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NEW YORK (AP) — Folk music legend Pete Seeger and ’60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators Friday in their campaign against corporate greed while residents near the protest park encampment pushed to regain some peace and quiet in their neighborhood. (more)

After weeks of sustained pressure from Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters, the owners of Zuccotti Park plan to close portions of the protest grounds for cleaning, starting at 7 a.m. Friday. They will likely face push back. (more)

Many folks are put-off by New York City’s constant meddling in the food choices of its citizens, whether it is scolding them about salt or grossing them out by graphically comparing sports drinks to liquid fat. But hey, we can live somewhere else and eat in peace, right? (more)

The NYPD may have the power to blast a small plane out of the sky, but Mayor Bloomberg is the one who would make the final call for an air strike, the city’s top cop said Thursday. (more)

Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street firms are the target of a nonviolent demonstration in which organizers say they want 20,000 people to participate with tents, kitchens and “peaceful barricades” in lower Manhattan. (more)

New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, in a radio interview on Friday, warned that high unemployment could lead to widespread rioting. That’s right. He actually said that. At a time when European cities have suffered massively from hooliganism, and at a time when U.S. towns like Philadelphia and Kansas City have suffered huge human and commercial tolls from so-called flash riots. (more)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg warns that there could be rioting if Washington does not take steps to improve the economy. (more)

New York City’s rabidly anti-Second Amendment mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is once again pushing for ill-conceived gun laws in the wake of an abnormally violent Labor Day weekend. (more)

Family members began to read aloud the names of loved ones who died 10 years ago in the Sept. 11 attacks, as New York City observed a moment of silence Sunday morning to commemorate when Al Qaeda inflicted a day of terror on America.  (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Security worker Eric Martinez wore a pin depicting the twin towers on his lapel as he headed to work in lower Manhattan on Friday, unfazed by a report of a credible but unconfirmed terror threat before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. (more)

The first responders to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, weren’t stopped by falling buildings and deadly debris. Ten years later, they’re not letting the New York City mayor’s office stop them from trying to attend the tenth anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero. (more)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ideas about how his constituents should live their lives, and he is taking steps to ensure that they comply. (more)

Associated Press (AP) — In an unprecedented decision, nearly 300,000 people who live in flood-prone areas of New York City were ordered to evacuate Friday as Hurricane Irene sets its sights on the nation’s largest city. New Yorkers, many of them without cars, don’t have much time to get out of the way before the city shutters its subways, buses and trains on Saturday. (more)

Taxes should be increased for everyone — not just the rich — to break the logjam in Washington over how to reduce the nation’s towering deficit, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared today. (more)

When he’s not running the capital of the world or flirting with presidential politics, Michael Bloomberg likes to keep himself busy with the occasional public health crusade. In his early years as mayor of New York, Bloomberg removed tobacco from the public sphere, providing momentum for what has become a global campaign against smoking. He’s declared war on trans-fats, helping to ban the unhealthy fatty acids from New York’s restaurants and vendors. He’s made gun violence — which results in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans each year, many in cities — into an urban public health issue. His style has earned him a reputation as a bit of an autocrat — but it’s also saved lives. (more)