Then again ...

Governor-elect Spitzer issued a statement Saturday and it seemed to put the kibosh on any talk of Carrion succeeding Hevesi:
The new comptroller "should have significant experience in financial matters," the statement read. "This is imperative, given the comptroller's role in managing one of the nation's largest pension funds."

Comptroller Carrión?

Now that State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has stepped down in a plea deal with the Albany County prosecutor, speculation over who will replace him is at full throttle.
Believe it or not, Bronx Brough President Adolfo Carrión is on some early lists (the state legislature gets to decide). Carrion was trained as an urban planner but doesn't have an accounting degree. Neither does Hevesi, but he has a doctorate in public law and government and served two terms as city comptroller before taking control of one of the world's largest pension funds.
Carrion is basically already running for mayor. Would the personable beep want to run for Gracie Mansion from the more important, but decidedly less street-level suites of the comptroller's office?
If he does take the promotion, who replaces him? Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera is probably the favorite, since his father, Assemblyman and Bronx Democratic Chair Jose Rivera, will basically handpick the machine-backed candidate.
Might other young, ambitious Bronx pols, like State Senator Jose Marco Serrano, make the bid for Borough hall?
An upstater may well get the comptroller gig, since the three other statewide offices will be held by NYC residents beginning Jan. 1. But it would certainly set off an interesting game of musical podiums should Carrion replace Hevesi.

Details on Carrion Interview Walkout

Here's more details from the Bronx Boro News (weekly insert to Daily News) concerning the beep's response to a News 12 question about the replacement track promised to residents in return for the one the Yankees tore up to make room for their new stadium.

Carrion and ...

Obama? (Odd mention here of a Feb. 21 meeting, but seems to be a typo since the item references the Illinois senator's visit last week.)

Macombs Track Still Not Replaced

Metro NY reporter Patrick Arden has made a mini-career of chronicling the politics and community realities of the Yankee stadium project.
His latest installment documents the state of affairs at Community Board 4, which appears to have done very little work since last spring, when Borough President Carrion removed the board's chair after he failed to marshal enough votes to support the stadium plan.
Arden's article also points out that the replacement track the community was promised in return the removal of one in Macombs Dam Park, which is now ground zero for stadium construction, still has not been delivered.