Wednesday, August 3 The Ultimate Art Machine Is the Guggenheim the Shake Shack of museums? Locations, locations, locations! Not content with outposts in the Basque Country and the United Arab Emirates (as well as the now-shuttered Las Vegas outpost, which seems in retrospect a bit of an overreach…to Read More
This time of year, we tend to focus our attention on vacation homes on the East End of Long Island. But the most notable vacation home sale of the season may have just happened down south, on a very different island. Morally bankrupt Congressman Charles Rangel has sold his decades-old beach retreat in the Read More
This week marks the 8th anniversary of the War in Iraq, and Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel commemorated the occasion by asking Congress to reinstitute the military draft.
This marks the fourth time that Rangel, a proud Korean War vet, has submitted legislation that would require all Americans to sign up for the draft after turning 18. Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Friday morning, the day after he convened his first sensational House hearing on the question of Muslim radicalism, Peter King lumbered into his office on the third floor of the Cannon Building, hung his suit jacket on a bookcase and sat down to read the morning papers.
He plucked the New Read More
The way Charlie Rangel interprets the events in Wisconsin, Republicans would like to get rid of unions altogether.
"There's no question about it," Rangel told Brother Bill from the Voice of Harlem. "This is not been the first time that we had heard that the Teabag Party--or the Tea Party--rather and some of the Republicans Read More
Nearly half a century ago, Martin Luther King used the pulpit to issue a far-reaching call for social justice. Clergy and public officials laid claim to this legacy at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church last night, where they enjoined the city council to pass a bill guaranteeing a living wage for employees of development projects Read More
When the Congress reconvenes next week, one of the more closely-watched agenda items will the censure vote of Charlie Rangel. If Rangel is censured, it will mark the first time since 1983 that a member of Congress has faced the punishment.
Unless he cuts a deal beforehand, Rangel is widely expected to be censured, especially after Read More
Yesterday, Charlie Rangel broke down and wept before the House Ethics committee that would decide his fate. Hard as it is to believe now that he sits in this diminished state, but Charlie Rangel was once one of the most powerful people in New York State, if not the nation. He has presided over Harlem Read More
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele campaigned in Harlem today for congressional candidate Michel Faulkner, stressing the image of the new Republican Party as the people's party.
"A lot of times we talk of our party in terms of the Grand Old Party," Steele said at the event. "And there's a lot that's grand, there's Read More
President Obama said that he hopes the long career of Congressman Charles Rangel will end in dignity. So do we. That means the congressman should step down, now, and avoid a public trial in the House. He has become an embarrassment to New York and a poster child for a Republican Party intent on Read More
Congressman Charles Rangel spent years preparing for the legislative role of a lifetime, that of chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Through the late 1980s and into the 1990s, as his seniority grew, political observers in New York watched closely as Mr. Rangel moved closer to his goal. The Republican Congressional Read More
Representative Charles Rangel showed his teeth to another reporter who was interested in his "alleged violations" this morning at an event in Harlem. This time it was CBS 2 veteran and former Daily News City Hall bureau chief Marcia Kramer.
“Marci, you are such a professional," said Mr. Rangel. "I don’t want to see you Read More
Among the allegations against U.S. Representative Charles Rangel of Harlem is that he accepted shady discounts on four rent-stabilized apartments in Lenox Terrace, historically one of Harlem's poshest addresses.
In 1968, the Times Magazine called the building, located at West 132-135th Streets between Lenox and Fifth Avenue and owned by the Olnick Organization, "Harlem's Best Address," Read More
"What are you talkin about? You just trying to make copy?" Charles Rangel shot back at Luke Russert after he asked if Mr. Rangel was woried about losing his job. "Well you're young," Mr. Rangel continued. "I guess you need to make a name for yourself" — that part is already taken care of— Read More
