David Dinkins

Turnout Burnout

Con Man Tries to Use David Dinkins' AmEx Card

Barrett: The Politics On Display At Bill Tatum's Funeral

Funerals can be about politics, especially when the deceased is as influential as Bill Tatum was. The longtime owner of the Amsterdam News drew a crowd of hundreds at Riverside Church last Friday, and most of the speakers were politicians, including the minister who presided, Rev. Al Sharpton.None o ... More >>

Ferrer's Color-Coded Victory Plan

A Freddy win in September could pose a demographic dilemma for big-bucks Mike

Should Al Sharpton Apologize?

The racial politics of reconciliation in New York

Rudy's Milky Way

An Administration 'Of, For, and By White People' Has No Time or Room for Blacks

Hillary's Crown Heights Problem

If Rudy Giuliani plays the race card, he most likely will try to attack Former Mayor David Dinkins's legacy in one of the city's ethnic hotbeds

Giuliani = La Guardia? NOT!

How Rudy Stacks Up Against His Hero

A Readers' Guide to the Good Stuff From Rudy!

63 Hot Newsbreaks in the New Giuliani Biography

The Emperor’s New Praise

Rudy Pushes Right Buttons, Wrong Candidate

Pataki's Man in Harlem

How Randy Daniels Helped Put Chain Stores and Market Prices Uptown

The Battle for Harlem

Sharpton Camp Assails Butts as Upstate Republicans Maneuver To Exploit Black Power Struggle

Ducking Diallo

White Pols and Press Tread Lightly on Rudy Role in Cop Brutality

Arresting Developments

Symbol and substance at One Police Plaza

Hillary 'Banned' In Crown Heights

The First Lady's embrace of Former Mayor David Dinkins ignites an orthodox Jewish backlash

Wake-up Call for Rudy

If Bedrooms Are for Sleeping, Why Won’t the Mayor Build More?

Oh, God

Why Religion Doesn't Have a Prayer in New York Politics

The ABCs of the RGB

A Primer on the City’s Rent Guidelines Board

The Kid From Great Neck

Grown-Up Green Is Poised to Run ‘the City’

The Unfinished Mayoralty

David Dinkins Bares His Soul About Mark Green, Al Sharpton, a Black-Latino Coalition, Crown Heights, Rudy Giuliani, and His Own Legacy

Letters

David Dinkins Bares His Soul About Mark Green, Al Sharpton, a Black-Latino Coalition, Crown Heights, Rudy Giuliani, and His Own Legacy

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part I

The Missing and the Dead

Still Counting

The Big Term-Limits Primary Offers Some Surprises

The Hidden Persuaders

Green Takes Heat for Hate Flyers

Crime Wave

Michael Bloomberg’s Last-Minute Mailing

Four-Room Co-Op in Circa 1900s Walk-Up

Michael Bloomberg’s Last-Minute Mailing

Sundown on the Patronage Party

Liberals Sink as Working Families Rise

The Other Budget Culprit

Giuliani's Role in Fiscal Woes

Tough Watchdog

Lefþer the Latest to Feel Campaign Board’s Bite

Disco Inferno

New York Nightclubs Fend Off Conflagration

The People vs. Bloomy

The Democrats try to come up with a compelling case to oust the mayor

The Other Freddy Ferrer

2001 candidate trades two NYCs for one, prefers mainstream to upstream

1989

2001 candidate trades two NYCs for one, prefers mainstream to upstream

1992

2001 candidate trades two NYCs for one, prefers mainstream to upstream

1993

2001 candidate trades two NYCs for one, prefers mainstream to upstream

The 2005 Wacko Awards

With everyone chasing a Bloombucks bonus, only the most craven can win

Letters: May 20, 2009

With everyone chasing a Bloombucks bonus, only the most craven can win

Manhattan D.A. Endorsements: McCall for Vance, Koch for Snyder

In endorsements for the Manhattan D.A.'s race, as we noted before, it's been all about Richard Aborn. But the other candidates are starting to grab some big names, too. Cyrus Vance Jr. has just added former state comptroller and gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall to his roster, which includes David ... More >>

