Richie Kessel actually traveled to upstate New York to hold a press conference on March 24, 2009. Why did he leave his natural habitat, Long Island? Because he did not want Long Island media recording him publicly eating crow and because upstate customers were poised to call for his ouster. After receiving public lashings from [...]

An Open Letter to Governor Paterson regarding ending the Kessel Madness Governor Paterson expressed the outrage of the State in his extraordinary “Open Letter” to Richie Kessel, NYPA CEO, yesterday.  In the short, curt letter addressed to “Mr. Kessel”, Paterson urgently asked Richie and NYPA to reconsider its proposed rate increase and to forego proposed [...]

Richie Kessel continues to stonewall Street Corner Conservative’s Freedom of Information Request for Kessel’s “schedule and/or calendar kept and compiled on a daily basis” from September 24, 2008 through and including February 13, 2009. To release this information would be very easy. Street Corner Conservative has been informed that Kessel keeps his calendar on a [...]

On February 17, 2009, Street Corner Conservative filed a Freedom of Information Request with NYPA to receive, among other things, Richie Kessel’s “schedule and/or calendar kept and compiled on a daily basis” from September 23, 2008 through and including February 13, 2009. Mary Jean Frank, NYPA’s Associate Corporate Secretary, replied to the request on February [...]