Christoph Niemann’s illustration about NYC’s ban on large soft drinks for the New Yorker.
"You know, soothing words are nice, but maybe it’s time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they’re gonna do about it."
— Mayor Bloomberg, in reference to the shooting in Colorado. He is calling on President Obama and Mitt Romney to offer more than “soothing words.”
Nanny Bloomberg - Tom’s mockup of Mayor Bloomberg using an old photo of the famous axe-wielding Prohibition bar-smasher Carry Nation. Context.
"We were all told the odds against us were high, and that the Albany lobby was too powerful and that the improved taxi service law was dead in the water. But we refused to believe that that was true. We refused to bow down to the special interests. And when they hired every lobbyist in town we kept fighting, because we had the people on our side. This is the right thing for New York City."
— Mayor Bloomberg on the recently approved outer-borough taxi plan, which will allow 18,000 newly empowered livery-car drivers to pick up street hails, and allow the city to auction off 2,000 wheelchair-accessible yellow taxi medallions.
The Atlantic calls Bloomberg “the mayor of the world”:
With an annual budget of about $60 billion, 250,000 municipal employees, nearly 35,000 armed police officers, over 26,000 vehicles, and 656 miles of subway track, the sheer scale of New York City governance dwarfs…
(via nbcnewyork)
The NYPD and Councilman Williams probably just need to drink together, says Bloomberg
“The police have a job to do and the city councilman has a job to do and hopefully, every once in a while, if there’s a misunderstanding, that they have a beer together and work it out.”
