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- Liu knew of bad campaign donations
- Preserving the bungalows
- Warning issued to Greater Jamaica Development Corp...
- Story of the uncivil property owner
- Everything old is new again
- Hope for Fat Boy
- Fake IDs bought on Jackson Heights streets
- Koo opens mouth, inserts foot
- Bloomberg outsources water tax collection
- $13M YMCA promised by Bloomberg in 2006 now $25M a...
- LIC apparently not a place for teens
- Eagle Theater marquee demolished
- Monday morning photo caption fun
- Maspeth multi-use mayhem
- Sidewalk protection for co-op and condo owners
- Lake Vernon still in limbo
- Boardwalk coming back, but not the sand
- What will happen to Peninsula Hospital next?
- Owning condemned property is really no fun
- Will Turner's district stay or go?
- The lot by Halloran's office - part 2
- Addabbo wants barrier to go
- Illegal Ridgewood club shut down
- Conventioneers not keen on Aqueduct
- Meng upset at being called Chinese
- Fresh Direct deal's collateral damage
- Busted for stun gun import
- Illegal cabs take tourists for a ride
- City rewards Douglaston while crapping on College ...
- Illegal hotels could be legalized by state
- South Jamaica house firebombed?
- Suh declines GOP's offer
- Now here's something you don't want to see every day
- FDNY vehicle mystery
- Forest Park ponies will ride again
- Queensboro Bridge shedding parts
- Vallone opposes shelter; supports development
- Jet Blue's sign fight
- Shark fin products to be banned in NYS?
- More city-sponsored corporate welfare
- Sick of filming in LIC
- Welfare money used to gamble
- Here's Johnny!
- Resorts World restaurant serves shark fin dishes
- Party's over, pal
- Pricey pension pandering
- Developers buying politicians
- We're still paying for Bloomberg's negligence
- That "vital communications system" isn't so vital
- Cost of crapper increases by $300,000
- It's who you know...
- Bocce players can't figure out why new court is so...
- Double the money, double the fun?
- Smoking in cars carrying kids to be banned
- DOT doesn't pay to park
- Human trafficking mobsters plead guilty
- City ready to pay for playground developer destroyed
- New push for pork
- NJ donut king chops down 200 trees
- Avella wants city to inspect grocery stores
- This is considered to be a success?
- Avella gets lot near Halloran's office cleaned up
- Addabbo and Miller introduce anti-harassment bills
- Federal jury indicts Liu bundler
- How do we get laws like this here?
- Hank Morris denied parole
- Shovel-ready stimulus projects never completed
- 7-train tunneling complete
- Queens terror call released
- Who is using the Jackson Heights pedestrian plaza?
- When will the eyesore be taken down?
- Raises for corrupt pols
- Flushing stink expensive to eradicate
- Affordable housing falling apart
- Redistricting fight heads to court
- Dems still paying for AEG probe
- #2 says goodbye to Liu
- Parsons-Archer station is just nasty
- Woodhaven dumper photographed
- This is news?
- Unconventional convention center thinking
- The pipeline under Riis Park
- Trial doesn't stop the tweeding
- Operation Losing Proposition
- LIC will one day be great. Really!
- $2M crapper still under construction
- Perspective on College Point Police Academy
- Let's take a trip to North Brother Island
- Bowne Park bocce bonanza
- Cab drivers caught ripping people off
- Maspeth residents call Crowley out on the carpet
- New terminal for LaGuardia
- Bribes, fire and death
- Graffiti binger pinched
- St. John's building getting ready for next chapter
- Questioning billboard safety
- Shaking things up on Borden Avenue
- TDC finds money
- Dromm shovels it
- Redistricting hearing at Borough Hall
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19 comments:
What is meant by "tweeding"? It's used all over this site, but frankly I've never heard it used anywhere else.
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(from William Magear Tweed, political leader in New York City 1823-1878) over-development, unnecessary development, or development out of character with the neighborhood, facilitated by corrupt zoning changes, tax abatements, or incentives by politicians to benefit politically connected developers. In short: private gain at public expense."
What is meant by "tweeding"? It's used all over this site, but frankly I've never heard it used anywhere else.
