16. Joshua Robin, “Rating Bloomberg on Transit Work,” Newsday, March 6, 2005.
17. Sadik-Khan and Solomonow, Street Fight.
18. Ibid., xii, xiii.
19. “London Congestion Charge: Why It’s Time to Reconsider One of the City’s Great Successes,” Transport for London Data, The Conversation, March 2, 2018.
20. Sadik-Khan and Solomonow, Street Fight, xiii.
21. Bloomberg administration report, “PlaNYC—A Greener, Greater New York,” April 22, 2007, 72–97.
22. Ibid., 6.
23. Winnie Hu, “More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane,” New York Times, July 30, 2017.
24. Sadik-Khan and Solomonow, Streetfight, 93.
25. Joe Lindsey, “This Woman Built 400 Miles of Bike Lanes in New York City,” Bicycling.com, December 31, 2015.
26. Natalie O’Neill, “The Prospect Park Bike Lane Had Our Presses Rolling All Year Long,” Brooklyn Paper, December 30, 2011; Sadik-Khan and Solomonow, Streetfight, 8.
27. Sadik-Khan and Solomonow, Streetfight, 8.
28. Ibid., 180.
29. Matt Flegenheimer, “Citibank Pays to Put Its Name on Shared Bikes,” New York Times, May 8, 2012.
30. Matt Flegenheimer, “Questions and Answers on Citi Bike,” New York Times, May 26, 2013.
31. “About Citi Bike,” CityBikeNYC.com, https://www.citibikenyc.com/about.
32. Author interview with Bloomberg adviser, 2016.
33. Brian M. Rosenthal, “Taxi Drivers Fell Prey While Top Officials Counted the Money, New York Times, May 20, 2019.
34. Emily Smith, “Mike Unleashes a ‘Hail’ Storm,” New York Post, May 22, 2013.
35. James Barron, “Where Yellow Cabs Didn’t Go, Green Cabs Were Supposed to Thrive. Then Came Uber,” New York Times, September 3, 2018.
36. Sewell Chan, “U.S. Offers New York $354 Million for Congestion Pricing,” City Room blog, New York Times, August 14, 2007, https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/us-will-give-new-york-354-million-for-congestion-pricing/.
37. Author interview with New York State Senator Liz Krueger, July 27, 2016.
38. Author interview with State Senator Liz Krueger, 2018.
39. Nicholas Confessore, “Congestion Pricing Plan Dies in Albany,” New York Times, April 7, 2008.
40. Chan, “U.S. Offers New York $354 Million for Congestion Pricing”; “New York City’s Congestion Pricing Experience and Implications for Road Pricing Acceptance in the United States,” NYC.gov, published in Transport Policy, August 2010, http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/schaller_paper_2010trb.pdf.
41. Winnie Hu, “Confused About Congestion Pricing? Here’s What We Know,” New York Times, April 24, 2019.
CHAPTER 22: SILICON ISLAND
1. Email to author from Kevin Sheekey, October 11, 2017.
2. Nick K. Lioudis, “The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: A Case Study,” Investopedia, updated December 11, 2017, https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/lehman-brothers-collapse.asp.
3. Ben White and Michael Grynbaum, “Life After Lehman Brothers,” New York Times, September 15, 2008.
4. “New York City Employment Trends,” Office of the New York State Comptroller, https://osc.state.ny.us/osdc/rpt10-2018.pdf.
5. Author interview with Seth Pinsky, September 26, 2017.
6. Author interviews with staff and Pinsky, 2014 and 2017.
7. Ibid.
8. Shira Ovide, “Ex-Wachovia Boss Bob Steel Still Drawing Fire,” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2011,
9. NYC official mayoral announcement, proposal for new university, December 16, 2010. https://www.nycedc.com/press-release/mayor-bloomberg-announces-initiative-develop-new-engineering-and-applied-sciences; letter sent, January 2011, http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/appliedscience_letter.pdf.
10. “Mayor Bloomberg Announces City Received 18 Submissions from 27 Academic Institutions for New Applied Sciences Campus,” NYC. gov, March 17, 2011, http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/088-11/mayor-bloomberg-city-received-18-submissions-27-academic-institutions-new.
11. Javier C. Hernandez,“Bloomberg’s Big Push for an Applied Sciences School,” New York Times, April 26, 2011.
12. Nicholas Parco, “Roosevelt Island’s Rich Frightening History,” New York Daily News, October 30, 2015, https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/roosevelt-island-rich-frightening-history-article-1.2418027.
13. Tim Carmody, “How Cornell Beat Stanford (And Everybody Else) for NYC Tech Campus,” Wired, December 28, 2011, https://www.wired.com/2011/12/how-cornell-beat-everybody-nyc/.
