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2 days ago · Abraham Beame’s principal claim to fame is that New York’s fiscal meltdown occurred on his watch; he sat by helplessly as the state effectively took control of municipal finances. There was ...
5 days ago · It was one of Fred’s old friends, Mayor Abraham Beame, who helped to facilitate one of Trump’s first big plays: obtaining an option to develop the West Side rail yards from a bankruptcy court ...
1 day ago · The election of Abraham Beame in 1973 was the last gasp of old-style politics in New York. Beame was a product of the organization, and as the first Jewish mayor he represented the ethnic succession to power that Irish and Italians had previously achieved.
- George Lankevich
1 day ago · Abraham Beame, elected mayor in 1973, faced the worst fiscal crisis in the City’s history and spent the bulk of his term attempting to ward off bankruptcy. He slashed the City workforce, froze wages, increased subway and bus fares, and restructured the budget, but even this proved insufficient.
1 day ago · After Abraham Beame was elected to succeed Lindsay in 1973, [218] the house was renovated in January 1974 with a $40,000 [xv] allocation from the city. [219] [220] The Beames' friend Joan Haber, an interior designer, helped redecorate the house. [220] [221] One of the Lindsays' bedrooms was converted into a sitting room, while another became a ...
2 days ago · Instead, Parker and mayor Abraham Beame officially reopened One Times Square as an exhibition center on March 2, 1976. [107] Spectacolor Inc. installed a new zipper on the building's facade later that year.
5 days ago · Cash-strapped South Street Seaport Museum staff feared that their ship, which had stood tall at Pier 16 for four decades, had to be scrapped after she weathered damage from Hurricane Sandy, but ...
