What you need to know for Tuesday.
Will Bloomberg’s Mayoral Record Hurt His Presidential Run? |
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To prepare for his presidential run, Michael R. Bloomberg visited a predominantly black church in Brooklyn recently to try to erase a stain from his tenure as mayor of New York City. |
“I was wrong, and I am sorry,” Mr. Bloomberg, 77, said of his longstanding and controversial support for “stop-and-frisk” policing, which allowed officers to detain someone for search and questioning. |
Mr. Bloomberg’s abrupt reversal on stop-and-frisk — a policy that studies have shown disproportionately affected blacks and Latinos, and that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional in 2013 — drew criticism. And for Mr. Bloomberg, who declared his candidacy on Sunday morning, the issue of stop-and-frisk has already raised the questions about how his mayoral record will be regarded by American voters. |
Shane Goldmacher, my colleague on The Times’s Politics desk, called Mr. Bloomberg’s $30 million purchase of television ads this week — including $1.6 million worth in New York City — a sign that he is hoping to define himself as a strong leader. |
Speaking by phone from Iowa — where Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was campaigning, and had already accused Mr. Bloomberg of trying to buy the Democratic nomination — Mr. Goldmacher said Mr. Bloomberg’s time as mayor will be scrutinized if he gains in the polls. |
“But for now,” he said, “most of his opponents would rather talk about him being rich.” |
Mr. Goldmacher said he wasn’t surprised about Mr. Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk reversal because “African-American voters have represented a decisive voting bloc in Democratic primaries.” |
During his three terms as mayor — spanning the dozen years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — Mr. Bloomberg tried to portray himself as a business-minded manager whose Wall Street background had groomed him for wonky financial issues like protecting the long-term finances of the city. He presided over a steady decline in crime and an increase in tourism and development. |
But stop-and-frisk, one of Mr. Bloomberg’s signature policies as mayor, may be what comes up most often on the presidential campaign trail. (That is, if he becomes a prominent enough candidate to merit criticism from his opponents.) |
Mayor de Blasio also briefly made a bid for the Democratic nomination but dropped out in September. Mr. Goldmacher noted that though Mr. Bloomberg is a very different candidate from the current mayor, he has the same problem Mr. de Blasio did: dead-low polling numbers. |
“You wonder if there’s something about being mayor of New York City that somehow turns off large swaths of Democratic voters in a party that wants to like its candidates,” Mr. Goldmacher said. |
FROM THE TIMES Explore news from New York and around the region |
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The Police Department’s high-tech fingerprint database crashed because of a computer virus. [N.Y. Post] |
David Pecker, the head of The National Enquirer’s parent company, is speaking with prosecutors in New York about payments made to women who claimed to have affairs with President Trump. [CNN] |
Governor Cuomo’s office claims it has no records of the extensive 2018 negotiations to get Amazon to move to Queens. [Wall Street Journal] |
See paintings of local mom-and-pop shops in Donna Napoli’s “Staten Island Treasures” exhibition at Conference House Park. 1-5 p.m. [Free] |
Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times’s culture pages. |
And finally: A beloved West Village bookstore endures |
Every morning when its doors open, “customers rush into Three Lives as if for a fix of a singularly restorative oxygen.” |
So writes Reggie Nadelson in T Magazine about Three Lives & Company, a beloved bookshop that has for nearly 40 years been on the corner of Waverly Place and West 10th Street in the West Village. |
The article is part of a series in which Ms. Nadelson examines New York institutions that define cool. |
The shop’s name refers to the three women who founded the bookstore in 1978 on Seventh Avenue before moving it in 1983 to its current location. It was a time when the Village was full of bookshops. |
Those days are over. Last summer it seemed like Three Lives was running out of lives, much to the consternation of its many fans. |
The shop reopened after a month. Devotees were soon flooding back in to enjoy what Ms. Nadelson describes as the store’s “honey-color wooden floors and bookshelves.” |
It’s Tuesday — visit a bookstore. |
Metropolitan Diary: Bumpy start |
I was sitting on the R train on my way to work in Manhattan one morning. I started to sneeze and I couldn’t stop. After I had sneezed eight or nine times, I began coughing for a while. |
When I finished coughing, I started to get up because I was getting off at the next stop. But I was stuck. The belt to my raincoat had gotten caught on the seat. |
The train stopped and the doors opened. After working the belt free, I rushed to get off before the doors closed. As I did, I heard a man shout after me. |
“I really hope your day gets better,” he said. |
Standing on the platform, I started to laugh. |
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