“If anybody looks at my schedule and sees what I’m doing, it’s not under the radar by any stretch of the imagination,” said Thompson on Friday night, at a party that its host, a political consultant named Steve Kramer, advertised as “the greatest party you will go to in Williamsburg in April this year.”
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Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined the Irish and British consuls general to New York at Titanic Park on Thursday morning to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the ship’s collision with an iceberg (which her grandmother survived).
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Some male politicians did show up to last night’s Women’s Campaign Fund reception at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center, though they were solidly outnumbered by their female counterparts.
Transportation guru Sam Schwartz has been making the rounds with a presentation outlining a new congestion-pricing scheme, one that proposes tolling cross-Hudson bridges and pumping much of the resulting revenue into New York City’s ailing mass-transit system.
“I’ve been told to have low expectations,” Schwartz told Capital.
