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Opponents of extending term limits staged a rally on the steps of City Hall today as a last ditch plea to the Department of Justice to get in the way of Mayor Bloomberg's hopes for a third term. Tomorrow is the deadline for the Department to decide whether the term limits extension passed by City Council in November should be tossed out on the grounds that it unfairly impedes minority voters.

The mammoth Avalon Chrystie Place rental building on Chrystie, between Houston and Stanton, is facing a federal lawsuit from the Department of Justice. The DOJ accuses developer AvalonBay Communities of, per the NY Times, "illegally discriminating against disabled people by failing to provide them with sufficient access at a 361-unit rental building on the Lower East Side."

Federal prosecutors have asked the NY State Inspector General to "refrain from launching" its own investigation into former Governor Spitzer activities (the Post translates it as "a double-life as a sleazy harlot-hopper"). Why? Because the feds says they are "looking at all aspects." Well, why not, when it seems that the feds used "some of its most intrusive tactics" against Spitzer during the investigation.