David Seifman began covering City Hall for The Post in 1982, during the second term of the Koch Administration and extending through the regimes of David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg. He became the City Hall bureau chief in 1989.
A nonprofit in Washington Heights that sur vives largely on the government grants secured every year by Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat has employed his sister-in-law, his local Democratic district leader, and several...
July 18, 2010 12:00 AMIt was supposed to be the glittering jewel of Inwood-Washington Heights -- a $15 million Dominican cultural and community center complete with a rooftop restaurant, a 200-seat auditorium, rehearsal space and meeting...
July 11, 2010 12:00 AMShredded pork, anyone? Millions of dollars in discretionary grants awarded to neighborhood groups a year ago by the City Council -- commonly categorized as pork-barrel spending -- are snagged in a bureaucratic...
July 04, 2010 12:00 AMA bill passed by the state Senate that was intended to force contractors for utilities to pay union-level wages has become a runaway train, with provisions so drastic that the state Assembly -- after howls of protest...
June 27, 2010 12:00 AMTHEY bill themselves as independents who scorn the established political parties. They warn that Republican and Democratic incumbents have assured their own electoral invulnerability through "guile, duplicity and...
June 20, 2010 12:00 AMThe number of employees in the school system earning $150,000 or more surged by 25 percent this year, even as the city braces for stinging cuts in education aid from Albany. A list compiled by the Independent...
June 13, 2010 12:00 AMInsiders are buzzing over the intense mutual admiration society that has formed between Mayor Bloomberg and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and wondering what the two are planning for the future. "There's something...
June 06, 2010 12:00 AMThe office of the public advocate -- which has come under sharp at tack from critics that include Mayor Bloomberg -- has found an unlikely ally in Ester Fuchs, a Columbia University professor who just happens to have...
May 30, 2010 12:00 AMThe city is on the hook for millions of dollars because it allows its employees to accumulate thousands of hours of comp time that go largely unnoticed. Individual city agencies keep tabs of the accounts, but there...
May 23, 2010 12:00 AMA doctors group that supplies medical services to Coney Island Hospital created a separate corporation that took in $4.2 million in fees that should have gone to the city hospital system -- but it's a mystery who...
May 16, 2010 12:00 AMAn audit that Comptroller John Liu released last week slamming the city's Economic Development Corp. was considered so flawed by some of the comptroller's own staff that they urged that it be yanked, according to two...
May 02, 2010 12:00 AMThe conversation around Mayor Bloomberg's dinner table is about to get mighty interesting since his longtime companion, Diana Taylor, is going public with her support of Reshma Saujani, the novice candidate trying to...
April 25, 2010 12:00 AM
Staten Island Borough President Jim Molinaro applied for his city pension this year -- on top of his $160,000 city salary -- but then had second thoughts about how his constituents in the city's most conservative...
April 18, 2010 12:00 AMIt looks like Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is very serious about getting to the bottom of the mysterious $750,000 "poll watching" operation Mayor Bloomberg funded last year. A source said Vance has assigned...
April 11, 2010 12:00 AMReal-estate mogul Steve Ross found one of the few upsides to owning one of the city's premier properties in a severe recession -- he won steep tax reductions for his Time Warner Center holdings when he joined a record...
April 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is in a bind. Last year, he took on the Bloomberg administration and led the successful fight to block development of the long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory into a $310 million...
March 28, 2010 12:00 AMThree months into his third term, Mayor Bloomberg still hasn't told some of his commissioners if he'll keep them for the next four years. Understandably, those left dangling are nervous. "I've never seen...
March 21, 2010 12:00 AMManhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. is trying to work out a budget truce with Mayor Bloomberg, who last year angrily accused Vance's legendary predecessor of stiffing the city out of millions. Sources say Vance is...
March 14, 2010 1:00 AMCrooked cabbies trying to pull off the same massive meter scam as ex-driver Wasid Khalid Cheema -- who holds the record rip-off crown -- could soon find themselves tripped up by GPS technology. Cheema's taxi...
March 07, 2010 12:00 AMThe city's lengthy list of parking scofflaws stretches all the way to City Hall, where at least nine current and former members of the City Council had been sitting on unpaid summonses totaling more than $6,000....
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMA performance-measure ment system that was set up by Bernard Kerik when he was at the city Correction Department in 1995 and is still in use today doesn't provide the public with the full story on inmate slashings,...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AM
IF there had ever been a vote for the legislator most likely to end up in prison, the hands-down winner would have been City Councilman Larry Seabrook -- who finally got snared by the feds last week. "Am I...
February 14, 2010 12:00 AMThe chairman of the state Independence Party is having second thoughts about teaming up with Mayor Bloomberg's campaign to hire a secretive company that provided poll watchers in last year's election. Party...
February 07, 2010 12:00 AMNo matter what Mayor Bloomberg has promised, get ready for new taxes. So says John Liu, the new city comptroller. Liu is casting doubt that the $63.6 billion budget plan for fiscal year 2011 that the mayor...
January 31, 2010 12:00 AMA potentially hazardous chemical is being used to strip paint from school windows, according to workers assigned to a city project. A painter said a supervisor told him to hide the chemical from inspectors when he...
January 24, 2010 12:00 AMFormer Comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson failed to release a scathing audit of a politically influential union until long after Election Day -- and a year after his staff had completed a preliminary...
January 17, 2010 12:00 AMTight fiscal times haven't stopped Mayor Bloomberg from finding openings in city government for his campaign troops, The Post has learned. Some of the ex-campaign workers will be returning to jobs they left in City...
January 10, 2010 12:00 AMOne of the weirdest developments in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack is being played out in an astounding tax court battle. More than eight years after 9/11, the city is demanding that developer Larry...
January 03, 2010 12:00 AMIt's pushback time for the real-estate industry on the Kingsbridge Armory. Steve Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, said the industry intends to inform residents of the harm done when the City...
December 20, 2009 12:00 AMThe performance of city agencies is tank ing even before Mayor Bloomberg chops $1.77 billion from their budgets in another round of belt-tightening, according to figures posted on the city's own Web site. The...
December 13, 2009 12:00 AM
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