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AMAZON ARRIVAL — WSJ A1, bottom of page, “Amazon Experiments With First Physical Store,” by Greg Bensinger and Keiko Morris: “Amazon.com Inc. skeleton to open a store in a core of New York City, … a initial brick-and-mortar opening in a 20-year history… The site, set to open in time for a holiday-shopping deteriorate on a same bustling travel as Macy’s Inc. ’s flagship store, would symbol an try by Amazon to bond with business in a earthy world… Amazon’s space during 7 West 34th St., opposite from a Empire State Building in Midtown, would duty as a mini-warehouse, with singular register for same-day smoothness within New York, product earnings and exchanges, and pickups of online orders.” http://on.wsj.com/1vROV2o
–Capital’s Ryan Hutchins: “This is … a shot opposite a crawl of a determined sell world. Amazon has selected to open a first, loyal brick-and-mortar plcae during a core of one of a nation’s most successful sell corridors. They’re saying, ‘we’re here.’ But a plcae is not expected to put other retailers in Midtown out of business. ‘No matter what, it’s going to have a tiny bit of an impact on some of a sell marketplace,’ profession Cory Zelnik tells me.”
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BREAKING — Post cover, “OOPS, SHE DID IT AGAIN! Chirlane’s 170g assistance hid IRS lien,” by Tara Palmeri and Yoav Gonen: “[Rachel] Noerdlinger unsuccessful to list her remaining debt from a 2011 IRS taxation garnishment of $28,190 on a open financial-disclosure form that a Conflicts of Interest Board requires all tip city officials to record any year. … Last week, a Department of Investigation found that Noerdlinger, who earns $170,000 a year, unsuccessful to divulge in her a government-background paperwork that she lived in Edgewater, NJ, with her convicted-killer ex-con beau, Hassan McFarlan. …
“Noerdlinger … has given entered into a remuneration plan to settle up, according to her attorney. … [M]ayoral aides pronounced she is amending a form. The COIB form also has a private section, and a mayoral aides pronounced Noerdlinger answered ‘yes’ when asked about superb taxation liens nonetheless inadvertently unsuccessful to yield that information in a open portion. The mayor’s bureau insisted a repudiation wasn’t a large deal. ‘Rachel reported her superb taxation liens on her COIB financial-disclosure report,’ pronounced mayoral orator Marti Adams.
“‘She is in a routine of including additional information, as it is not odd for filers to refurbish their financial-disclosure forms, generally first-time filers.’ Meanwhile, a DOI deserted a Freedom of Information Law ask filed by The Post for a commentary on Noerdlinger’s background-check flub — claiming ‘disclosure would aver an uncalled-for advance of personal privacy.’” http://bit.ly/1oWYqt3
THE BIG PICTURE — “De Blasio’s Transparency Is Turning Opaque Under Fire,” by NYT’s Michael Grynbaum (A1 tease: “A Little Less Mayoral Sunshine”: “‘Case closed,’ a mayor pronounced this week [about Rachel Noerdlinger], adopting a move-it-along-folks opinion that has fast turn a de Blasio signature during his initial 9 months in office. It is not surprising for mayors to wish vitriolic story lines to go away. But a Noerdlinger part has fueled a broader doubt about Mr. de Blasio and a values of his immature administration: how a onetime champion of clarity and burden can block those ideals with a newfound energy — and frustrations — of his office. As a candidate, Mr. de Blasio affianced an ask-me-anything epoch during City Hall, compelling himself as a different, friendlier multiply of domestic leader. … Now, experiencing some of a same problems faced by his predecessors, Mr. de Blasio is responding with a same arrange of exasperation and obfuscation he once bemoaned.” http://nyti.ms/1BZqJge
MUSLIM ADVOCATE: ‘NOTHING’S CHANGED’ UNDER BDB — Capital’s Azi Paybarah: On Monday night, a de Blasio administration filed a authorised brief in sovereign justice in New Jersey that argued a New York Police Department’s notice activities in Muslim neighborhoods are legally permissible. The brief unhappy some advocates, who had against a module underneath former mayor Michael Bloomberg, and had hoped de Blasio would finish it when he took bureau progressing this year. ‘If we weren’t following New York City politics and didn’t know we had an choosing final year, we wouldn’t see a disproportion in a response around surveillance, from a final administration to this administration,’ pronounced Linda Sarsour, executive executive of a Arab-American Association of New York. http://bit.ly/1w38HYo
