Ray Kelly stirs a debate and Cuomo attends an expensive fund-raiser
Briefing: Kelly. Cuomo's office via flickr
4:54 pm Jul. 11, 2012
2012
Romney was booed after telling the NAACP, "If you want a President who will make things better in the African American community, you are looking at him." [Jonathan Lemire]
2016
Flashback: "Can Spitzer go to 1600?" [Josh Benson]
Congress
Rep. Joe Crowley continues to demonstrate how to use props while talking on the House floor. [David Freedlander]
SD-17
An aide to Dean Skelos attended a fund-raiser for fellow Republican David Storobin, possibly complicating Democrat Simcha Felder's plans to caucus with the G.O.P. [Yossi Gestetner]
Albany
After talking about the need to publicly finance campaigns, Cuomo held a $20,000-per-person fund-raiser in Manhattan. [Liz Benjamin]
"There's a new hero in the ongoing Bath Salt Apocalypse: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman." [James King]
City Hall
Geoffrey Croft of NYC Parks Advocates said the city is lying about safety enforcement at public parks, and points to a recent assault at McCarren Park as proof. [Ben Yakas]
Groupon execs scuttled a plan to give Michael Bloomberg a pony. [Reddit]
Pay phones as Wi-fi hotspots. [Michael Grynbaum]
NYPD
Ray Kelly's claim that there haven't been demonstrations denouncing violence in high-crime areas "is simply factually wrong." [Hamilton Nolan]
The editor-in-chief of Global Grind—which was founded by Russell Simmons—has a suggestion for the NYPD Commissioner: "STOP them and before you frisk them, ask them if they've been silent." [Michael Skolnik]
Flashback: Simmons said Kelly was "really insensitive." [Capital]
Some of the recent murders this week would absolutely not have been stopped if the NYPD did more stop-and-frisks. [Choire Sicha]
Al Sharpton has an uncharacteristically muted response to Kelly's assertion that there is not enough public condemnation of violence in high-crime neighborhoods. [John Del Signore]
Media
An unflattering critique of Eliot Spitzer's debut on NY1. [Joe Coscarelli]
