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• At Joe Torre Golf Benefit, Billy Crystal's the Star

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:19 pm

  Tags: Party Lines, Benefits, Billy Crystal, Donald Trump, Golf, Joe Torre, Mike Bloomberg, Yankees

  the sixth hole. Torre, Mayor Bloomberg, Donald Trump, and Billy Crystal made up the lead foursome, and, surprisingly, the comic was the best golfer. "I wasn’t a great athlete, and I’m just a terrible golfer," Torre said before they got started. "Billy Crystal, believe it or not, will be the most serious golfer in the group." ("Serious

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• He Wants You to Want Him to Testify

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Bancroft Family, Dow Jones, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Jim Mcgreevey, Mike Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani

  [amNY] • And Mayor Bloomberg, who made his straphanging a big PR point during elections, still takes the subway to work. How does he get to the subway? In a fleet of SUVs. [NYT]

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• These Ten People Want to Make Bloomberg President

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Early Often, Mike Bloomberg, Politics, President

  signatures on a "Draft Mike" petition by Christmas. (Only 1,500 per person!) Cue the jaunty, let's-get-to-work montage.Gallet sees Bloomberg as someone "socially liberal, economically responsible, who really transcends the two-party system," and she sees herself as a typical Bloomberg voter. Others attendees, who'd traveled from the right

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• Oprah's Politics Club

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:27 am

  Tags: Gossipmonger, Adrian Grenier, Alex Rodriguez, Barack Obama, Billy Crystal, Brett Ratner, Cindy Sheehan, Donald Trump, Golf, Good Morning America, Helen Mirren, Icm, Interns, Joe Torre, Liev Schreiber, Lindsay Lohan, Matt Dillon, Mike Bloomberg, Nancy Pelosi, Naomi Watts, Opr

  dated Matt Dillon. Mayor Bloomberg, Donald Trump, Billy Crystal, and Joe Torre won a charity golf tourney by nine strokes. Uma Thurman is dating Elle Macpherson's ex, Swiss banker Arky Busson. Lindsay Lohan's bodyguard has received half-million-dollar offers to sell her out, but he won't do it. Members of Usher's camp maintain that

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• Mayor Mike, Subway Cheat?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:42 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Mike Bloomberg, Subways, The New York Times

  As the Times reported, Mike Bloomberg, who famously claims to take the subway to work, first uses "a pair of king-size Chevrolet Suburbans" to get to the 59th and Lex stop and boards the train from there. "This means Mr. Bloomberg … spends a quarter of his ostensibly subterranean commute in an S.U.V.," Michael Grynbaum writes.

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• Eliot Spitzer Has Reached Acceptance

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, City Council, Crime, Ed Koch, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Florida, Memorials, Mike Bloomberg, New York Post, Queens, Sex, The New York Times

  five-week stakeout of Mayor Bloomberg's commuting habits yields a second article in two days -- and a new shocker. Ed Koch exaggerrated his mass-transit use, too! This thing goes all the way to the, um, past. [NYT] • And, the Post lede of the day: "Infamous triple-amputee Michael Wiley, who has led Florida police on high speed [chases]

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• Partly Cooked

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:47 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Brooklyn Bridge, City Council, Crime, Food, George Steinbrenner, Health, Mike Bloomberg, Trans Fats, Yankees

  will meet with Mayor Bloomberg to "find a mutually agreeable plan to honor our loved ones in a meaningful and respectful way." Or else! [WNBC] • The "I'm an adulterer, not a rapist" grand-jury tactic failed; Queens city councilman Dennis Gallagher has been indicted and charged with rape. He intends to cry prosecutorial misconduct.

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• Follow the E-mail

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Abortion, Courts, Eliot Spitzer, Ethics, Mike Bloomberg, New Jersey, President, Rudy Giuliani, Stewart Airport

  is left rudderless as Mayor Bloomberg reports for jury duty today. He's likely to get excused but, his spokesman says, expects "to be treated like a regular guy." A regular guy with bodyguards. [amNY] • MTA is planning a direct, fast train from Manhattan to Stewart International Airport — pending a yearlong, $4 million "feasibility

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• In Brief: Mayor Bloomberg has jury duty today. (Commute-wise, ...

  Published: August 6, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Jury Duty, Mike Bloomberg, They Also Serve

  Mayor Bloomberg has jury duty today. (Commute-wise, it's perfect: Right off the 4/5/6!) Hey, Mike, tell 'em you write for Gawker, you'll be back at your desk in no time! [NYS]

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• Ed Koch supports Bloomberg in 2008

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:07 am

  Tags: Independent Presidential Run, Ed Koch, Mike Bloomberg, 2008

  Ed Koch has written an op-ed on why he supports Mike Bloomberg’s potential candidacy for President and why he believes that Mayor Mike will ultimately run. It is a provacative and interesting read.

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• Death at NYU

  Published: August 7, 2007, 9:43 am

  Tags: Courts, Death, Eliot Spitzer, Fdny, Joe Bruno, Mike Bloomberg, Nypd, Nyu, Republicans

  of interest galore, Mayor Bloomberg didn't make the cut on his day of jury duty; interestingly enough, the case, Tessitore vs. Harris, was about corporate responsibilty in an asbestos-related death. [NYP] • And what looks to be the last-ever FDNY calendar premiered yesterday; the department pulled the plug on the entire venture after

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• 756*

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:46 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, Albany, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Con Ed, Crime, Death, Explosions, Housing, Mike Bloomberg, Mta, Nyu

  • Juror Bloomberg is back at his day job — and he's brokered a deal with Albany that will require more developers in more neighborhoods to include low-income housing in their projects. Spitzer's likely to sign. [NYT]• Both the Post and the News draw giant asterisks next to their Barry Bonds headlines (the Post throws in

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• Bloomberg Caves to 9/11 Families

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:29 am

  Tags: In Other News, 9 11, Memorials, Mike Bloomberg, World Trade Center

  Getty Images So Mayor Bloomberg finally caved in the face of the collective fit thrown by some 9/11 victim relatives, who demanded the sixth-anniversary ceremonies be held in the pit at ground zero and only there. The Port Authority will now contort to allow the mourners to, as the mayor said in a statement, "descend the ramp in a

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• Sheriff Andy?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: The Morning Line, 9 11, Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Crime, Eliot Spitzer, Mike Bloomberg, Mta, Newark, Rain, Weather

  arrest. [NYT] • Mayor Bloomberg has agreed to let 9/11 victim families limited access "below the grade" at the World Trade Center site for the sixth-anniversary ceremonies. It took weeks of deeply icky negotiations. [NYP] • The MTA predictably claims that if we don't want our subways grinding to a halt at the slightest drizzle it'll

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• ‘Daily News’: Mayor's Gal Pal Is No Mere Gal Pal

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: In Other News, Diana Taylor, Mike Bloomberg, New York Daily News

  of Diana Taylor, Mayor Bloomberg’s girlfriend, former State Bank superintendent, and recently appointed Hudson River Trust chief. So what new and exciting news does reporter Heidi Evans, who earlier this year won a Pulitzer for the paper with her 9/11 reporting, elicit from the city's quasi–First Lady to merit this page-one

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