At the helm of the NYPD, the nation’s largest police force, which is acknowledged as an international model for its cutting-edge crime-fighting techniques and facing down terrorist threats, is Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, a former Marine who likes a challenge.
Ray Kelly recalls how when he was only seven years old. he’d often hop on the subway and travel down the West Side of Manhattan alone to have lunch with his mom who was a coat check girl at Macy’s, the nation’s biggest department store.
His dad, James Francis Kelly, spent twenty years as a milkman, first driving a horse-drawn carriage over cobblestone streets and later upgrading to a standup motorized half wagon.
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Nancy Graham, a resident of Shelter Island, died peacefully on Feb. 2, 2021 at San Simeon by the Sound, while recovering from hip surgery.
Nancy had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for the last four years of her life and had been a resident of The Bristal Assisted Living Facility prior to her death.
Nancy Graham
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. in 1930 to James and Helen Doran, Nancy was raised in a loving home by her mother, a schoolteacher, and her father, who worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines as a child and later became Burgess of ,Parson Borough in Pennsylvania.
New York Times nonfiction best-seller list in early November, Andrew Cuomo’s
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic quickly fell back to earth. Word must have spread that the governor’s self-aggrandizing account of New York’s pandemic management was far less “riveting” than promised by the publisher’s blurb.
By year’s end after Cuomo had again banned indoor dining in New York City, sparred with Mayor Bill de Blasio yet again, and launched a shambolic vaccine rollout the governor’s book was hovering around a (still-respectable) rank of 14,000 out of the millions for sale on Amazon.com. According to the website’s algorithm, shoppers viewing