https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:32:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1484 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1484#respond Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:51:03 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1484 Some years ago, New Yorkers chose a self-made billionaire businessman who had never held office to be the 108th mayor of the City of New York. His major opponent, a politician then apparently without business experience, argued that at least a decade at the public trough was a requirement for]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1484/feed 0