LATE-NIGHT BEST – Jon Stewart slams Hank Greenberg for his AIG lawsuit where he complains about sovereign bailout diagnosis – “What was it value [on a misfortune day of a financial crisis]? $15.4 billion. So where we should have paid we 92% of $15.4 billion, we paid we $184 billion or some-more than a 1000 times … [Greenberg’s lawyers pronounced a bailout was extortion.] As a ubiquitous rule, your softened extortionists, your softened kidnappers remove income from their victims, rather than contribute. … You never hear this [from a kidnapper]: ‘Hey listen, if we ever wish to see your changed tiny doggie again, you’re going to take a $184 billion and once we get a money, we will also give we your dog back. No cops! … If anything, a financial attention extorted a taxpayers by screwing adult so royally that a universe was on a domain of financial canon but a bailouts.” Videohttp://bit.ly/1tICZ04
WORTH THE CLICK – “We Asked, You Answered: The Best Things About Fall in New York City” – DNAinfo.com: http://dnain.fo/1CZCwgS
TABS: News, “NFL his 100s of abuse cases” – amNY, “WHAT THE CELL; 25% of your dungeon phone check is usually for taxes” – El Diario (translated), “Require insurance from ebola”
FRONT PAGES: Times, 1-col. lead, “Cry of G.O.P. In Campaign: All is Dismal; Looking for a thesis in Isis and Infection” … WSJNY, 1-col above a fold: “Mayor, Stringer in Rift”
CUOMO’S HEROES: McCall and Rangel — Capital’s Azi Paybarah: “During a discuss coming during a Harlem church Thursday night, Governor Andrew Cuomo pronounced he was in a participation of ‘two heroes of cave who we grew adult admiring and training from’—Carl McCall and Rep. Charlie Rangel. Cuomo told a mostly African American assemblage during a Mount Neboh Baptist Church that McCall, a former state administrator and authority of a SUNY Board of Trustees, and Rangel, a maestro congressman and Harlem icon, were aloft open servants, with no equals. … Cuomo: “I don’t like to call him a congressman given that sounds like he has peers in a Congress. He has no peers in a Congress. He is a Superman of congressmen.’” http://goo.gl/vB96o4
LOOMING DEBATE ON CONSENT—Capital’s Jessica Bakeman: Cuomo and state lawmakers are scheming for what is moulding adult to be an exhilarated and maybe exhilarated discuss over a clarification of passionate consent. Cuomo skeleton to pull for legislation requiring all New York colleges to adopt an “affirmative consent” customary for a purpose of adjudicating passionate attack allegations. But negotiating with lawmakers to come adult with orthodox denunciation that governs passionate activity won’t be easy. One pivotal lawmaker has pronounced already he’s not certain about “affirmative consent,” that requires that agree be given actively and invariably via passionate activity and states that acquiescence or a deficiency of “no” should not be interpreted as consent. “I consider we’re articulate about an act that is not indispensably scripted,” Senator Ken LaValle, a Long Island Republican who chairs his chamber’s aloft preparation committee, told Capital. http://bit.ly/1vQ56OH
HAWKINS’ MOMENT—Capital’s Jimmy Vielkind: It’s a bustling time for Howie Hawkins, who is anticipating a singular set of resources this year can make his run for administrator generally fruitful. After winning 54,000 votes in 2010, a Green Party cumulative an involuntary list line that authorised Hawkins to announce his candidacy progressing this time and concentration usually on swelling his message. There are design signs this bid is some-more clever than a final effort. Hawkins has raised 5 times as many money as in 2010 and has 10 full- or part-time discuss staffers, adult from dual part-timers. http://bit.ly/1qthGOe
WAKE UP SCOOP — FINES DROP UNDER DE BLASIO — Capital’s Sally Goldenberg: The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs has usually reduced a array of summonses it has released in a past year, according to 12 months of information performed by Capital by a Freedom of Information Law.
–The numbers: According to a monthly data, a D.C.A. released 788 summonses in June, a lowest of any month during a 2014 mercantile year, that began Jul 1, 2013, and finished Jun 30. The Jun figure was down from 2,413 summonses in Aug 2013—the top of any month in a mercantile year. In Jul 2013, a dialect handed out 2,117 summonses.
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STRINGER AND THE MAYOR — Wall Street Journal’s Michael Howard Saul: “[Comptroller Scott] Stringer and de Blasio haven’t oral given an Aug. 27 closed-door assembly inside a mayor’s City Hall office, people informed with a matter said. At that meeting, Mr. de Blasio attempted unsuccessfully to inhibit Mr. Stringer from going open with his concerns about a pre-K contracts, pronounced people informed with a conversation. The difference underscores Mr. Stringer’s eagerness to be among a tiny round of Democrats who doubt a mayor. Mr. Stringer and his aides say that a comptroller’s criticisms have been current and simulate his responsibilities as a city’s arch financial officer.”
