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- Turns out Mayor Bloomberg and NJ Governor Corzine teamed up to convince Pataki to rework any sort of Ground Zero proposal to Larry Silverstein. And re: the NY Times' mention of past NY-NJ spats, we wish we remembered how Mayor Koch "once symbolically boarded up the entrance to the Holland Tunnel over the loss of jobs to New Jersey."
- Some City Council members want Con Ed to pay fines when people get shocked -- what about when animals get shocked?
- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn presented an alternative budget (the bizarro budget, peut-etre?) to the Mayor's original. This alternative budget would add $576.5 million to the $55.5 billion budget, and includes initiatives like education, creating an "Office of Hunger and Nutrition," and making sure the NYPD has up-to-date bulletproof vest. You can read the PDF here.
- And Tom Suozzi really wants to be like every single New Yorker
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Someone either Bloomberg or George Elmer needs to grow some balls, use eminent domain and get the WTC site and do soemething that isn't a peice of crap or built by Silverstein.
Readers take note: the City Council budget response delivered by Councilmember Quinn included $188.5 million in savings & $388 million in more accurate revenue estimates on the existing budget in order to fund the new initiatives. So while the proposed additions do total $576.5 million, they add nothing to the bottom line. Sorry, Gothamist, but your "brief" here is trés misleading!
As for the substance of Quinn's response, increasing enrollment among New Yorkers already eligible for Food Stamps & creating an Office of Hunger and Nutrition hardly strike one as "bizarro" -- & in fact seem like plain, responsible city planning -- so long as the fruits of the current 'economic recovery' are obstinately reserved for those at the top. Not to mention a real estate market so inflated that it's driving even middle-class New Yorkers to the fringes of the city.