Subject: POLITICO New York Playbook: COURIC eying Yahoo exit -- DE BLASIO’s school plea -- KUSHNER’s climb
From: "Azi Paybarah, Jimmy Vielkind and Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 05:31:57 -0600

05/05/2016 07:30 AM EDT

By Azi Paybarah in Manhattan, Jimmy Vielkind in Albany, and Mike Allen in D.C., with Daniel Lippman

YAHOO NEWS -- "KATIE COURIC's days at Yahoo could be numbered," by Post's Oli Coleman: "Couric is eyeing an exit from Yahoo amid its sale to a yet-to-be-named buyer. While company execs have been buzzing that the media superstar is preparing to announce that she's departing after 2 1/2 years as a global anchor at Yahoo News, sources close to Couric say she will wait to find out who buys the struggling tech giant. Multiple insiders tell Page Six that Couric - along with other talent including ... tech writer David Pogue - have had long-standing frustrations because they believe the site makes it difficult for users to find their content. They also suspect the Silicon Valley firm has skimped
 on spending on ads that could drive traffic to their content." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776d244b2f13f598fdd254dcc1ca8df226696ca60f8ab643ca6

SCHNEIDERMAN LOOKS AT ALBANY NANO DORM - The Wall Street Journal's Rebecca O'Brien and Erica Orden: "The New York attorney general's office is investigating possible bid-rigging related to a proposed dormitory at a State University of New York campus in Albany, part of a broader probe of contracting issues involving an ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is examining whether Alain Kaloyeros,the president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a powerful force in state economic-development projects, improperly coordinated with real-estate firm Columbia Development, in possible violation of state
 antitrust laws, the person said. Subpoenas on the matter were sent in September to SUNY Polytechnic, Columbia Development and Fuller Road Management Corp., a SUNY-affiliated nonprofit responsible for considering the bidding on the dormitory project, the person said." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e47768a8fd5521de3654771c50c8165f65ec47f4c09eab8094d0d

A SURPRISINGLY CALM MAYORAL CONTROL HEARING - POLITICO New York's Eliza Shapiro: Mayor Bill de Blasio was not subjected to the harsh grilling over mayoral control of New York City's schools that many expected the State Senate's education committee to deliver on Wednesday. Instead, the widely anticipated hearing in Albany quickly devolved into something like a rote committee meeting on steroids: senators questioned the mayor and city schools chancellor Carmen Fari&ntilde;a for nearly four hours on a variety of topics, most of which were not directly related to mayoral control.

Questions about charter schools, funding formulas and special education reforms revealed legislators' jumble of education priorities - many of them related to their specific districts - more than any new consensus on mayoral control. De Blasio asked the Legislature for a seven-year extension of mayoral control. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776ac1ab44408aadf705ed3d7655d44de24dba21a055874c0cc 

TABS -- Daily News: "A PIE IN THEIR FACE: GOP big tells kid-sex pics he's too busy to hear their stories of abuse because he was late to THIS important pizza party" -- Post: "THE ODDS COUPLE: Your bettor's guide to Don vs Hill" -- amNY: "SPIN CITY: NYC bike ridership has boomed 320% in 15 years" -- Metro: "ALL ACCESS: New York City, Boston and Philadelphia avoid culture wars by making transgender access to restroom a matter of identity." -- SEE THEM: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e477669f559648bc7c1b0b96cbb8ee0def879b4ca49f782d3d026 

-- El Diario [translated]: Bags of discord: A vote that aims to tax 5 cents for every plastic bag used by shoppers. -- Newsday: "LI SCHOOL TAXES: MORE DISTRICTS HOLD THE LINE"

FRONT PAGES -- NYT: 2-col., above the fold: "TRUMP IN CHARGE, REPUBLICANS HAVE DAY OF RECKONING" -- WSJNY

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Gathering this community in this way literally is about strengthening the fabric of New York City... I think it will help us fight inequality." -- Mayor Bill de Blasio, at the kick-off event for Tech:NYC, via POLITICO New York's MIranda Neubauer: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776f36d19924e17d20bd0c83e0bc373da10596383ee7dd3ea1d 

VIDEO OF THE DAY: The State Senate observed a moment of applause for Tom Libous, who died Tuesday. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e47762a3a61d0577382114a4ecf67ebf1d3976c321ef28b79654f ... Times obit http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e47769b2ccd9937e33590a8b88aa417fd952f197f8a90e22af8c7 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: John Miller, NYPD deputy commissioner and former broadcast journalist, is 58 ... Councilman Daniel Garodnick of Manhattan's East Side ... David Chauvin, vice president of Zimmerman/Edelson, a Suozzi 2006 campaign alum ... Morgan Pehme (pronounced Peck-meh), co-host and producer of Effective Radio (Sundays at 10 a.m. on am970; and Mondays at 10 a.m. on WVOX 1460AM) ... Daniel Massey, vice president at BerlinRosen and a former reporter for Crain's ... Jack Sterne, press aide at the city comptroller's office ... Julian St Patrick Clayton, Northeast Civic Engagement for JPMorgan Chase ... MSNBC host Brian Williams ... and Karl Marx. 

