Last week New York City’s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia emitted an angry Donald Duck squawk. Subject: U. S. draft boards. “The trouble with the administration of the draft in New York City ...

I n 1941, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia announced a plan to relieve the congestion at what would become LaGuardia Airport in New York. They converted some swampland at the edge of the city, in Jamaica ...

No one has denounced the high price of opera more eloquently than New York City’s operatic Mayor Fiorello H. La-Guardia. Last week he began practicing what he had preached, sponsored a highly ...

production of Fiorello!, a musical that chronicles the life of New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. The song was later featured on her album She Loves Him, a tribute to lyricist Sheldon Harnick.

New York City Center has played a defining role in the cultural life of the City since 1943 when it was founded by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with the civic mission to make the best in the ...

By Lee Siegel Everyone remembers their parents’ “back-in-the-day” references. My mother used to reminisce about Fiorello La Guardia, a legendary New York City mayor, reading the “funny papers” on the ...