David Dinkins

We’ve been calling it the “Summer of Guns”—17 people shot in a single, New York City day, on the 4th of July holiday.  A 4 year old boy killed, playing near a Bronx  basketball court. A cop shot in both legs in Queens.  Is NYC...

Funeral services were held Wednesday for legendary Harlem restaurateur Sylvia Woods in Mount Vernon, New York. Family, friends, religious and community leaders, and politicians, including former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and former New York...

Today, New Yorkers celebrated the homecoming of newly-minted Cardinal, Timothy Dolan. And the man known for his down-to-earth delivery, didn't disappoint, delivering a morning prayer service, an afternoon service, and a couple of warm laughs to a packed...

It was far from an ideal start to the season for Johnstown Generals quarterback David Dinkins, who completed just seven of 22 passes in the Generals' season-opening loss at Saginaw Feb. 28.  But if the disappointing five-touchdown, 147-yard performance...

His eulogy and obituary read like a love letter to the productivity of The Empire State and New York City. Thanks in no small way to Hugh Carey's efforts, six of the ten wealthiest zip codes in the wealthiest nation on Earth are in New York City,...

After finalizing his roster last week, Johnstown Generals head coach Quenteen Robinson turned his attention to the new arena football team's first ever game, a Feb. 25 season opener on the road against the Saginaw Sting. The Generals, part of the newly...

Congressman Charles Rangel felt victorious even before the returns were in. Facing the greatest challenge of his political career, the 80-year-old congressman told a crowd of supporters, "Prayers do work." With only a trickling of returns counted, Rangel...

The results of Tuesday's primaries brought a renewed and vigorous debate about the Latino vote and the "Latino gap" for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). States such as California, Illinois, New York, Arizona and New Mexico have very large Latino electorates...

Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez and University of Washington political scientist Matt Barreto step out to combat comments by Clinton staffer Sergio Bendixen about Latino voters not being overly friendly toward black candidates. They are wrong,...

Thousands of New Yorkers came Sunday to Yankee Stadium, where generations have come to cheer and forget their problems, to grieve and remember the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The infield of the 78-year-old ballpark in the...

In little more than week, he has gone from near-pariah to paragon. Before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's highly public divorce from television personality Donna Hanover and romance with girlfriend...

There's no ill wind, the old saying goes, that doesn't blow somebody some good, and the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001, blew all kinds of good Rudolph Giuliani's way. As the most visible public figure to do and say all the right things in the...