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.
Crooked 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 public budget bat tle between Gov. Paterson and the Legislature's Democratic leaders tells only half the story: They're fighting like cats and dogs in private as well. Sources in Paterson's office and at the...
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 AMInvestment firms that have reaped hundreds of millions of dollars managing the city's mammoth pension funds over the last eight years could be in a for a rude shock when John Liu takes over as comptroller. Liu, a...
December 06, 2009 12:00 AMA large chunk of the City Council staff took off on primary- election day to work on politics. More than 40 percent of the council's 244 central-office staffers weren't at their desks Sept. 15, according to records...
November 29, 2009 12:00 AMThere's griping di rected at the labor- backed Working Families Party from a surprising quarter -- other labor leaders, according to sources. One source said some labor leaders weren't happy to see WFP executive...
November 22, 2009 12:00 AMWITH the election over, the biggest guessing game at City Hall these days is: Who leaves and who stays for Mayor Bloomberg's third term? Insiders are betting that the first out the door will be Paul Cosgrave,...
November 15, 2009 12:00 AMIt doesn't make any sense. Mayor Bloomberg's campaign crew's excuses for his shockingly close 4.6 percentage-point win over Bill Thompson go something like this: * No matter that we consistently told everyone...
November 08, 2009 12:00 AMTHERE'S going to be one overriding issue weighing down Mayor Bloomberg's third term, and it's going to affect every nook of his government. Get ready for Monumental Budget Crisis, Part Two. You'd hardly know it...
November 04, 2009 12:00 AMTwo weeks before the election, Mayor Bloomberg told Or thodox Jewish leaders in a private meeting that he planned to restore $8 million in day-care vouchers that the administration had pulled just months earlier as the...
October 31, 2009 9:00 PMWHEN they released plans last year to "green the fleet," city officials proudly announced that 20 GMC Yukon hybrid SUVs would be going to the Police and Fire departments to test their durability and fuel efficiency....
October 25, 2009 12:00 AMIf he wins a third term, Mayor Bloomberg says he's going to fire about a half-dozen underperforming commissioners. "There are some people that want to retire, there are some people that I will tell them they want...
October 18, 2009 12:00 AMIF BILL Thompson hadn't reverted to form as a Democrat who never strays from the party line, he might have been able to claim that his performance in last night's mayoral debate was the finest of his 18-month campaign...
October 14, 2009 12:00 AMJohn Liu's hard-fought victory in the Democratic race for comptroller could cost him an astounding $588,000 in fines -- the most violations ever slapped on a candidate for plastering the city with illegal posters....
October 11, 2009 12:00 AMCONSTRUCTION of the NYPD's new $1.5 billion Police Academy in Queens has suddenly been delayed, and angry aides to Mayor Bloomberg and Comptroller Bill Thompson each say the other is to blame. Bloomberg aides...
October 04, 2009 12:00 AMNO ONE voted for the biggest winner in yesterday's runoff -- the Working Families Party. With only 11,800 members here, the left-leaning, union-backed party wielded its organizing muscle in a low-turnout election...
September 30, 2009 12:00 AMTHE long knives are out for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Emboldened by the results of this month's Democratic primaries, in which five council incumbents were defeated and a sixth held on by a whisker-thin...
September 27, 2009 12:00 AMMAYOR Bloomberg places so much trust in First Deputy Mayor Patti Harris that he's allowed her to select his burial plot without telling him where it is. That's just one of the juicy tidbits served up in the...
September 20, 2009 12:00 AM
IF there's one place where Mayor Bloomberg shouldn't have to worry about winning votes it's Staten Island, where more than seven out of 10 people who went to the polls in both 2001 and 2005 pulled the lever for...
September 13, 2009 12:00 AMDespite Mayor Bloomberg's outrage at a generous pay hike that arbitrators granted transit workers last month -- which he warned would blow a $350 million hole in the MTA's budget -- he won't go to court to try to...
September 06, 2009 12:00 AMTHE Department of Transportation has fired the company it selected a year ago to bring the computer systems that control the city's 1.3 million traffic signals into the 21st century. The agency notified Bowne...
August 23, 2009 3:52 AM
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