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Forty-Year-Old John Lindsay Campaign Billboard Uncovered in Flatbush

John Lindsay was the mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973. That's definitely far enough in the past that you'd think his campaign materials would be long gone. Check out this photo, though: That's a Lindsay campaign billboard from the late 60s, recently uncovered on the corner of Bedford and ... More >>

Florence Henderson Got Crabs from One-Night Stand With Former NYC Mayor John Lindsay

​Florence Henderson, she of the awesome Carol Brady characterization and beauteous mullet, has admitted in her upcoming memoir, Life Is Not a Stage, that 1. She cheated on her husband in the '60s and 2. She got crabs in doing so. Further, the crabs-giver was no other than John Lindsay, former ... More >>

Is Mayor Bloomberg Gay?

​And what if he was? "That's the kinds of questions we at Next magazine found ourselves asking in our Gay Pride Issue 2011. "What keeps the gay dream alive in New York when things like AIDS, 9/11, marriage inequality and, yes, mayors who campaign against our nightlife, our dancing, our sex ... More >>

New York Parties Are So Over

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 22, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 12 Wake up! The party's not over by Blair Sobol Perhaps Norman Mailer started it all. The latest craze is giving extravagantly dull parties. The bigger and more boring the better. Nowadays the success of ... More >>

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 >>

Ed Koch Red-Baited at an Anti-War Rally, Says Jack Newfield

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 13, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 2 My Back Pages By Jack Newfield PAGE ONE. Congressman Ed Koch is misleading the readers of The Voice. Koch and a close friend of his (Larry Maxwell) have published letters in The Voice denying that Ko ... More >>

Rich New York Mayor Runs for President, 1972 Version

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 6, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 1 He said nothing sincerely By Michael Zwerin MIAMI, Florida -- The Miami Room of the Dupont Plaza was crowded for some big-time stuff. Reporters were even flown down special. We all had press kits with ... More >>

Shirley Chisholm Dares to Run for President

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 48 'They will remember a 100-pound woman' By Mary Breasted The tiny glittering black woman stood utterly at attention. She wore a suit of stiff brocade that fitted her shoulders so snugly it gave her a f ... More >>

Complaining About Snow Is So Passé

New Yorkers wade through the 1969 "Lindsay" storm.​It's hard to tell if the New York Times is trying to celebrate or condemn all of this snow bitching. But a story on the paper's website today would like to remind you that whining about blizzards, and especially ragging on city officials abou ... More >>

Bike Lanes on City Streets Coming 'Soon': 1970

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 39 Cyclists in The City: Ride On! By Clark Whelton A thousand bicyclists left Central Park last Wednesday morning and headed down Fifth Avenue to demonstrate that New York would be a better city if more ... More >>

Jack Newfield on John Lindsay's Re-Election: No Cosmic Significance

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 13, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 57 There Was No Mystery by Jack Newfield Columnists and politicians seem intent on extracting cosmic meanings from John Lindsay's re-election victory. They see the end of the two-party system, a mandate ... More >>

STILL PROUD

Gay rights under discussion

The Voice, Shockingly, Endorses Norman Mailer

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 12, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 35 Editorials for June 17 Mailer-Breslin The significant advance in this dreary primary is the introduction of Norman Mailer to municipal politics. He understands better than anyone around the anguish of ... More >>

Jimmy Breslin on Norman Mailer for Mayor: 'That bum is serious!'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 24, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 28 The Mailer-Breslin Ticket: Vote the Rascals In by Joe Flaherty I approached the making of the Mailer, 1969, with dubious thoughts. Like many others I was invited to Mailer's home about three weeks ago t ... More >>

John Lindsay Begins a Rough 1969 Re-Election Bid

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 20, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 23 John Lindsay Throws Himself Into the Ring by Mary Perot Nichols John V. Lindsay has been testing the water for the last few weeks. Although it looked rough, Lindsay apparently decided he was a strong sw ... More >>

State Senate's Malcolm Smith Invents Perfect Mouth-Trap as Feds Eye Home Scam

​What with terror terrier Faisal Shahzad trying to send some of us to infidel oblivion this past weekend, we temporarily lost sight of our home-hatched wackos in Albany. On Monday came news that senate President Malcolm Smith has his own plans on sending people to oblivion, although in his ca ... More >>

Clip Job: The Frenetic Business of Being Bobby Kennedy

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 10, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 4 The Frenetic Business of Being Bobby Kennedy By Suzanne Kiplinger Senator Robert F. Kennedy came to Brooklyn Heights last Sunday, leaving in his wake several hundred frenetic, excited Bobby-Watchers ... More >>

Clip Job: Koch Surprises No One, And Manville Returns!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 24, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 23 Koch Battles the Odds, Gets in Council Race By Jack Newfield Having vanquished the DeSapio machine in Greenwich Village, Edward Koch this week announced he will make a fight for public office. He seeks ... More >>

Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85

​Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>

Clip Job: At William Buckley's Headquarters on Lindsay's Big Night

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 11, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 4 They Burned Their Draft Cards [Caption] THEY BURNED THEIR DRAFT CARDS on Saturday at Union Square in protest against America's role in Vietnam. The protesters -- facing long terms in jail -- are James ... More >>

Clip Job: Mailer Backs Lindsay for Mayor

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 28, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 2 Norman Mailer on Lindsay & the City I was talking to a woman at a party the other night, and she said Abe Beame was an old machine politician and so she was going to vote for him because he would know ... More >>

Times: "Cluster-Site" Homeless Housing Bonanza for Landlords, Bad for Tenants

The "scatter-site" housing program -- originated by John Lindsay to set homeless families up in apartments in various working class neighborhoods, adopted by Mayor Giuliani and inherited and perpetuated by Mayor Bloomberg -- was unpopular. So Bloomberg vowed to phase it out. But he has replaced i ... More >>

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New Yorkers Use Classic Salsa to Fight Gentrification

New York's salsa scene, still going strong in Spanish Harlem, valiantly beats back the McCondo purge

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William F. Buckley v. Norman Mailer

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Why Won't the Mayor Let Us Get Close to Him?

American Graffiti

Déjà Vu All Over Again

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