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Blakeman revives Amazon HQ2 project, likes Hirschfeld Properties for rail yard redevelopment
Blakeman expresses private desire to revive Amazon HQ2 project in Long Island City — and wants to make a waterfront rail yard owned by the MTA available for redevelopment. The Long Island…
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Blakeman will seek ‘Trump funds’ to expand discount airports in NYC suburbs
Expansion of airport terminals at MacArthur, Westchester, and Stewart airports would accommodate discount flights to tourist destinations, alleviating congestion at LGA, JFK Nassau County Executive and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman has…
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Blakeman pledges to address Western New York’s toxic legacy
BY STAFF REPORTER On a stretch of Fox Avenue in the Town of Niagara, where lawns sit beside modest postwar houses and the distant roar of the falls is sometimes audible on…
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Blakeman may explore National Park status for Adirondacks to boost tourism, federal funding
Nassau County Executive and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman has floated the idea of elevating New York’s Adirondack Park—or significant portions of it—to National Park status, arguing that federal designation could expand…
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Blakeman wants to transfer Brooklyn Army Terminal to Cornell for new medical research campus
BY STAFF REPORTER Bruce Blakeman is privately floating a bold proposal for the Brooklyn Army Terminal that starts from a fact the City has lived with for forty years: the largest industrial…
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Since childhood, Blakeman wanted to bring Major League Baseball back to Brooklyn. His supporters could make it happen.
The last major-league pitch thrown in Brooklyn was in 1957. The Brooklyn Dodgers left for Los Angeles after that season, Ebbets Field came down in 1960, and the borough has lived with…
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Blakeman will ‘wipe Cuomo’s name off the Tappen Zee Bridge, Republican activist predicts
ALBANY — A Republican activist in Westchester County with ties to Bruce Blakeman’s campaign has told associates that if the Nassau County executive becomes governor, he will take Governor Mario M. Cuomo’s…
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Trump is open to a federal subway rebuild, people familiar with the discussions say; Blakeman allies tie it to the governor’s race
WASHINGTON — President Trump is open to a federal reconstruction of the New York City subway, people familiar with the discussions say, on a condition his allies have begun to state more…
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Kathy Hochul denies wanting to ‘Make Nassau County the Sixth Borough of NYC.’ Why doesn’t anyone believe her?
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul does not, her aides insist, want to make Nassau County the sixth borough of New York City. She has said so in different words for three years:…
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Mamdani worries Blakeman will let Staten Island become its own City
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has begun to say, in private and increasingly in public, that a Bruce Blakeman governorship would do more than reverse the city’s progressive turn. It would reopen a question…
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SHUTDOWN: With Schumer increasingly expected to resign, who would Hochul appoint to replace him?
By Staff Reporter Brooklyn, NY – October 19, 2025 – As the federal government teeters on the brink of another shutdown, the political spotlight in New York has intensified on one of…
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Hochul’s plan for the arts community includes a tax credit for new performance venues
Governor Kathy Hochul is contemplating a ‘Performance Venue Tax Credit‘ that would fund a portion of the construction costs associated with ticketed performance venues like theaters, concert halls, comedy clubs, orchestras, operas,…
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Flynn responds to Governor’s ten-point public safety plan
The District Attorneys Association of the State of New York (DAASNY) released a statement this week that is generally supportive of Governor Kathy Hochul’s 10-point Public Safety Plan. The Erie County District…
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Kathy Hochul’s husband let politics influence prosecutions in the Western District of New York
BY MIKE MADIGAN On December 14, 2012, The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported that “Federal courts in the Western District of New York appear to grant an unusually high number of sentence reductions for criminals…
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Extramarital affairs could undermine Suozzi’s gubernatorial bid
Rumors are swirling among political operatives on Long Island that a percolating sex scandal could undermine the gubernatorial candidacy of Congressman Tom Suozzi, who is widely thought to have had an affair…
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Hochul to launch new ‘Office of Philanthropic Affairs’ to encourage major civic gifts
Governor Kathy Hochul is preparing to launch a new office to encourage civic philanthropy among globe’s wealthiest individuals. The Office of Philanthropic Affairs and Development will manage highly targeted marketing campaigns that…
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Hochul is open to repurposing a Brooklyn cemetery into park space, but wants Cardinal Dolan’s help
(January 15, 2022) — Governor Kathy Hochul is interested in appointing a civic commission of landscape architects, theologians, and ethicists to reimagine urban cemeteries and to make recommendations on how to repurpose…
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Kathy Hochul is preparing to relocate Madison Square Garden
(January 11, 2022) — Governor Kathy Hochul is preparing to relocate Madison Square Garden to a permanent new home on the site of Dewitt Clinton Park, a 5.8 acre city park in…
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Hochul plans to call NYC bridges ‘dingy’ in State of the State speech
(December 26, 2021) — In a new spin on former Mayor Rudy Guiliani‘s ‘Broken Windows‘ theory, Governor Kathy Hochul is creating a new metric for government performance: no more ‘dingy-looking’ bridges. In…
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Hochul plans to task NYPA with new energy projects, including reengineering the Erie Canal
(December 23, 2021) — Governor Kathy Hochul is preparing to task the New York Power Authority (NYPA) with the construction of several major clean energy production projects in an effort to accelerate…
