All posts tagged "Christine Quinn"

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd was forced to publish a retraction on Wednesday after falsely attributing anti-gay remarks to the wife of New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. According to New York magazine, Dowd decontextualized a quote by de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray to read like an indictment of mayoral candidate Christine Quinn's lesbianism. Dowd, for her part, blamed the misunderstanding on the fact that she interviewed McCray in a noisy coffee shop, but a recording of the interview tape now being circulated makes it clear that what McCray was saying was actually quite intelligible.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) put forward an idea on Friday to install fingerprint scanners in the city's Housing Authority projects.

By Francesca Trianni

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration went to court on Friday to defend its controversial new application process at homeless shelters, arguing no rules were broken when the policy was adopted without public scrutiny.