“The Friedman records, seized by the feds early last year, unveil the machinations of a remarkable range of prominent New Yorkers — from mobsters like Tony Salerno and Tommy Gambino to publishing giant Si Newhouse and developer king Donald Trump”
Originally published February 10, 1987
“Ed Koch, who first achieved fame by conquering Tammany Hall boss Carmine DeSapio in the early 1960s, has become DeSapio, the personification of patronage, conflicts of interest, and cynical abuse of the public trust”
Originally published February 4, 1986
“Last summer Audubon Films shot part of an erotic movie at 39 East 68th Street, the building in which Cohn lives and works”
Originally published March 28, 1974
“A dark pouting model, Diane Delia was the apex of a love triangle at whose base were her accused killers Robert Ferrara and Robyn Arnold.”
Originally published October 5, 1982
In the 1980s, we needed an architecture critic who could see past the fool's gold of the Reagan era's glitz
March 27, 2020
“The stock market, which had broken record after record since the ’82 depression, had just experienced the financial equivalent of nuclear war. It was a good excuse to drink”
Originally published October 27, 1987
“Jewish children in years to come may live much like my parents, with a subtle but consuming sense of dread. America could yet turn out to be not so different from the Old World my grandparents fled.”
January 4, 2020
New Year's Day 50 years ago: "But in its monumental ugliness it commands that special morbid fascination that all New Yorkers feel toward their city, despise it as they may."
Originally published January 1, 1970
"I feel battered by culture shock — an experience that has mainly served to teach me how little I know, and how much I have falsely assumed"
Originally published January 22, 1979
"It was weird, and it was wild. It was freaky, and it was freedom. It was lunacy, and it was love. It was beautiful."
August 14, 2019