Boy in Bushwick

Speaking at the Dream Hotel in Chelsea earlier tonight, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn once again applauded those who spurred state la...

Started writing at 10:23 a.m. while listening to “The Brian Lehrer Show” in the cottage in Ocean Beach. A thunderstorm woke me up a couple o...

While suburban commuters may certainly loathe the Tappan Zee Bridge that connects Rockland and Westchester Counties, the oft-maligned span ...

A case of another (potential closet case) hypocrite who falls hard? New York State Sen. Carl Kruger [D-Brooklyn] surrendered to federal auth...

An expected package delivery kept me away from the polls until 3:30 p.m., but it took less than 10 minutes to vote at my polling place here ...

New York State gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis apparently finds it necessary to stump for votes in Bushwick! I would have preferred to...

It should come as little surprise those who spoke at the Empire State Pride Agenda's annual fall dinner last night blasted Republican gu...

Both the Daily News and the Post yesterday urged New Yorkers to go to the polls and ‘throw the bums out,’ and they did just that. Gustavo ...

Aside from finding my new polling place, voting this morning was a relatively painless experience. The new paper ballots and electronic voti...

As voters in the 13th Senatorial District go to the polls today, the circus that continues to surround former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate...

Embattled Gov. David Paterson did not step-down on Friday as this blogger and several others had speculated, and his schedule today clearly ...

Will (and when will) embattled Gov. David Paterson resign? Peter Kauffmann's resignation only heightened speculation the governor would...

The plot suddenly thickens in the ongoing saga surrounding Gov. David Paterson. The New York Times reported earlier tonight he directed two...

Is today’s announcement the end of the Gov. David Paterson saga? Something tells me his decision to end his election campaign marks only the...

One can certainly argue chutzpah remains in abundance in New York politics, and former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate's decision to declare...

A New York State Senate panel has recommended embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate's expulsion or censure in connection with assaulting...

A state Senate committee’s decision to expel embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate [D-Jackson Heights] could come this week, a number of sou...

Governor David Paterson received a standing ovation at the LGBT Community Center in lower Manhattan earlier today as he signed an executive ...

Boy in Bushwick has learned Gov. David Paterson will sign an executive order tomorrow that will ban discrimination against transgender state...

An Albany jury yesterday found former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno [R-Saratoga Springs] guilty on two federal corrupti...