“In a city where the death penalty has been perhaps the most controversial public issue for a decade, cop bullets killed 39 people last year. Two hundred have died this way since Ed Koch became mayor in 1978”
A letter from Roy Cohn’s firm indicating that “the Trump Organization has validated the status” of the Hopkins purchase helped push the bank to approve the dubious deal.
How city and state officials, real estate operators, lawyers, and bankers came together in a multimillion-dollar deal to rebuild the Commodore Hotel, largely at public expense
When Donald Trump dumped on Ed Koch, he doomed his own greatest project. In this tale of two egos, Trump makes the biggest mistake of his career and hastens his demise.