Adi Talwar
Wayne Barrett addressing the crowd at City Limits' 40th anniversary gala, September 2016.
The legendary investigative journalist Wayne Barrett received the 2016 Urban Journalism Award at City Limits’ 40th Anniversary Gala Celebration on Monday night. Barrett took the mic about 90 minutes before the first presidential debate.
Over his 22 years of post-mayoral life, Ed Koch proved he could transcend not only an electoral loss but a moral mistake, and rise, like his city, to a brighter morning.
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