Word: manhattanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for his race, the former Manhattan borough president was hardly a bold choice for a city accustomed to setting trends. Courtly, cautious and unfailingly polite, Dinkins, 62, is a classic clubhouse politician who spent 35 years loyally trudging up the Democratic Party ladder while more dynamic black leaders overshadowed him. Seemingly content to forge a career based more on amiability than activism, he had never displayed the ruthless ambition and toughness most New Yorkers thought it took to reach the top. Says his old friend and former Deputy Mayor Basil Patterson: "David was always showing...
Playing at a mud-soaked Lawrence A. Wein Stadium in Manhattan, the Crimson defeats Columbia, 26-10. Running back Jim Reidy collects a career-high 139 yards on 19 carries. Quarterback Tim Perry completes 10 of 14 passes for 135 yards. The Multiflex is rolling. Coach Joe Restic is happy, but concerned, especially about the seven fumbles Harvard commits...
...deco edifices was completed on Nov. 1, 1939, Rockefeller Center has been hailed as an urban masterpiece. Tourists flock to its ice rink to watch skaters twirl and to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes do their high kicks with uncanny precision. But last week the Manhattan landmark, which houses U.S. companies ranging from General Electric to Simon & Schuster, took on a fresh symbolism. Control of the 19-building center passed into foreign hands when Japan's Mitsubishi Estate Co. agreed to pay $846 million for a 51% share of the Rockefeller Group, which owns most...
...Rockefeller Group deal is designed to diversify the holdings in the trusts that John D. Rockefeller Jr. created in 1934 for his heirs. As the Manhattan real estate boom swelled the value of the Rockefeller Group's properties from 25% of the trust's assets a few years ago to 50% today, trust administrators saw the need to spread the money around...
...Manhattan Borough president did not disappoint his backers. Running through his list of personal, national and local gratitude, he stopped to mention "that man of towering talent who touched the face of history--the Rev. Jesse Jackson...