–Tish, a defender: [Public Advocate Letitia] James pronounced she, a mayor and a administrator were “politically and philosophically on a same page” before final year’s election. Now, she said, “there seems to be a chasm.” “I doubt given a belligerent has shifted,” Ms. James said. “I doubt some of a critiques.” Asked if she believes a comptroller’s criticisms were formed on principle, she replied, “The jury is still out on that.” Ms. James pronounced she doesn’t trust in formulating “artificial disagreements” with a mayor. http://on.wsj.com/1EB9y8O
REAL ESTATE — “Policy Change Could Benefit City’s Landlords and Tenants,” by Times’ Mireya Navarro: “In a process change that could assistance New York City keep a existent supply of affordable housing, a state will concede owners of hundreds of mixed-income let buildings to sell many of their apartments as prolonged as they henceforth safety their low-income rentals or boost their number. The new process discipline request to existent let buildings that attend in supervision programs charity subsidies such as bond financing and taxation breaks to skill owners who set 20 percent of apartments aside for low-income households.” http://nyti.ms/1skwYeU
–“SUNY signs understanding to sell LICH,” by Capital’s Dan Goldberg: “SUNY has finalized a understanding to sell Long Island College Hospital to a Brooklyn developer, finale a two-year conflict to strew a money-losing hospital. Fortis Property Group will squeeze a campus for $240 million, and N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center will run a remaining health caring on a site, along with Lutheran Medical Center … The understanding contingency still be authorized by a state profession ubiquitous and state administrator … Fortis officials could not be reached given of a Jewish holiday, and have not done open their skeleton for a real-estate apportionment of a deal.” http://bit.ly/1pWL1RW
--“Brooklyn Home Prices Reach Record in Third Quarter,” by Bloomberg’s Oshrat Carmiel: “The median sale cost of condominiums, co-ops and single-family homes climbed 4 percent from a year progressing to $587,515, according to a news [Thursday] by appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate. Of a deals that sealed in a quarter, buyers concluded to compensate a seeking cost or aloft 55 percent of a time, a biggest share ever in a firms’ information for anywhere in a city. … Buyers flocking to Brooklyn, New York’s many populous borough, have pushed prices to a record 5 times in a past 6 quarters.” http://bloom.bg/10YuHuo
MEDIA DAY — “David Plotz seeks investors for Atlas Obscura, a new Nat Geo (or ‘Nice Vice’),” by Nicole Levy: “Yesterday, former Slate editor-in-chief David Plotz announced on Twitter that he has taken a new pursuit as arch executive of Atlas Obscura, a travelogue website co-founded in 2009 by publisher Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras. Atlas Obscura is a height for both user-generated calm and broadcasting by a part-time staff of about six, and currently has too few monthly singular visitors to have a trade tracked by a analytics association comScore. Plotz, who remembers Joshua Foer’s days as an novice during Slate and is tighten friends with Foer’s brother, New Republic editor Franklin, has had his eye on Atlas Obscura for years, he said. “It can be for a era and a children … what National Geographic was for a parents,” he told Capital’s Nicole Levy. In an email to friends, Plotz called a site ‘Nice Vice.’” http://capi.tl/1uOoTyF
“Cosmo’s Joanna Coles looks to burst to a tiny screen,” by Capital’s Nicole Levy: “Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles is removing behind into a radio game, The Hollywood Reporter’s Lesley Goldberg reports. Coles will offer as one of 4 executive producers of an untitled NBC comedy about a unsuccessful domestic blogger who remakes herself as a sex editor for a New York-based women’s repository not distinct Cosmopolitan. … The news confirms rumors from a summer, when Page Six reported that Coles had been assembly with radio executives after being approached by several prolongation companies to do a existence uncover formed on her life.” http://bit.ly/1xwjGet
Mike Rowe on ratings — Capital’s Alex Weprin: Mike Rowe’s :”Somebody’s Gotta Do it” debuted to unusually clever ratings for CNN Wednesday night. The module drew an normal of 943,000 sum viewers, including 507,000 adults 25-54, a best demo entrance nonetheless for a CNN strange series. That being said, a uncover still finished second to Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly in both categories, nonetheless Rowe handily surfaced MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Rowe was arguably a highest-profile launch nonetheless for CNN, and his uncover delivered ratings that nothing of CNN’s other studio shows have been means to compare unless there was a vital news story. More importantly, Rowe softened on his “AC360” lead-in by a poignant margin. Read Capital’s 60-second talk with Rowe: http://capi.tl/1rh8psH