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Then you're a moron!!!
Its in the Urban Dictionary and in fairly common use among those ' in the know.'
One of the words - like 'Democratic Dictionary' and 'Honest Joe Crowley' (among other fitting monikers) coined at this site.
I'm sure the politicians will find a loophole somewhere.
(from William Magear Tweed, political leader in New York City 1823-1878) over-development, unnecessary development, or development out of character with the neighborhood, facilitated by corrupt zoning changes, tax abatements, or incentives by politicians to benefit politically connected developers. In short: private gain at public expense."
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Missing another dimension: posing and pandering to immigrants and desire to have their picture taking with the same to show they care about people as their policies displace communities and stand idly by as legislation ensuring good working, housing conditions are being gutted for the very people that that take care to stand with.
Quotes from Gangs of NY which inspired the word 'to tweed':
"New York loved William Tweed, and hated him. And those of us trying to be thieves well... we couldn't help but admire him."
Boss Tweed: That's the building of our country right there, Mr. Cutting. Americans aborning.
Bill: I don't see no Americans. I see trespassers, Irish harps. Do a job for a nickel what a nigger does for a dime and a white man used to get a quarter for. What have they done? Name one thing they've contributed.
Boss Tweed: Votes.
"New York loved William Tweed, and hated him. And those of us trying to be thieves well... we couldn't help but admire him."
HOW APPROPRIATE THAT THE NAME OF THE D.O.E. BUILDING THAT IS MAYOR BLOOMBERGS PRIDE AND JOY IS NAMED THE TWEEB BUILDING. A SLAP IN THE FACE TO ALL OF NEW YORK AND WE ARE TOO STUPID TO NOTICE.
HIDING IN PLAIN SITE. THANKS MIKE.
HIDING IN PLAIN SITE. THANKS MIKE.
Thank City Council - they overturned your term limits to make all those things that that wonderful man does possible.
Sad thing about it is the House Republicans will block it. Chances are it will never come up for a vote.
RE: "posing & pandering & the desire to have their picture taken with the same, to show they care about people etc,etc.
check the pol. photos on the media this month and see all democrats campaigning for future elected local office.
how did our local senators vote ?
the dem. majority ASSEMBLY will vote NAY...
As a former Securities and Exchange Commission attorney this is particularly appalling to me.
Insider trading is also not a victim-less crime. When a Congressman uses inside information to effectuate a stock trade the person on the other side of the trade is being taken advantage of.
Public officials should never use their positions for personal gain.
Read about Sen. Richard Burr (R) North Carolina who invested in natural gas companies that would benefit from legislation he co-sponsored offering tax credits for natural gas-fueled vehicles.
Surprise! He voted against banning insider trading for members of Congress!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/04/stock-act-richard-burr-conflict_n_1253598.html?ref=politics
Every time I see a pol stand up I think of the word 'to tweed'.
read BIG GOVERNMENT .com....
both sides of the political aisle took advantage of their INSIDER KNOWLEDGE from the U.S. Gov. Committees.
they all have bind trusts, just like doomsberg. his financial advisor was Steven Rattner, of Obamamotors Czarism and the Hevesi/ Morris NYC/NYS pension fund scandal.Rattner was fined $100 million. his lawyer was Jaime Gorelick,$26 MILLION from Fannie Mae/freddie mac./ D.O.J. under W.J.Clinton and Google VS.U.S.D.O.J. Google was fined $500,000.000. and no jail time.
I posted that in 2009
No one else on earth uses the term "tweeding", regardless of what's in the dictionary. It's a little silly. Boss tweed was known for corruption, and theft-- not for building McMansions in Queens.
This bill is not about McMansions, it's about honest graft. Definition in the sidebar.
one wonders who gets the public scandal court fines ($100,000,000. and $500,000,000.) that the indicted persons and corporations pay to stay out of jail ?
J. Gorelick must pay some income taxes?
No one else on earth uses the term "tweeding", regardless of what's in the dictionary. It's a little silly. Boss tweed was known for corruption, and theft-- not for building McMansions in Queens.
Sorry, the word is here. Get used to it cause its use is spreading.
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