Cindy Adams

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Cindy Adams

In 1626 Peter Minuit, a Westphalian and this colony’s first governor, bought New York for 60 guilders. About $24. Nearly what a B’way show’s intermission drink costs today. Canal Street was then a tangled mass. Still now. New 1600 arrivals could not buy land. They were tenants. Powerless. Still now. All belonged to the haughty land-owning patroons. New settlers argued with powerful Minuit who favored the patroons. Still now. Think Albany, Washington. Think — or try to — of your landlord.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Cindy Adams

Historians who’ve researched the origins of antisemitism say it goes way back. Anti Jewish sentiment traces to the ancients. Alexandria had a Jewish population mockingly called lepers or exiles from Egypt. Tensions arose between Greeks and Jews. Antiquity. Religious exclusion in polytheistic Egypt, Greece, Rome — dietary restriction, Sabbath observance, circumcision created otherness. First century tension in Alexandria led to violence. Greeks accused them of separation. Romans called them clannish.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Cindy Adams

As summer approaches, don’t forget your history. Here’s a presidential lesson or two. John Quincy Adams — despite his great last name — was fierce, haughty, unforgiving. Also cold, austere. Swam naked every morning in the Potomac. Nice. Would make Putin look like a Hallmark valentine. Cuddly Andrew Jackson. “Old Hickory” resolved differences with fists and a sword. Think Nancy Pelosi in long drawers. Martin Van Buren. Smooth talker, perfumed dandy, loved making speeches.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Cindy Adams

Eternity is breaking up that old gang of mine. In his good years, Bernie Kerik was good. Very good. Nobody gooder. I was often at his New Jersey home. Dinners. Parties. Crowded? You couldn’t throw a summons without hitting a VIP. Son Joe a detective. Himself a former NYC cop. As top cop, one Christmas card pictured his favorite one-namers — Donald, Geraldo and me. I’ve kept letters he sent me from prison. Talk was maybe a movie being written about him. He wanted Tom Cruise to star. Yeah, he went bad.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Cindy Adams

It’s Tonys time soon. June 8. More exciting news than the bulletins at Newark. I haven’t been this moved since Sutton Foster told me in 2022 that she’d been picked to work with Hugh Jackman in Broadway’s “The Music Man.” Not knowing him so well before, she was therefore very excited. Now 2025, getting divorced from his wife of decades. New lady friend — Sutton Foster. The first Tonys were 1947. At the Waldorf Astoria, which may reopen when the Statue of Liberty goes co-op. Tickets, $7. Now Radio City.