San Francisco's secret to supreme park-friendliness: spending:
San Francisco spends a lot more on parks, per capita, than New York City.
Bio: Dana Rubinstein is a reporter for Capital. She has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Observer, and the Brooklyn Paper.
San Francisco spends nearly twice as much as New York City does per resident on parks, and has much more park acreage per person, according to a study released this morning by the Trust for Public Land, a land conservation non-profit. More
Posted on May 23rd, 2012 12:35pm
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Latin American business mogul Ricardo Salinas agree: immigrants work harder than native-born Americans.
“I don’t think there’s any question, it’s the immigrants who are willing to work harder, on average,” said the mayor of New York City, whose population is more than a third foreign-born. “Plenty of native-born Americans, tenth-generation here, that work very hard. So I’m not dissing everybody. But on balance, it’s no question that people come here, and they come here because they want to live the great American dream, and they don’t think it’s just going to be given to them or that they deserve it. They come with the ethic of wanting to work for it.” More
Posted on May 22nd, 2012 2:44pm
Taxi medallion owners have had a tough year, from their perspective.
First, the Bloomberg administration chose a Taxi of Tomorrow that many of them disliked. Then the city created a whole new class of so-called Borough Taxis that medallion owners, and some taxi drivers, believe will steal business from the regular yellow cabs. More
Posted on May 21st, 2012 3:15pm
Today, a reporter asked Mayor Michael Bloomberg whether he thought it was a good idea to buy Facebook stock. The mayor, who was participating in a press conference at Google's New York headquarters, said he had no special expertise in the matter, but urged investors to diversify. More
Posted on May 21st, 2012 2:11pm
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today he hopes United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew has acquired a more acute appreciation for the "absurd." More
Posted on May 21st, 2012 1:27pm
Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning said his police department's stop-and-frisk reform efforts were not sparked by a new class action law suit, and that the administration is in no way, "going to walk away from tactics that work." More
Posted on May 18th, 2012 9:55am
Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning said the City's Council's Responsible Banking Act, which would impose new reporting requirements on banks, "sets probably a new low for idiocy." More
Posted on May 18th, 2012 9:11am
On a hazy Monday morning, Rami Metal, a City Council aide who’d borrowed his girlfriend’s creaky blue bike to give me a tour of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront, gestured to a parking lot full of white-and-blue MTA Access-a-Ride vans and said, “A beautiful park, right?” More
Posted on May 17th, 2012 7:00am
Today, following a press conference announcing the Mets would host the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Mayor Michael Bloomberg faced a barrage of questions from reporters about the NYPD's use of stop and frisk. The mayor said the practice had helped save thousands of lives. "Nobody's asked Ray Kelly to apologize," said the mayor, referring to his police commissioner. "He's not going to and neither am I, for saving 5,600 lives." More
Posted on May 16th, 2012 2:07pm
Asked this morning whether City Council speaker Christine Quinn's recent moves leftward has caused him to reconsider whether she would make a successor for him, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "Chris Quinn is very competent and would be a very good mayor." More
Posted on May 16th, 2012 1:12pm
hunterw: @danarubinstein I assume that's why she was talking about laughing at herself, which clearly didn't appease Peter
MC_NYC: @danarubinstein @reidpillifant So @ChrisCQuinn's on John Gambling tomorrow. Already thinks she's mayor?
coneymedia: @danarubinstein Everyone involved in WTC process should visit Oklahoma City, wh opened excellent memorial/museum in 5 years!coneymedia: @danarubinstein Actually best is just outside OC: Guthrie, wonderfully-maintained, lived-in old town, incl newspaper museum.coneymedia: @danarubinstein I love the Midwest, but have to say, not much. Bricktown's OC's hip restored industrial sec; lots of pubs.
snezan: @danarubinstein less than $5 million? Hahahaha
NatashaDillon: No,hes not out of touch.SMH RT @danarubinstein @MikeBloomberg on prevail&living wage bills"legally dubious theories&well challenge in court"
Newyorkist: @danarubinstein when and where?