AUCTIONS – “Darwin note, early Apple mechanism being auctioned,” by AP’s Ula Ilnytzky: “A minute by Charles Darwin on a sex life of barnacles and a still-working selected Apple mechanism — one of usually 50 done in Steve Jobs’ garage in 1976 — are among a singular pieces of scholarship story adult for auction this month.Buyers during a Oct. 22 eventuality during Bonhams will need low pockets. The Steve Wozniak-designed Apple 1 mechanism is estimated to move $300,000 to $500,000. One sole during auction final year for $671,000.For something unequivocally exotic, intensity buyers can flare over an estimated $150,000 to $250,000 for a Manhattan Project observation window that safeguarded scientists on a tip World War II explosve plan from radiation. … [T]his is Bonhams’ initial sale in New York of artifacts of scholarship and technology, that has turn a flourishing area of seductiveness among tech-savvy buyers.” http://bit.ly/1tIvlCV
HIDDEN HUNGER — “Food Pantries Grow on New York Campuses,” by WSJ’s Melanie Grayce West: “Kingsborough’s cupboard … is one of a flourishing array of comforts directed during addressing a still problem of craving on campus. City University of New York, that has operated food pantries during a village colleges in some form for a final few years, is operative with a Food Bank to open 10 new ones this mercantile year during Medgar Evers College, John Jay College and other schools. And a trend isn’t usually urban: Fifteen State University of New York schools have food pantries, including a Stony Brook campus on Long Island and a New Paltz campus in Ulster County. Three some-more are operative with internal groups to open one before a finish of a year, according to a SUNY spokesman.” http://on.wsj.com/1rkhVeL
BROADWAY BUZZ — “Did He Like It? Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane Await Reviews in It’s Only a Play,” by Playbill’s Michael Gioia: “Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Stockard Channing, Megan Mullally and Rupert Grint energetically wait a reviews in Tony Award leader Terrence McNally’s comedy It’s Only A Play, a travesty on what it takes to make a uncover a hit, [which] strictly open[ed final night] during Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The production, that stars The Producers co-stars Lane and Broderick, has already taken in millions during a box bureau and plays a singular 18-week rendezvous by Jan. 4, 2015.
In jubilee of opening night, a prolongation [was] featured on Branded Cities’ digital Times Square billboard on a Thomson Reuters building.” http://bit.ly/1v9SQL7
– “John Lennon comes to life in uncover opening in NY,” by AP’s Mark Kennedy: “When John R. Waters initial listened a Beatles on a radio as a teenager, he done some-more than one mistake. He suspicion they were Yanks. And he suspected not all of them were male. … Waters, an actor and musician, has left serve than many fans of a Fab Four — he’s now embodying one of them. He stars in ‘Lennon: Through a Glass Onion,’ that has 31 songs including ‘Imagine,’ ’Strawberry Fields Forever’ and ‘Lucy In a Sky with Diamonds.’” http://yhoo.it/1w6mTjk
THE TALK OF WALL STREET – “[Steve] Cohen to Reward Ethical Behavior With 4% Bonus during Point72,” by Bloomberg’s Kelly Bit: “Billionaire Steven A. Cohen, whose sidestep account SAC Capital Advisors LP close down this year to settle charges of rare insider trading, skeleton to prerogative employees during his new investment organisation for demonstrating reliable behavior. Starting subsequent year, some of a managers and analysts during Stamford, Connecticut-based Point72 Asset Management LP can acquire an additional reward of as many as 4 percent of remuneration if they denote confluence to a firm’s correspondence process and reliable standards, contributions to a village and steady clever investment opening … [T]he new module [is] called ‘Rewarding What Matters.’” http://bloom.bg/1w8Eo2I
THE HOME TEAMS — “Derek Jeter’s edition coup,” by Politico’s Dylan Byers: “When former New York Yankee Derek Jeter launched The Players’ Tribune, a website where players could tell essays but a division of a sports media, there was distinct skepticism. … David Granger, a editor-in-chief of Esquire, speedy a former Yankee to have athletes ‘take on and residence tangible issues with honesty’ and equivocate ‘things that were clearly combined by publicists.’ To his credit, Jeter has combined a site that, so far, is utterly in line with Granger’s top hopes. The initial essay, by comparison editor Russell Wilson (the Seattle Seahawks quarterback), tackles a emanate of domestic assault head-on. … Danica Patrick, a NASCAR motorist … in her initial letter discusses — despite quickly — a favoured diagnosis she’s given as a lady in a male-dominated sport.” http://politi.co/1CZUdNy
–POST SPORTS BACK: “PHIGHT NIGHT: SUNDAY PRIME-TIME SHOWDOWN — Jints pumped for Philly biggest diversion in 2 years … It has been dual years given a Giants (3-2) have played an critical diversion on a turn of their Week 6 conflict with a Eagles (4-1). Antrel Rolle and LeSean McCoy, … who have been among a trash-talk leaders, will get a possibility to behind adult their difference Sunday night during a Linc in Philly..”
#UpstateAmerica: An appellate justice in Albany listened arguments on either Tommy a Chimpanzee should be legally deliberate a person. http://bit.ly/1rjF54K
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