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 October 29, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Term Limits Coup"

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

  "Bloomberg's Velvet Coup"

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

  "Eliot Sptizer Goes Down"

• 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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2009 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Robert Morgenthau Goes Out on a Roll

  published December 29, 2009

  Part of the rap on Robert Morgenthau was always that he was this aloof, patrician prosecutor. Critics liked to peg the Manhattan District... More >>

• New York's Community-Labor Divide

  published December 22, 2009

  It's just our luck that the first time the City Council actually musters the courage to face down Mike Bloomberg, it's to kill a plan... More >>

• Mayor Bloomberg's Carbon Omissions

  published December 15, 2009

  The New Yorker who is first in fortune relaxed in a large armchair last week, dangling a tasseled loafer across his knee as he answered... More >>

• The Peggy Lipton Affair Brings Down Another Mogul

  published December 8, 2009

  New York's pension fund scandal, starring former Mod Squad actress Peggy Lipton, claimed another victim last week, and this time it was... More >>

• Joe Bruno and the Life Fantastic

  published December 1, 2009

  One of the best snapshots of the wonderful world that Joe Bruno inhabited was a memo to the former State Senate leader from one of his many... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  A Thanksgiving Honor Roll: NYC's Unsung Heroes

  published November 24, 2009

  This is a story about the other New York. Week in and week out, the city is dominated by spectacles of celebrity and scandal, of politicians... More >>

• No Safe Harbor for New York Tugboat Union

  published November 17, 2009

  A gusty November wind was churning New York harbor into choppy, white-foamed waves last week as a group of members of the tugboat workers union... More >>

• The Bloomberg Blowout That Wasn't

  published November 10, 2009

  A lot of New Yorkers were still scratching their heads about last week's election results when the mayor's campaign brain trust arrived at the... More >>

• A Dose of Albany Fraud from Tony Seminerio

  published November 3, 2009

  Anthony Seminerio, former Queens assemblyman, limped through the federal courthouse on Pearl Street last week, a sagging wreck of a man. It was... More >>

• The Mayor's Press Pass

  published October 27, 2009

  One reason for the remarkably charmed life of Mike Bloomberg's administration as he sails toward re-election has been the waning of the city's... More >>

• Mayor Bloomberg's School-Snack Bungle

  published October 13, 2009

  Public health has always been Mike Bloomberg's strong suit, and last week, he pressed ahead with his latest initiative: new vending machines... More >>

• The Acorn Tapes

  published October 6, 2009

  It was hard to know who to be angrier at in the candid camera caper pulled off by a pair of right-wing video bandits last month in the Brooklyn... More >>

• Bloomberg's Term Limits Scheme

  published September 29, 2009

  As it heads into the home stretch, the Bloomberg campaign has adopted a new slogan to sum things up and help focus voters on the big picture.... More >>

• City Council Representative Yassky's Zigzag Path to the Runoff

  published September 22, 2009

  Dick Dadey remembers walking in his Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in September 2008, when he bumped into his neighbor and City Council... More >>

• Whistleblowers On the Waterfront

  published September 15, 2009

  It may be just as well that the wonderful novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg died when he did. He was 95 years old when he passed away on... More >>

• History Lessons in the D.A.'s Race: Leslie Crocker Snyder's Back Pages

  published September 8, 2009

  The bitter three-way race to succeed Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan District Attorney has kicked up all kinds of ancient history. This seems... More >>

• Power Plays by Party Boss Vito Lopez

  published September 1, 2009

  Say this for Vito Lopez, the Brooklyn Democratic powerbroker who is flexing his political muscles these days like a gym rat pumping the free... More >>

• A Bloomberg Ally, Union Boss Michael Forde, Gets Hammered

  published August 11, 2009

  Mike Bloomberg will never suffer one of those embarrassing political stories in which a big campaign donor is revealed as a big crook. Such... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Inside the Mayor's Studio: NYC-TV's Secrets of New York

  published August 4, 2009

  This spring, a potential minor disaster loomed in the otherwise charmed life of Mike Bloomberg's administration. A top official at NYC-TV was... More >>

• The Bloomberg Dilemma: Favorite? Or Just No Obvious Alternative?

  published July 22, 2009

  Michael Bloomberg remains an overwhelming favorite for re-election, even as polls keep finding that most New Yorkers would just as soon someone... More >>

• Pedro Espada Plays Moneyball

  published July 15, 2009

  Say this for Pedro Espada Jr., the hard-jabbing bantamweight from the Bronx who managed over the past month to make himself the most reviled... More >>

• Mayor Bloomberg Goes Party Shopping

  published July 8, 2009

  Michael Bloomberg arrived at the Working Families Party mayoral forum last Thursday evening, determined to add one more bauble to his political... More >>

• Senate Coup Plotters' Hidden Agenda

  published July 1, 2009

  The tabloid version of the Great Senate Stalemate of 2009 goes something like this: Those bozos in the State Senate—who can't be trusted... More >>

• Paterson, The Governor Who Forgot To Get Mad

  published June 24, 2009

  Midway through the second week of Albany paralysis, as bills to pay for schools and hospitals drifted on a lifeless legislative sea, a... More >>

• The Taking of the State Senate 1 2 3

  published June 17, 2009

  One of them once introduced a City Council resolution honoring Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The other, while facing indictment, wore his... More >>