Gregg Birnbaum
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SPIKE LEE BIG ON BIDEN
August 25, 2008 | 11:16amFilmmaker Spike Lee likes Barack Obama's selection of Joe Biden as his running mate. "Biden is gonna help, gonna help. Definitely," said Lee, a big supporter of Democratic causes who...
GO PROBE THE APTS.: RANGEL
July 19, 2008 | 8:38amEmbattled Rep. Charles Rangel said last night he may ask the House Ethics Committee to look at his three rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem. Rangel's statement came a day after he...
BUILDING FAST - VEGAS MEGAPROJECT SHOWS EXACTLY WHAT'S WRONG WITH NYC
December 21, 2006 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS,NEV. 'WE'LL finish before you're in the ground." That's Robert Baldwin, master builder behind the huge Project CityCenter here, comparing his project to the morass at Ground Zero. Baldwin,...
GRASSO GOV BID OFF THE WALL STREET
August 19, 2006 | 4:00amDisgraced former New York Stock Exchange boss Richard Grasso is talking about running for governor - possibly against his archrival, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Grasso, who is battling Spitzer...
QUINN RAISES HELL ON PAY
April 22, 2006 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn said yesterday that it was high time Council members got a pay raise. Quinn made her plea for higher pay - the first time she...
A PART-TIME MAYOR?
February 22, 2002 | 5:00amWHY did the press barrage Mayor Bloomberg with questions about where he'd vanished to for three days over the long President's Day weekend? Take a look at his answer: "My...
BLOOMBERG'S BIZ BUFFETS MAYOR BID
March 11, 2001 | 5:00amMichael Bloomberg's business empire raises serious conflict-of-interest questions if he runs for City Hall - and the mogul's reluctance to disclose his finances could create a political firestorm, experts say....
NATIONAL REVIEW EDITOR MULLS MAYORAL RUN
March 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe editor of the National Review is considering running for mayor as the Conservative Party candidate - a move that could spell bad news for toe-in-the-water Republican media mogul Mike...
RICH FLORAL BATTLE BLOOMS
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amThe florist who provided $11,500 worth of his creations for a fund-raiser last fall at Denise Rich's penthouse - starring President Clinton - is charging he still hasn't been paid,...
FEISTY FIVE VYING FOR PUBLIC-ADVOCATE POST
February 26, 2001 | 5:00amThe race to fill Public Advocate Mark Green's shoes is shaping up to be a surprisingly competitive, anyone-can-win contest - for a job that critics say has no real power...
HILL RATINGS TAKE DIVE NYERS DON'T BUY PARDON DENIALS: POLL
February 25, 2001 | 5:00amThe majority of New Yorkers aren't buying Hillary Clinton's "I knew nothing" denials in the growing pardon scandal - and only 22 percent think she's doing a good job, a...
MONEY TRAIL LEADS TO FREEDOM TRAIL ARE DONATIONS AND FEES THE PRICE OF CLEMENCY?
February 25, 2001 | 5:00amLike never before, the presidential pardon seems to carry a price tag. From the $1,000 an Arkansas man's family chipped in to Hillary Clinton's campaign to the more than $1...
MONEY TRAIL LEADS TO FREEDOM TRAIL - ARE DONATIONS AND FEES THE PRICE OF CLEMENCY?
February 25, 2001 | 5:00amLike never before, the presidential pardon seems to carry a price tag. From the $1,000 an Arkansas man's family chipped in to Hillary Clinton's campaign to the more than $1...
VOTE TODAY FOR COUNCIL PITS WARRING BX. FACTIONS
February 20, 2001 | 5:00amRival factions of the Bronx Democratic party are going to war at the polls today in a special election to fill a vacant City Council seat. The contest pits party...
IT'S THE LEASE HE CAN DO :RUDY LETS EX-PREZ INTO 125TH ST. OFFICE AFTER SETTLING HARLEM FLAP
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday dropped his opposition to Bill Clinton opening his office in a Harlem building, after the city got a break on its lease and security glitches were worked...
BIG HULLA-BUBBA-LOO OVER HARLEM LEASE SNAFU
February 16, 2001 | 5:00amBill Clinton's camp and the owner of a Harlem office building each denied blame yesterday for what Mayor Giuliani called the "unethical" showing of office space already taken by the...
RUDY REJECTS HARLEM-OFFICE OFFERS
February 15, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday rejected two offers from the landlord of a Harlem building where Bill Clinton wants to rent an office - and said the ex-president may have to hit...
RUDY TO BILL: PAY A BROKER 'FEE': WANTS GOOD OFFER TO GIVE UP HARLEM OFFICE
February 14, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani challenged Bill Clinton yesterday to a round of "Let's Make a Deal" over Harlem office space coveted by the ex-president - but leased to the city's child-welfare agency....
BRATTON GIVES GREEN A BOOST
February 13, 2001 | 5:00amFormer top cop Bill Bratton threw his support behind Mark Green for mayor yesterday - and both left the door open for Bratton's return to One Police Plaza if Green...
LAZIO LASHES OUT AT HILLARY
February 13, 2001 | 5:00amFormer GOP Senate hopeful Rick Lazio last night launched a scathing attack on Sen. Hillary Clinton, charging that she has become "just the kind of senator we feared she would...