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• Mayor Touts Council O.K.s for West Side Yards, Broadway Triangle; Rebukes Kingsbridge Rejection

  
  The New York Observer — Authority: 740
  There was a less-than-subtle undertone to a Monday morning mayoral press conference in Chelsea. Speaking in the wake of the City Councils rejection of a proposed mall project in the Bronx, Mayor Bloomberg, side by side with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, emphasized "creating jobs;" of "progress" on development ...
  4 days ago

• Subway Solutions from the Council

  
  The Wonkster — Authority: 501
  Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilmember James Vacca and transportation advocates are calling for their own solutions to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s fiscal woes . The authority’s board is scheduled to meet tomorrow to vote on a new budget that will eliminate two subway lines and 21 bus ...
  1 week ago

• Kingsbridge Vote About Traffic, Jobs?

  
  The Wonkster — Authority: 501
  Pictured above are Councilmember Joel Rivera and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. at a rally following the council’s vote. In a rare move, the City Council rejected a proposal from the Bloomberg administration and developer The Related Companies to redevelop a massive armory in the northwest Bronx this ...
  1 week ago

• City cracking down on toy guns

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 566
  From the Daily News : City officials are launching an ad campaign as part of a crackdown on illegal sales of realistic-looking toy guns. Public service ads will be posted on buses and subways throughout the city featuring a red gun and a black one and will ask the question: Which is real and which is a toy? In ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYC Climate Summit Puts the Focus on Food

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 420
  Get rich quick! Lose weight fast! We squander billions each year on scams that promise easy money and effortless weight loss. Still, the pounds pile up, the money doesn’t, and our tanking bank balances and spiking weight distract us from the more remote, abstract problem of climate change. But we could find true ...
  2 weeks ago

• Store owners hate Quinn (just like the rest of us)

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 566
  From the Daily News : City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is not exactly popular these days among small business owners in New York. The merchants made this clear on Friday when hundreds of them, mostly Dominican bodega owners, placed "Christine Quinn is not welcome here" posters in their upper Manhattan store ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYC City Council Speaker to Unveil Citywide “Food Policy”

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 472
  David Cassuto Creating an urban food policy for the nation’s largest city is an opportunity to accomplish something of genuine import.  The key word here is “opportunity.”  The proof will be in the pudding, as they say…
  2 weeks ago

• New Quinn policy is all bark and no bite

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 566
  From the NY Post : City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has begun strictly enforcing residency requirements for all legislators -- and is promising to look into anyone who doesnt comply, The Post has learned. Quinn last week sent every incoming and current member papers explaining that they are required by law to ...
  3 weeks ago

• VIDEO: Speaker Quinn chokes up in press conference

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 149
  In a press conference held today in the aftermath of the failed equal marriage vote in Albany, openly gay New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn choked up, saying “I don’t really care about a coup. I don’t really care that people ganged up on Dede Scozzafava, who’s a courageous woman. What I care about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Council Speaker Quinn Weeps at Press Conference

  
  DAVID DUST — Authority: 447
  Watch this video all the way to the end. NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn - an openly gay woman - discusses the marriage equality loss at a press conference yesterday. She breaks down when she talks about her and her partners elderly fathers not getting to see them "dance at our wedding". As Ive mentioned ...
  3 weeks ago

• "What I care about is that my life isnt any better today."

  
  I Should Be Laughing — Authority: 440
  from Towleroad : New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn broke down while delivering an emotional explanation of what she believed happened at the marriage vote on Wednesday: "At the end of the day, people did the wrong thing. There may in fact be a lot of...political outside factors that made this vote very ...
  3 weeks ago

• Watch: Christine Quinn Weeps at Presser After Marriage Decision

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 754
  At a press conference Thursday morning, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn broke down while delivering an emotional explanation of what she believed happened at the marriage vote on Wednesday . Said Quinn: "At the end of the day, people did the wrong thing. There may in fact be a lot of...political ...
  3 weeks ago

• Freshman Republicans sound pretty naive

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 566
  From the NY Times : “I think alliances will be much more important now,” said Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr., a centrist Democrat who expressed excitement at the prospect of working with Republicans on “more police, lower taxes and less development.” Even Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, who ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bloomberg and Quinn on Same Sex Marriage

  
  The Wonkster — Authority: 501
  Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the defeat of same sex marriage in the State Senate: “I’ve been urging the State Senate to stand up and be counted on an issue of importance to me and millions of other New Yorkers: marriage equality. Although I’m deeply disappointed with today’s result, and know that the sense of ...
  3 weeks ago

• NYC Speaker Christine Quinn On Today’s Marriage Vote

  
  The New Civil Rights Movement — Authority: 511
  NYC Speaker Christine Quinn On Today’s Gay Marriage Vote. “Today the New York State Senate rejected an opportunity to declare that all citizens in New York are equal. The depth of sadness that I and many New Yorkers feel today is difficult to express. This is a loss for every family in New York. This is a loss ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vanasco: Marriage Equality Act passes NY senate rules committee

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 149
  A full senate vote is expected later today. Vanasco: Marriage Equality Act passes NY senate rules committee is a post from the Out Gay Life Family of Websites. Arizona: Tucson Phoenix California: Los Angeles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Colorado: Denver District of Columbia: Washington ...
  3 weeks ago

• Towleroad Guide to the Tube #577: I Talk Because Edition

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 754
  Today, on World AIDS Day, NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Health Committee Chair Joel Rivera, Council Member Rosie Mendez, and representatives from HIV/AIDS organizations from around New York City, launched the "I Talk Because" social networking campaign, featuring YouTube clips of New Yorkers talking about HIV ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jackson Bucks Quinn on Commercial Rent-Regs Bill, Files Rare Motion for Vote [Updated]

  
  The New York Observer — Authority: 740
  Fighting to force movement on a bill that would newly regulate commercial rents for small businesses, Councilman Robert Jackson has filed a rare motion to bring the legislation up for a vote before the City Council, according to three people with knowledge of the action. The bill, the Small Business Survival Act, ...
  3 weeks ago

• NYC Council Speaker Promotes AIDS Awareness Online

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 563
  NY City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is participating in a multimedia campaign which launches today and is aimed at "reminding people that the disease is far from conquered," joining hundreds of celebrities, community leaders, and others.  Quinn has recorded a short video for the campaign, timed to coincide ...
  3 weeks ago

• GLAAD Co-Sponsors Vigil for Jorge Steve Lopez Mercado

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 149
  Hundreds of people gathered in New York City’s historic Greenwich Village Sunday, Nov. 22 to take a stand against anti-LGBT violence. The vigil was held in honor of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, the 19-year-old openly gay man who was brutally murdered more than a week ago in Puerto Rico. The vigil, run ...
  4 weeks ago

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