Randolph’s, the small but tasteful bar at the Warwick Hotel, sits on the corner of West 54th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Elvis used to haunt the place. Paul McCartney still does, walking in from his Midtown apartment for a quiet drink in the same spot he and The Beatles held that wacky press conference when they played at Shea Stadium in 1966.
Randolph’s is a picture of understated elegance, as is Rikki Klieman, the lawyer and legal analyst who for the last 14 years has been known as Mrs. Bill Bratton.
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Wow, that was quite a puff piece Kevin. Bratton is a PERF guy. It's a group of incestuous police chiefs that go from job to job, always trying to up their last employment. The model is clear. They get a chief job, throw a little money around to the troops, change their uniform, the color scheme on the cruisers, give them new weapons. Naturally the morale improves, temporarily, and productivity jumps, till the wizard behind the curtain is revealed. That's just about the time the PERF guy jumps ship to his next job. Nice work if you can get it. Crime is cyclical. When there is a large number of youths of crime committing age, crime rates soar. When those kids get arrested, die or grow out of their ways, crime rates drop. When the kids of the first group get old enough to start up where dad left off, crime rates jump again. It's good to be the PERF guy when the rate is low, he markets himself as the reason.
You know what you're talking about.
Bratton had to leave Boston, he was tired of the late night drunken phone rants from Dave Scondras.
Why Randolph's?
The Queen may have Mr. Bratton in exchange for Boris Johnson, to serve as the next mayor of Boston.
I believe it is Magistrates' (possessive) Court.
Bill Bratton deserves the "puff piece". True many factors led to the rapid decline in crime from 1990-2010, but give Bratton his due for his use of Compstat and other techniques in his various jobs in advancing that trend. The urban revival we've seen would not have occurred without the efforts of folks like Bratton.
Frankly, he also deserves a statue on Meeting House Hill.
Compstat, a bunch of suck up bossses telling the big boss what he wants to hear. Blah, blah,blah. The bosses forget they are the support staff for the street cops that do all the work.
he is great. need him in chicago first...
Please, take him. He wont be there long and he'll leave you to clean up the mess he left.
Wow Boyo log rolling in our time, what a shock! Shameless self promoter meets fanboy. I'm surprised Kevin didn't faint.... Notebook, autograph book its all good!
Your comment about Meeting House Hill is comparable to others who have done well and who have come from other provincial neighborhoods of a different color but same mentality. Deval Patrick is an example.