NEW ON SOCIAL MEDIA -- Errol Louis of NY1, on Instagram: Errol.Louis

-- Charlie King of Mercury Public Affairs, on Twitter: @cKingNYS 

DEVELOPER AWAITING CITY APPROVAL GOT CALL FROM DE BLASIO SEEKING MONEY -- Peebles, former donor, is also a potential 2017 rival -- DNAinfo's Murray Weiss and Jeff Mays: "A real estate developer said Bill de Blasio personally called him to donate $20,000 to a nonprofit to promote universal pre-K while he had business before the city - and that it was hard 'to tell the mayor no.' Don Peebles, whose real estate company owned a building they later got city approval to turn into condos, told DNAinfo New York that in March 2014 he received a call from the mayor asking him to contribute the money to the nonprofit, now called the Campaign for One New York. ... 'He asked me for a specific dollar
 amount,' Peebles, who's a possible 2017 mayoral candidate, said during an interview in his Fifth Avenue offices Monday. ... Peebles, a past de Blasio fundraiser, said he was wary about the call. 'It's hard for a business person who has business interests in New York City to tell the mayor no, especially real estate developers,' Peebles said." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776f022db7a7e75d6b4cf22d8564976902e440b038e143dff12 

DE BLASIO BUNDLERS STICK BY MAYOR, QUIETLY -- POLITICO New York's Laura Nahmias: Some of Mayor Bill de Blasio's top bundlers are sticking by him, even as the mayor's fundraising has come under a scrutiny amid multiple federal and state investigations into his money-raising efforts. But some de Blasio stalwarts said the investigations wouldn't make a difference in whether or not they planned to donate. At least two of the mayor's top bundlers told POLITICO New York the investigations wouldn't make a difference in terms of the mayor's fundraising. Asked whether he'd hold off on donating to the mayor, Sid Davidoff said "anything I can do for the mayor, I'll do it. When the mayor's ready to
 raise funds, I'll do whatever I can." "I've been a big advocate of the mayor since early in his career, I happen to believe he's a very principled guy," Davidoff said. Another bundler, who asked to remain anonymous, said the investigations didn't have any bearing on what he'd be willing to do to aid de Blasio, describing the mayor as a long time friend. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e47768c79b59dde6a2bc48734a194430d2079d831d9ac34a695b9

COUNCIL STRATEGY -- in the weeks before its fight with de Blasio, Uber cultivated City Council -- POLITICO New York's Gloria Pazmino: Uber aggressively courted members of the City Council in the weeks before Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced a temporary cap on the ride-hail industry last year, according to emails between the company's representatives and Council staff. The emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, show the company worked closely with council members to help organize "driver appreciation" events in predominantly minority districts even before de Blasio had proposed his controversial cap on new licenses for the company, and Uber officials later encouraged
 members to oppose the mayor's proposal.

"We at Uber are very excited for this weekend, and hope you are, too," Nicole Benincasa, now an associate counsel at Uber, wrote two staffers in Councilman Robert Cornegy's office on June 15, 2015. "I saw Councilman Cornegy this morning at his BK Chamber breakfast (which was awesome), and he said he's ready for a great event." Cornegy, who represents a Brooklyn district with a sizable black population, had already heaped praise on the company at an earlier event in downtown Brooklyn. A June 17 call between Cornegy's office and Uber helped finalize details for the "driver appreciation" event two days later. An agenda for the call included bullet points noting that Cornegy's office would help
 publicize the event on social media, while Uber's press team would reach out to local media. According to the emails, Uber also offered free UberPOOL rides for supporters traveling to the area from outside the district for the event, and suggested Cornegy's office incorporate local businesses, including restaurants that might provide food to constituents and others who attend. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776cef3abbc27df122ba525784f1734aaaad863fa9f113b560e

GOLISANO SUES YACHT DECORATOR - Democrat and Chronicle's David Andreatta: "After dropping $7,692 on four chaise lounges and $2,252 for 'dream cushions' to cover them, Paychex Inc. chairman and founder Tom Golisano thinks he paid too much to furnish his luxury yacht - about $400,000 too much. Now he's suing his Rochester-based interior decorator to get it back. Most civil lawsuits never go to trial. They're either dismissed or settled out of court. But if Lady Justice has an ounce of compassion in her scales for the tired, poor and huddled among us who can only live vicariously through the super-rich, she'll see that Golisano v. Vitoch Interiors plays out in state Supreme Court in Monroe
 County." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776a65cf2eea04c63c917fa2f623ec3b2f2bdebb39e54e243d6 

