The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg
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CHAPTER 7: THE BLOOMBERG WOMEN
1. Jonathan Van Meter, “Madam Would-Be Mayor, Hanging Out with the Crude, Playful, Openhearted Front-Runner, Christine Quinn,” New York, February 2013, p. l.
2. People of the State of New York v. John F. Haggerty Jr. and Special Operations LLC, case no. 2589/1, 2011, p. 332.
3. Author interview with Bloomberg official, 2018.
4. Author interviews with city hall aides, Bloomberg aides, 2014.
5. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Bloomberg’s New Deputy Has a Velvet Fist,” New York Times, December 6, 2005.
6. Heidi Evans, “The Quiet Power of Patti Harris: Bloomberg’s Confidant ‘Can Do Anything,’ ” New York Daily News, November 16, 2009.
7. Email response to author from Patti Harris via Frank Barry, March 14, 2019.
8. Jessica Pressler, “Dating Mayor Bloomberg Is Worth a Woman’s While,” Intelligencer, New York, June 14, 2010, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/06/dating_mayor_bloomberg_is_wort.html.
9. Emma Bloomberg and Christopher Frissora wedding announcement, New York Times, June 12, 2005.
10. “Emma B. Bloomberg ’01,” speakers bio, She Roars, Princeton University, https://sheroars.princeton.edu/speaker/emma-b-bloomberg-01/.
11. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Bloomberg’s Granddaughter Gets a Hybrid Surname,” New York Times, July 6, 2015.
12. Emma Bloomberg, born January 20, 1983.
13. Jillian Dunham, “As a Catalog of Pain Shows, She Isn’t Riding Just for Show,” New York Times, August 31, 2012.
14. Office of the Mayor press release, December 20, 2013, http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/426-13/mayor-bloomberg-mta-officials-local-leaders-take-first-ride-7-subway-train-extension/#/0.
15. Alex Williams, “Mayor Bloomberg?” New York, March 2, 1998.
16. Maureen Dowd, “Liberties; Camelot with Older Babes,” New York Times, July 8, 2001.
17. Ruth La Ferla, “Her Term Is Up as Well,” New York Times, December 27, 2013,
18. Author interviews with Bloomberg associates and dinner guests, background, 2014 and 2018.
19. Linette Lopez, “Ray Dalio on How ’Round the Clock Surveillance Makes His Hedge Fund a Place Where Wall Street Is Dying to Work,” Business Insider, September 22, 2014; Dalio and Bloomberg interview, Bloomberg TV, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live-ray-dalio-speaking-125005716.html.
CHAPTER 8: RUNNING ON MONEY
1. Michael Bloomberg with Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg by Bloomberg (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), 41.
2. Penelope Patsuris, “Forbes Face: Michael Bloomberg,” Forbes, June 5, 2001.
3. Author interview with Richard Ravitch, July 8, 2015. Ravitch was head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from 1979 to 1983 and lieutenant governor of New York from 2009 to 2010.
4. Author interview with Michael Bloomberg, August 16, 2018.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. John M. Broder, “Bob Squier Is Dead at 65; Master of Political Imagery,” New York Times, January 25, 2000,
9. Frank Lynn, “Some Major Democratic Incumbents Face Tough Primary Fight,” New York Times, July 17, 1977.
10. Joyce Purnick, Michael Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics (New York: PublicAffairs, 2009), 89.
11. Dean E. Murphy, “Bloomberg Philanthropy Cuts Two Ways as Campaign Issue,” New York Times, September 8, 2001.
12. Author interviews with former assemblyman Richard Brodsky, 2014.
13. Andrea Bernstein, “Bloomberg’s Golden Army,” New York Observer, May 28, 2001.
14. David Seifman, “Bloomberg Joins GOP in Party Switch,” New York Post, October 14, 2000.
15. Bradley Tusk email to author, February 2, 2017.
16. Promises list from Bradley Tusk; author interview with Tusk, September 20, 2016.
17. Dexter Filkins, “Bloomberg Far Outspends Mayoral Rivals,” New York Times, August, 11, 2001; Michael Cooper, “At $92.60 a vote, Bloomberg Shatters an Election Record,” New York Times, December 4, 2001.
18. Cleveland Amory, “The Great Club Revolution,”American Heritage, 1954.
19. Alexis Jeffries, “A Few Private New York Clubs Still Bar Women,” Village Voice, April 27, 2010.
20. Julia La Roche, “The 12 Golf Courses Where Wall Street Big Shots Love to Play,” Business Insider, April 8, 2013.
21. Dean E. Murphy, “Bloomberg Quietly Left Four Mostly White Clubs,” New York Times, July 25, 2001.
22. Dean E. Murphy and Eric Lipton, “Bloomberg Discloses He’s Rich, but He’s Frugal with the Details,” New York Times, July 14, 2007; author interviews with Bill Cunningham and other aides, July 2007 and 2014.
