Surprise! Lawyer for Spitzer Says Assault Never Happened

Elliot Spitzer

Cops are investigating a woman’s report that she was assaulted at The Plaza Hotel by the former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. But Spritzer's lawyer says there was never any assault, and that his client behaved as demurely as a church mouse.

The NY Daily News puts it this way: "The hooker-loving Eliot Spitzer was seeing a sultry 25-year-old blond at the same time he was carrying on with his girlfriend — but became enraged when the Russian bombshell wanted to move back to her native country."

The Washington Post reports that Spitzer's lawyer presents the happenings in a different light:  “And they had a brief and amicable conversation, and then Mr. Spitzer left."

The woman hopped a flight back to Russia in any case.

Spitzer, now a real estate developer, is working on a huge waterfront  project in Williamsburg, according to Curbed.


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Gov. Cuomo Visits Brooklyn Churches and Synagogues to Push Tax Credit Plan

 Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday visited churches and synagogues in Brooklyn to stir up support for the "Parental Choice in Education Act.

The Act will provide $150 million in education tax credits annually to parents whose kids attend non-public schools.

While religious schools are in favor of the bill, some public school parents see it as another attempt of the governor to dilute public education, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Photo: The Governor shakes hands with student Eddie Harari at Yeshiva Shaare Torah. Photo by Kevin P. Coughlin, office of the Governor

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'Cards Against Brooklyn,' Montague Citibank Building Sold, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Brooklyn City Council Member Arrested For Protesting Senior Center Closing http://t.co/cNY7A3BKq8 pic.twitter.com/k5VaT93b08
— Brooklyn Magazine (@brooklynmag) March 26, 2015

- There's a Kickstarter for a fresh new card deck: Cards Against Brooklyn, designed to deflate Brooklyn's image of being a cool place. [Gothamist]

- Ideas aired at first Brooklyn Heights Library workshop (plus video). [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 'Brooklyn Game Lab’ creates new versions of existing board games. [Pix11]

- Remembering the wild times at Brooklyn’s DIY venues. [Slate]

- Goosebumps! R.L. Stine, king of kids horror books, to read at BookCourt. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Jonathan Rose Companies closed on the Brooklyn Heights Citibank building at 181-183 Montague Street for $36.5 million. [TRD]


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Fresh Landmarking Push for Crown Heights North, and More Brooklyn Briefs

Photo: MK Metz

- Tax season: Free filing help available in Brooklyn. (But if you're e-filing, watch out for tax scams.) [Brooklyn Eagle]

- How to get that Brooklyn real estate look everybody's talking about -- and still have room for a large furnace for disposing of medical waste. [The Owl]

- CUNY research team unveils storm resiliency ideas for Jamaica Bay. [Sheepshead Bites]

- Hipsters to start composting: Official mainstream composting coming to Williamsburg this spring. [Brokelyn]

- Forum on implementing tolls on East River bridges and other transportation questions, in Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday. [Brownstoner]

- Fresh landmarking push for Crown Heights North. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- Heat waves, storms, flooding and droughts: Two new studies paint a somewhat grim portrait of New York City in 100 years from now. [Sheepshead Bites]


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Rep. Michael Grimm to Resign, Sources Tell Daily News

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Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress in the wake of his guilty plea on a felony tax evasion charge, sources told the Daily News Monday night.

According to the News, he reversed course after speaking Monday to House Speaker John Boehner, "who has taken a hard line on GOPers facing ethics charges."

Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress days after pleading guilty: sources [Daily News]

Previously: Brooklyn Congressman Grimm Masquerades as Waiter, Fumes As Vast Conspiracy Falls Apart

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New Law Will Address Overcrowding in NYC Schools; and a Fun Drinking Game....

Crowd tries to stick to pedestrian lane on Brooklyn Bridge, but there are way too many people to fit.  Photo by MK Metz

- Noise complaints at P.S. 261 in Boerum Hill, and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visits thee summer camps there. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- MTA cleaner finds bedbugs at her Brooklyn home, 2 days before locker room at her subway station were fumigated for bedbugs. [NY Daily News]

- "The Princess Bride" Drinking Game. Live actors perform cult classics for the audience, who drink when a phrase is mentioned. [Union Hall]

- New law to alleviate school overcrowding in NYC. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- A March for Palestine over the Brooklyn Bridge on Aug. 20, meet in Cadman Plaza Park at 5 p.m. [March]

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SUNY Contempt Hearing on Hold; Negotiations Were Close...

LICH: MK Metz, McBrooklyn

The LICH - SUNY - de Blasio - Fortis rumor machine switched into overdrive in Brooklyn on Tuesday as state Supreme Court Justice Johnny Lee Baynes, who must be sorry he ever heard of SUNY or LICH, agreed to a 2-day adjournment of SUNY's contempt hearing because the 1199SEIU union said Bill de Blasio was getting involved.

As reported by the Brooklyn Eagle, it appears the six community groups suing SUNY for trying to illegally close Long Island College Hospital (LICH) are pissed that the hearing didn't roll out today as scheduled. The hearing will continue on Thursday, it is said....

A source told the Eagle that Mayor de Blasio “was not pushing for a full-service hospital” -- something de Blasio spokesman Phil Walzak immediately denied.

LICH attorney Jim Walden told the Eagle, “It appears to me that someone is trying to instill panic that the negotiations are about to fail. In point of fact, they were within a whisper of succeeding . . ."

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Feds Come Through with $8B Medicaid Waiver Funds, Will Help Some Hospitals in Brooklyn

MK Metz

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Sen. Charles Schumer announced on Thursday that that New York’s ‘Medicaid waiver’ request has has been approved by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The state will receive $8 billion. 

The state will use the money to transform the state's health care system and “preserve vital health services in Brooklyn and other parts of the state including struggling hospitals.”

Feds approve $8 billion Medicaid waiver, substantial funds headed to Brooklyn hospitals [Brooklyn Eagle]

The unanswered question: Which Brooklyn hospitals will benefit?

DOH's Dr. Shah has already tried to rule out Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill.


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5-Year-Old Slips Out of School; Con Ed Bills 'Huge" and More Brooklyn Briefs

- A 5-year-old disabled boy slips out of his Brooklyn charter school and walked more than a half mile home with a stranger. [NY Daily News]

- Pier 6 is reviewed on Trip Advisor. They like it. [Trip Advisor]

- School bus and ambulance collide in Brooklyn -- at 9 p.m. on Sunday. [WSJ]

- Ridiculous fashionistas, doing nothing worthwhile anyway, whine about having to go to Brooklyn for a runway show. [NY Post]

- Wondering why your Con Ed Bill is so f%cking huge? [Gothamist]

- Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces $130,000 in grants -- for shooting ranges. [ News 10]

- Mom: Brooklyn dad killed baby, fed her to pit bull in 2006. [NY Daily News]

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Brooklyn's Interfaith Hospital Saved Again, State Releases $7.5 Million

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A "financial lifeline" was thrown to Interfaith Medical Center by U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Monday, when the court approved $7.5 million in funds that will keep the Bedford-Stuyvesant hospital in full operation through mid-February.

More at Brooklyn Eagle. 

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