Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

Principal author of `` The Federalist '', he swung New York over from opposition to the Constitution to ratification almost single-handedly.

He ended his public career as a two-term governor of New York.

Talleyrand passed his New York law office one night on the way to a party.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

But hear Harrison E. Salisbury, former Moscow correspondent of The New York Times, and author of `` To Moscow -- And Beyond ''.

Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Between 1944 and 1947 Helion had a series of one-man shows -- at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in New York and in Paris -- of his new realistic pictures.

The New York Herald Tribune's photographer, Ira Rosenberg, tells an anecdote about the time he wanted to take a picture of Carl playing a guitar.

In answer to a New York Times query on what is fame ( `` Thoughts On Fame '', October 23, 1960 ), Carl said: `` Fame is a figment of a pigment.

`` Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a great deal '' --

`` It wasn't necessarily all here in New York.

When the troupe traveled to New York to participate in a one-act-play competition -- and won -- Mercer, instead of returning with the rest of the company in triumph, remained in New York.

the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

The blue-eyed Watson decided that he would dislike living in New York, and the deal fell through.

Hearst took a brief respite to hurry home to New York to become a father.

Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as " an average gangster film ", singled out Falk's " amusingly vicious performance.

The New York Times called it a " gangster movie with delusions of grandeur.

The drama tells of a lawyer, Joe Morse ( Garfield ), working for a powerful gangster, Tucker, who wishes to consolidate and control the numbers racket in New York.

" At the film's premiere in New York City, the film's prologue was preceded by a " brief stage tableau, with sinuous green lighting, which shows a puppet gangster shooting another puppet gangster in the back.

Andre Sennwald, who reviewed the film for The New York Times upon its April 1931 release, called it " just another gangster film at the Strand, weaker than most in its story, stronger than most in its acting, and, like most, maintaining a certain level of interest through the last burst of machine-gun fire "; Woods and Cagney give " remarkably lifelike portraits of young hoodlums " and " Beryl Mercer as Tom's mother, Robert Emmett O ' Connor as a gang chief, and Donald Cook as Tom's brother, do splendidly.

* When planning The Sting on New York gangster Doyle Lonnegan ( Robert Shaw ), one of the conmen researching their mark mentions that he " only goes out to play faro " making him a hard target for the big con.

* William " Willie " Moretti ( 1894 – 1951 ), Mafia gangster who testified before the Anti-Crime Investigation Committee ( Kefauver Committee ) and was shot dead in a Cliffside Park, New Jersey restaurant.

Dewey soon realized that he could attack Luciano, the most powerful gangster in New York, through this prostitution network.

During the Kefauver hearings, Costello became the star attraction, being billed as America's # 1 gangster and the de facto leader of New York's Tammany Hall.

In 1936, Tolson joined Hoover to arrest bank robber Alvin Karpis ; later that year, Tolson was in a gun fight with New York City gangster Harry Brunette, and, in 1942, participated in capturing Nazi saboteurs on Long Island and Florida.

Jon Pareles of The New York Times gave the album a favorable review, calling Shakur the " St. Augustine of gangster rap " due to his ambivalence towards the behavior and nature of the gangster lifestyle.

New York gangster Arnold Rothstein supplied the money through his lieutenant Abe Attell, a former featherweight boxing champion.

* Spanish Louie ( John Lewis, died 1910 ), gangster from New York City

* Sylvestro Carolla, New Orleans gangster known as " Sam ' Silver Dollar '"

1991 would also see a starring role in the Mario Van Peebles-directed New Jack City, an urban gangster film with Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Vanessa L. Williams, and Chris Rock ; the film was a commercial success.

The museum's collection includes Marlene Dietrich's Rolls-Royce, a 1915 Stutz Indianapolis race car, gull-winged Mercedes-Benz, a 1950 Cadillac " gangster special " that belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen, and an 1895 Benz Velo, imported to New Zealand in 1900.

* Bill Lovett ( c. 1894 – 1923 ), Irish-American gangster in New York

* Monk Eastman ( 1875-1920 ), New York gangster

* Chick Tricker, early New York gangster

With its headline position in the New York Film Festival, The New York Times critic Janet Maslin opened her review that despite the cliched genre of the " gangster film ," Shanghai Triad nevertheless " movingly affirms the magnitude of Yimou's storytelling power.

Joseph Gallo ( April 7, 1929 – April 7, 1972 ), also known as " Crazy Joe " and " Joe the Blond ", was a celebrated New York City gangster for the Profaci crime family, later known as the Colombo crime family.