New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, citing the importance of his record on climate change, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating blow dealt to the New York area by storm Sandy. Bloomberg said Obama has taken significant steps to reduce carbon consumption, whereas Republican challenger…
Dozens of prominent liberal New York City rabbis are demanding that 2013 mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn approve a bill that would require city businesses to provide employees with paid sick days. Members of the City Council overwhelmingly support the bill, as do a handful of other potential mayoral candidates. Quinn, however, the speaker of the…
New York City’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said on Tuesday he would commit at least $10 million ahead of the Nov. 6 election to support moderate candidates who share his support for gun control, same-sex marriage and education reform. The funds will go to support “nonpartisan leadership,” Bloomberg said in an announcement posted on his…
When one enters Jerusalem, two structures immediately catch the eye. The first is a digital sign informing the traveler when the next Sabbath begins and ends. The second is a building bearing a sign identifying it as the William H. Bloomberg MDA Jerusalem Station. The building is the Jerusalem headquarters of Magen David Adom, Israel’s…
Oh, to live in a teeming tenement! That’s not a sentiment you hear a lot these days. In fact, it’s doubtful that the great wave of Jews immigrating to New York at the turn of the last century would have uttered it, either. But to the tenements they came, and New York has never been…
Pixie-coiffed Anne Hathaway accompanied her fiancé Adam Shulman to Rosh Hashanah services on Monday. The paparazzi documented a lot of PDA on the couple’s way to IKAR at the Westside JCC in Los Angeles. Hathaway and Shulman weren’t the only ones doing some New Year’s smooching. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were spotted locking lips…
Hizzoner had his audience groaning yet again, and it wasn’t because he banned their Big Gulps. This Wednesday, Mayor Bloomberg presided over the opening weigh-in at Nathan’s Famous July 4 International Hot Dog-Eating Contest. The Mayor read a speech that, according to reports, had even “the stuffed hot dog character face-palming.” “Dogged pursuers will finally…
Acclaimed author Martin Amis?s move to Brooklyn isn?t the only thing that the bookish borough has to brag about, and Mayor Bloomberg is the first to say so. The Gracie Mansion mayor recently professed his love for Greenpoint?s latest sensation: ?Girls?: a New York based HBO comedy about a gang (or, well, gaggle) of 20-something…
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