Attorney General Candidates Share Vision for Office
By Dan Rivoli Eliot Spitzer, before his stunning downfall as governor, was the white knight of Wall Street as attorney general. Before him, Robert Abrams put the attorney general office’s focus on consumer rights. Each attorney general puts their stamp on an office that commands more than 650 lawyers. This September, five candidates are running for the state’s top law job, a position held by Andrew Cuomo, the front-runner to be the state’s next governor.
Telephone Call From The Past
Writer pens ode to 100th Street phone booth By Reid Spagna Born in Pittsburgh, Peter Ackerman received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Yale and attended The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco to study acting. Among other works he is the co-author of Ice Age and Ice Age 3. The writer met his wife when she starred in his play, Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight. The couple settled down on West End Avenue and has two sons. Most recently, he is the author of The Lonely Phone Booth, his newly released children’s book.
Takers
By Armond White Takers has a Brother vibe that only partly has to do with most of its dapper bank robber cast being African American. Co-producing rap artists and stars, Tip “T.I.” Harris and Chris Brown, make vivid use of the crime movie genre’s social significance, which lackadaisical film commentators have mostly ignored. Takers accents the genre’s bonhomie: its exercise of the same working-class frustrations young black artists articulated in hip-hop music and music videos under the influence of ’70s blaxploitation movies. But Takers is not a cultish parody like Machete from Robert Rodriguez. It is—to redeem a police blotter ...
Send in the Stars
Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch make ‘Night Music’ By Mark Peikert What a difference a few months and two new cast members make. When I saw Trevor Nunn’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music last December, I was blown away by both Catherine Zeta-Jones—who ended up winning a Tony Award for her performance as actress Desirée Armfeldt—and Alexander Hanson, as her married former lover Fredrik. The rest of this elegiac musical about lust and love, set in turn-of-the-last-century Sweden, felt serviceable at best, and egregious at worst. Having just seen the show with Bernadette Peters stepping ...
An Animated City Council
An old saying about politics is that it is Hollywood for ugly people. But Lauri Apple, a Chicago-based artist and political writer, believes politics—or, at least, the New York City Council—is more like high school. Read more
Maloney Endorses for AG; Saujani Launches Website
By Dan Rivoli
Rep. Carolyn Maloney endorsed her fellow Manhattanite Eric Schneiderman in the attorney general primary. Schneiderman, a state senator from the Upper West Side, is running against four other attorney general candidates. Read more
Saujani To Hold “Community Conversations”
By Alice Robb
Reshma Saujani’s campaign announced that she will be hosting several town hall-style “Community Conversations” with residents of the district. Read more
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Banking on Fraud
Two East Side GTAs
A motorcycle and a car were stolen Aug. 20. A 24-year-old Long Island man reported that the motorcycle he was riding, which belonged to his 49-year-old father, was stolen. He parked the $11,000 blue 2009 Kawasaki motorcycle on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 65th Street. When he returned to the spot, it was missing.
A 42-year-old man from the Hudson region reported his 2007 Toyota Camry stolen. He told police the car was legally parked on Third Avenue and East 77th Street while he visited a friend that lived nearby.
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Fairway Receives Extended Loading Zone Hours
By Allen Houston with additional reporting by Shilpa Agrawal and Hannah O’Grady
The famed West Side market has jumped another hurdle in its move to East 86th Street, between Second and Third avenues. Fairway recently received extended loading zone hours from the Department of Transportation that will allow it to load and unload trucks between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m., seven days per week. The size of the loading zone is yet to be determined. Read more
Subway Construction Updates
Sam Schwartz Engineering recently released a schedule for Second Avenue Subway construction slated to take place through September 21.
Crews will excavate and install sewer, electrical manhole and service boxes on the west side of the street between East 100th and East 97th streets. Read more
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