The internet is replete with powerful tributes to Muhammad Ali, but I’ll humbly add the story of his legal travails. This is excerpted from a Federal Bar Council piece I co-authored with Steve Edwards on boxing law. Re-reading this five years later, I am struck by the final quote, in which Ali forgives an institution…
Our story about Mayor La Guardia pushing back against the federal war on drugs was kind of the “Today in NYC History” post for the day, but reader Carrie Chess sends in a good one that I felt like posting just under the deadline. According to the site Jewish Currents, on April 20, 1657, Asser…
Not a lot has happened in New York City on this date, but fortunately for “separation of powers” fans, on February 18, 1975, the Supreme Court ruled in New York’s favor in the sewage treatment financial allocation battle, Train v. City of New York. I practiced law for a while, and this is actually more interesting than…
Few conversations about New York City spark more heated debate than the redevelopment of Times Square. For some, it symbolized the death of New York City’s soul, the beginning of a corporate, stale, Disneyfied city. For others, it was a rebirth, a defiant reversal of the downward spiral that had unleashed crime and middle-class flight through Gotham. This…
Sheldon Silver is a bad Democrat and New York will be a better place with him out of politics. During his 20 years as Assembly Speaker, Silver worked to benefit himself and a small network of allies. Scandals bubbled to the surface every now and then, and far more often lurked underneath, no one ready…
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