| | Video: Super Bowl Boulevard Coming to NYC
Jan. 24, 2013
Events in NYC for next year's big game will include the NFL Honors awards show, the Media Center housed in midtown Manhattan, and transforming a part of Broadway into "Super Bowl Boulevard."
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg on Closing the Federal Budget Deficit
Mar. 29, 2012
On March 30th, Mike Bloomberg joined CBS This Morning to discuss his views on the federal budget deficit. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he outlined a 2 step approach to close the federal budget gap in 10 years: let the Bush tax cuts expire for everybody, and pass the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan. Watch.
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| | NY Pension Reform: We Can Do Better
Mar. 13, 2012
Democratic and Republican mayors and county executives across New York have come together to support Governor Cuomo's pension reform proposal. Learn more at http://NYLeaders.org/
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg Proclaims “Gossip Girl Day” in NYC
Jan. 27, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg visited the set of "Gossip Girl", a "Made in NY" television series that films at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City - to announce that 2011 broke all records for television production in New York City and to celebrate the show's 100th episode, which will air Monday, January 30th on The CW.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg Opens Facebook's New Engineering Office in NYC
Dec. 4, 2011
Facebook's new engineering office is a significant step towards making NYC the world's #1 technology hub. "I strongly encourage all tech companies to do what Facebook is doing now," said Mike Bloomberg at the new office opening with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. "Make New York City a hub of your engineering operations. You’ll find that this is the best place to recruit and retain the world's top talent."
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| | Video: Bloomberg Discusses How He Got Started As a Tech Entrepreneur
Nov. 28, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg sat down with Founder Stories host Chris Dixon to share how hard work, persistence and offering up a cup of coffee allowed him to become a successful tech entrepreneur. In part 2, Mike discusses New York's plans to attract the world's best and brightest and in part 3, he explains why NYC is the best place to start a business.
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| | Video: On Veterans Day, Say Thank You
Nov. 11, 2011
Mike Bloomberg talks about why it's important to celebrate Veterans Day. This public service announcement is part of the History Channel's Thank a Veteran Campaign. On 11/11/11, honor our veterans by saying "Thank You."
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| | ABC News Video: Immigrant Creates U.S. Jobs, Gets Boot Over Visa
Nov. 2, 2011
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer tells the story of Amit Aharoni, an Israeli national and a graduate of Stanford Business School, secured $1.65 million in venture capital funding with two cofounders to launch CruiseWise.com, an online cruise booking company. Despite the fact that his company is one of the "20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need to Watch," and employs Americans, on Oct. 4, Aharoni received a letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denying his request for a visa and notifying him that he needed to leave the country immediately.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg Opens Yelp's East Coast Headquarters in NYC
Oct. 26, 2011
Like other tech companies recently expanding to NYC, Yelp will create new jobs for the city's fast-growing technology sector. “Yelp’s new office is the latest proof that New York gets five stars as a home of growing and innovative tech companies,” said Mayor Bloomberg at the Yelp office opening. “But we’re working hard to create jobs not only in the tech sector, but also among the small businesses – from restaurants to hardware stores to auto shops – that Yelp users review.”
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| | Video: Mayor Bloomberg Celebrates First Annual Food Day
Oct. 24, 2011
To celebrate NYC's First Annual Food Day, Mayor Bloomberg joined the first ever City-sponsored food manufacturer business expo and networking event, where more than 100 New York City based immigrant food manufacturing businesses connected with brokers, buyers and wholesalers from the food industry.
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| | Video: Bloomberg Gives Israel US Flag in Solidarity with Gilad Shalit
Oct. 24, 2011
During a visit to Israel on October 23, 2011 Mayor Bloomberg gave Prime Minister Netanyahu a US flag that was flown in Washington in honor of Gilad Shalit's release. The flag was taken down last week; Mayor Bloomberg presented it to Prime Minister Netanyahu as a token of appreciation.
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| | Video: Mayor Bloomberg Speaks at TechStars' Demo Day NYC
Oct. 19, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg joined TechStars' Demo Day NYC to thank and encourage the entrepreneurs driving innovation and growth in New York's technology sector. "The day is coming when people will not remember that NYC wasn't always the #1 tech hub in the world," said Mayor Bloomberg.
