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Ed Koch: The Last Interview

Posted on 02/1/2013 by | Movies & TV | Comments

Entertainment | Legacy | News Roundups    “Ed Koch!” The voice on the phone was not so much identifying itself as trumpeting an introduction. This was Ed Koch, all right, barging into our phone conversation with the same ebullience that characterized his three terms as New York’s most popular and controversial mayor since Jimmy Walker. I caught up with Koch on January 10, at his modest Greenwich Village apartment. I can’t definitively say mine was the absolute last interview Koch granted before his death early …

This Man Would Be Thankful to Find a Job

Posted on 09/14/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Work“I’d do anything to get a job” – or “I’d give anything to land a job.” Millions of people have said those words. Vincent Giordano has taken it a step further. I heard about Vincent and got his contact information via this ABC News story by reporter Alan Farnheim. This summer, the unemployed law firm office support assistant – with expertise running large, complex duplicating machines like you’d see at some copy shops – decided he needed to get noticed. Vincent went to …

New York City’s Mayor Turns His Attention To Improving Senior Centers

Posted on 07/2/2008 by | General News | Comments

News RoundupsNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg takes a look at “senior centers” and seeks to update them with his business-minded point of view and results-oriented attitude.