Invalid Date, THE people of the City of New York can rest easy tonight because police have captured a man they believe to be the Son of Sam , New York City Mayor Abraham Beame gleefully told a press conference after David Berkowitz s arrest.
After a year-long reign of terror which left six dead and seven more wounded, cops were relieved to have brought down the notorious lone gunman but not everyone is convinced Berkowitz had acted alone, while some fear that others involved in the spree could still be out there.
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David Berkowitz - who called himself Son of Sam - in police custody after six people were shot dead in New YorkCredit: AP
Did Son of Sam serial killer act alone? New Netflix documentary suggests the man who terrorized New York City during 1977 s summer of fear, killing six and wounding seven, had help from two friends - and they were all tied to a Satanic cult
Between July 1976 until his arrest on August 10, 1977, David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, killed six people and wounded seven in New York City
His first shooting was on July 29, 1976: Donna Lauria, 18, and Jody Valenti, 19, were parked in a car in the Bronx. Lauria died but Valenti survived
He continued his random shootings. It took time for the NYPD, which had layoffs and budget cuts due to the city s deep financial woes, to connect the cases
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New York City comptroller candidate and Assembly Member David Weprin wants to get his fellow candidates to pledge they won’t use the office as a steppingstone to run for mayor – the way the position has been used for decades.
But not everyone is happy with Weprin’s ploy, given his track record of running for the next higher office himself.
In the office’s recent history, virtually all New York City comptrollers have tried to use the seat as a springboard to Gracie Mansion. Only former comptroller Abraham Beame was successful in becoming mayor. City Comptroller Scott Stringer is a leading contender in the Democratic mayoral primary. His predecessor, state Sen. John Liu, ran for mayor unsuccessfully in 2013. Liu’s predecessor, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, lost by 4 percentage points to Michael Bloomberg in 2009. Thompson’s predecessor, former Comptroller Alan Hevesi, also unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2001.
Nyc to Have Second Jewish Mayor Ed Koch on the phone with Bess Myerson, Sept. 11, 1977. (Martha Cooper/New York Post Archives /(c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)
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Ed Koch, a slight, balding, 52-year-old Democratic Congressman from Manhattan’s “silk stocking” district, became New York’s second Jewish Mayor last night. He won a handy 50-42 percent election victory over his closest rival, Liberal-Independent Mario Cuomo. Republican Roy Goodman and Conservative Barry Farber, both Jewish, trailed badly with about 4 percent of the vote each.
When he take office Jan. I, Koch will succeed 76-year-old Abraham Beame, the city’s first Jewish Mayor, who he defeated in the Democratic primaries last September. In the Democratic runoffs that month Koch beat Cuomo for the nomination by 10 percentage points. Yesterday’s race between the two was closer owing to massive defections by Italian Democrats to Cuomo who is of Italian descent. But Koch registere
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