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
Plus ça Change Department: Forty-four years ago, Alexander Cockburn reported that riding the New York City subways was worse than hiding in the tunnels during the London Blitz
Think things are weird now? Along with the strange machinations surrounding the fall of Richard Nixon, the Watergate era also gave us the David Bowie look-alike contest.
