It was a huge week for Anthony Weiner, who thrust himself back into the public eye with a flattering cover story in The New York Times Magazine just two years after his infamous crotch tweet and cover-up stalled a once promising career. Now Weiner is mulling a comeback in a crowded Democratic primary field for mayor of New York City. And this week, that makes him one of our Weiners and Losers. Can’t get enough of our winners and losers?… [More]

Growing tired of the inertia in collective bargaining talks between Cablevision and the company’s Brooklyn employees, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer stood with workers outside of Madison Square Garden to demand that Cablevision negotiate in good faith and reinstate a group of workers who were dismissed a week ago. Last week,  Quinn and de Blasio–both Democratic candidates for mayor–ventured deep into Brooklyn to stand with 23 Brooklyn Cablevision workers… [More]

In the latest development in the ongoing battle between Cablevision and its Brooklyn workers over their attempt to unionize, the cable company fired 23 employees on Wednesday after they allegedly refused to return to their jobs after confronting management about a lack of movement at the negotiating table. “A small number of Brooklyn technicians refused to work Wednesday after several requests to return to their jobs,” said Cablevision Spokesman Jim Maiella. “Therefore, Cablevision took legal and appropriate steps to maintain adequate… [More]

Continuing a fight that began nearly a year ago, the Communications Workers of America, in support of the Brooklyn Cablevision workers ongoing efforts to unionize, released a report yesterday titled “Leaving Brooklyn Behind”, which aims to demonstrate that Cablevision is delivering poor service to customers in Brooklyn. The report, which included a survey of over 700 Brooklyn Cablevision customers, showed that nearly 25 percent of customers rate their service as “poor” or “terrible”, and only 37 percent rated it favorably.… [More]

Slow browsing speeds, dropped phone calls, and skyrocketing wireless bills could go the way of the floppy disk as contractors make critical upgrades to New York City’s wireless and cable networks.… [More]

After months of fruitless negotiations and strong-arm tactics by upper management, Brooklyn Cablevision workers wrote a letter to Cablevision CEO James Dolan saying that they now plan to leaflet the venues he owns, which include Madison Square Garden, the Beacon Theater and Radio City Music Hall, in an attempt to put pressure on Cablevision to let them unionize. The Brooklyn Cablevision workers voted in January to unionize and join the Communications Workers of America Local 1109. In the letter, the… [More]

* Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t the only one in City Hall who benefits from a change in term limits. His legal counsel, Anthony Crowell, is finishing his third one-year term as chairman of the Brooklyn Public Library board – the most allowed by its bylaws – but his heir apparent Laura Ensler moved to Queens and left the board. So the board is expected to soon extend terms for all its top officials, giving the chairman up to three two-year… [More]

The Spano family was once the most powerful Republican clan in Westchester County, back when Westchester County was all Republican. Yet as Westchester voters have turned their county decidedly blue, the once-red Spanos have straddled party lines to stay comfortably in the center. Nick Spano, a former Republican state senator who lost his seat five years ago, is now an influential lobbyist who works closely with Democrats. His brother Michael, an Assemblyman who switched parties from Republican to Democrat the… [More]