By Staff 8/24/06 11:05am

Grand Illusion

My invitation to Wayne Barrett’s book party got lost in the mail, so I had some time to actually read some of it. As the title suggests, Barrett argues that Giuliani wasn’t ready for a terrorist attack, and didn’t even think about it until it happened.

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Asked if Giuliani was Read More

By Josh Benson 10/02/00 12:00am

Bratton Plows Ahead in His Mayoral Quest; Enlists Pataki Buddy

Bill Bratton’s prospective run for Mayor next year has unleashed a monsoon of threats from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has sworn to demolish the former Police Commissioner’s candidacy. County leaders will be called, political allies browbeaten; leftover campaign cash from the Mayor’s aborted Senate run will be poured into efforts to stop Mr. Bratton. And Read More

By NYO Staff 10/02/00 12:00am

Bratton: A Good Man for Our City

Think about it: If you were considering a campaign to succeed Rudolph Giuliani, and you wished to run, like Mr. Giuliani, as a Republican, wouldn’t it behoove you to cultivate the Mayor and his voter base?

So it would seem. And yet former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, a savvy guy and a public official of Read More

By NYO Staff 8/21/00 12:00am

The Tourists Come to Town

Anybody who has spent even a few minutes in Times Square, or along Central Park South, or outside the United Nations headquarters, will not be surprised to learn that New York is one of the hottest tourist attractions on the planet. Every New Yorker has anecdotal evidence of this phenomenon: favorite restaurants filled with out-of-towners; Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 7/03/00 12:00am

Rampage in Central Park May Signal Changing Times

One of the cheapest thrills of history or historical fiction is spying on the average unperceptive soul as his world falls apart: Chaliapin performing in St. Petersburg the night the Winter Palace is stormed; some honest German tending bar at his saloon in New York or Chicago on the eve of Prohibition; the bellicose aristo Read More

By John Timoney 6/19/00 12:00am

More Than the Usual Suspects: The Complex and Colorful NYPD

NYPD: A City and Its Police , by James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto. Henry Holt, 368 pages, $27.50.

On the southeast corner of the 13th floor of One Police Plaza, the headquarters of the New York Police Department, the Chief of Department, the highest-ranking uniformed officer, has both his office and his private conference room. Read More