Photo of Cornelia, “Connie” Kapp-Frydman, the writer’s mother at ten years old, taken after the family fled to Italy after her father, a Yugoslav resistance fighter, was killed fighting Nazis in WW II. Photo: Courtesy of Ken Frydman Son Whose Mother Fled Nazis Never More Proud to be Jewish My mother is having nightmares. Since the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, 88-year-old Cornelia “Connie” Kapp-Frydman... News 29 Oct 2023 | 06:11
For the past four years, Ken Frydman, a one-time press secretary for Rudy Giuliani, has turned into an unrelenting critic of his recent turn. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons Figuring Out What Really Happened to Rudy Giuliani Figuring out what happened to Rudy Giuliani has been my side-job these past four years. It started with a New York Times... Voices 25 Aug 2023 | 12:34
As NYPD’s top cop, Keechant Sewell has overseen a decline in crime incident reports in five of the seven major crime categories in the first half of 2023. Photo: NYPD As Keechant Sewell Steps Away as Top Cop, Could Her Next Move Be a Run for Mayor? This week we agree. Normally we don’t. How about Keechant Sewell for Mayor? Mayor Adams earned kudos for choosing Sewell... Voices 29 Jun 2023 | 11:24
Dept of HOmeless Services cruiser. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Should Cops or Homeless Advocates Get EDPs Off Our Streets? There’s a public policy debate in NYC about who should be first to interact with an emotionally disturbed person (EDP)—the... News 25 May 2023 | 05:54
Give me...your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. But debate has raged on who should pay to shelther the huddled masses. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Point and Counterpoint: Who Should Pay for the Estimated 50,000 Asylum Seekers Who Have Flooded into NYC? Mayor Adams claims that New York City is being “destroyed” by the federal government’s failure to contain the country’s migrant... News 29 Apr 2023 | 11:24
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks at an interfaith clergy event at the House of the Lord Pentecostal church in Brooklyn, on Friday, June 12, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Point and Counterpoint on Mayor’s Recent Rollout of Religion in Politics Eric Adams is mayor, not the city’s pastor-in-chief. That’s the job of Adams‘ buddy, Bishop Lamor Whitehead, the sketchy... News 17 Apr 2023 | 06:07
NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (third from right) describes the clean-up operation at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack in lower Manhattan to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (second from left) on Nov. 14, 2001. Photo: Department of Defense photo by R. D. Ward, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Giuliani’s Fall from America’s Mayor to Trump Sycophant There came a moment when Michael Bromwich began to think this was not the Rudolph Giuliani he had worked with to prosecute... News 31 Dec 2022 | 05:01
