Abrahamd Beame News Today

Dr. Christmas overcame race and gender barriers to run New York’s mental health agency under three mayors in the 1970s.

A documentary about the city’s fiscal crisis of the 1970s, co-directed by the son of one of its saviors, wins the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.

Mayor Eric Adams took a 3-day pilgrimage of sorts to two cities in Israel this month to learn about public safety technology.

In 1970, Mr. Buckley, the son of an oil tycoon and the brother of a leading force on the right, became the first third-party candidate elected to the U.S. Senate in 30 years.

Grand Central Terminal. Grand Army Plaza. The Queensboro Bridge. They, and more, were preserved as historic treasures under her fierce watch at the city’s landmarks commission.

He used a small Teamsters local in the city to amass broad political influence over 25 years, only to be undone by corruption charges.

Mayor Eric Adams said that when some people “look at these two Black mayors, Dinkins and my role now, there are those that wish we fail.”

He knew how to find hidden pots of money. “There wasn’t a budget director in the last 50 years who didn’t rely on Bernie,” one of his acolytes said.

As a Republican Wall Street financier recruited by Mayor Beame, he helped make the city’s effort to restore stability more credible.

Architect, author, Yale academic and City Hall official, he directed the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and helped plan a New York City Olympics.