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On last night’s “Inside City Hall”, Rep. Michael Grimm responded in detail to recent allegations of improper campaign fundraising in the wake of two New York Times reports.

Watch a clip of the interview above.

Tonight’s guests include: Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott; our Political Rundown with Curtis Sliwa and Gerson Borrero.

Twitter Note: Our intrepid political anchor, Errol Louis, will be hosting an online conversation on Twitter on Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. To join in, use the hashtag #Askerrol.

New York Times

Alan Feuer reports: “Saying New York City had failed to follow its own procedure for making rules, a State Supreme Court judge ruled on Tuesday that the Bloomberg administration could not impose a new, much tighter set of regulations on homeless people seeking shelter.”

Charlie Bagli notes: “Trade show and hotel executives have complained that the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is too small since the day the long, black-glass building opened in 1986 on the West Side of Manhattan. But now that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and a Malaysian conglomerate are proposing to replace the Javits Center with the nation’s largest convention hall on a site 12 miles away in Jamaica, Queens, industry executives are not so sure it is a smart move. “

Kate Taylor writes: “Two dozen advocacy and grass-roots organizations, seeking to make police conduct an issue in the 2013 mayoral campaign, said Tuesday that they were forming a coalition to raise awareness of what they consider racially discriminatory practices by the New York Police Department.”

Mireya Navarro notes: “In a victory for opponents of the drilling process known as hydrofracking, a New York State judge ruled on Tuesday that the upstate town of Dryden in Tompkins County can ban natural gas drilling within its boundaries.”

Elisabeth Rosenthal writes: “On Tuesday, legislators in New York State announced a bill that, following the example of Western states, would ban the sale, trading, possession and distribution of shark fins, possibly as of 2013. California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington are enacting similar bans that were passed last year, while Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Virginia have legislation pending.”

The Times notes: “A panel of federal judges on Tuesday refused to dismiss a challenge to New York State’s redistricting process and instead named a federal magistrate judge to help create new political maps.”

New York Post

Gregorian & Freund writes: “Busty former Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams was awarded $1.2 million yesterday after a Manhattan civil jury ruled she was the victim of excessive force by the NYPD.”

David Seifman reports: “Mayor Bloomberg went head to head yesterday with the president of Yale University for condemning the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim students at the prominent Ivy League school. ‘I don’t know why keeping the country safe is antithetical to the values of Yale,’ the mayor said during a press conference about jobs in Brooklyn.”

Mitchel Maddux notes: “A Brooklyn federal judge yesterday moved toward appointing a special team of lawyers to help him award as much as $65 million to minority firefighter applicants who were the victims of departmental discrimination.”

New York Daily News
Ken Lovett reports: “State Controller Thomas DiNapoli, a key opponent of Gov. Cuomo’s proposed reforms of public employee pensions, got a quarter of his campaign cash from the unions he is defending, an analysis revealed.”

Kerry Wills writes: “Bronx community leaders are decrying a crass billboard hawking vodka that greets drivers near an area once synonymous with prostitution. Aiming to convey that Wódka vodka is top-notch and cheap, the sign over the Bruckner Expressway in Hunts Point reads: ‘Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing.’ “

John Marzulli notes: “Seven applicants who failed the FDNY written exams that a federal judge tossed out as discriminatory are not entitled to damages because their grade was less than 25.”

Blau & Moore write: “Local librarians are helping unemployed New Yorkers page through the want ads. Mayor Bloomberg announced Tuesday that the city was opening Workforce1 Career Centers in public libraries to help more New Yorkers find employment.”

Wall Street Journal

Will James reports: “A fight is shaping up in Albany over state legislation proposed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that would create an online database of prescriptions for addictive drugs. On one side are physicians who say Mr. Schneiderman's proposal would overburden them with data entry work and could lead to patients not getting prescriptions drugs they need. On the other are drug treatment advocates and Mr. Schneiderman, who traveled on Tuesday to Long Island to press his case near the pharmacies where robberies in the past year have resulted in shootings that killed six people.”

Until tomorrow.

Bob Hardt