Sometimes we refer to Mayor Bloomberg as Mayor Bling because with a net worth with $5.5 billion (according to Forbes), why not? And what's frequently mentioned is how his staff is looking into the possibility of Bloomberg running for president - though he denies it all the time - because he would have about $1 billion to spend on a third-party campaign. Former president Bill Clinton mentioned Bloomberg's wealth with respect to needing to reign......

Government and World Trade Center Memorial Foundation officials tell the media that Mayor Bloomberg will become the head of the troubled foundation. Earlier this year, after the foundation stopped its fundraising efforts when estimated costs for the project spiraled out of control, Mayor Bloomberg wasn't very happy. And whadya know, he "secretly" donated $10 million to the foundation this summer - ain't that a coincidence, though at least the Mayor is putting his money where......

- It's official: Eliot Spitzer is the Democratic candidate for NY Governor this fall - Ironic Sans looks at The Critic's animated Manhattan - The transit worker caught sleeping on the job by cameraphone was fired! - Bees attack Park Slope restaurant; no word on whether Winnie the Pooh's hunny pot or Max Fischer was found on the scene - A teenager managed to save her siblings from a Brooklyn house fire but not......

Mayor Bloomberg is pretty peeved that a judge ruled that city workers can use the Internet during work. The billionaire who made his living by making information accessible says that a phone call or an email from a relative is all right (something about it being "de minimis part of your day" - hey, we need to Google that!) but "spending hours on the Internet" "is inappropriate." Hmm, so why does the city have a......

Keeping in the electoral mood, Gothamist wants to point out the Museum of the City of New York's exhibit on former Mayor Ed Koch, who is the first mayor we remember (sorry, Abe Beame). The exhibit is called "New York Comes Back: The Mayoralty of Edward I. Koch," which coincides with the book with the same name by Daily News writer Michael Goodwin, and it promises to reveal "the accomplishments and the controversies of the......

Well, would you look at that: When the four Democratic mayoral candidates bands together and supports Fernando Ferrer, the Bloomberg campaign gets worried. Ferrer was joined by C. Virginia Fields, Gifford Miller, and the runner-up in the primary, Anthony Weiner, in what Newsday called a "unity ritual" at City Hall, to show that the city's Democratic party could hold hands and that only they could fight the billionaire Mayor. The Mayor's team scrambled to......

In a re-election year stumping opportunity, the Mayor visited Conan O'Brien's talk show last night and asked him to bring the Tonight Show back to NYC. And Gothamist says, "Please, do!" The AP says that Mayor Bling "jokingly tried to make a deal," offering to give O'Brien a park permit for the Late Night softball team if he stayed in NYC. Conan said, "It's not up to me, I work for the man. If......

Mayor Bling, all Gothamist can say is "Damn!" The word is out that you've already spent $5 million on your reelection campaign, which happens to be the amount the your Democratic challengers can spend for the primary (due to city campaign finance laws, which the Mayor can ignore, thanks to his billion dollar fortune). The big news is that the Mayor seems to be creating the "most sophisticated database" of voters, one on par with......

The Jets have started an aggressive campaign to attack Cablevision, the NY Post reports. Basically, the Jets are saying that Cablevision and its prize, Madison Square Garden, act like a monopoly, they are trying to be only game in town, there needs to be more competition...you name it, it's there. Gothamist the two parties to fight and fight, fight and fight, with more chatter from the politicians and communities groups until March 21 when the......

Mayor Bloomberg really wants construction on the Jets Stadium (aka the NY Sports and Convention Center) to start by the spring on the West Side, to better help NYC's chances of landing the Olympics, not to mention resolve the whole West Side development thing. Even though the Mayor said he might might might consider developing in Queens, Mayor Bling emphasized that having the stadium and a new convention center together (in Manhattan) would be the......

Here's a little Mayoral Race 2005 action to tie us over: Congressman and mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner held a protest against the West Side Stadium yesterday, but he was heckled by trade union guys. According to Newsday, the trade unionists were more "amused" than menacing, and called Weiner a "loser." But Gothamist could feel sorry for Weiner, because those union guys could probably take him, it turns out that Weiner heckled back. Another Democratic mayoral......

With prospects of a tough reelection ahead this fall (hey, when the Queens GOP backs a former City Councilman instead or when SF's punk mayor disses him having a half stance with gay marriage), Mayor Bloomberg made sure to win the hearts of people by posing with a puppy! Mayor B almost looks cute and cuddly enough to reelect, but Gothamist will wait to hear more about what he plans to do in the next......

Some may call Mayor Bloomberg's desire to win another term as Mayor part of his instinct, but these days, Gothamist is smelling a little desperation. First, there was the story the Village Voice broke about the Mayor's aides allegedly offering a $144,000/year job to former City Councilman Thomas Ognibene in order not to run against Mayor Moneybags in the GOP primary; Ognibene had already decided to run, and, in turn, told the press about how......

Two weeks ago, the Mayor and Park Commissioner Adrian Benepe opened the city's 53 pools, and just like last year, Gothamist appreciates the fact that the Mayor keeps his shirt on in the pool. The NY Times' City section had a nice feature about the city's public pools, with this description of the Mayor at the citywide opening of the pools: "...Michael R. Bloomberg appeared, wearing tasseled loafers without socks and black nylon trunks that......

Mayor Bloomberg refuses to comment about it about the antimissile systems he (his crews, really, not Mayor Bling Bling) supposedly had installed on the jets he uses for work and pleasure. Of course, New York has a billionaire mayor. And, of course, our billionaire mayor would have private jets. And, of course, he would want his private jets souped up. Gothamist had our Big Wheel souped up months ago. The Times points out that......