Liquor sticking point: We’re still trying to find out if Tom Connor has been reappointed to Community Board 2’s State Liquor Authority Committee. He recently told us he was, saying, “As of Tuesday,” indicating that he just had to go to a meeting on that day a couple of weeks ago, set up by board read more here »

Win some, lose some: After recently winning the support of the Village Independent Democrats club in her run for governor, Cynthia Nixon has won one and lost one with other local clubs. She personally showed up at the endorsement vote of the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club where she faced off with Assemblymember Richard Gottfried, who read more here »

And then there were two: The Democratic primary for the 12th Congressional District on June 26 is now down to a pair of candidates, the longtime incumbent, Carolyn Maloney, and the upstart challenger, Suraj Patel. Patel has now knocked off two other candidates, Peter Lindner and Sander Hicks, a diehard 9/11 Truther, by challenging the read more here »

Women win at V.I.D.: Three days after last week’s big town hall for statewide candidates at P.S. 41, the Village Independent Democrats endorsed an all-woman ticket of Cynthia Nixon for governor and Kathy Hochul for lieutenant governor. Nixon got 20 votes to Andrew Cuomo’s 3, though a large number of club members, 15, didn’t really read more here »

To be A.G.: After the initial shock of the news about Eric Schneiderman had subsided slightly, our next thought was…Brad Hoylman. Namely, would the crusading state senator from the Village campaign to be New York State attorney general? The next day, Hoylman’s name was mentioned along with eight or nine others also said to be read more here »

S.B.J.S.A. hearing: We hear from City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s office that the Council will finally hold a hearing on the Small Business Jobs Survival Act “in a couple of months — soon.” Villager writer Sharon Woolums, who has been a specialist on the S.B.J.S.A. issue, is urging that the City Council resolve — at read more here »

Epstein romps: Although the result was never really in doubt, Harvey Epstein handily won the special election for the 74th District on Tuesday. Running on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, he nabbed 90 percent of the vote versus three other candidates. The Republican got about 5 percent, while the Green and Reform candidates read more here »

Stormy weather and Singer: It’s been fun watching Long Island “super lawyer” David Schwartz making the rounds on cable TV in defense of Donald Trump’s embattled attorney Michael Cohen and his role in the Stormy Daniels affair. Schwartz, locals here may recall, is the same attorney who paid actors to rally for developer Gregg Singer’s read more here »

Dialing Doris: As we recently reported, Doris Diether, the legendary zoning maven of Community Board 2, was without a working landline and was making do with her fax phone. We recently spoke to Diether, 89, on her normal phone, which had finally been fixed after a month on the fritz, and we got the 411 read more here »