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...YORK??At the end of Martin Scorsese’s epic film GoodFellas, Ray Liotta’s character remarks that he and his gangster pals had been treated like “movie stars with muscle” during their heyday. On Monday, June 10, New York City’s real-life “movie star” mobster died of head and neck cancer at the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. John Gotti, age 61, was the Big Apple’s most identifiable gangster during the late 1980s. After being...
...case, by paying off a juror—Gotti gained a reputation as the city’s “Teflon Don,” for it was said that no charges would stick to him. He was, as Sante points out, “New York??s bandit king,” strolling arrogantly into court in his $2,000 Brioni suits while throngs of cheering fans maneuvered to catch a glimpse. Gotti was even featured on the cover of Time magazine before longtime friend and Gambino family underboss Sammy “The Bull?...
...best known for having opposed NAFTA, advocated the expansion of Social Security and pushed for federal subsidization of New York??s public transportation...
...part, Appiah says he is leaving Harvard for Princeton to be closer to his home and his partner in New York??he has commuted almost daily to Cambridge for seven years—and not because of any dissatisfaction with Harvard...
...Hyman says the two cities are very different—Boston offers academic opportunities while New York??s offers a more worldly atmosphere...