14. Richard Perez-Pena, “Stanford Ends Effort to Build New York Arm,” New York Times, December 16, 2011.
15. Author interview with Bloomberg adviser on background, 2017.
16. “Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell President Skorton and Technion President Lavie Officially Transfer 12 Acres of Roosevelt Island to Cornell Tech,” NYC.gov, December 9, 2013, https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/420-13/mayor-bloomberg-cornell-president-skorton-technion-president-lavie-officially-transfer-12/#/0.
17. Richard Perez-Pena, “Cornell Alumnus Is Behind $350 Million Gift to Build Science School in City,” New York Times, December 19, 2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/nyregion/cornell-and-technion-israel-chosen-to-build-science-school-in-new-york-city.html.
18. Ibid.
19. NYC press release, December 19, 2011; “Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell President Skorton and Technion President Lavie announce Historic Parnership to Build a New Applied Sciences Campus on Roosevelt Island,” https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/420-13/mayor-bloomberg-cornell-president-skorton-technion-president-lavie-officially-transfer-12/#/0; “The Inside Story of Cornell-Tech Campus Win,” Crain’s, December 18, 2011, https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20111219/EDUCATION/111219897/the-inside-story-of-cornell-s-tech-campus-win.
20. Author covered September 2017 event; Cuomo administration provided transcript of his remarks.
21. Hamza Shaban, “Google Announced $1 Billion Expansion in New York City,” Washington Post, November 17, 2018.
CHAPTER 23: AS FOR THE OTHER HALF
1. “Mayor Bloomberg Receives Award for Anti-Poverty Efforts from Children’s Aid Society, Releases New Data Showing Every Major US City Saw Increase in Poverty Rate—Except for New York City—since 2000, NYC press release, NYC.gov, November 14, 2013, https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/367-13/mayor-bloomberg-receives-award-anti-poverty-efforts-children-s-aid-society-releases-new/#/0.
2. Author interviews with former Bloomberg city official on background, 2017.
3. Leslie Kaufman, “Mayor Seeks 10 Year Plan to Address Homelessness,” New York Times, November 22, 2003.
4. “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Delivers 2006 State of the City Address ‘a Blueprint for New York City’s Future,’ ” NYC.gov, January 26, 2006, http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/030-06/mayor-michael-bloomberg-delivers-2006-state-the-city-address-a-blueprint-new-york-city-s.
5. “Amidst Unprecedented Homelessness—a New Focus on Housing Can Turn the Tide,” Coalition for the Homeless, March 12, 2014, http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/state-of-the-homeless-2014/.
6. Jessica Dailey, “10 Surprising Facts About NYCHA, New York’s ‘Shadow City,’ ” Curbed New York, September 10, 2012, https://ny.curbed.com/2012/9/10/10330984/10-surprising-facts-about-nycha-new-yorks-shadow-city.
7. Chris McNickle, Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition (New York: Skyhorse, 2017), 208.
8. “Mayor Bloomberg Announces New York City on Pace to Reach 4 Million Total Jobs by End of Year—the First Time in the City’s History, Doublecheck NYC press release, NYC.gov, December 19, 2013, https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/422-13/mayor-bloomberg-new-york-city-pace-reach-4-million-total-jobs-end-the-year—/#/0. Bloomberg website on poverty and jobs.
9. Thomas J. Main, Homelessness in New York City: Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio (New York: NYU Press, 2016), 160–166; hiring of Homeless Commissione
r Robert Hess, April 14, 2006, https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/111-06/mayor-bloomberg-appoints-robert-hess-commissioner-the-department-homeless-services-and#/0.
10. Kay S. Hymowitz, “Saving Welfare Reform,” City Journal special issue, 2013.
11. Kate Taylor, “Bloomberg Lured Donors for New York Programs,” New York Times, November 20, 2013.
12. “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Announces Citywide Campaign to End Chronic Homelessness,” NYC.gov, June 23, 2004, https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/157-04/mayor-michael-bloomberg-citywide-campaign-end-chronic-homelessness#/0.
13. “CEO Poverty Measure, 2005–2014,” annual report, Mayor’s Office of Operations, the City of New York, NYC. gov, April 2016, https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/opportunity/pdf/16_poverty_measure_report.pdf.
14. Maria Newman, “Bloomberg Unveils Plan to Reduce Homelessness, New York Times, July 17, 2006.
15. Dana Rubenstein, “Living Wage Reminds Bloomberg of Soviet Union,” Politico, May 13, 2012.
16. Sam Roberts, “City’s Sheltering of Out of Town Homeless, and Mayor’s Remark, Stir Debate,” New York Times, March 18, 2013.
