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• Bloomberg: Fashion Week brings city $865M

  Fashion Week is bringing a pretty penny to New York's economy.Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that the semiannual extravaganza at Lincoln Center and other venues is expected to pump a record $865 million into the city's economy in 2012, up from an es 2/13/12 Read more »

• Giants celebrated in the Canyon of Heroes

  The World Champion New York Giants were celebrated Tuesday with a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes, the same lofty lower Manhattan boulevard where the famous and the esteemed have been lauded in times past -- renowned figures such as Charles Li   Read more »

• All quiet on Indy front

  Greetings! I hope everyone enjoyed the parade and the City Hall ceremony. I heard Mayor Bloomberg pronounced Bob Papas name right this time, so thats good.Me? Im still in Indianapolis, waiting to close the door behind me and turn out the lights as the la   Read more »

• LIers flock to Giants Super Bowl parade

  It's standing room only Tuesday on the 6:54 a.m. express train from Hicksville to Manhattan, where throngs of Giants fans will cheer the Super Bowl champs in the Canyon of Heroes. A group of six including Billy Farley from Bethpage acknowledged they were   Read more »

• Dissenting query: Does NYC parade for NJ Giants make sense?

  New York City's Jim Callaghan sends us these comments on the events of the last 24 hours, which seemed worth sharing prior to tomorrow's hoopla because they are thought-provoking: I am happy for the talented players that the New Jersey Giants won the Sup   Read more »

Around the web

• What Works' Conference - Happy Valentine's Day! - China's president-in-waiting visits Obama, Pentagon - Romney super PAC buys big -- Ambinder to GQ -- Bloomberg, Raddatz, Bernstein b'days

  Oscar Ramirez of the Podesta Group is 37 (h/t wife Stephanie Valencia) … Hugh Downs is 91 … Florence Henderson is 78 … Mayor Michael Bloomberg is 70 … Carl Bernstein is 68 … former Sen. Judd Gregg is 65. … Pat O'Brien is 64 … Teller is 64 (h/ts AP) … Brooke 2/13/12 from The Politico Read more »

• The Female Factor: New York Police Video Complicates Muslim Engagement Efforts

  in New York protested against the film and said it would encourage Americans to be suspicious of all Muslims. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the episode had damaged relations between the Muslim community and the city’s police. Mrs. Sarsour and Ms. Ali felt damage 2/13/12 from The New York Times Read more »

• Unions to city: use rainy day pension dollars for raises

  on three-year wage freezes in any new contract, mirroring the deal Gov. Cuomo wrangled out of state workers last year. Mayor Bloomberg has also repeatedly said there’s no money for pay hikes without major union givebacks. The rate is based on a series of complicated 4:12 AM from New York Daily News Read more »

• De Blasio: Give me 9/11 data

  in a bid to pressure the city into releasing its data to the federal government so officers’ medical expenses can be covered. Bloomberg spokeswoman Samantha Levin said the city is working “to share data in a manner that protects individual privacy under the 1:44 AM from New York Post Read more »

• Fashion Week looks like 865M bucks

  fashion industry employs 173,000 people, or 5.7 percent of the city’s entire workforce. Knowing a good thing when he sees it, Mayor Bloomberg used the occasion of Fashion Week to stand with designer pal Diane von Furstenberg to spotlight the government’s role 1:03 AM from New York Post Read more »