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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2010 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Actor/Bar Owner Bruce Peter DuPré Gets a Mafia Life Lesson

  published June 29, 2010

  One of the recipes for a successful Lower East Side bar is to make a bow to the neighborhood's bad old days, while offering all the comforts of... More >>

• Bloomberg's Million-Dollar Ripoff

  published June 22, 2010

  Michael Bloomberg never once complained about the million-plus dollars that District Attorney Cy Vance says was plucked from the mayor's pocket... More >>

• The Franzeses' Mob Clan Rat Themselves Out

  published June 15, 2010

  Shortly before she managed to get involved in a full-throttle family screaming and shoving match outside her husband's racketeering trial last... More >>

• A Jailhouse Lawyer Says a Top Brooklyn Prosecutor Rigged His Murder Conviction

  published June 1, 2010

  The last time Jabbar Collins asked a judge to order a new trial to prove that he wasn't the one who had shot down a rabbi collecting rent on a... More >>

• Carpenters: The Mob's Union

  published May 25, 2010

  Union carpenters built the soaring federal courthouse on Pearl Street near Chinatown, and last week, a few of them were back to see justice... More >>

• Wall Street Runs for Congress

  published May 18, 2010

  Given its outsize role in our city, it is no surprise that Wall Street believes it should be entitled to its very own member of Congress. As... More >>

• Mass Transit Cuts Leave Passengers Stranded

  published May 11, 2010

  Mass transit is democracy on wheels. It is the great equalizer that lets lawyers and waitresses, messengers and professors enjoy... More >>

• The City's TV Station Is All Bloomberg, All The Time

  published May 4, 2010

  Mike Bloomberg's trip to Copenhagen last December for the U.N. talks on climate change put him on a global stage, which he didn't seem to mind... More >>

• Pedro Espada's Enablers

  published April 27, 2010

  Andrew Cuomo's revelations about State Senator Pedro Espada's calculated looting of his publicly subsidized Bronx health care clinics have... More >>

• Bloomberg Roots for Wall Street

  published April 20, 2010

  Michael Bloomberg went down to Washington last week to have his say in the great battle now raging over whether new regulations should be... More >>

• R.I.P. St. Vincent's Hospital

  published April 13, 2010

  Hospitals don't ordinarily get obituaries, but surely St. Vincent's, the Village institution that tended for so long to so many of us, deserves... More >>

• Steve "Budget Crusher" Levy and the Crew from Crookhaven

  published April 6, 2010

  Steve Levy is a scrappy, bantamweight kind of guy, which may help explain his boyhood passion for pro wrestling growing up in Suffolk County:... More >>

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  Jonathan Tasini Carries a Democratic Torch Against Gillibrand

  published March 30, 2010

  One by one, those who thought they could do a better job in the U.S. Senate than Kirsten Gillibrand have dropped by the wayside. First, there... More >>

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  The GOP's Newest Immigrant: Governor Hopeful Steve Levy

  published March 24, 2010

  Steve Levy drove his old Ford Taurus last week from out east on Long Island up to Albany. The two-term executive of Suffolk County was there to... More >>

• Bloomberg: The Movie (At Your Expense)

  published March 16, 2010

  Shortly after his re-election in November 2005, Mike Bloomberg decided to raise his national profile several notches. He began traveling... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  David Paterson's World Series of Whoppers

  published March 9, 2010

  No matter how or where he ends up, the lasting image of David Paterson will be the shot of him in his earnest-blue suit, right arm raised,... More >>

• A Skating Rink Seeks a Home in the South Bronx

  published March 2, 2010

  Cary Goodman stood on East 161st Street last week, pointing toward the lovely Lorelei Fountain that sits on a small ridge across from the Bronx... More >>

• The Bloomberg Employment Agency

  published February 23, 2010

  A few days before he announced that things are so bad that he needs to lay off thousands of city workers and close 20 firehouses, Michael... More >>

• Larry Seabrook Caught At Last

  published February 16, 2010

  Following his arraignment on 13 counts of fraud last week, Larry B. Seabrook pulled a camel-hair coat over the dapper, three-piece gray suit he... More >>

• Labor Violations in Congress and in NY Streets

  published February 9, 2010

  Wage justice has long been the signature issue of labor lawyer M. Patricia Smith, and that is exactly what so spooked the Right when President... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Reinvention of Andrew Cuomo

  published February 2, 2010

  For a politician with a true gift of gab, Andrew Cuomo has been operating for more than three years now under some strict and self-imposed... More >>

• Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik: The Final Chapter

  published January 19, 2010

  The main events in the always fascinating saga of Rudy Giuliani and his once-beloved lawman, Bernie Kerik, came to a close late last year.... More >>

• Gunning for the Working Families Party

  published January 12, 2010

  In 1938, in the teeth of the Great Depression, the Roosevelt administration won passage of a 40-hour-week wage law. Employers were now obliged... More >>