17. Author interview with Philip Mangano, March 16, 2017.
18. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Mayor’s Style Is Tested in Sending Homeless to Old Jail,” New York Times, August 16, 2002.
19. New York City Municipal Archives, Emma Bloomberg, 22683, box 1 of 2, confirmed in interviews with former Bloomberg officials, 2017.
20. Ibid.
21. Diane Jeantet, “As Homeless Numbers Rose, Clashes Over Policies,” City Limits, March 11, 2013.
22. Julie Bosman and Michael Barbaro, “Mayor Defends One-Way Tickets for Homeless,” New York Times, July 29, 2009; Julie Bosman, “City Aids Homeless with One-Way Tickets Home,” New York Times, July 28, 2009.
23. Project Reconnect Homeless Assistance, NYC.gov, https://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/3601/project-reconnect-homeless-assistance.
24. Ian Frazier, “Hidden City,” The New Yorker, October 28, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/28.
25. Article 17 of the NYS constitution reads, “The aid, care and support of the needy are public concerns and shall be provided by the state and such of its subdivision (i.e., the city), and in such manner and by such means, as the legislature may from time to time determine.”
26. Suzanne Daley, “Robert Hayes: Anatomy of a Crusader,” New York Times, October 2, 1987.
27. Robin Herman, “Pact Requires City to Shelter Homeless Men,” New York Times, August 27, 1981, http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/27/nyregion/pact-requires-city-to-shelter-homeless-men.html.
28. “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Applauds Independent Panel’s Recommendation to End Court Oversight of Family Shelter System,” NYC.gov, February 15, 2005, https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/063-05/mayor-michael-bloomberg-applauds-independent-panel-s-recommendation-end-court-oversight-of.
29. NYC Center for Economic Opportunity, Annual Report, 2012–2013, p. 18, https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/opportunity/pdf/ceo_annual_report_2012-2013_web.pdf.
30. Michael Bloomberg letter, Center for Economic Opportunity Annual Report, 2012–13, p. 4.
31. “Mexico’s Oportunidades Program, Shanghai Poverty Conference: Case Study Summary, World Bank, http://web.worldbank.org/archive/website00819C/WEB/PDF/CASE_-62.PDF.
32. “Mayor Bloomberg and Delegation Visit Mexico’s Oportunidades Program,” NYC.gov, April 24, 2007, http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/123-07/mayor-bloomberg-delegation-visit-mexico-s-i-oportunidades-i-program#/1.
33. Julie Bosman, “City Will Stop Paying the Poor for Good Behavior,” New York Times, March 31, 2010.
34. Ibid.
35. Center for Economic Opportunity, Annual Report, 2012–2013.
36. NYC Young Men’s Initiative, Annual Report, 2013, p. 4, NYC.gov, https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/opportunity/pdf/ceo_annual_report_2012-2013_web.pdf.
37. “Mayor Bloomberg Receives Award for Anti-Poverty Efforts from Children’s Aid Society, Releases New Data Showing Every Major US City Saw Increase in Poverty Rate—Except for New York City—Since 2000,” NYC.gov, November 14, 2013, http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/367-13/mayor-bloomberg-receives-award-anti-poverty-efforts-children-s-aid-society-releases-new/#/0.
38. Michael Barbaro and Fernanda Santos, “Bloomberg to Use Own Funds in Plan to Aid Minority Youth,” New York Times, August 3, 2011.
39. Tina Moore, “200 Families on Brink of Homelessness Treated Like Rats in Lab Experiment,” New York Daily News, September 10, 2010.
40. “Mayor Bloomberg Defends ‘Inhumane’ Study on Homeless,” Huffington Post, September 30, 2010, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-study-leaves-200_n_745457?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJpLvg0RAGjea91Fhg7UhjbDCd9KLXLIDBNwgH-uU82Wwb9MSMNxb62CLpMKlZcFFwUHezpQNdDrYUqFrhqGPzpkefh_mOF2nQykEI8hMrHRgzUnzhGvazYxcTAbbmaNbZmXX5_Py_CdCspk4ycJCZUL4XZEjMrcLm4TzZrGAnte; Main, Homelessness in New York City, 172, on HomeBase program.
41. Bloomberg speech, progress report on homelessness in NYC to National Alliance to End Homelessness, July 17, 2018.
42. Main, Homelessness in New York City, 155.
43. Leslie Kaufman, “Homeless Families Blocked from Seeking U.S. Housing Aid,” New York Times, October 20, 2004.
44. Mosi Secret, “Clocks Tick for a Key Homeless Program,” New York Times, May 31, 2011.
45. Leslie Kaufman, “City Vows to Improve Aid to Homeless Families,” New York Times, March 19, 2007.
46. Main, Homelessness in New York City, 179.
47. Email to author, Bloomberg press office, February 6, 2012.
48. Coalition for the Homeless, “NYC Homeless Shelter Population Report,” worksheet, May 2019, pp. 8–12, https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/NYCHomelessShelterPopulation-Worksheet_1983-Present_Mar2019.pdf: p.8-12.