JUICY -- "Ex-Lincoln Center president was an 'aggressive' skirt chaser," by Post's Laura Italiano: "Before he was unceremoniously shown the door as president of Lincoln Center - for dating, and twice promoting, an underling - Jed Bernstein was an 'aggressive' ladies man around Broadway, those who know him recalled Wednesday. 'When Jed was head of the Broadway League,' from 1995 to 2006, 'and later as a producer, there's no question he had a reputation of being very aggressive around the women of Broadway,' one insider said of the unmarried 61-year-old. 'He aggressively went after a number of girls who were in the choruses of shows at that time.'"  
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MEDIA MORNING -- EMBLEMATIC OF THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN -- "NBC Relocates 'Nightly News' to Trump Tower, for a Night," by Times' Michael M. Grynbaum: "In an unusual move on Wednesday, NBC relocated its flagship 'Nightly News' broadcast six blocks north to Trump Tower, where Lester Holt conducted a live interview with Mr. Trump in his 26th-floor executive office. Mr. Holt anchored the rest of the broadcast from the building's gold-and-marble lobby- a signature Trump tableau - introducing segments about a Canadian wildfire and defective airbags as tourists milled behind him. NBC plans to extend the same offer of broadcasting 'Nightly News' from the home or headquarters of the eventual Democratic
 nominee."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e47763fa555acedc126f304eecf4d0678444a470e9a89c0ee24d0

-- NATALIE MORALES to move to LA -- Noah Oppenheim, SVP and Executive in charge of TODAY, emails the staff: "[T]his summer, Natalie Morales will move to LA to become TODAY's West Coast Anchor and a host of Access Hollywood and Access Hollywood Live. She'll also continue to play a prominent role on Dateline."

JARED KUSHNER profile --"First you get the newspaper ... Then you get the building ... then you get the father-in-law .. Then you get the power," by Bloomberg Businessweek's Devon Leonard: "Kushner began making major decisions at his family's real estate company when he was 23 in 2004, after his father, a prominent Democratic fundraiser and aspiring kingmaker, pleaded guilty to tax-fraud, misleading federal election officials, and retaliating against a witness. ... There have been six Observer editor-in-chiefs under Kushner, and some writers have complained he's meddled in the newsroom, trying to use the paper to bolster his supporters and attack his enemies."  
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REAL ESTATE -"Stark Underground Space at World Trade Center Will Host a Riot of Ads," by Times' David W. Dunlap: "Inch by inch, the new World Trade Center is being stripped of its connection to the World Trade Center that was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Not without reason. Who would want to work or shop where 2,753 people were killed? The trident-shape columns so emblematic of the wreckage are housed in a glass pavilion that makes them hard to see from outside. The battered 'Sphere' sculpture from the trade center plaza was moved to the Battery (though it may come back). Panels on a nearby pedestrian bridge that were damaged are being replaced.

"The latest erasure is occurring along the main wall of an east-west underground gallery that links Santiago Calatrava's transportation hub to Battery Park City. Much of the wall follows the footprint of the original 1 World Trade Center, the first building to be hit by a hijacked jetliner during the attack. The footprint also defines the edge of the National September 11 Memorial's north pool, which is about 25 feet behind the gallery wall. Until mid-March, the wall was a vast expanse of unadorned white marble. Pedestrians might not have understood its implicit symbolism. Yet its spartan solemnity seemed to acknowledge the power of what stood behind it. Now, a gigantic electronic billboard
 is taking over the wall. Gigantic. As long as the spire of nearby Trinity Church is high: 280 feet." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776d7106e96b592383137218f1775c99e5fa5714b152baeaed9

-"Silverstein Properties leaning towards BIG 2 WTC design," by Post's Lois Weiss: "Silverstein Properties now has two, 3 million square-foot options for a new 2 World Trade Center tower, and we've now learned the developer is leaning towards the BIG one. The first was the original Norman Foster design proposed after the site's master plan was created. It has distinctive lighted diamonds on its slanted top. The other is the Bjarke Ingels Group, aka BIG, design that was created to house 20th Century Fox and News Corp, The Post's parent. But the decision to nix the move earlier this year left the two designs in hand. The BIG building has staggered, planted terraces facing the east but also
 makes it appear to be facing away from the 9/11 Memorial Plaza." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776881a3ead92b22c404c7ee7d158be60e4d215e064a686e145

THE HOME TEAMS -- POLITICO New York's Howard Megdal: Mets 8, Braves 0: Steven Matz pitched into the eighth inning, Rene Rivera and Asdrubal Cabrera homered, and the Mets won their sixth straight series.

-- Yankees 7, Orioles 0: Seven scoreless by CC Sabathia and three hits from Jacoby Ellsbury helped the Yankees end a six game losing streak.

-- The day ahead: the Yankees are in Baltimore. The Mets play late out in San Diego.

#UpstateAmerica: "Some women bake cakes with balloons and flowers, this Rochester woman makes cakes of her husband's severed head." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a15d6eddcf5e4776e6f7bcf57b5f15fdd3e2f82ed8d73dfe6112801c247020ff

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