New york city sports commission. New York City Athletic Commission: Ensuring Safety in Combat Sports

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Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today appointed Kenneth J. Podziba as Commissioner of the New York City Sports Commission, replacing Arlene Weltman, the agency’s former Executive Director. Mr. Podziba currently serves as the Deputy Commissioner of Finance and Administration for the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. Today’s appointment is effective February 2, 1998.

“Today, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ken Podziba as the Commissioner of the New York City Sports Commission,” Mayor Giuliani said. “Ken has been a dedicated public servant, working in a variety of capacities that have served New Yorkers well. As a Deputy and Assistant Commissioner, Ken’s efforts helped to streamline many City agencies, helping to reduce costs. I know that Ken will work tirelessly on behalf of the New York’s sports community and it is an honor to name him Commissioner of the Sports Commission. “

Mr. Podziba said, “Under the leadership of Mayor Giuliani, New York City is a better place to live, work and visit. I would like to thank the Mayor for this outstanding opportunity to expand the City’s position in the sporting industry. Let’s continue to build on this foundation and make New York the Capital of the Sports World.”

As Deputy Commissioner of Finance and Administration for the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, Mr. Podziba was responsible for overseeing revenue and administrative services functions. Prior to joining the Taxi and Limousine Commission, he served as Assistant Commissioner for Fiscal Operations with the New York City Community Development Agency, from 1994 to 1996, where he managed the agency’s contracting process. As a Project Manager for the New York City Economic Development Corporation from 1992 to 1994, he planned and implemented development projects in Manhattan. From 1988 to 1990, Mr. Podziba was an Urban Planner and Project Manager for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development including Brooklyn’s MetroTech urban renewal project.

Mr. Podziba earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Marketing and Advertising from Syracuse University in 1986 and graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 1991.

The New York City Sports Commission, founded in 1986 and currently chaired by Mitchell Modell, sponsors a variety of amateur athletic events in the five boroughs. The Commission’s signature events are the Mayor’s Cup Tournaments, held in basketball, softball and soccer.

Evander Holyfield is not allowed into the ring – Newspaper “Kommersant” Ukraine – Kommersant

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Legendary American heavyweight former world champion Evander Holyfield has been banned from fighting for an unprecedented reason. The New York Athletic Commission (NYSAC) motivated its decision by the fact that the 42-year-old boxer is in poor shape.

Evander Holyfield was suspended by the NYSAC back in November last year from fighting in the United States. True, then the reason was formulated differently: the commission feared for the health of the athlete. The reason was the crushing defeat of Holyfield from Larry Donald, in which the famous boxer missed 260 blows to the head (against 78 from the opponent). Considering that this was also Holyfield’s fifth defeat in the last seven matches, the commission’s decision looked reasonable. Although the boxer himself did not think so. He did not cease to assure that he was absolutely healthy, and filed an appeal. The protest was not satisfied, but the boxer was reassured: formally, he was not forbidden to fight – it was only necessary to confirm a satisfactory state of health with the results of a medical examination.

Recently, Evander Holyfield underwent such an examination and proved his case: he really does not have serious health problems. Doctors came to this conclusion after they checked the boxer in ten parameters, and the long-suffering head was examined with special care. But Holyfield was still not allowed into the ring. True, now the NYSAC has not found a wording for the ban that spares the pride of the legendary boxer. This time, the official reason is “impaired ability and poor form.”

To prove the unfairness of this statement to Holyfield, who, of course, again protests against the decision of the commission, will be much more difficult than in the case of health. He can do this only in battle outside the United States, and it is not so easy to arrange him. In addition, few doubt that Holyfield, even if he enters the ring, will fail again. It’s not the first time he’s been told to his face that he’s turned into what’s called a “bag” in boxing jargon. But he is still sure that he did not say his last word in the ring.

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Vinyl, a new HBO series about the life of a music label in the 70s, comes out February 14. It was created by Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter and Mick Jagger. Although Vinyl is billed as a series about music, its universe is all of 1970s New York, an amazing and dangerous city flooded with new art and steeped in violence and corruption. Oleg Sobolev compiled a guide to New York of that time and its music

Street protests

Helmet riot, 1970

in Vietnam with government-supporting construction workers mobilized New York unions. The “Helmet Riot”, in which about 70 people were injured, was one of the decisive events in the many years of confrontation between New York unions and New York Mayor John Lindsey, and later allowed Richard Nixon to enlist the support of most American unions in the elections 1972 years old.

