It was a minor legal case in the early 1970s. The New York City Civil Service Commission ruled that a police officer who had missed…
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Bob Diamond, the ‘Tunnel King’ of Brooklyn, Dies at 61
Bob Diamond, an engineering-school dropout who discovered a long-forgotten rail tunnel beneath Downtown Brooklyn and later spent more than 20 years trying to revive the…
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Barbara Kannapell, Activist Who Empowered Deaf People, Dies at 83
Barbara Kannapell, a world-renowned deaf activist who made it her life’s work to empower deaf and hard-of-hearing people with a sense of identity and an…
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James Hormel, America’s First Openly Gay Ambassador, Dies at 88
James C. Hormel, the first openly gay person to represent the United States as an ambassador, died on Friday in San Francisco. He was 88.…
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Frank Torres, Judge Who Sought More Latinos on the Bench, Dies at 93
Frank Torres, a former New York State Supreme Court justice who, as the son of a Family Court jurist and later the father of a…
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Hash Halper, Street Artist Who Adorned New York With Hearts, Dies at 41
Sometime around 2014, little hearts drawn in chalk mysteriously began appearing on the streets of downtown Manhattan. Some materialized in clusters on sidewalks, while others…
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Jacques Barzaghi, a Former Fixture Beside Jerry Brown, Dies at 82
Jacques Barzaghi, who was a longtime confidant, alter ego and soul-mate of former Gov. Jerry Brown of California and known for his Zen sensibility and…
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Mark Peel, Who Helped Forge a New Culinary Path, Dies at 66
Mark Peel, one of a handful of young, educated California cooks enamored with local ingredients who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s and created a…
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George Stranahan, Benefactor of Physicists and Bar Flies, Dies at 89
For three summers in the late 1950s, George Stranahan lived in a remote mountain valley near Aspen, Colo., with his only professional tools a pencil…
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Brigitte Gerney, ‘Crane Lady’ Who Survived Collapse, Dies at 85
Brigitte Gerney, whose legs were crushed when a construction crane collapsed on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1985, trapping her for six hours,…
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Foster Friess, Big Donor to Republicans, Dies at 81
Foster Friess, a Wyoming businessman who founded an investment firm, made a fortune and gave a lot of it away to Republican presidential candidates and…
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Janine Brookner, Punished C.I.A. Officer Who Got Revenge, Dies at 80
Janine Brookner, an undercover C.I.A. officer who fought dubious allegations against her at the agency and won a $410,000 settlement, then became a lawyer who…
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Paul J. Hanly Jr., Top Litigator in Opioid Cases, Dies at 70
Paul J. Hanly Jr., a top trial lawyer who had been central to the current nationwide litigation against pharmaceutical companies and others in the supply…
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Ed Ward, Rock Critic and Historian, Is Dead at 72
His reviews for Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone and Creem were admired. But his tough criticism at The Austin American-Statesman inspired a “Dump Ed Ward” movement. By…
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