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...trial involved payoffs in an obscure New York City agency, but the cast of characters and sordid details made for great drama. Here was Donald Manes, borough president of Queens and a powerful Democratic Party boss who killed himself by thrusting a kitchen knife into his chest last March just as the inquiry got under way. Here was Bronx Democratic Leader Stanley Friedman, an equally mighty politico who was accused of bribing Manes to arrange a city contract with a company in which Friedman held stock. The case pitted Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, a prosecutor with political ambitions, against...
Manhattan, the island borough of 34 square miles, the city that gave us gridlock, each day invites in 877,000 motorists and then does not let them park. Over our coffee we trade hints on what it is not too illegal to do with our delivery trucks there. We tell tales of cabbies and their refreshing obscenities...
...Wanamaker first visited the site in 1949, found only a brass plaque on a wall beside the debris-strewn riverbank and felt, "well, outrage." Over the years he and his Shakespeare Globe Trust faced the slings and arrows of competition from other restoration drives and a local borough council more interested in low-income housing (its deputy leader called the Bard "a lot of tosh"). After the council pulled out of a 1981 deal with a development company that would have guaranteed the site ("political vandalism," in Wanamaker's view), the Trust sued. Late last month the sea of troubles...
...program was launched in New York City in March 1985, with students at Public School 204 in the borough of Queens. Twice as many tutors as were needed volunteered. Among them was Joan Walsh, chief of TIME Letters department. A former schoolteacher, she gives the program high marks: "Time Inc. gave us a place to work and brought the kids here, which helped us use the time productively. Now that school is out, my student wrote me that she had got a library card and planned to read many books over the summer...
...news broke in a particularly dramatic fashion: in early January, Donald Manes, the mayor's close political ally and president of the borough of Queens (one of New York City's five administrative units), was pulled from his car, bleeding and near death from knife cuts to the wrist and ankle; Manes eventually admitted that the wounds were self-inflicted. Soon after, Manes' associate, Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former official in the city's parking- violations bureau, was accused of extorting $410,000 in cash, trips and theater seats from agencies that had been granted plump city contracts to collect unpaid...