NYC Magazine » Charles Barron http://www.nycmagazine.com Covering all of New York City Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 CUNY Ceremony Disrupted By Trustee Shouting Match http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/12/02/792/ http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/12/02/792/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:02:30 +0000 Yelena Mandenberg http://www.nycmagazine.com/?p=792 City Councilman Charles Barron

Today was a special day for CUNY, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials came to the Borough of Manhattan Community College to celebrate the rebuilding of their Fiterman Hall, which was badly damaged on September 11, 2001.

However, during the first part, City Councilman Charles Barron and CUNY Trustee Jeffery Wiesenfeld has a shouting match, yelling “You shut up!” “You’re a disgrace!” and “You’re a sickening racist!”

The word is that Councilman Barron had to sit in the audience and felt disrespected that he wasn’t originally seated at the front with the other officials. He was also upset that Mayor Bloomberg did ...continue reading]]> http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/12/02/792/feed/ 0