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Bloomberg Happily Marries Gay Staffers At Gracie Mansion

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg officiated the wedding of two of his staffers—his chief policy adviser, John Feinblatt, and Jonathan Mintz, the city’s commissioner for consumer affairs—at Gracie Mansion. It was only his third wedding ever (past weddings: Rudy Giuliani's marriage to Judith Nathan and his daughter Emma's marriage to Chris Frissora), which he referred to during the ceremony and asked Feinblatt's and Mintz's two young daughters for help, "I’m going to do my best - but if I slip up, Maeve and Georgia, feel free to step in and tell me what I’m doing wrong." more ›

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Watch Out, Gadget - Crimes Up at City Schools

In the Mayor's Mid-Year Management Report, data shows that public school crime is up 21% between July and October2006. Three hundred forty eight major crimes were counted, vs. the same period in 287. The biggest increase has come from grand larceny - there were 197 more in the July-October 2006 period vs. 119 in J-O 2005. The Mayor's criminal justice coordinator John Feinblatt said, "There are more laptops, there are more Blackberries, there are more cell phones, and the smaller they are, the more mobile they are, the more they're vulnerable to theft." Another target: Purses. He also added that there were five more days of school in the 2006 period, and said the increase, per the Sun, "amounted to neither a rash, an outbreak, or an epidemic." more ›