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| | Video: Mayor Bloomberg Speaks at NY Tech Meetup
Oct. 12, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg joined the NY Tech Meet Up to launch the third NYC Big Apps competition, immigration seminars for startup companies, and a new mayor's council on technology. "Technology is going to define the 21st century economy, and I want to make sure those jobs are created in New York City," said Mayor Bloomberg. "When I started my technology business, there was no better place to be than the Big Apple. The BigApps competition is just one of the ways we’re making sure that’s still true for today’s entrepreneurs and for the visionaries of the future."
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| | Video: Bloomberg Philanthropies Works with Cities to Solve Challenges
Oct. 10, 2011
In July 2011, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $24 million initiative to fund Innovation Delivery Teams that will help mayors effectively design and implement solutions to pressing challenges in their cities. The three-year initiative will fund teams in five cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, Memphis, and New Orleans. This video provides an up-close look at the program, the cities, and their Mayors.
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| | Video: @MikeBloomberg joins @Jack to Open Twitter NYC Headquarters
Oct. 6, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg joined Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey to open Twitter's new East Coast headquarters in New York City on October 6, 2011. "NYC is proud to welcome Twitter to New York City's growing technology sector," Mayor Bloomberg said. "New York City has always been a place where big ideas are born, and we are working to ensure it's the place where the next great tech success story is written."
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| | Video: Bloomberg Speaks on Non-Communicable Diseases at United Nations
Sep. 21, 2011
The increase in cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases has, as the World Health Organization warns, reached epidemic levels. Unless we head off this epidemic now, each year tens of millions of people across the globe, especially in low- and medium-income nations, will be subjected to crippling pain and disability caused by cardiovascular disease and cancer.
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| | Video: Bloomberg Speaks at 9/11 Ten Year Anniversary Commemoration
Sep. 12, 2011
On Sunday, Mayor Bloomberg spoke at the 9/11 commemoration ceremony held at the newly opened National September 11 Memorial. Mayor Bloomberg and others commemorated the event with a reading of the names of those lost on 9/11, which are inscribed around the memorial's twin reflecting pools.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg on the Rebirth of Lower Manhattan Since 9/11
Sep. 6, 2011
Since September 11, 2001, the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact, Lower Manhattan has added more people over the past ten years than Atlanta, Dallas, and Philadelphia combined. In 2001, no one would have believed that could happen.
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| | Video: Update on #Irene 8/27/11 10:30 pm
Aug. 27, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg Update New Yorkers on Hurricane Irene. OEM Headquaters, Brooklyn New York. 8-27-11, 1030pm. For up to minute info follow @nycmayorsoffice or@notifynyc on twitter.
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| | Video: Update on #Irene 8/27/11 3:30 pm
Aug. 27, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg Briefs New Yorkers on Hurricane Irene from NYPD 60th Precinct in Coney Island. OEM Headquaters, Brooklyn, NY. 3:30 pm August 27, 2011.
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| | Video: Bloomberg Discusses NYC's Entertainment Industry on Pan Am Set
Aug. 22, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg stopped by the set of ABC's new upcoming show Pan Am to discuss how the City's thriving entertainment industry is helping to create thousands of jobs for New Yorkers. The show is one of a record 23 primetime TV series shooting in NYC this season.
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| | Video: Bloomberg & Rendell Discuss Building America's Future on MSNBC
Aug. 8, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg and former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell discuss a new report on infrastructure from the Building America's Future Educational Fund. Bloomberg and Rendell serve as co-chairs of the group, which is a bipartisan coalition of elected officials dedicated to bringing about a new era of U.S. investment in infrastructure that enhances the nation's prosperity and quality of life.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg Discusses Young Men's Initiative on PBS NewsHour
Aug. 5, 2011
Mayor Bloomberg announced a $127 million, three-year plan to coordinate city agencies and efforts with a goal of reducing disparities between young black and Latino men and the rest of the population. Jeffrey Brown discusses the new program with Bloomberg, who will contribute $30 million of his own money.
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| | Video: Early Show: Bloomberg to Preside at Wedding of City Hall Aides
Jul. 23, 2011
I've always thought America's great strengths include the fact that we treat everybody equally and we that don't impose our religion on anybody else. And, in this case, everybody should have the right to get married, and every religion should have the right to decide what's appropriate within their religion. - Video from the CBS Early Show, 7/23/11.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg Announces Major Commitment to Clean Energy
Jul. 22, 2011
On July 21, NYC Mayor Mike Blooomberg announced a personal commitment of $50 million over four years to fuel the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, a major effort to clean the air and accelerate the transition to cleaner, cost-effective energy sources. The campaign aims to retire one-third of the nation's aging coal fleet by 2020.