23. Chris McNickle, Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition (New York: Skyhorse, 2017), 24.
24. Larry Cohler-Esses, “Mike Settled ‘Abuse’ Case: Bloomberg Paid Woman Over Pregnancy Remark,” New York Daily News, March 27, 2001.
25. Maggie Haberman and Susan Edelman, “Bloomberg’s Old Suit Fails Dems’ Taste Test,” New York Post, March 28, 2001.
26. Author interview with Bill Cunningham, 2014.
27. Gail Collins, “Public Interest; Bloomberg Beams In,” New York Times, June 9, 2001.
28. “Unknown Bloomberg Trails Dems in Mayoral Race,” Quinnipiac Poll, June 7, 2001, https://poll.qu.edu/search-releases/search-results/release-detail?ReleaseID=538&What=&strArea=3;0;&strTime=28. (Former city council chair Peter Vallone would lead Bloomberg by 43 points. Public advocate Mark Green would lead by 42 points. City comptroller Alan Hevesi by 37 points. And Bronx Borough president Fernando Ferrer by 30 points.)
29. McNickle, Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition, 20.
30. Author interview with former New York governor George Pataki, May 10, 2017.
31. Author interviews with Betsy Gotbaum, 2017–18.
32. Gotham Gazette, “Searchlight on Campaign 2001,” Campaign Trail Archives, Newsweek, April 2, 2001.
33. Author interview with Joe DePlasco, November 3, 2015.
34. 2,763 victims died in attack in New York City, plus nineteen hijackers died in two planes. “September 11 Terrorist Attacks Fast Facts,” CNN, updated September 3, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/september-11-anniversary-fast-facts/index.html.
35. Dean E. Murphy, “Bloomberg Expands on Economic Plans,” New York Times, October 18, 2001.
36. Author interview with Jonathan Capehart, January 27, 2016.
37. Ibid., Murphy, “Economic Plans.”
38. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Bloomberg Says He Regrets Marijuana Remarks,” New York Times, April 10, 2002.
39. Jack Newfield, “Smart $$ Is Against Bloomberg,” New York Post, May 10, 2001.
40. Michael Wolff, “Chairman Mike,” This Media Life, New York, September 17, 2001.
41. Author interview with Elisabeth DeMarse, March 9, 2017.
42. Dean E. Murphy, “Campainging for City Hall: Controversies: Questions Raised over a Gag Gift to Bloomberg from 1990,” New York Times, September 8, 2001.
43. “The Eye-Opener: Conflicts of Interest Board Approves New Rule to Limit Fundraising from Individuals with City Business,” Gotham Gazette, May 10, 2019.
44. “Mark Green for Mayor,” editorial, New York Times, October 26, 2001, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/opinion/mark-green-for-mayor.html.
45. “Bloomberg White Paper,” anti-Bloomberg campaign data compiled for the Green campaign by Stu Loeser in 2001; author interviews with DePlasco, November 3, 2015, and Loeser, November 7, 2016.
46. Michael M.Grynbaum, “With Adviser’s Departure, Bloomberg Will Lose a Fierce Protector,” New York Times, July 30, 2012; NYC press announcement, January 11, 2006.
47. Casey Chamberlain, executive assistant, “My Anthrax Survivor’s Story,” NBC News, September 19, 2006, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14785359/#.WPT5tVPyvBI.
48. Ibid., Murphy, “Bloomberg Expands on Economic Plans.”
49. Mark Green, Bright, Infinite Future: A Generational Memoir
on the Progressive Rise (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016), 199.
50. Adam Nagourney, “Bloomberg and Green Clash over Capability in Debate,” New York Times, November 2, 2001.
51. Author interview with Bill Cunningham, 2014 and 2015.
52. Ibid., Green, Bright, Infinite Future, 189.
53. Dean E. Murphy, “In Homestretch of Campaign, Mayor Endorses Bloomberg,” New York Times, October 28, 2001.
54. Author interviews with Bill Cunningham, 2014 and 2015, and Kevin Skeekey, 2015.
55. Author interview with Joe De Plasco, November 3, 2015.
56. Ibid., Green, Bright, Infinite Future, 193.
57. Author interview with Bill Cunningham, 2017.
58. Ibid., Green, Bright, Infinite Future, 194.
59. McNickle, Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition, 44; author interview with Bill Cunningham, 2017.
