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2 days ago · Abraham Beame – first Jewish mayor of New York. The simple, black, and gold-lettered marker in Whitechapel says far more than its 31 words. Jerry Klinger is the President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, www.JASHP.org
3 days ago · Writer Laurie Gwen Shapiro pays a last visit to The Peking, the tall ship that stood tall at South Street Seaport for four decades before it moves to Germany.
3 days ago · Editing the most compelling ideas into 40 proposals, the Forum published “Next New York: A Sketchbook for the Future of the City” this week, releasing it at a dinner that began with a ...
2 days ago · The preservation movement needed to convince Mayor Abraham Beame to spend money that the City didn't have. The City was facing a financial crisis and the savvy Onassis recognized that Beame needed to be a hero in the eyes of New Yorkers.
3 days ago · Finally, in the summer of 1974 the third groundbreaking for the Second Avenue line was held at Second Avenue and Second Street with now Mayor Abraham Beame.
23 hours ago · Abraham Beame: 1928: Baruch: born Abraham Birnbaum; mayor of New York City Robin Byrd: Baruch: host of public access program The Robin Byrd Show (dropped out) Barbara A. Cornblatt: 1977: Baruch: professor of psychiatry and molecular medicine at Hofstra University School of Medicine: Fernando Ferrer: Baruch: New York City mayoral candidate in ...
4 days ago · Lindsay was succeeded in 1974 by Abraham Beame, who’d served previously as city comptroller. He ran on his budget expertise, which consisted mainly, sad to say, of knowing how to borrow his way out of the deficits he couldn’t hide with creative accounting.
