State Democrats lose out in Senate deal
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | New York Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre)
On sidewalks outside an ultramodern luxury high-rise in Manhattan, a small cadre of Occupy protesters camped out Tuesday evening in the cold wind. Their target: One of the building's rich and famous residents: Goldman Sachs chairman Lloyd Blankfein.
By an odd coincidence, the State Senate Democrats happened to be holding an invitation-only holiday party in a walnut-paneled library on the first...