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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2007 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Mike vs. Rudy: The Smackdown

  published July 3, 2007

  Regardless of whether he ever gets down to the bare essentials, Michael Bloomberg, presidential pretender, is performing a wonderfully tantalizing... More >>

• Mike Bloomberg, Free at Last

  published June 26, 2007

  It is never good to live with lies, even half-lies, and it is a great cleanser of the spirit to finally speak the truth. So it was helpful for the... More >>

• The Second Battle of Bushwick

  published June 19, 2007

  From the top of the spanking new steel-and-glass 14-story condo tower now open for inspection on Grove Street just off of Myrtle Avenue, you can... More >>

• Revolt from Above

  published June 5, 2007

  Union membership slipped to an all-time low of 12 percent of the workforce last year, despite valiant organizing efforts to stem the tide.... More >>

• Hack Attack

  published May 15, 2007

  Part of the promise that surrounded Christine Quinn's election last year as City Council Speaker was the hope that the former activist would bring... More >>

• Secrets of the Mob

  published May 8, 2007

  They don't make them like mobster turned government informant George Barone anymore. And despite his valiant service to his country, past... More >>

• The New Dealer

  published April 24, 2007

  You couldn't give an opponent much more of a beating than the one Eliot Spitzer handed John Faso last fall. Any worse and you're talking possible... More >>

• Slumlord Showdown

  published April 10, 2007

  Tenants had plenty of cause to cheer City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's announcement last week that she'd reached agreement with the real... More >>

• Roman Holiday

  published March 20, 2007

  With just two months to go in his job as the state's economic development czar, Charles Gargano hopped on an Alitalia Airlines flight last October... More >>

• Big-Mouth Blockhead Busted

  published March 13, 2007

  No one likes opening the door at 6:40 a.m. and finding three federal agents on the stoop with an arrest warrant. But even veteran tough guys... More >>

• Hell to The Chief

  published March 6, 2007

  The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association is the powerful union representing New York's 23,000 police officers, and while it wields immense political... More >>

• Can't Anyone Here Learn to Drive?

  published February 13, 2007

  One of the state employees who provided key evidence to prosecutors from the state attorney general's office and the Albany County district... More >>

• The Magician's Nephew

  published February 6, 2007

  In the spring of 2003, Charles Gargano, who served as George Pataki's economic development czar, made a visit to the embattled operator of the... More >>