.
The income tax on commuters that Mr. Stringer is proposing would be 0.45% annually on anyone who works in Manhattan but resides elsewhere. This commuter tax on non-New York City residents would generate $725 million annually.
Mr. Stringer claims that the intention of this additional tax would be to dedicate that revenue to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Mr. Stringer believes that the MTA needs an additional “consistent stream of revenue.” As I pointed out to Mr. Stringer, it is not the responsibility of the 129,262 residents of Essex, Bergen, Passaic and Morris Counties who work in New York City to additionally fund the MTA to make up for decades of mismanagement at the New York based Authority.
I can assure you, as I did Mr. Stringer, that if talk of this commuter tax continues, I will be the loudest opponent of it. As I continue to fight to lower the tax burden on New Jersey residents, I will not idly stand by and allow the government of New York to take more money out of our pockets to solve their financial issues.
I encourage all of you to reach out to Boro President Scott Stringer via email at bp@manhattanbp.org or via telephone at 212-669-8300 and express your concerns over this ill conceived plan of his.
As this continues to develop, I will send periodic updates.
More than 300,000 New Jersey residents would have to pay a revived commuter tax to New York City, if a proposal by the Manhattan Borough president is enacted.
Right now, though, there seems to be little chance of that happening.
Still, if Borough President Scott Stringer is successful in getting the New York state legislature to reinstate the 0.45 percent tax on workers who do not live in New York City, it would affect people living in every New Jersey county, including the state’s southernmost — Cape May. (O’Dea, NJ Spotlight)
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says there will be no city parade for Iraq War veterans in the foreseeable future because of objections voiced by military officials.
The mayor said on his Friday appearance on WOR Radio officials in Washington “think a parade would be premature while we still have so many troops in harm’s way around the world.”
Bloomberg says Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey and other Army officials “made it clear” to the city “they do not think a parade is appropriate now.”
>BREAKING: Terror bomb plotter arrested in NYC By POST STAFF
The NYPD and Manhattan DA’s office have arrested a terror suspect who was planning to bomb city police facilities and US military sites, where he plotted to target returning war personnel and the families who gathered to welcome them home, The Post has learned.
The suspect, who lives in Manhattan, was arrested after he actually purchased bomb-making materials, sources said. He’d been on the authorities’ radar for about a year, the sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear exactly where he planned to attack.Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will host a press conference tonight about the alleged bomb plot.
SEIU launches campaign to unionize thousands of workers at Newark, 2 NYC airports
One way airlines have cut costs in the post-9/11 era has been to lay off baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, SkyCaps and other service employees, then contract for those services with companies that pay lower wages and offer fewer benefits.
In an effort to boost compensation for ground support workers, while at the same time expand their own membership, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union is launching a campaign to unionize thousands of workers at Newark Liberty International, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports. (Strunsky, The Star-Ledger)
In an effort to feed the hungry New York City plans to send geese captured around its airports to a Pennsylvania slaughterhouse and then distribute them to food banks there.
The Department of Environmental Protection mad the decision following criticism that the gassed geese were dumped into landfills while the less fortunate go hungry.
A department spokesman told the The New York Times that it wanted its efforts to enhance public safety but also help the needy.
The Goose eradication was authorized after U.S. Airways Flight 1549 made a miraculous landing in the Hudson River in 2009 after a flock of geese got caught up in it’s engines causing an emergency landing.
If thinks work out the agency said that next year the geese will feed needy New Yorkers, but rumors swirl that many of New York’s finest gourmets are lining up to offer the fresh roadkill as a delicacy .
>12;03 your scare tactic comment won’t cut it. We have an ample staff on the PD. Actually overstaffed. If I was a PBA member, I would be trying to do the best to show my employer *THE TAXPAYER* the value they received for the taxes they paid.
The pay scale is very generous, as are the benefits. The work rules permit you to have more free time than the residents. 3 days one week? 4 days the next? Do tell us how those 12 hour shifts add up. It was conceived by the PBA PURELY to benefit the officers, and they convinced the ‘the Chief’ at that time that it would work. How you could fight off an old lady after working 9-10-12 hours is beyond me(especially observing the gut hanging over the beltline of most) To expect automatic raises, to expect no layoffs, to expect no furloughs is fantasy land. Be thankful you have a job…. so “IF” you want to convince your employer of your worth, perhaps now is a time to show how to better make use of the current level of staffing. Work 5 days a week like the rest of us. Have varying shifts so that there is adequate coverage at peak times. Get the brass off their ass and out on the street. (I actually noticed a superior in a white shirt walking Ridgewood ave on Saturday.-take a hint from him) We do not need multiple levels of Seargents, Leuitenants to supervise every single detective, juvenile, crime prevention etc.
Too much BS. For all the BS I read about cops having to make split second life or death decisions, one would expect that for what you are paid you can think and do some actual police work other than answering a 911 call and typing it into the computer and dumping onto the detective bureau. Nobody expects BS ticket blitzes but to whine about ‘not enough cops’ to those of us who have watched you ‘protect’ the coffee shops and van neste square won’t be very convincing. Being proactive might just save your job. Remember, we all read the police blotter. This isn’t Paterson or NYC.
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