They were murdered more than a generation ago, before a fair portion of the city's adult population was born. But the cases of Cornelia Crilley, murdered in 1971, and Ellen Hover, murdered in 1977, remain unsolved--for now, that is.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance recently announced the indictment of a serial killer and sex offender, Rodney Read More
S.E.C. seeks to bar Steven Rattner from securities. [NYT]
Over 70 Queens kids are in the hospital after drinking tainted school water. [NYDN]
Facebook advertisers quadruple. How's that "Quit Facebook Day" going? [Bloomberg]
Lots of hate over Robert Indiana's "LOVE." [NYP]
Robert Morgenthau quits monitor job in a huff. Read More
Additional reporting by Azi Paybarah and Reid Pillifant
It was a dark time for the city. In 2008, and early into the next year, morale was low, Wall Street was sputtering and Mayor Michael Bloomberg was steeling New Yorkers for pain. Brace for service cuts and tax hikes, he warned—while also pledging to find a way Read More
Rounding out his efforts to help reporters fill a slow news week, Robert Morgenthau held his final press conference yesterday.
The Times makes it sound uneventful, but the Post catches a few "thinly-veiled swipes" at his hand-picked successor, Cyrus Vance, Jr.
Mr. Vance recently demoted two of Mr. Morgenthau's top assistants, and replaced them Read More
In this holiday interregnum--when we read news stories about tourism and duck-coddling--Robert Morgenthau is grinding out his last days as district attorney in front of a starving press corps.
The Times--following up on its exit profile from two days ago--runs a story about his press conference yesterday, in which Mr. Morgenthau correctly pronounced Read More
Robert Morgenthau is taking advantage of his twilight to take shots at Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
In a weekend profile in the Journal--which is dressed up kind of like an episode of Law and Order, in case you weren't otherwise interested--the outgoing district attorney explains why the mayor might have been surprised that the D.A. was Read More
Here's a letter dated today from the current city comptroller and the incoming one, expressing their mutual "concern" about Michael Bloomberg's "recent and troubling acknowledgement" of hidden bank accounts.The letter, from outgoing Bill Thompson and incoming John Liu, seek to put the blame for the accounts on Bloomberg's administration (who have gone Read More
Here's a few charts from the Bloomberg administration about those hidden accounts they're uncovering. The information in the charts supports the administration's argument that it was fair to go after D.A. Robert Morgenthau, since his hidden accounts had so much more money than anyone else's.
Is there anyone in city government who doesn't keep a little extra money squirreled away on the side?
The Times puts the mayor's "chickenshit" pursuit of Robert Morgenthau's "hidden" bank account in perspective this morning: Apparently there are 2,700 unauthorized city accounts around town, worth more than $122 million dollars. The most cryptic and intriguing Read More
In the battle of surly old mossbacks who (presumably) no longer have to answer to voters, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau is proving even more cantankerous than the temperamental Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Mr. Morgenthau is unhappy the mayor is looking into some accounts his office maintains—they are separate from the money the D.A. gets from Read More
On the second-floor balcony of the Waldorf-Astoria last night—while a gilded group of New York power brokers enjoyed the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner of lobster with white gazpacho and petite vegetable timbale down below—a small press corps squinted their eyes to see whether Bill Thompson might acknowledge his mayoral opponent, sitting mayor Michael Read More
At 11:30 AM, the Manhattan Disctrict Attorney's Office held a press conference to address the extortion attempt against David Letterman.
DA Robert Morgenthau said that his office caught 48 Hours producer Robert "Joe" Halderman with "an undercover sting operation at a hotel, with New York City police detectives in an adjoining room with recording equipment and Read More
Gerson, a Democratic Council incumbent facing a competitive primary, at one point was heard telling one senior, "I'll get re-elected, then I'll get married."
Gerson, Read More
Here's the handwritten letter Leslie Crocker Snyder sent to Robert Morgenthau which John Eligon wrote about earlier.
Leslie Crocker Snyder said she has never asked anyone to vote for her because she’s a woman, but she's painting the race for Manhattan district attorney as an extension of her career-long fight against the “old boys network” and “glass ceilings” she says have held her and other women back for years.
