A reader sends in this photo from the Chinese Lunar New Year parade yesterday, where a couple of citywide candidates showed up. There's comptroller candidate and City Councilman David Weprin, mayoral candidate and current Comptroller Bill Thompson, and mayoral candidate and Gristedes owner John Catisimatidis.
The mayor was there too.

There's not much like a fight over horses to get New Yorkers out to City Hall. At the start of a Council hearing on a proposed bill to ban the carriage horse industry, a collection of about 20 people stood outside the gates in consternation. They had been told that the hearing room was full. "We're all in ...

There is plenty of bad news in the budget Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed today, but--hard as this may be to believe--it could have been worse. The strategy from City Hall seems to have been to soften the blow, at least on the surface, of having to close a $4 billion budget gap by reducing city spending by $1 billion through ...