Who Has Bloomberg's Number? Anybody With a Phone Book - New York Times

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Forget 311.
There is another number you can call the next time the garbage goes uncollected, the neighbors are too noisy or a pothole swallows your car. It is listed in the white pages under 'Bloomberg, Michael R.'
Call Mr. Bloomberg's home, and chances are, the mayor himself will answer. That is what an agitated New Yorker did late Monday evening, only to have Mayor Bloomberg himself pick up the bedside phone in his Upper East Sidetown house. As the mayor recounted it yesterday, the caller had 'a housing problem' and needed help.
'The young lady went on about how her mother had lived there, and the mother is deceased, and now she wanted to have the house,' Mr. Bloomberg said, adding, 'I couldn't quite figure out what the woman's problem was, but I said, 'Call me in the morning; here's the number.' '
Little did most city residents realize, the home telephone number of their billionaire mayor is right there in the phone book. Several times in recent years, and again at a news conference in Queens yesterday, Mr. Bloomberg has entertained audiences with anecdotes about people who have looked him up in the white pages and called at odd hours for assistance."