Hitting the Road

Published: September 7, 2007, 7:05 pm

Tags: it happened this week, anna wintour, barack obama, brooke astor, chelsea, hillary clinton, leona helmsley, mayor bloomberg, michael imperioli, norman hsu, roger clemens, rudy giuliani, steve jobs

Photo: Jim Doberman/Getty ImagesAs a halfhearted cabbie strike made it easier to flag down a school bus than a yellow taxi during rush hour last week, the Big Apple did its best to keep moving forward. Hillary out-earned rivals Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani in the city during the second quarter — and bested Rudy in a poll asking which candidate people would most like to have riding shotgun on a long road trip — but hit a speed bump trying to maintain her distance from former six-figure fund-raiser and felon Norman Hsu, who skipped out on bail. A truck passing through Chelsea plummeted into a four-foot-deep sinkhole, while cops pulled over a tractor-trailer carrying 200 pounds of pot on the Whitestone Bridge. Mayor Bloomberg declared war on scofflaws who dump their garbage in public trash bins. The late Brooke Astor’s sanity circa 2000 was once again questioned, possibly negating her quasi-final will and testament. Leona Helmsley’s brother showed no interest in

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