BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — On the exterior of a subway station in Brooklyn lies a plaque memorializing the deadliest subway crash in New York City history. The Malbone Street Wreck occurred on Nov. 1, 1918. Nearly 100 people died in the crash. In the 1910s, before the creation of the MTA, the city’s subway lines […]
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Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance and Epic Feud that Created the Modern Democratic Party by Terry Golway allows readers to see the massive change to the Democratic party that both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Al Smith ushered in during the mid- 20th century. While these men came from complete opposite sides of the spectrum, Roosevelt from the Protestant rich upper echelon of New York and Smith from the Catholic working class saw the corruption and mistakes that the New York political establishment Tammany Hall created, and knew that it needed to change if the Democratic party wanted to survive.