For Senator Chuck Schumer, it's apparently better politics -- and karma -- to name the Brooklyn courthouse for a Republican son of Manhattan who died in 1919 than the dominant Brooklyn Democrat who saved New York City during the last fiscal crisis and who was born the same year...and remains very much alive nearly nine decades after rising from the same streets that lead to Cadman Plaza.The new Federal courthouse was slated to be named for former Governor Hugh Carey,...
]]>