Word: york
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...York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato may be considered a lightweight on serious affairs of state, but when it comes to taking care of constituents, he is in a class by himself. After narrowly capturing the seat of the highly respected but terminally ill Senator Jacob Javits in 1980, the "Pothole Senator" easily won re-election in 1986 as a first-rate fixer who answers phone calls and delivers goodies to the home front. Said an admiring colleague: "He works harder than any Congressman...
Perhaps too hard. In the varied scandals involving improper political influence that have beset the capital, one name keeps popping up: Alfonse D'Amato. Last week D'Amato even became entangled in New York City's increasingly nasty mayoralty contest between Republican Rudolph Giuliani, the Mob-busting former U.S. Attorney, and Democrat David Dinkins. D'Amato conceded that he had telephoned Giuliani in 1984 and 1985 to pass along pleas for a review of charges or reduced prison sentences for Mobsters Paul Castellano and Mario Gigante. Giuliani refused to intercede...
...July, Joseph Monticciolo, the former New York regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, contended that D'Amato had repeatedly pressured him to approve housing projects. Many of them, HUD documents show, were in Puerto Rico, which the regional office administered. Last week HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided to move Puerto Rico operations out of the New York region, which would put them beyond D'Amato's reach. D'Amato also helped gain HUD financing for work in his hometown on Long Island, where his brother Armand, a lawyer, profited from the closings on house sales. Armand...
Maya Lin was living on New York City's Lower East Side when she received a call from a man in Louisiana in late February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet...
...stage set in Philadelphia; a corporate logo for financier Reginald Lewis; an open-air gathering place at Juniata College in Pennsylvania; and, soon, a "playful park" outside the Charlotte Coliseum in North Carolina (using trees shaped like spheres), and for the Long Island Rail Road section of New York's Pennsylvania Station, a glass-block ceiling, featuring fragmented, elliptical rings. In addition, there is her sculpture, which has been part of an exhibit at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York City. Combining lead (which she loves for its malleability and its "seductive" quality) and broken safety glass, her pieces...