Jack Newfield

John Lindsay Lame Ducks Himself

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 15, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 11 John Lindsay: Goodbye to all that by Clark Whelton It had been raining through the early spring afternoon, but 30 minutes before John Lindsay was due to land in Milwaukee the weather turned around and ... More >>

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

Wayne Barrett: Time for Something New

​Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978. He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor. I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973. But I was now inheriting a column that Mary Nichols, th ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Honor Roll for 2010

Jack Newfield and Robert Kennedy: A Lunch that Launched a Memoir

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 5, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 34 Memoir of a Hero Who Died at Five by Clark Whelton In February of 1966, Jack Newfield appeared on a tv talk show to discuss his recently published book "A Prophetic Minority." During the course of the pro ... More >>

Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin Thinking About this Mayor Thing

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 3, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 25 Norman Mailer For Mayor? The tenth entrant in the Democratic mayoral scramble may be Norman Mailer. If Mailer opts in, his running mate for City Council President will be Jimmy Breslin, the combative ch ... More >>

Pete Hamill on the Death of Newsweek The Saturday Evening Post

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 16, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 14 More Irrelevant Than Irreverent by Pete Hamill The tv cameras had departed, the reporters were gone, and in the fourth-floor offices of the Saturday Evening Post at 541 Lexington Avenue, there wasn't ... More >>

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 >>

Clip Job: The Apocryphal Teeny Bopper

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 14, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 39 The Apocryphal Teeny Bopper By Howard Smith and Jack Newfield A 13-year-old blonde-on-blonde named Cher Zimmerman, dressed in flowered bell-bottomed pants and a fur vest over her knish-size breasts, com ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​The late Jack Newfield, bless him, used to do a Voice "Honor Roll" every year at this time of New Yorkers who actually do good things for other people. Tom Robbins happily takes up the task in this issue. What happens to those NBA first-round draft picks who don't become superstars, or even ... More >>

Clip Job: Stokely Carmichael and the Martyr Jonathan Daniels

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives September 16, 1965, Vol. X, No. 48 'Man, 17 Funerals Are Just Too Many' By Jack Newfield "He would stride cool and smiling through Hell, philosophizing all the way." That's how Howard Zinn in "The New Abolitionists" described 24-year- ... More >>

The Ghosts of Teddy Kennedy

​You half-expected the Post this morning to have re- plated its front page with one of its many Page Six cartoons, the ones depicting a paunchy Teddy Kennedy, wearing heart-bedecked boxer shorts and chasing a perky blonde around the bedroom. Rupert Murdoch never forgave Kennedy for having ... More >>

Clip Job: Jack Newfield's Mugging!

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 9, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 38The Town Hall 'Mugging'By Nat HentoffI had been anxious to find out what had happened at Town Hall on June 15 when "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash" was discussed by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Lorraine Hansber ... More >>

Former Mayor Ed Koch Hospitalized

Look through the Voice's back issues (and Wayne Barrett's and Jack Newfield's City for Sale) and you will see our authors have not been kind to Ed Koch's mayoralty. But we are not complete monsters, and wish him well on his recent hospitalization. Koch, who rose from Village Independent Democrats me ... More >>

Summer Guide: Lawrence Osbourne Pursues Redeemable Vulgarity in Bangkok Days

Jockbeat: José Torres, Friend to the Voice

Author, boxing official, champion prize fighter, and friend to the Voice José Torres died of a heart attack on Monday, January 19, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. RIchard Goldstein has a lengthy obit at the Times. Torres's Sting like A Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story, published in 1971 with a preface by Norman ... More >>

Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye

I used to say, 'I've been at the Voice since the Civil War.' But now I'm off to other combats.

A Thanksgiving NYC Honor Roll for Hard Times

Bartle's Bull: Old Voice Guy Goes McCain

Bloomberg's Term-Limits Coup: Heroes, Villains, and Wimps

Brutal brawling in the first throwdown of the 2009 elections

The Hidden History of the City's Greatest Era

Days of whine and poses

TABLOIDED: Hill and Obama's Last Dance?

Murdoch Closer to Journal Deal. 'Dough!'

Obama: Who Is He Now?

In Chicago and the Illinois State Legislature, Barack Obama made a difference—he did not just 'hope'

The Sales of Justice

In the dark corridors of Brooklyn politics, a State Supreme Court judgeship sells for $50,000 stuffed in an envelope, and $6,000 in postage stamps

How He Got That Story

Over two years and with the help of his late friend and colleague Jack Newfield, Wayne Barrett never stopped digging for the dirt.

The 10 Worst Landlords

Scraped from the bottom of the barrel, tales of living hell

Fire Storms

An inferno in Greenpoint highlights a drop in the number of fire investigators

An Anniversary: The Manes Scandals

Letters

Tales of the City

The 'Voice' bags the bad guys

1964

1971

1985

1989

2004

In Praise of Personal Journalism

Throwing off the shackles of the conventional press

Jack Newfield, 1938-2004

Spoils System

How a Hefty Fee for an Ex-Governor Went Unnoticed

Slinging Rehash

'Ali': Imitation of a Life

Jesse Jackson: The Desperate Hours

Inside the Civil Rights Power Struggle

Enter Carl W. Thomas

How Abner Louima's Former Attorney Can Make or Break A Black-Latino Coalition

Ralph Nader Lashes Back

‘The New York Times,’ Todd Gitlin, Katha Pollitt, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield—Frightened Liberals All

The Patriot

Ralph Nader Keeps Democracy Alive

The Devil To Pay?

Club Kids Cry Rape; Moral Panic Ensues

Nation

Gatien-Gate

The politics of dancing: what's behind the campaign to close the Limelight

Death of a Disco Dancer

New details about Tunnel drug overdose allegation

Sprewell In Black and White

Did Someone Say Double Standard?

Media Re-Dress