New York Political Director for Spectrum News, Rockaway booster, big fan of lost causes including opera, horse racing, and the Buffalo Bills
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Do you want to know how important Broadway is to New York City’s economy? About 14.77 million people went to Broadway shows last season. That’s five million more people than went to Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Islanders, Giants and Jets games COMBINED.
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Elections 2.0: Sources tell me the Board of Elections is going back to the drawing board and running corrected ranked-choice numbers tomorrow. About 130,000 “votes” were part of a test-run that were never cleared from a computer.
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Over the last 20 years, 9,532 people have been murdered in New York City. In March and April of 2020, 18,231 New York City residents died from confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19.
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“The Governor did not mean to grope her” are words that you never want your attorney saying.
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Breaking news: New York State will lose one Congressional seat under the new Census apportionment.
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New York State Attorney General Letitia James says her civil investigation of Donald Trump is ongoing even as "the circus has left town." She adds that she is reviewing all of his pardons, noting they don't apply to state law. @patkiernan @NY1
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On the same day of the Newtown shooting in 2012, 23 elementary school students were attacked in China. All of them survived. Why? The weapon was a knife.
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Asked Rubio why not ban AR-15s, and he said: "The truth of the matter is these people are going to commit these horrifying crimes, whether they have to use another weapon to do it, they're going to figure out a way to do it." Also contends more background checks won't fix problem
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For those who don’t follow the Catholic Church, this is a big, big deal. 👇 nytimes.com/2020/10/21/world…
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan is kicking off the Republican National Convention in a videotaped prayer with the Statue of Liberty in the background.
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How does showing Trump compare Robert E. Lee with Washington and Lincoln help his defense?
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Mayor Adams joins the YES broadcast team during the Yankees game and says he thinks Gracie Mansion is haunted: “They’re ghosts in there,man...they’re creeping around.”
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Eugene Goodman is a hero. propublica.org/article/capit…
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Classic NY1 moment: Roger Clark interviewing a woman in the middle of Times Square about Joe Biden’s victory and she tells Roger that he interviewed her in SoHo in 2008 when Heath Ledger died. @RogerClark41 @NY1
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"There's never been anything like this in history,'' says the president, ignoring history.
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No need for New Yorkers to belly up to the bar:
"Governor Hochul will permanently allow for the sale of to-go drinks for off-premises consumption to continue supporting the recovery of bars and restaurants."
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It took the Metropolitan Opera 138 years to perform an opera by a Black composer. Here’s to Terence Blanchard, a New Orleanian genius who broke a massive barrier! h/t @Dr_CMGreer
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Bloomberg caught himself saying that he "bought" the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. He quickly changed the word to "got."
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Voters said he couldn't handle the presidency at the age of 56.
'I hope there's an age limit': Jimmy Carter says he couldn't have handled presidency at 80 nbcnews.to/30qOcKk
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All but calling it the "Trump Virus", Andrew Cuomo attacks the president: "Donald Trump caused the COVID outbreak in New York. That is fact."
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The city is now promising $100 to New Yorkers to get vaccinated at city-run sites. Extra bonus: you're basically guaranteed not to be killed by the Coronavirus.
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NY1 has learned that Mike Gianaris - the deputy leader of the State Senate - will be calling for Mayor Adams to resign or be removed from office.
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Ivanka Trump just called her father sometimes "unfiltered" on Twitter. That's like saying the water in the Gowanus Canal is sometimes unfiltered.
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In a nightmare night for the former members of the State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, former IDC leader Jeff Klein has lost to challenger Alessandra Biaggi.
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Eric Adams strongly opposed the ranked-choice voting system but he's likely greatly benefitting from it. Under the old system, he likely would have been in an extremely competitive runoff primary with Maya Wiley in two weeks.
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Mayor de Blasio is calling for an independent investigation into the sexual harassment allegations of Lindsey Boylan made against Governor Cuomo.
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Is this how @PreetBharara rolls when he’s off duty? I’m just imagining him at a Jets tailgate...
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New York politics: The son of a former mayor is running for governor against the son of a former governor who was endorsed by the former mayor.
