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Stop-and-Frisk Math

Posted on by Norman Siegel

In the wake of the City Council passing historic measures to keep the NYPD accountable and Mayor Bloomberg baffling comments about stop-and-frisk demographics, former Executive Directors of the New York and American Civil Liberties Unions, Norman Siegel and Ira Glasser, sent the following letter to all 51 Council Members. Dear Council Member, In response to City […]

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Enjoy These New Photos of Mayor Bloomberg In Silly Outfits

Posted on by Andy Cush

When we did our roundup of ridiculous photos from Mayor Bloomberg’s Flickr account last month, we grabbed a few of the images from the annual Inner Circle dinner–NYC’s over-the-top, broadway-themed answer to the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner. This year’s event went down Saturday night, and while no bits were quite as rich as the […]

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Mayor Bloomberg Hates Movie Trailers, Is Turning Into Andy Rooney Before Our Eyes

Posted on by Samer Kalaf

Mayor Bloomberg has showed his disdain for large sodas, but there are more things that grind Bloomberg’s gears. He thinks movie trailers are the worst. From Bloomberg’s interview with M Magazine: I sat through an hour of trailers, and every one was stupider than the other. And then there were these ads for video games […]

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Mayor Bloomberg’s Awesomely Awkward Flickr Account

Posted on by Andy Cush

Scattered amid the thousands of pictures of Michael Bloomberg speaking behind a podium, the official Flickr account of the mayor’s office contains a treasure trove of strange, hilarious, and otherwise notable images. We did the hard work so you don’t have to, scanning through 10,536 photos and picking out the the greatest hits. Spider-Berg, Spider-Berg, […]

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Noted Pot Smoker and Mayor of Failed Weed Policy Criticizes Colorado for Progressive Weed Policy

Posted on by Bucky Turco

Speaking to rich people at the Aspen Institute, chronic meddler of people’s affairs and former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg blasted Colorado for ending the prohibition on weed and regulating it like its more dangerous counterparts, tobacco and booze. Bloomberg had this to say about the measure that has allowed police to focus on […]

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Year After Groundhog-Gate, Mayor Bill de Blasio Mum On Groundhog Day Attendance

Posted on by Prachi Gupta

The saga of most important political scandal of our time has taken another non-turn turn: The mayor’s office is staying silent on whether or not Bill de Blasio will attend Monday’s Groundhog Day ceremonies at Staten Island Zoo. You may remember that de Blasio dropped the groundhog at last year’s ceremony and it died just […]

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Bloomberg Sorry About Buying Up All The Domains, Will Return Most Of Them

Posted on by Rhett Jones

A spokesperson for former Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced yesterday that the wholesale buy up of more than 400 .nyc URLs that might relate to the billionaire mogul was probably excessive and they will be returning most of them shortly. Bloomberg found himself in an embarrassing situation when the list of domain names that his lawyers […]

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Bloomberg Is Buying Every Embarrassing .NYC Domain With His Name

Posted on by Rhett Jones

You’ve gotta hand it to former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, he knows his short-comings and he’s determined to beat you to the joke. At some point after the .nyc name became a thing that exists, the billionaire mogul began buying up as many useful — as well as embarrassing –domains related to his name as he could. According […]

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Official Sign Language Interpreter For NYC Mayor: More Viral Than Ebola

Posted on by Amy K. Nelson

Apparently all you need for your video to go viral is to be a sign language interpreter for the mayor of NYC. That’s what happened over the weekend when Jonathan Lamberton was signing for Mayor Bill de Blasio during his press conference about the Ebola patient. Video of Lamberton’s signing soon went viral, similar to […]

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De Blasio’s Spanish Ain’t Mierda Compared to Bloomberg’s

Posted on by Amy K. Nelson

The most tragic consequence of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s term ending is that we lost the best Spanish-speaking liaison this city has ever had. Whenever a news event occurred, Bloomberg would appear on the dais, give his briefing, and then quickly read an abbreviated portion in Spanish. It was a perfect cacophony of Boston-New York […]

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