The Mayor Who Put Jewishness In Your Face: Honoring Hizzoner, For His Unabashed Ethnic Pride And For Bringing New York Back
Jewish Week
Many eras could reasonably compete as the defining Jewish moment of New York City: pushcarts on the Lower East Side, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the CCNY point-shaving scandal, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers' strike, the Brill Building's influence on the American songbook, and the garment industry's styling of American haute couture.