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More than 500 construction projects in New York City have stalled during the recession, the majority of them in the borough of Brooklyn, the Department of Buildings said on Thursday. Work had halted on 515 construction sites as of November 29, the bulk...
Tags: New York City, Department of Buildings, Zoning, Manhattan, Real estate, Construction, Reuters, Michael Bloomberg, Real property law
News and financial data publisher Bloomberg LP said on Thursday that it has acquired New Energy Finance, which provides news and data on carbon and clean energy markets. Financial terms and other details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Tags: Bloomberg LP, Michael Bloomberg, India, Bangalore, Business Finance, News agencies, McGraw-Hill, Technology Internet, Bloomberg
Bloomberg ’s sudden willingness to put his vaunted political organization to work for other politicians may have just gotten a reality check. The mayor very publicly got behind Alan Khazei of Massachusetts, one of four candidates who sought the Democratic...
Tags: Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Khazei, Massachusetts, Michael Bloomberg, Alan Khazei, New York, City Year, Politics, Michael Bloomberg
About 75 members of the news media, along with former players and coaches executives, gathered to celebrate the Garden’s All-Time Top 10 College Basketball Moments. How do you pull 10 moments from thousands in a place regarded as a cathedral of college...
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Security costs for the trial of the alleged mastermind of the 2001 terror attacks likely will top an estimated $75 million, New York's police chief said. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said he is seeking federal aid to pay for providing extra security...
Tags: New York, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Chuck Schumer, Raymond W. Kelly, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Michael Bloomberg, Police commissioner, Interrogations, New York City Police Department, Zacarias Moussaoui, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Eric Holder, September 11 attacks, Islamic terrorism, FBI agents, Law Crime
The City Council on Wednesday approved a weakened version of an initiative to help reduce the city’s emissions of greenhouse gases, scrapping the most far-reaching requirement, which the real estate industry had called too costly. The legislation requires...
Tags: New York City, Environment, Zero-energy building, Energy conservation, Energy policy, Efficient energy use, Energy audit, Energy efficiency, Mitigation of global warming, Energy economics, Building, Michael Bloomberg, Individual and political action on climate change, Green building, Action on climate change
From the opening moments yesterday of their special election battle for US Senate, the contrasts between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley were clear. Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, signaled he would go after the attorney general...
Tags: Scott Brown, Mr. Brown, Martha Coakley, Boston, Politics, Alan Khazei, Ted Kennedy, Scott P. Brown, Massachusetts Republican Party, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Dukakis, United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, Mike Capuano, Stephen Pagliuca
The mayor’s office said on Tuesday that Mr. Bloomberg and some of his top aides would attend the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen next Monday and Tuesday. His schedule, for now, includes delivering a speech at a reception for...
Tags: copenhagen, climate change, Mr. Bloomberg, Bermuda, Saint George, Environment, Kevin Sheekey, Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg
A group of insurgent transit workers who ran in a recent union election on a platform of adopting a tougher negotiating stance with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has ousted the union’s leadership. Absent an unforeseen challenge, John Samuelsen,...
Tags: Mr. Samuelsen, Mr. Toussaint, New York City, Samuelsen, Roger Toussaint, Michael Bloomberg, Labor
It turns out that the Bloomberg-Morgenthau bank-account feud is not the only pointless, losing quarrel that the mayor has picked recently with law enforcement. Some weeks back, the state attorney general’s office sent the city a request for records of...
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