Email Author Tom Robbins

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2009

  "Gillibrand Learned How to Defend Tobacco's Dirtiest Secrets"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2009

  "Senate Coup Plotters' Hidden Agenda"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 27, 2009

  "The Mayor's Press Pass"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 13, 2008

  "Eliot Sptizer Goes Down"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 29, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Term Limits Coup"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 23, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Velvet Coup"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 16, 2007

  "Rudy's Brain"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 19, 2007

  "Benchwarmers"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 28, 2007

  "Mike Bloomberg, Free At Last"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published November 1, 2007

  "Tale of the Tape"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published October 25, 2007

  "Tall Tales of a Mafia Mistress"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published October 18, 2007

  "The Judge and the G-Man"

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2001 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Landlord Meets the Mob

  published May 8, 2001

  The news that landlord Abe Weider had been arrested swept quickly late last month through Vanderveer Estates, the sprawling, low-income housing... More >>

• The Ego Candidates

  published May 1, 2001

  There's media tycoon Michael Bloomberg on the cover of Business Week. There he is being profiled in Newsweek, in the Times of... More >>

• Giving to the Neediest

  published April 24, 2001

  A nonprofit foundation that raises money for the Fashion Institute of Technology cut student scholarships by $200,000 while splurging on a plush... More >>

• The Clean-Up Man

  published April 17, 2001

  At a quarter of a million dollars a year, the best part-time job in America may well be the one held by feisty criminal defense attorney Thomas... More >>

• High on the Hog

  published April 3, 2001

  The wife of State Comptroller H. Carl McCall, a man who would be governor, has created a palatial penthouse for herself and her... More >>

• The Mob Meets the Detectives

  published March 27, 2001

  As treasurer of the Detective's Endowment Association, Stephen Gardell was obliged to investigate opportunities to make retirement that much... More >>

• Desk Slaves

  published March 20, 2001

  In the early 1990s, as allegedly time-saving electronic gizmos began their relentless march through offices everywhere, I watched a veteran,... More >>

• The Sweetheart Union

  published March 20, 2001

  Don't be asking anyone to sing "Solidarity Forever" over at the International Longshoremen's Association headquarters on Battery Place. Hard... More >>

• Pataki's Faulty Safety Patrol

  published March 13, 2001

  At the same time that some of the state's most powerful labor leaders are honoring Governor Pataki, local union officials are fighting a desperate... More >>

• The Newspaper Racket

  published March 6, 2001

  Five nights a week, one of America's best-paid truck drivers climbs into an 18-wheel tractor trailer to deliver the world's most famous... More >>

• Plaza Sweet

  published February 13, 2001

  One of the perks of the job for the president of the State University of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology is a rent-free, penthouse... More >>

• Ergonomics Rules

  published February 6, 2001

  Every year, an estimated 600,000 American workers suffer some form of serious ailment as a result of performing the same workplace tasks over and... More >>

• The Trouble With Harry

  published January 30, 2001

  The words "rogue cops" are usually enough to get news desks humming. And the announcement this month by state attorney general Eliot Spitzer that... More >>

• Unfriendly Relations

  published January 23, 2001

  What meager portions of justice available to American workers over the past eight years have been found more often in the small, windowless... More >>

• Unnatural Intolerance in Soho 

  published January 16, 2001

  Observant Muslims attempt to pray at least five times each day, and since at least two of those periods usually fall during working hours, the... More >>