60. Author interview with Kevin Sheekey, September 8, 2015.
61. NYC Board of Elections, official tally of 2001 mayoral race; Michael Cooper and Dean E. Murphy, “Green Calm as Victory Slips away at the End,” New York Times, November 7, 2001.
62. Ibid., Green, Bright, Infinite Future, 195.
63. Meryl Gordon, “Citizen Mike,” New York, April 16, 2001.
64. Michael Bloomberg campaign expenditures, disbursements by date paid, New York City Campaign Finance Board, campaign finance information system, p. 46.
65. Michael Cooper, “At $92.60 a Vote, Bloomberg Shatters an Election Record,” New York Times, December 4, 2001.
66. Gail Collins, Bloomberg Beams In, Column: Public Interests, New York Times, June 5, 2001.
67. Penelope Patsures, Forbes Face: Michael Bloomberg, Forbes, June 5, 2001.
CHAPTER 9: FIRST HUNDRED DAYS
1. Multiple interviews with hires, although, in a few cases, he said, “Don’t screw it up”—if the new employee seemed too proper for his Wall Street vocabulary.
2. Maggie Haberman, “Mike’s Off to a Running Start—Has Meetings with Ferrer and Rudy,” New York Post, November 8, 2011, https://nypost.com/2001/11/08/mikes-off-to-a-running-start-has-meetings-with-ferrer-and-rudy/; author interviews with Kevin Sheekey, 2015 and 2018.
3. Chris McNickle, Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition (New York: Skyhorse, 2017), 47.
4. “Bloomberg sworn in by Giuliani,” CNN, January 1, 2002, http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/31/newyork.mayor/index.html; author interviews with advisers, 20014 and 2015.
5. Author interview with Chief Judge of New York Appeals Court Judith Kaye, June 2013.
6. “New York City Mayor Inauguration,” C-SPAN video, January 1, 2002, https://www.c-span.org/video/?168034-1/york-city-mayor-inauguration Michael Bloomberg inauguration 2002.
7. Joe Carter, “5 Facts About the 9/11 Aftermath,” Acton Institute Powerblog, Action Institute, September 11, 2018, http://www.history.com/topics/ground-zero.
8. Anemona Hartocollis, “Landfill Has 9/11 Remains, Medical Examiner Wrote,” New York Times, March 24, 2007.
9. “Working Together to Accelerate New York’s Recovery,” New York City Partnership report, November 2001; Michael Cooper, “Economic Anguish of 9/11 Is Detailed by Comptroller,” New York Times, September 5, 2002.
10. Daniel L. Doctoroff, Greater Than Ever: New York’s Big Comeback (New York: PublicAffairs, 2017), xii, xiii.
11. Eric Nadelstern, a teacher, principal, and administrator in the New York school system for forty years, boiled the Bloomberg management style as mayor to its essence:
• Recruit the best people you can find
• Support them
• Provide incentives for good work
• Protect them from outside interference
• Hold them accountable for the highest standard of performance
12. Author interview with Joel Klein, former school chancellor, November 25, 2014.
13. Michael Bloomberg interview with Judy Woodruff, PBS Newshour, PBS, December 18, 2017.
14. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Initial Steps by Bloomberg Show Contrast with Giuliani,” New York Times, November 10, 2001.
15. Author interview with Nathan Leventhal, November 20, 2017.
16. Adam Nagourney, “Bloomberg Fills Nine Posts with Government Veterans,” New York Times, December 20, 2001.
17. Ibid.; Steinhauer,“Initial Steps by Bloomberg Show Contrast with Giuliani.”
18. Christopher Drew, “Sad Search by Kerik to Find His Mother; Family Secret Is Revealed in Autobiography,” New York Times, November 9, 2001.
19. “Bernard Kerik Fast Facts,” CNN March, 11, 2013, https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/us/bernard-kerik-fast-facts/index.html.
20. Ray Kelly, Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City (New York: Hachette, 2015), 164; author interview with Ray Kelly, September 8, 2015.
21. Author interview with Marc Shaw, October 13, 2017.
22. Author interview with Tom Frieden, October 22, 2014.
23. Author interview with Peter Madonia, December 12, 2017.
24. Author interview with Adrian Benepe, September 24, 2014, October 28, 2015; biography as director of City Park Development for Trust for Public Land, https://www.tpl.org/about/adrian-benepe.
25. Robin Finn, “Public Lives: Away from the Ovens to a Hot Spot at City Hall,” New York Times, April 16, 2002.
26. Author interview with Peter Madonia; New York City Archives, Bloomberg city files, Peter Madonia, Box 22677, box 4 of 6; Box 22677, box 3 of 3, 2003–2006.
27. Jim Dwyer, “In High Costs of City Litigation, a Litany of Missed Opportunitites,” About New York, New York Times, August 2, 2013.
