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Life looks simple from the 75th floor, but the Manhattan that sprawls below is a violent, festering jungle of corruption: "Nothing gets built in Gotham without a kickback," Kelly tells us. Briody is haunted by his past as a street fighter for the I.R.A., and he gets in even more...
DIED. CARMINE DE SAPIO, 95, who ruled New York politics as the last boss of Tammany Hall; in New York City. He rose through the ranks as a messenger boy for political captains and ensured that the most politically deserving, needy families received their holiday food baskets. As head of...
Moynihan was an inconvenient man. He managed to infuriate everyone sooner or later. He was a Harvard professor who saw himself as the last vestige of Tammany Hall, a machine politician without a machine but with an ancient mandate to care for working stiffs, widows and orphans. He believed ethnicity...
His mother was cultured, his father defiantly not. Max Hart was a round (300-pound!) boisterous sort who did favors for Tammany Hall and, if he was too lazy to go to the bathroom, he'd take a whizz out the dining room window. Lorenz had Papa's appetite for...
At stake for CANF is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall--and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy. Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Last fall, CANF leaders were desperate to counter...