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a person is pulled off the ledge of a building, at 36th Street and 7th Avenue earlier today.
courtesy of my brother, Will.

a person is pulled off the ledge of a building, at 36th Street and 7th Avenue earlier today.

courtesy of my brother, Will.

More Blizzard Nemo front pages, here.

Try to tell hipster Brooklyn that the city is in trouble.

While any Lhota candidacy will be steeped in rhetoric about the Giuliani administration’s accomplishments, the question is how far Lhota cranks up that dial.

Registered Democrats far outnumber Republicans, and the Bloomberg administration has shown New York City that historically low crime rates can be achieved in Giuliani’s city without Giuliani’s bunker mentality.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.
Since the program’s inception in 2002 there have been 7,360 guns turned in for $100 each at police stations in the five boroughs. In the NYPD program with clergy and DAs that followed there were 8,394 guns turned in to police at churches for $200 each; for a total 15,754 from both programs combined.

Monday, 5:40 p.m., New York City.

Ed Koch and Christine Quinn.
via New York Times

Ed Koch and Christine Quinn.

via New York Times

Bob Rodman, a former classmate posted a photo of Michael Bloomberg when he was a student at Hobbs Junior High School, class of 1957, in Medford, MA.

More on Bloomberg’s fading ties to his home town, here.