Booming Times Square itself, with glut replacing smut, was a symbol of the New York he'd re-created, an electric urban theme park as safe and, some said, sterile as a suburban mall.Īmerica's mayor was atop the giant, thirty-five-foot-high "Temple of Time" riser in the middle of Broadway that night, his face alight with giddy joy, rubbing his hands together again and again Even as crime plummeted almost everywhere across the nation, he'd managed to make himself the country's top cop, a legend whose zero tolerance stopped criminals in their tracks and tamed the Jaywalkers, street vendors, cop-bashers, unreconstructed liberals, black radicals, black moderates, anti-Catholic art exhibitors, drunk drivers, methadone users, graffiti artists, public school bureaucrats and, of course, The best-known mayor in America since the first Richard Daley, he'd taken aim at the blameless and the notorious: squeegees, the "fake homeless," pan-handlers, sex shop purveyors, cabbies,
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Rudy Giuliani, the 107th mayor of New York and the first to put himself at the helm of its New Year's ritual, was literally, for the single moment that the Time Ball took its seventy-seven-foot fall,Īt the Crossroads of the World. With twenty-eight television networks beaming live to an estimated billion viewers in the world's two dozen time zones, the fifty-five-year-old grandson of Italian immigrants stood center stage at Times Square a minute before midnight, his finger An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giulianiīy WAYNE BARRETT.