Founder and de facto spokesperson of the “Rent is Too Damn High Party,” Jimmy McMillan, is hopping mad at the Board of Elections, which he says intentionally omitted the “damn” from his organization’s name on ballots in two separate elections in the last four years, according to the New York Post. McMillan has filed a $350 million suit against the board, claiming that by omitting the four-letter potty-mouth adjective from his group’s name the board “stripped [the party] from the ballot” and “really broke our party up.” [more]

From left: Michael Bloomberg and William Thompson

A camera lens analogy might help voters understand where Michael Bloomberg and William Thompson, who are New York’s main mayoral candidates, stand on key real estate issues ahead of tomorrow’s election. Bloomberg, the Republican incumbent, seems to favor a wide-angle approach, as his sweeping rezoning of a fifth of the city, or 8,400 blocks over eight years in office, would indicate. Focused on creating denser, more transit-oriented development, according to his PlaNYC, which was unveiled in 2007, the city has famously paved the way for homes to be built into once-industrial swaths of land, notably along the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn. [more]