THOSE WERE THE DAYS. Press bias...untrustworthy polls...staged campaign events...strange political bedfellows. There's nothing like oldtime city politics, is there? Wayne Barrett of The Village Voice looks back on the New York mayoral campaign of 2005.

In a possibly related development, NY1 reports that The New York Times reports that unemployment is increasing in the city, but Catherine Tymkiw of Crain's New York Business seems to think that things are looking up.

Photo: David Marc Fischer