By Staff 4/06/06 12:06pm

Yankee Station: What a Surprise!

Joyce Purnick notes today (subscription required) how the last-minute endorsement by Mayor and Governor for a Yankee Metro-North station (paid for by M.T.A. taxpayers and riders) was all that was needed to convince some pols to vote yes for Yankee Stadium. But wasn’t that a card Bloomberg and Pataki had been keeping up their Read More

By Sridhar Pappu 9/30/02 12:00am

Columbia’s Dream Team: Star Trip Status Quo?

Paging Quincy Jones! The big head-scratch at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism took a starry “We Are the World” turn on Sept. 23 when new president Lee Bollinger announced his “task force” to examine the school’s future. And wowzers, the names: Ken Auletta, Bob Woodward, Anna Quindlen, Nick Lemann, Sylvia Nasar and Clarence Read More