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With ranked-choice voting factored in, Eric Adams is clinging to a narrow lead over Kathryn Garcia in the Democratic race for mayor, 51% to 49%. More than 120,000 absentee ballots will determine the outcome of the race. Wall-to-wall coverage coming now @NY1
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Jacob is a great and courageous reporter -- and it's horrendous to see a journalist treated like this by a mob in New York City. This has to stop.
At Heschy’s urging, the crowd just surrounded and attacked journalist @jacobkornbluh. They pinned him against a wall and shouted “moyser” (“snitch”) as NYPD lost control of the situation. Really scary scene. Jacob is a pro
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Cuomo tonight will totally live with anyone calling for an independent probe into these allegations because that's his own position. The thing to watch is which Democrats are calling on for him to step down immediately.
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👇Former Republican candidate for NYC mayor and former deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani.
America has the greatest Health Care in the World and the misguided belief that Health Care is not a right. We need to fix this in November. #votejoe
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The Single Most Important Lesson From the 1918 Influenza: Tell The Truth
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"I take full responsibility,'' the president says of the Coronavirus before then blaming China.
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Best line of the day in an email from a colleague: "Anybody complaining about working from home who doesn't have kids can seriously eff off."
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If you haven't already done so, do yourself a favor and read "A Bright Shining Lie" -- one of the best books on the Vietnam War. Best way to pay tribute to a legend.
THE Neil Sheehan has died at 84. An absolute giant of American journalism. washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
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De Blasio on Trump: "He should get the hell out of the way and let the military do its job."
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City Council Speaker Corey Johnson just called Congressional candidate Michael Grimm “a sick bastard” for likening child detention centers to daycare. @NY1
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The whole point of these jokes is to poke fun at yourself. So far, the closest Trump has come is making fun of Melania.
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A source tells me that the entirety of the error was committed by the Board of Elections in Queens.
Elections 2.0: Sources tell me the Board of Elections is going back to the drawing board and running corrected ranked-choice numbers tomorrow. About 130,000 “votes” were part of a test-run that were never cleared from a computer.
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With the exception of 1998, either Mario Cuomo or Andrew Cuomo ran for statewide office in every election cycle from 1974 to 2018.
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It’s a sign of the times that a fight over Bernie Sanders broke up Public Enemy.
Spoke @BernieSanders rally with @EnemyRadio. If there was a $bag, Flav would’ve been there front & center. He will NOT do free benefit shows. Sued me in court the 1st time I let him back in. His ambulance lawyer sued me again on Friday & so now he stays home & better find REHAB
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Trump is already setting up a potentially dangerous aftermath should he lose by saying the only way he can lose is if the election is rigged.
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Congressman Antonio Delgado has been picked to be New York’s next Lieutenant Governor, a source tells NY1.
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This is such an important point about Trump.
"The Apprentice" was essentially free positive advertising on a national network for years.
I say and have said this for two years. The number of people in Iowa and NH who would talk to me about the Apprentice was large. The five-borough view of him was very different than the national one, because of the show.
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You can't fight City Hall if media outlets like Gothamist and DNAinfo are shut down. Local journalism is on the endangered species list.
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Quite a dig at Andrew Cuomo by Gov. Hochul: “A new administration— my administration— we don’t govern by press conference.”
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Tiffany Caban declares victory in the Democratic primary race for Queens District Attorney.
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Getting Spike Lee to direct the first video of your mayoral campaign is like getting Frank Sinatra to write your theme song. Amazing.
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An insult to all of upstate New York!
To emphasize Buffalo's traditional buffalo wings ahead of the Patriots-Bills game, ESPN's Monday Night Countdown did a segment where they ate...boneless wings from Applebee's? bit.ly/2PwyXxW
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Anyone who says you get an extra hour of sleep for Daylight Saving Time definitely isn’t the parent of a three-year-old.
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For the last 100 years, The Daily News has been an integral part of New York City's civic life. If you actually care about keeping people honest, speak now or forever hold your peace.
