Erik Kriss
The Archive
AIDS cases plummet across New York
New York is no longer America’s AIDS capital. The number of new HIV infections dropped three times faster in the Empire State than across the nation from 2007 to 2010,...
Feds try to cash in on Malcolm $$ man
ALBANY — Follow the money.The feds acknowledge eavesdropping on phone calls between indicted state Sen. Malcolm Smith and his chief fund-raiser, Rob Calentine, in their probe of Smith’s alleged efforts...
$1.7B Sandy aid on way
ALBANY — The federal spigot is open for $1.7 billion in Hurricane Sandy aid to reimburse suburban homeowners and business owners for out-of-pocket disaster-recovery expenses.The city will have to wait...
Pot pol gets pass from judge
ALBANY — A pot-possession charge against a Westchester County lawmaker was dismissed yesterday by an upstate judge. The charge, which is a violation, will be wiped from Republican state Assemblyman...
Push to vote out bad pols
ALBANY — Assembly Republicans yesterday proposed changing the state Constitution to let the public vote out elected officials caught up in corruption scandals. It’s their answer to Albany’s culture of...
More than 10 percent of NYC's adults have been diagnosed with diabetes
The Big Apple’s appetite for sweet drinks and fattening food is growing deadlier by the year. A staggering 10.5 percent of New York City adults, or close to 650,000, have...
Parole for pension fraudster
ALBANY — Hank Morris, the mastermind behind a pay-to-play pension-fund scam that brought down ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, was granted parole in his fourth bid for freedom, officials said yesterday....
Andy jobs plan: Ring it on!
ALBANY — Fighters went to the mat at the State Capitol yesterday to finally bring professional mixed-martial-arts (MMA) bouts to New York — and they found Gov. Cuomo already in...
Cuomo makes ethical choice
ALBANY — There’s a new top cop on the state’s ethics beat.Gov. Cuomo picked Manhattan lawyer Daniel Horwitz yesterday to chair the state’s embattled ethics watchdog agency.Horwitz replaces Westchester County...
Low view of Albany hits high
ALBANY — Corruption is becoming the new normal in Albany — at least in the minds of voters, a new poll has found. In the wake of the bribery scandal...
Voters expect more politician arrests, poll reveals
ALBANY – Four of every five New York voters expect more state lawmakers to get arrested in the near future, according to a new poll. And more than nine of...
Pol con$tructs base of support
Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein is putting on his hard hat for campaign contributors — at the city’s expense, critics charge. Klein, the Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader, is pushing...
State’s nice job growth
ALBANY — Unemployment fell and private-sector jobs grew to an all-time high in New York last month.The state hit 7.4 million private-sector jobs in March with a 14,100-job gain over...
Cuomo holds steady in poll but fares poorly on corruption
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo can exhale. A new poll shows his job approval ratings held steady between March and April after dropping since he signed New York’s controversial new gun...
Spoil the bosses’ party: gov
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo yesterday proposed stripping political party bosses of the power to cross-endorse favored candidates. It’s part of his anticorruption package in the wake of the bribery scandals...
Dems move disgraced Smith to the ‘crook’ seat
ALBANY — Disgraced state Sen. Malcolm Smith was booted from the Independent Democratic Conference yesterday and shunted into the Carl Kruger dunce seat. Smith lost all committee assignments and was...
182G in Fat Cats donations
That’s a lot of green apples! Billionaire supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis has pumped more than $182,000 into the city’s county Republican committees — and now has three of the five...
Cable TV gets money’s worth from senator
ALBANY — A Brooklyn Democrat who’s taken more than $14,000 in campaign cash from the cable- TV industry is pushing a bill to tax cable’s up-and-coming competitor.State Sen. Kevin Parker’s...
Gov fuels hybrid progress
ALBANY — The Big Apple is getting charged up.About 100 electric-vehicle and hybrid charging stations will be up and running in the metro area starting next year, Gov. Cuomo announced...
Andy offer$ olive branch
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is offering $65,000 in federal cash to New York state-shooting ranges so that they can expand — a move some gun advocates believe is an attempt...