Tag: Bill de Blasio
Both city officials and the media are going to notice when a high-ranking cop turns down a promotion after 28 years of service and quits instead. Ever since NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks III declined a promotion to first deputy commissioner, which would place him second in command, rumors have been swirling about the […]
After several high-profile traffic-related deaths in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a new bill on Monday that lowered the city’s speed limit to 25 MPH. The bill is part of de Blasio’s “vision zero” plan, which aims to eradicate traffic deaths within the next decade. The mayor signed the bill on the Lower […]
Apparently all you need for your video to go viral is to be a sign language interpreter for the mayor of NYC. That’s what happened over the weekend when Jonathan Lamberton was signing for Mayor Bill de Blasio during his press conference about the Ebola patient. Video of Lamberton’s signing soon went viral, similar to […]
The most tragic consequence of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s term ending is that we lost the best Spanish-speaking liaison this city has ever had. Whenever a news event occurred, Bloomberg would appear on the dais, give his briefing, and then quickly read an abbreviated portion in Spanish. It was a perfect cacophony of Boston-New York […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration is on course to equal the number of petty weed arrests as Bloomberg’s. According to a new report by the Drug Policy Alliance, by this time last year, the NYPD had made 20,080 arrests for pot possession as opposed to 19,684 in 2014 — a difference of just 396. That […]
In a broad “anti-terrorism” campaign, the NYPD has been surveilling Muslims without cause. Now, the de Blasio administration is continuing the Bloomberg/Kelly defense of the program. The AP first brought attention to the Demographics Unit — a division of the NYPD given the task of infiltrating mosques, developing relationships with young Muslims and focusing intelligence gathering on “ancestries […]
In what an activist has deemed “environmental racism,” FreshDirect is putting a distribution warehouse in South Bronx, further polluting an already burdened neighborhood. For two years, South Bronx Unite has been fighting the construction of the giant grocery delivery service and its army of trucks, but the project is still planned to move forward. The organization has been asked […]
As ANIMAL pointed out yesterday, it’s very possible that our distinguished mayor, Bill de Blasio committed rodenticide when he dropped New York City’s official groundhog, Chuck, on Groundhog’s Day. The story became even more sinister after it was revealed that the Staten Island Zoo had actually used an imposter groundhog, Chuck’s girlfriend Charlotte, because Chuck bit […]
The New York Post just broke the story of the year wide open. It seems that Mayor Bill de Blasio is responsible for the death of Staten Island Chuck, New York’s beloved official groundhog/weatherman/pagan. In February, the Mayor was taking part in the city’s annual Groundhogs Day duties of holding the famous rodent and having his picture […]
Yesterday’s march was the single largest environmental rally in history, with Metro reporting estimated attendance of 310,000 and people traveling from all around the world to participate. The United Nations Climate Summit will take place on September 23rd. During the march, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared “Climate Week.” He was joined at the rally by several politicians and celebrities, including U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon, […]
