Urban Affairs Correspondent, New York Times; Now in paperback:: A History of NY in 101 Objects. samrob@nytimes.com
How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
She wrote two popular memoirs: the first about the joys of married life, the second about her husband serving her divorce papers on their 40th anniversary.
In the 1960s and ’70s, he was a brash lieutenant to a young, ambitious, reform-minded mayor and ended up on President Nixon’s “enemies list.”
The youngest and longest-serving chaplain in New York City history, he was also the first Jewish chief chaplain in the modern era.
Nacido en Sevilla, fue el director del Hospital Bellevue de Nueva York entre 1990 y 2008
Showcasing “American Progress,” John Gast’s tableau of Manifest Destiny, is of a piece with the administration’s desire for a more traditional view of American history.
He represented the lofty as well as the low. His credits included the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest and the obligatory raincoat to keep a defendant’s cuffed hands covered in a “perp walk.”
Mary Rockefeller Morgan, daughter of Nelson and Michael’s twin, was determined to honor her family of collectors, and Indigenous art.
He exposed corrupt officials and greedy landlords, and his reporting on prison violence was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
The first Black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he was a political force for decades, only to be tarnished by an ethics violation.
She successfully challenged her involuntary commitment to Bellevue Hospital in 1987, setting a precedent for homeless people that remains relevant today.
A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the city.
With his own research group and as a professor at Queens College, he plumbed raw data for often-surprising insights about the way the country was changing.
A founding editor of People, he also served as editor in chief of Little, Brown and produced films. But his public image was defined by a 1952 story for Life.
As a conservative presidential speechwriter, he also relegated communism to “the ash heap of history.” Earlier, he won a Pulitzer Prize as a young reporter.