Council Speaker Christine Quinn  seemed a bit flustered at a news conference before the City Council’s monthly stated meeting. She spoke louder and faster than usual. She interrupted herself at one point to take a long drink from a glass of water underneath the podium.  She fanned herself. When another council member came up to the podium to speak, Ms. Quinn, standing in the background, brushed some dirt off the suit jacket of Councilmember Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn.

If Ms. Quinn seemed a bit anxious, perhaps it was the City Council was today voting to override a veto by her erstwhile ally, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on legislation that would require the tenants in city-owned buildings to pay service workers a prevailing wage, and voting on another bill that would set up examine how financial institutions where the city does its banking serve local communities. Read More