City Council Criticizes Bloomberg’s Budget Proposal

Wall Street Journal

File Photo: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg walks with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

The New York City Council officially responded Friday to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s preliminary budget proposal, telling the mayor it would be imprudent to slash critical city services or short-circuit the city’s economic recovery.

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Ever-Growing Image of a Stumbling Third Term for Bloomberg

New York Times

In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no relevant experience whom he knew socially.

NYC Wants Immediate 7.5 Percent Water Rate Hike

Wall Street Journal

The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate Thursday, which will continue more than 15 years of rising rates if it’s approved.

Markowitz: CH and Willyburg Increased by 40,000 Alone

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz claims Bklyn got shortchanged.

Don’t count out Brooklyn! Borough leaders were slamming the US Census Bureau on Thursday after the agency claimed that Brooklyn grew by only 40,000 people over the past decade.

New Finance Dept. Service Lets You Fight Violations Online

NY Daily News

Now you can fight a parking ticket from your laptop. A new function on the city website lets you dispute parking violations – and health and sanitation tickets – by submitting pictures and paperwork online in your defense.

MTA Mulls Banning Food and Drink Aboard Subways

NY Daily News
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MTA board members want straphangers to clean up their act – one of them calling a ban on food and drinks on subways “a swell idea.”

Lawsuit Seeks to Erase Bike Lane in New York City

NY Times

A bike lane along Prospect Park West in Brooklyn is the focus of a lawsuit filed Monday against the Transportation Department.

Well-connected New Yorkers have taken the unusual step of suing the city to remove a controversial bicycle lane in a wealthy neighborhood of Brooklyn, the most potent sign yet of opposition to the Bloomberg administration’s marquee campaign to remake the city’s streets.