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Pizza vs. pols. Almost twice as many New Yorkers took part in Mayor de Blasio’s ranked-choice-voting pizza poll than early voted for mayor yesterday.
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Tiffany Cabán has a 1,200 vote lead over Melinda Katz in the Democratic Primary for Queens District Attorney with more than 98% of the vote counted. Even with 3,400 paper ballots left to be counted, it will be extremely difficult for Katz to overcome Caban’s narrow lead.
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Eric Adams had an extremely strong night in the Democratic primary for mayor. It's obviously mathematically possible for Maya Wiley or Kathryn Garcia to catch him in ranked-choice voting next week but he's basically starting the next part of the race with a ten-point lead.
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Why is Cuomo harping on when The New York Times was or wasn’t calling for a shutdown? Last I checked, The Times wasn’t elected to lead New York State.
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NY1 is projecting that Brooklyn City Councilman Jumaane Williams has won the special election for Public Advocate. @NY1
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This is just astounding. Does Hillary Clinton have no friends who can pull the ripcord on her parachute?
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Continuing his attacks on the Trump White House, Mayor de Blasio is praising Governor Cuomo while saying "the federal government has been absent."
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Churchill and FDR worked with Stalin to fight the Nazis but two New York Democrats can’t get on the same page when it comes to a pandemic.
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Wow, Governor Cuomo is openly talking about "displacing" the mayor -- but then backing away from doing it. For now.
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When police union leader Pat Lynch joined the NYPD in 1984, New York City had 1,450 murders. Last year, the city had 318 murders.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul makes a pledge that clearly will make a lot of reporters happy (and a pledge that most other New Yorkers could care less about): fast-tracking responses to Freedom of Information requests.
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There's nothing sadder than celebrating Mardi Gras in Manhattan by getting jambalaya from Hale and Hearty for lunch...
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This is like the first scene in the movie about the ragtag team of retreads who save the day. Then, the star players start returning and tensions ensue.....
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So after all the drama, the new ranked-choice numbers are remarkably similar to the old numbers: Eric Adams edges out Kathryn Garcia in the final round: 51% to 49%. But with more than 120,000 absentee ballots out there, it’s a jump ball for Adams, Garcia, and Maya Wiley.
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Beautiful. The most impressive win by the Yankees in eight years! And Girardi's gaffe becomes a footnote.
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Voter turnout in New York City last night was roughly 17 percent. (It will be higher depending on how many absentee and emergency ballots there are.) Normally, that number would seem paltry but given that there were no competitive races on the ballot, it’s higher than I expected.
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To be clear: Cuomo is not saying he wants to or is going to remove de Blasio. But it's stunning for a governor --unprompted -- to openly remind us that there's a process of removing the mayor while also heavily criticizing him.
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Mayor Adams is creating a slippery precedent with the media by dictating that they only ask "on topic" questions during a storm briefing. They should be able to ask him whatever they want. If he doesn't want to answer, that's up to him.
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NY1 is projecting Eric Adams to be the winner of the New York City mayor's race. He will become the second Black mayor in the city's history.
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Since Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for president, New Yorkers wondered what he’d do if “something happens” at home while he’s campaigning in Iowa. Something now has happened and his reaction tonight could have a major impact both on his campaign and his mayoralty.
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Never forgetting his old Congressional district, Sen. Chuck Schumer just announced that a badly-eroded portion of Rockaway Beach will be replenished with dredged sand. This is fantastic news for residents and anyone who likes to come to our beach in the summer.
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“Everybody is willing to take a bullet until they hear the gun getting cocked.” — line of the night from @errollouis @InsideCityHall @NY1
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Al Smith dinner conversations just witnessed over the feed camera: Clinton-Trump; de Blasio-Cuomo, Dinkins-Giuliani. Amazing.
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Confused why the Yang campaign is really pushing this line of attack against Adams. According to their own accounts: Adams largely lived in Borough Hall during the height of the pandemic while Yang moved out of the five boroughs.
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Former City Comptroller John Liu has defeated Queens State Senator Tony Avella in their Democratic primary. Five of the six anti-IDC challengers have now won in New York City. Only Diane Savino won her primary.
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