Morgenthau to Endorse Cy Vance Jr. for D.A. Today

As we've mentioned, the Manhattan D.A.'s race has gone into full swing, and the Democratic candidates have been busy gathering endorsements. Leslie Crocker Snyder recently netted former Mayor Ed Koch, among others; Cy Vance, Jr. got former Mayor Dinkins, and recently drew out political retiree Caro ... More >>

Dinkins and the Bad Old Days: Bloomberg Used the Same Fear Tactic in 2001

​The Times today has a short and instructive corrective to the David Dinkins-era narrative invoked by Team Bloomberg's most rabid fan, Rudy Giuliani, who offered a now-notorious race-linked screed last week to an orthodox Brooklyn crowd that the city risked going back to the bad old Dinkins da ... More >>

Why Bloomberg Should Get Testy in Tonight's Debate

​A campaign operative for Mayor Bloomberg' "exhorts volunteers to shift into overdrive" in the final week before the vote. Why? The Times and its experts express caution over turnout: "Elections have been lost -- most notably David N. Dinkins's 1993 re-election race -- because people who insis ... More >>

The Mayor's Press Pass

The unexamined world of Mike Bloomberg

Barrett: Harlem's Gang of Four Handicaps the Governor's Race on NY1

If you're a New York political junkie, the best entertainment of the holiday season was the sitdown Michael Scotto had last week on NY1 with the remaining members of Harlem's Gang of Four, David Dinkins, Basil Paterson and Congressman Charlie Rangel. They went on the show to laud gang leader and b ... More >>

Barrett: Watching Al Sharpton Operate at the Percy Sutton Funeral

Sutton​Jesse Jackson was standing by the front door at Riverside Church as Percy Sutton's coffin made its way out of the church Wednesday afternoon. Jackson had opened the three-and-a-half-hour service with a poignant salute to "the tallest tree in our forest," recalling the many "points of li ... More >>

Furloughs? David Paterson Backs Himself Into a Bad Position, Again

​Maybe it's just David Paterson fatigue. The media is so tired of kicking the governor around that we're letting him posture as a bulwark against fiscal madness when he's one of its causes. It took a federal judge a minute or two to figure out that Paterson's furlough plan was an illegal vio ... More >>

This Week, in the Voice: Is This Woman Too Hot to Be a Banker?

​Debrahlee Lorenzana was a banker at a Citibank branch in Midtown Manhattan. As you'll see from our cover, she's an attractive woman. But too attractive to keep her job? Elizabeth Dwoskin asks as much in this week's Village Voice cover story, Is This Woman Too Hot to Be a Banker?

Is the Fuck-You Finger Over?

​NPR asks an intriguing question today. With so many -- of such varied backgrounds, ages, and degrees of fame -- using their middle fingers to express discontent, are we simply growing numb to the shock value of the bird? Does it need a replacement, stat? In the last few months, the gesture ha ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity is Here: When Will He Endorse an A.G. Candidate?

​Andrew Cuomo will show us in the next few days if he has the balls to be a change agent as governor. His feud with Eliot Spitzer caught fire when Spitzer got stuck in neutral during Cuomo's 2006 primary race for attorney general against Mark Green, refusing to endorse Cuomo when it mattered. ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Honor Roll for 2010

​Andrew Cuomo will show us in the next few days if he has the balls to be a change agent as governor. His feud with Eliot Spitzer caught fire when Spitzer got stuck in neutral during Cuomo's 2006 primary race for attorney general against Mark Green, refusing to endorse Cuomo when it mattered. ... More >>

Ray Kelly Heckled at Columbia Class by Protesters

​Things seem to have gone off the rails in former mayor David Dinkins' urban public policy class at Columbia tonight, where Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was the visiting guest along with federal judge George Daniels and Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance Jr. According to Bwog, Kelly was speaking when s ... More >>