Tag: mayor

Great words from Mayor Bloomberg about the legacy of Ed Koch on NYC. Love him or hate him, Koch made NYC worth visiting and living in again.

I really want to watch this film about the legendary (and often hated) former mayor of NYC from the 70s.

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Hahaha, at least one good thing came out of Bloomberg trying his tongue at Spanish: Now there’s a Twitter account just dedicated to his unique way with the Spanish language. Follow it over at @ElBloombito

In this diverse city, why is it that Bloomberg had to deliver the Spanish evacuation notice to television viewers? Could they not find a Spanish-speaking person anywhere in City Hall?

Wonderful wonderful! Arturas Zoukas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania was so fed up with illegally parked cars in bike lanes that he got into a tank and ran a car over with it! It wasn’t an actual person’s car but instead a demonstration of what could happen if you do the same with your car. [...]