28. “Statement by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Resignation of EDC President Andrew M. Alper,” press release, NYC.gov, May 8, 2006, http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/143-06/statement-mayor-michael-bloomberg-resignation-edc-president-andrew-alper.
CHAPTER 10: A BILLIONAIRE’S CITY HALL
1. Julia La Roche, “Mike Bloomberg: ‘Happiness Can Never Buy Money,’ ” Business Insider, September 22, 2014. Article about a Bloomberg news interview with Stephanie Ruhle, September, 2014.
2. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Can’t Find the Mayor? Well, What’s It to You?,” New York Times, February 20, 2002.
3. Michael Barbaro, “New York’s Mayor, but Bermuda Shares Custody,” New York Times, April 25, 2010.
4. Dean E. Murphy and Eric Lipton, “Bloomberg Discloses He’s Rich, but He’s Frugal with the Details,” New York Times, July 14, 2001.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Allen Salkin, “Homes Sweet Homes,” New York, April 15, 2002.
9. New York City Conflicts of Interest Board, Advisory Opinion, no. 2002-1, August 20, 2002.
10. Ibid.
11. Michael J. de la Merced and Louise Story, “Bloomberg Expected to Buy Merrill’s Stake in His Firm,” New York Times, July 17, 2008.
12. New York City Conflicts of Interest Board, Advisory Opinion, no. 2002-1, August 20, 2002.
13. Serge F. Kovaleski and Ray Rivera, “The Roles Blur for the Mayor and the Mogul,” New York Times, December 8, 2007.
14. Author interview with Peter Grauer, June 14, 2016.
15. Wayne Barrett, “Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate from His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!” Village Voice, September 1, 2009, https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/09/01/bloomberg-keeps-his-billions-separate-from-his-mayoral-obligations-yeah-right/.
16. Email to author from Michael Henton, editorial assistant, finance and accounting, John Wiley & Sons, April 18, 2017.
17. Ibid.
18. Letter from Jane W. Parver, acting chair of Conflict of Interest Board, COIB case no. 2002-107, February 22, 2002,Wayne Barrett archives.
19. Letter from Jane Parver, acting chair of Conflict of Interest Board, COIB case no. 2002-014, January 30, 2002, Wayne Barrett archives.
20. Letter from Steven Rosenfeld, chairman of Conflict of Interest Board, COIB case no. 2012-123, March 1, 2012
.
21. Barrett, “Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate from His Mayoral Obligations?”
22. Adam Lisberg, “Mayor Bloomberg: We Love the Rich People,” New York Daily News, March 6, 2009.
23. Diane Cardwell, “Mayor Says New York Is Worth the Cost,” New York Times, January 8, 2003.
24. Chris McNickle, Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition (New York: Skyhorse, 2017), 137.
25. Author interview with Peter Grauer, June 14, 2016.
26. “Gates Still World’s Richest,” CNN Money, June 22, 2001, https://money.cnn.com/2001/06/22/news/wealthiest/.
27. Edwin Durgy, “The World’s Richest Billionares: Full List of the Top 500,” Forbes, March 4, 2013.
CHAPTER 11: A LABORATORY FOR URBAN REFORM
1. Sam Roberts, “Listening to (and Saving) the World’s Languages,” New York Times, April 29, 2010.
2. New York State Department of Labor, Current Employment Statistics, OSC analysis, Report 10-18.
3. Robin Nagle, Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 13.
4. Restaurant Inspection Information, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2019, http://a816-restaurantinspection.nyc.gov/RestaurantInspection/SearchBrowse.do.
5. Nancy Hass, “The House That Bloomberg Built,” Fast Company, October 31, 1995.
6. Author interview with Ester Fuchs, May 3, 2017.
7. Author interview with Robert Steel, August 28, 2017; Michael Barbaro, “Bloomberg’s Bullpen: Candidates Debate Its Future,” New York Times, March 22, 2013.
8. Author interviews with numerous city hall officials from Bloomberg years. 2004, 2014, and 2015.
9. Author interview with Peter Madonia, December 12, 2017.
10. Author interview with Marc Shaw, October 13, 2017.
11. Author interviews with numerous city hall aides, 2014, 2015, and 2018.
12. Author interview with Bill Cunningham, 2018.
13. Author interview with Joel Klein, November 25, 2014.
14. “In His Final Major Address, Mayor Bloomberg Delivers Remarks on the Rise of Cities, Their Future and the Labor-Electoral Process That Could Undermine Progress,” NYC.gov, December 18, 2013, https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/417-13/in-his-final-major-address-mayor-bloomberg-delivers-remarks-the-rise-cities-their-future/#/0.