Created on Thursday by City Comptroller John Liu, checkbooknyc.com lets taxpayers discover how their hard earned cash is being spent. For instance, the city has spent $3,771,246.41 this year on office furniture, and Mayor Bloomberg's office spent $5,500 on liquor! The city's law department also spent about $66,000 on car services, about six times as much as City Council staffers. Liu told the Daily News, "The more information we make available to the public, the more built-in incentives all of us in city government have to save taxpayers' money, which has really become more important than ever before." more ›

The commissioner of the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has agreed to give back $2,800 after skirting taxes by claiming two residences as her permanent address—one of them in Florida. While working for the city, Commissioner Carole Post had been declaring Florida residency and taking advantage of a tax exemption intended for full-time Florida residents, allowing her and her husband to avoid some taxes on their multimillion dollar West Palm Beach property. more ›