Tomorrow, the city and other organizations will mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Here's the official city commemoration:7AM: Families start to arrive at Zuccotti Park, where the ceremony will take place. 8:40AM: Mayor Bloomberg begins the program, which includes first responders reading victims' names and readings from NY Governor Spitzer, former NY Governor Pataki, NJ Governor Corzine and former NYC mayor Giuliani. Bagpipers and drummers lead......

The New York Times takes a look at Rafael Martínez Alequin, who is the publisher of a small independent newspaper and recent evictee from the Blue Room, the room where press conferences are held in City Hall. According to the Times, Martinez Alequin has been antagonizing public officials for years with his questions: Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani once called him a “jerk” and an “embarrassment,” and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller asked him in 2005,......

If you were wondering how former mayor Rudy Giuliani feels after the thumpin' the Republicans took last week, wonder no more, because he's been facing it with the same, stubborn Rudy-vision that we all remember from his NYC mayoral years. The NY Times was on the scenefor a speech Giuliani made: In his first public comments about last week’s Democratic sweep of Congress, Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former Republican mayor of New York City,......

As if we need any more reason to wonder how the MTA does its accounting, there's this article from the NY Times titled, "Cash for Forgotten Airport Link May Help Build Stadium Station." Really. See, Governor Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg want to build a new Metro-North station for the new Yankee Stadium, but where would this money come from? No, not some loan or bond the state takes out, but pretty much from under the......

Gothamist got a kick out of Jennifer Steinhauer's article about Mayor Bloomberg's political gameface of late, wonderfully titled (thank you, NY Times copy editors), "Mayor Bloomberg Learns to Kiss a Baby." The story included this line: "But [Bloomberg's] greatest challenge, say both supporters and adversaries, is almost intangible: convincing voters that a mayor who lacks the charisma of an Edward I. Koch or a Rudolph W. Giuliani nevertheless has the passion to continue running the......