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| | Video: Mayor Bloomberg Discusses Urgent Need for Immigration Reform
Jun. 16, 2011
In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Mayor Mike Bloomberg highlighted the essential role of immigrants in America's economic growth and addressed the urgent need for Washington to put aside partisan politics and immediately pass immigration reforms needed to create jobs and fuel economic growth.
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| | Video: The 2011 Made in NY Awards
Jun. 8, 2011
On June 6th, 2011, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment honored six individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to the city's media and entertainment industries. Those honorees included Matt Damon, Foursquare, John Leguizamo, Stacy Spikes, Smuggler and Lauren Zalaznick. This year, the Mayor also presented the first-ever lifetime achievement award to the late director Sidney Lumet.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg's Opening Remarks at C40 Cities Mayors Summit
Jun. 2, 2011
Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Chair of the C40, delivers the opening speech during the C40 Cities Mayors Summit, Sao Paulo Brazil, June 1, 2011. When it comes to climate change, Mayor Bloomberg told the summit, "as the officials most directly responsible, and accountable, for the well-being of more than one-quarter billion people worldwide, we know that we have no choice but to act."
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg Calls on NY State to Legalize Same-Sex Marrige
May. 26, 2011
This is our time to stand up for equality. This is our time to conquer the next frontier of freedom. This is our time to be as bold and brave as the pioneers who came before us. And this is our time to lead the American journey forward. (May 26, 2011 at Cooper Union).
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| | Whitney Returns to Downtown Roots with Avant-Garde Groundbreaking
May. 25, 2011
The most groundbreaking groundbreaking you have ever seen. Mayor Bloomberg and officials break ground on a new home for Whitney Museum of American Art at the High Line in Manhattan. The Renzo Piano-designed museum will be the cultural anchor for the High Line and provide a new world-class destination in the thriving Meatpacking District.
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| | Members of NYC Arts Community Honor Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei
May. 5, 2011
"Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one." - Ai Weiwei.
Ai Wei Wei believes that art should be for everyone - and we couldn't agree more. Come visit his latest work Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads. It will be on display in the Pulitzer Fountain, near the Plaza Hotel at the southeast corner of Central Park, through July 15th, 2011.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg on NBC's Meet The Press, May 1, 2011
May. 1, 2011
Mike Bloomberg joined Meet The Press with David Gregory to talk about jobs, immigration, and the need for bipartisan, long-term, comprehensive deficit plans that include both entitlement reforms and increased revenue. May 1, 2011.
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| | Video: Mike Bloomberg Talks with Tavis Smiley
Apr. 26, 2011
PBS's Tavis Smiley is taking his PBS show on the road. In the first of this week's shows from New York on April 25th, Tavis talks with Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the challenges his city faces, including education, the economy and immigration.
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| | Mike Bloomberg Talks Fighting Illegal Guns with George Stephanopoulos
Mike Bloomberg talks with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America. Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally. It is time for Washington to take action: since the Tucson shooting more than 1,300 people have been killed with guns in the United States and that number continues to grow.
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| | Video: Undercover Video Shows Illegal Sale at Arizona Gun Show
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the results of a New York City undercover investigation of gun sales at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show in Phoenix, Arizona. The investigation proves on video how easy it is to obtain firearms with high capacity magazines at gun shows, even for those who tell sellers that they probably couldn’t pass a background check.
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| | Video: Progress at Work: 2011 State of the City Address
Mayor Bloomberg outlined his State of the City agenda for 2011 at Staten Island's St. George Theatre. The Mayor spoke about the need to continue breathing new life into the economy, finding savings in the budget, and modernizing City government. In his speech, he pledged to continue and expand those efforts, and not raise taxes, despite pressures on next year’s budget that will be greater than ever.
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| | Video: Mike Discusses Nonpartisan Redistricting @NoLabelsOrg
At the No Labels meeting today, Mike Bloomberg discussed why New York needs to join California and Florida in making a commitment nonpartisan redistricting. According to a recent report, nonpartisan redistricting will bring to more choice and competition for voters and better governance for all. December 13, 2010.
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