It can be easy to forget, in our hurry to get places, that taxi drivers have it pretty tough. Between the rise of Uber, Lyft, and their imitators, and the introduction of the green outer-borough taxis a few years ago, life has never been so convenient for taxi passengers. For drivers, on the other hand,…
Rudy Giuliani has been making the news recently for his crazed attacks on President Obama’s patriotism, a sad chapter for the former mayor, who became a national hero for his response to the September 11th attacks. His leadership during that period erased local memory of his disastrous campaign for the U.S. Senate against then-First Lady Hillary Clinton.…
As we explored two weeks ago, the battle for Times Square was long and messy. On February 24, 1998, the Giuliani administration won a major legal battle when the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the City had legally re-zoned Times Square, a seeming death knell for the local adult entertainment industry. One of…
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