Sam Roberts

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Urban Affairs Correspondent at The New York Times

Urban Affairs Correspondent, New York Times; Now in paperback:: A History of NY in 101 Objects. [email protected]

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Bernard Kerik, New York’s Police Commissioner on 9/11, Dies at 69

1 week ago | myheraldreview.com | Sam Roberts

NEW YORK — Bernard B. Kerik, the New York City police commissioner who was hailed as a hero for overseeing the department’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, only to fall from grace after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes, died Thursday. He was 69. Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, announced Kerik’s death in a post on the social platform X.
Bernard Kerik, New York's Police Commissioner on 9/11, Dies at 69

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

His meteoric rise to become New York City's chief law enforcement officer was later tarnished after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes. The former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik arrived at the hearing for Kash Patel's nomination as director of the F.B.I. in Washington in January. Credit... Mark Peterson for The New York Times Bernard B. Kerik, the New York City police commissioner who was hailed as a hero for overseeing the department's response to the Sept.
Bernard Kerik, Disgraced Former Police Commissioner, Dies at 69

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

By Bernard B. Kerik, the New York City police commissioner who was hailed as a hero for overseeing the department's response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, only to fall from grace after he plead guilty to an ethics violation and felony tax fraud, died on Thursday. He was 69. Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I., announced Mr. Kerik's death in a post on X. He said the former commissioner died "after a private battle with illness."
A Young Rockefeller Vanished in 1961. The Met's New Wing Celebrates His Memory

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

Mary Rockefeller Morgan, daughter of Nelson and Michael's twin, was determined to honor her family of collectors, and Indigenous art. Michael C. Rockefeller, left, Adrianus Alexander Gerbrands, René S. Wassing, June 26, 1961. Michael was 22 when he traveled to what was then Dutch New Guinea for the first time, with a documentary film crew. Credit...
Tom Robbins, Versatile Muckraker for The Village Voice, Dies at 76

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

He exposed corrupt officials and greedy landlords, and his reporting on prison violence was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Tom Robbins, a journalistic bulldog who spent more than four decades exposing crooked politicians, ruthless landlords and violence in New York prisons for The Village Voice, The New York Times and other publications, died on Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 76. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Susan Mastrangelo, said.
Charles B. Rangel, Longtime Harlem Congressman, Dies at 94

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

As the dean of New York's delegation and the first Black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he was a powerful political force for decades. Charles Rangel spoke at a news conference outside the Bronx County Courthouse in 1985. Among those with him was David Dinkins, left, shortly before he became Manhattan borough president. A mainstay of Harlem's Democratic old guard, Mr. Rangel was first elected to Congress in 1970. Credit... Eddie Hausner/The New York Times Charles B.
Tony Bechara, Painter Who Championed Latino Artists, Dies at 83

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

He turned away from a potential career in the law or international relations to produce abstract paintings, and he headed El Museo del Barrio. Tony Bechara's parents didn't believe he could make a living as an artist. So he majored in philosophy and economics in college and earned a master's degree in international relations. He started law school, too, but in his mid-20s he found his true passion as a painter.
Monroe Milstein, Burlington Coat Factory Founder, Dies at 98

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

His was not exactly a rags-to-riches story, but his family made $1.3 billion from an original down payment of $75,000 in savings. Monroe Milstein, who turned a $75,000 investment in a derelict New Jersey garment plant into the nation's third-largest discount retailer, Burlington Coat Factory - which he would sell in 2006 for more than $2 billion - died on May 9 at his home in Bal Harbour, Fla. He was 98. The cause was complications of dementia, his grandson Samuel Milstein said.
Michael A. Ledeen, Reagan Adviser Involved in Iran-Contra, Dies at 83

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

A neoconservative who fervidly opposed Communism and the fundamentalist regime in Iran, he wrote many books and articles, some of whose theories were later discredited. Michael Ledeen, a provocative neoconservative who advised Washington policymakers to crush Islamic terrorists, disparaged a free press and helped instigate the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages scandal during the Reagan administration, died on Saturday in Austin, Texas. He was 83.
Christopher Bond, former Missouri governor and senator, dies at 86

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Sam Roberts

Christopher S. Bond, who was Missouri’s youngest governor and its first Republican one since 1945 when he was elected in 1972, and who went on to serve four terms in the US Senate, died Tuesday in St. Louis. He was 86. His death was announced by Governor Mike Kehoe, a fellow Republican. The announcement did not say where in St. Louis he died. Mr. Bond, known as Kit, was 31 in 1970 when he was elected state auditor, defeating a 17-year incumbent.