If you learn anything with age, it’s that life can be a funny old dog, chock full of unexpected ironies. For me, last week’s New York City mayoral election drove that lesson home once again. Those of you who know me or read my blog are aware that my first job out of college more … Continue reading When Donald Trump Endorsed Andrew Cuomo For Mayor, in 1992
Andrew Cuomo
Write It Down
I can still hear his voice. Direct, commanding, with more than a tinge of a Queens accent: “Write it down, Fred. Write it down.” He’d pantomime the writing motion with his hand, sometimes quite intensely, if he thought I didn’t react quick enough. The voice and hand belonged to Andrew Cuomo. In the past I … Continue reading Write It Down
When I Worked With Andrew Cuomo
My first employer after college was H.E.L.P., Inc, a not-for-profit organization that built and operated transitional housing facilities for the homeless in New York. I remember nervously sitting in the conference room at H.E.L.P.’s headquarters on 33rd Street for my interview with the organization’s founder and president, Andrew Cuomo. It was 1991. No one had … Continue reading When I Worked With Andrew Cuomo