Jonathan Soffer News Today

A local NYU professor asks: Could differences in housing and public space explain differences in crime rates?

The twice-impeached president built his civic reputation on projects such as Central Park's Wollman Rink.

[applause] >> thank you, and thank you for joining us at the site of the national park service in new york and one to have the great treasures of new york city. let me first introduce jonathan soffer. he grew up in albany, had the wisdom to move to manhattan to attend columbia. [laughter] he joined the broadway democrats in 1977. certain things may be forgiven. he got his doctorate from columbia and now teaches history at nyu po...

not just because new yorkers often forget our history, its important because it tells a lot about new york and provides some object he is sons. of -- lessons. the first time i covered ed koch was probably not long after i got to the daily news in 1968. he might have just been elected to congress. reinvited a reporter along -- he invited a reporter along on a raid, he was going to expose the cruel way animals were being euthanized except when shelter officials explained the process, he ...

when he returned back somebody had thrown it on the ground and smashed it and he glued it back and capped it with him and heather is sitting in his chambers as a model of inspiration. . . and i thought well thats an interesting thing we have black and white seats but i will let that go. and when president george h. w. bush had nominated than judge thomas, his tone had entirely changed, and essentially accused justice thomas of being a benedict arnold and he doesnt represent us and our ...

confident in septembers that they have a good race on their hands and i dont think it is just because theyre not sensing what is going on. i dont think the reagan landslide was as clear and inevitable as it later and looks to be. had carter been able to broker the agreement a month earlier, i think it could have had a big impact. this was the major foreign policy challenge of the day and carter had had them released early on, it could have had an impact. after the soviet invasion of af...