Bloomberg's tax base threatened by near-shoring and iPad swiping
Briefing: Bloomberg. Azi Paybarah via flickr
8:59 am Jul. 2, 2012
The urgency of the city's efforts to diversify the city's revenue base is underscored by a front-page story in the Times about "near-shoring": Wall Street firms relocating mid-level positions to "cheaper locales" in other parts of the country.
Meanwhile, Nicole Gelinas says that the Bloomberg administration's high-profile effort to grow New York City's tech sector is threatened by a raise in subway crime, particularly the theft of "tech stuff" like iPads and iPhones.
Gelinas doesn't think the mayor takes this seriously enough:
"Hello, Mr. Mayor: Tech workers carry. . . tech tools. And many of them don’t have — or want — cars, so they ride the subway. A big quality-of-life point is to work or play on your commute."
There will always be cheaper locales.
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Events
Andrew Cuomo is in the New York City area with no public schedule.
Noon. State Senator Adriano Espaillat visits the STAR Senior Center, at 650 West 18th Street in Manhattan.
1:30 p.m. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announce a plan to make fruits and vegetables more affordable in low-income areas, at 17th Street and Union Square West.
2:30 p.m. New York State Supreme Court Judge Donna Mills will hear arguments in the NY-13 recount, 111 Centre Street in Manhattan.
Obamacare
"For now, Roberts’s ruling keeps in place an element of ideological mystery." [Jonathan Chait]
NY-21
Freshman Republican representative Anne Marie Buerkle said the "Fast and Furious" probe "is the issue first and foremost on the minds of my constituents" in upstate New York. [Mark Weiner]
NY-13
Only 802 votes separate Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Senator Adriano Espaillat, according to the latest unofficial count, which does not include affidavit and absentee ballots. [Michael Gartland and David Seifman]
Espaillat "hasn't retracted his concession. And the AP…is still calling Mr. Rangel the victor." [Andrew Grossman]
Espaillat and the Dominican American National Roundtable want the Department of Justice to oversee the recount. [Sally Goldenberg]
Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez has called for federal oversight too. [Twitter]
Poll workers entered the numbers into a database which was manually transcribed by the NYPD and provided to the Associated Press. [Kate Taylor]
NY-06
Rep. Gary Ackerman leaves a very different Washington than the one he found. [Francis Clines]
Law Enforcement
Andrew Rubin, a criminal defense attorney, has been hired to represent Marina Buchanan, who worked as a live-in nanny for the Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore. [Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, Elizabeth Ganga and Jonathan Bandler]
Brooklyn D.A. Joe Hynes needs to explain why he publicly accused four black men of sexually assaulting a teenager and later dropped the charges. [Daily News]
"[T]he AP doesn't give a damn about the safety of New Yorkers." [New York Post]
Ground Zero
Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie need to explain why there is no movement on the construction of the 9/11 Museum. [Daily News]
City Hall
"Middle tier" Wall Street jobs are leaving New York. [Nelson Schwartz]
Alta, NYC's bike-share vendor, can raise prices without the city's permission if expenses increase. [David Seifman]
One tabloid editorial page is irate that Michael Mulgrew, head of the U.F.T., successfully sued to block the mayor from closing and reopen 24 failing schools with new teacher staffs. [Daily News]
A columnist says Bloomberg shouldn't scoff at tech thefts on subways. [Nicole Gelinas]
The city's tax department denied 4,373 applications for tax exemptions. [Sally Goldenberg]
The soda industry is resisting on Bloomberg's big beverage ban. [Michael Grynbaum]
Harry Giannoulis and Hank Sheinkopf traded some unpleasantries. [Ken Lovett]
Albany
Cuomo gets a C for transparency and reform and an A for budgets, taxes and spending. [Democrat & Chronicle]
The legislature "remains a poor excuse for representative government" and its members should not get pay raises. [Journal News]
Cuomo, via Benjamin Lawsky, is urging airlines and their insurance company to settle their dispute with Larry Silverstein. [Jacob Gershman and Larry Silversetein]
Here's a list of 3,000 businesses claiming tax credits in New York. [Syraucse Post-Standard]
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