49. “Facts About Homelessness,” Coalition for the Homeless, January 2019, https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/the-catastrophe-of-homelessness/facts-about-homelessness/.
50. New York City Government Poverty Measure 2005–2016, NYC Opportunity, NYC.gov.
51. “Mayor Bloomberg Receives Award for Anti-Poverty Efforts from Children’s Aid Society,” November 2013.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
CHAPTER 24: OVERTIME
1. Fran Liebowitz, “Voices,” New York Times, August 18, 2013.
2. Editorial, “For Mayor of New York City,” New York Times, October 23, 2009.
3. Joyce Purnick, Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics (New York: PublicAffairs, 2009), 179.
4. Ibid., 296.
5. Sewell Chan, “Bloomberg Leaving Republican Party,” City Room blog, New York Times, June 19, 2007, https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/bloomberg-leaving-republican-party/.
6. Jonathan P. Hicks, Michael Cooper, “The 2003 Election: City Charter, City Votes Down an Effort to End Party Primaries,” New York Times, November 5, 2003.
7. Michael R. Bloomberg, “I’m not Running for President, but . . . ,” opinion, New York Times, February 28, 2008.
8. Author interview with Richard Parsons, February 9, 2018.
9. Clyde Haberman, “Back When the Mayor Loved Term Limits,” New York Times, October 20, 2008.
10. Garth Johnston, “Remembering Ed Koch’s Scandalous Third Term,” Gothamist, February 1, 2013, http://gothamist.com/2013/02/01/ed_koch_and_the_curse_of_the_third.php.
11. Michael Barbaro, David Chen, “Bloomberg Expected to Seek Third Term as Mayor,” New York Times, September 30, 2008.
12. Billy Parker, “More Speculation of a Third Term for Mayor Bloomberg, Gothamist, July 28, 2008, http://gothamist.com/2008/07/28/speculation_of_a_third_term_for_may.php.
13. Author talks with Bloomberg, 2016.
14. “The Seductive Charms of Term Limits,” editorial, New York Times, June 9, 2008.
15. “For Mayor of New York City,” New York Times editorial endorse
ment of Michael Bloomberg, October 24, 2009.
16. Michael Barbaro, David Chen, “Bloomberg Enlists His Charities in Bid to Stay,” New York Times, October 17, 2008.
17. Sam Roberts and Eric Konigsberg, “Enigmatic Billionaire Is Back in Term Limit Fray,” New York Times, October 8, 2008.
18. Ibid.
19. “Election 2010: Election Results,” New York Times, November 3, 2010, https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2010/results/new-york.html.
20. Michael Barbaro and David Chen, “Bloomberg’s Latest on Terms; 3 for him, but only 2 for Everyone Else,” New York Times, October 25, 2010.
21. Chris McNickle, Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition (New York: Skyhorse, 2017), 256.
22. David Chen and Michael Barbaro, “Passions High on Term Limits in City Council,” New York Times, October 16, 2008.
23. Sewell Chan, “Bloomberg Says He Wants Third Term as Mayor,” New York Times, October 2, 2008.
24. Chen and Barbaro, “Passions High on Term Limits in City Council.”
25. Michael Barbaro and Fernanda Santos, “Bloomberg Gets His Bill and a Public Earful,” New York Times, November 3, 2008.
26. Michael Barbaro, “Bloomberg Spent $102 Million on Third Term,” New York Times, November 27, 2009.
27. Courtney Gross, “A Recovery Package from Bloomberg,” Gotham Gazette, January 16, 2009.
28. Jim Rutenberg and Raymond Hernandez, “In About-Face, Wolfson Now Works for Bloomberg,” New York Times, July 10, 2009.
29. Michael M. Grynbaum, “With Adviser’s Departure, Bloomberg Will Lose a Fierce Protector,” New York Times, July 29, 2012.
30. Bradley Tusk, The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2018), 66.
31. Ibid., 67.
32. Ibid., 69.
33. Matthew Choi, “Anthony Weiner to be Released Early from Federal Prison,” Politico, October 9, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/09/anthony-weiner-federal-prison-885080.
34. Mark Jacobson, “Anthony and the Giant,” New York, May 3, 2009.
35. Tusk, The Fixer, 71.
36. Ibid., 72.
37. Ibid., 73.
38. “Why I’m not Running for Mayor,” op-ed, New York Times, May 26, 2009.
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