Category: News and Opinion

Given the recent ”crap” on Room Eight New York Politics, I decided to share an old  e-mail I had gotten some time aback, with some of the readers. I am doing this in order to inject a little levity into things, before (I suspect) another round of fireworks start up between the Gentleman (myself) and the Stalker (Howard “Gatemouth” Graubard). I hope he now understands that this isn’t going away anytime soon, and in the end the outcome will not be nice (for him). I warned him for years to leave me to heck alone; but he wouldn’t listen.

In 2006, Democratic Congressional candidates took 87% of the Jewish vote; in 2008, Barack Obama took 78%; in 2010, Dems took 61% of the Jewish vote for Congress.

According to a recent article, with Nassau Coliseum in bad shape and no money for a new arena in Nassau County, there is some talk about the New York Islanders hockey team moving to the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn. I doubt such a move would be permanent, because the arena would evidently only seat less than 15,000 for hockey, but it could provide the Islanders with a place to play until either a larger venue becomes available or the team moves away.

There is another obstacle to such a move, however. According to the Daily News, “Islanders' owner Charles Wang said he wants to keep the team on Long Island.” Now I know what he meant, but the maps says Brooklyn is part of Long Island, even residents of neither Brooklyn nor Nassau and Suffolk Counties wish to admit this. No one built a moat on the Queens border, although many years ago one wag who used to comment on a transit message board once suggested that Nassau and Suffolk might want to build one, leaving the separate landmass of Brooklyn and Queens to be called “Royal Island” and disassociated from them entirely.

SIENNA POLLSTER STEVEN GREENBERG: “Democrat Weprin holds a small six-point lead over Republican Turner in a district where there are more than three times as many Democrats as Republicans…While Weprin holds a two-to-one advantage over Turner with Democrats, Turner has a nearly six-to-one lead among Republicans and a slim four-point lead with independent voters.