Alex Angert Mike Bloomberg is breaking down walls at City Hall. Literally. With no walls to separate the rows of desks lining the room, the atmosphere resembles a frenetic, high-energy trading floor more than a government office. Bloomberg’s desk—the command center for the operation—sits directly in the middle of the room, right in the heart of the action. Bloomberg lifted the concept of the “bullpen environment” directly from his company, Bloo...
From Wikimedia Commons This past week, New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg introduced a ban on sugary drinks, making the sale of non-diet soda and coffee, amongst other beverages, illegal at popular locales like movie theatres, sports bars, and restaurants. The announcement was quickly met with disdain, anger, shock, and sarcasm as New Yorkers attempt to understand Bloomberg’s unusual and restrictive proposal. Supposed “debates” about t...
...stigation reveals a formula: Over the past twenty years, the Republican Party has taken a moderate Democrat and convinced them to run on the Republican ticket. After five positive outcomes, featuring Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg as mayoral nominees, the Republican Party is considering recruiting former State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith to run on their line in the 2013 mayoral election. The party is hoping that history will repeat...
The following is a cache of emails recently declassified by the offices of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Review has been made aware that these emails were written during a particularly strong bout of indigestion and delirium brought on by a batch of Kwanzaa cakes made for both by New York’s first-girlfriend Sandra Lee. Though the comments made by both men under the influence of particularly dubious...
...ave established serious campaign committees. I have previously written about the successful GOP tactic of welcoming former Democratic political novices to run on the Republican line. Candidates like Rudy Guiliani and Michael Bloomberg have proven that skipping a challenging Democratic primary can lead to City Hall. Allon’s decision to change parties would potentially pit him against Doe Fund founder George McDonald, who announced the creat...
...resistance is impossible to entirely pin down, but a rough outline of a few recent key events can provide a valuable narrative and tool for analyzing the events to come. Let’s trace. One of the immediate precursors to OWS was Bloombergville, a 3-week long encampment outside City Hall to protest Michael Bloomberg’s devastating budget cuts in the summer of 2011. Bloombergville blazed trails for OWS in a few ways. It tested out the encampment tactic...
...d not have happened without an unprecedented increase in policing outside prison walls. Today, police officers have broad discretion to stop, frisk, curse out, rough up, cavity search, beat, and arrest citizens. Since Michael Bloomberg became mayor, stop-and-frisks in New York City have gone up 600 percent. The New York Police Department (NYPD) now stops around three-quarters of a million people every year, and almost 90 percent of them are innoc...
...f the standardized curriculum say it promotes continuity and consistency throughout the public school system, but opponents, especially teachers, say it prioritizes cosmetic changes over real classroom needs. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education (DE), informed teachers in January of 2003 that 1,000 out of the city’s 1,200 public schools had to adopt uniform reading and math curricula....
...ird term in 2014. Linares’ victory in this primary would have significantly diminished Espaillat’s chance to successfully run for Rangel’s Congressional seat. Linares received the endorsements of Congressman Rangel and Mayor Bloomberg, for whom he served as New York City Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs. Espaillat’s bid was endorsed by Governor Cuomo. Linares’ strong endorsements highlighted his chance to defeat Espaillat, who had promised no...
...increasing competition. New York City provides a prime example of the direction that education reform appears to be heading in this country. Just like Arne Duncan during his tenure as the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Bloomberg has made school choice a foundation of his education agenda since taking office in 2002. Unfortunately, many schools remain socioeconomically segregated. A New York Times report found that “650 of the nearly 1,700...
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