LGBT people

the first gay parade in the USA, 1970

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On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Greenwich Village. Exactly one year later, on June 28, 1970, representatives of New York’s leading LGBT organizations held a commemorative procession dedicated to this event, thus laying the foundation for modern pride parades. The procession, as the newspapers reported, took place in an extremely peaceful and conflict-free atmosphere. For the most part, the attitude of New Yorkers towards the LGBT community was generally conflict-free – which is why the city later became the world center of disco, a genre in which gay aesthetics ruled.

Experimental music

The Kitchen, 1971

Avant-garde art felt great in New York already in the 60s – just remember Andy Warhol’s Factory, La Monte Young happenings, the first big screenings of Kenneth Ann films gera and etc. The problem was in one thing – the experimenters did not have their own space in the city. In 1971, video art pioneers Stein and Woody Vasiulka rented the kitchen of an art center in Greenwich Village and became incredibly active there, arranging avant-garde film screenings, performances, listening to modern music and much more. The Kitchen became the center of experimental New York, a place that nurtured the talents of a huge number of musicians who later influenced the music of the 20th century in a variety of ways. It was here that the compositions of a young taxi driver named Philip Glass were first performed. It was here that the artist of the colloquial genre Laurie Anderson performed for the first time in New York. It was from The Kitchen that almost the entire no wave movement came out – abrasive, hard guitar music that anticipated all of avant-garde punk. The space still exists today, but at a different address, in Manhattan.

Classical music

Pierre Boulez at the head of the New York Philharmonic, 1971

After the death of George Sell, autocrat and “dictator on the podium”, the main orchestra of the city called Pierre Boulez to this post. Never before or since has any of the world’s leading orchestras entrusted its fate to a man with such a resume. Boulez, 46, was a world-famous avant-garde artist who forever left the path of academic music, rejecting much of the classical canon and preaching devotion to new music. Although Boulez’s later conducting career was incredibly successful, his New York years, which ended in retirement at 1977 is considered by many to be the worst period in the recent history of the New York Philharmonic. Boulez refused to conduct much of the romantic repertoire beloved by the public, compiled programs from new orchestral compositions that sharply smashed conservative critics, and did not get along very well with important sponsors and guest conductors.

Pornography

Deep Throat, 1972

The most famous porn movie of all time, which premiered at the World Theater on 49th Street, heralded the golden era of American pornography, an era in which New York played a major role. Throughout the 70s, it was the Big Apple that supplied the best porn products to the rest of the US states and beyond the borders of the country – then no one thought about the Californian porn industry. Naturally, the Italian mafia controlled the business. Porn was also the catalyst for the curious sub-genre of music, erotic soundtracks, which by the end of the decade was dominated by underground disco producer Patrick Crowley, who produced highly original music for gay porn in an assembly line.

Sports

New York Knicks – NBA champions, 1973

The sports achievements of New York in the 70s were quite worthy, but not so superb: at the beginning of the decade, baseball Mets and hockey Rangers reached the finals of their leagues, at the end of it baseball Yankees and hockey began to please with victories Islanders. But with the greatest nostalgia, New York sports fans remember the Knicks, who won two titles in ’70 and ’73. The nostalgia is probably due to the fact that the Knicks have not won anything since then – and judging by the current state of the team, it is not clear when they will win again. Because basketball was the most popular sport among African Americans, the Knicks were also the favorite sports team of most early Bronx rappers—more beloved than even the New York-based Yankees.

Construction

World Trade Center, 1973

The construction of the World Trade Center anticipated the era of gentrification: it was built on the site of Radio Row, where small businesses were previously massively based. The main tenant and at the same time the builder of the center was the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which lost $900 million on this project and finally found subtenants for all the premises in the building only by 1979. Such expensive and poorly planned projects were not uncommon in New York in the 70s, but the World Trade Center in terms of unnecessary spending and problems during construction broke all other anti-records. The twin towers, however, have become the most important symbol of New York – including the musical one: until September 11, 2001, a rare video clip of a group from New York did without a frame with the WTC towers.

Hip-hop

DJ Kool Herc’s first party, 1973

building at 1520 Sedgwick- Avenue in the Bronx – and thus became the founder of a new phenomenon that a decade later will take over the United States, and then the whole world. At this party, Campbell first tried his way of mixing “breaks” together – short rhythmic drumming on funk records – into one long scale, and in the process shouting out various phrases that motivate the audience to dance. Campbell’s method (who then became DJ Kool Herc) became the starting point for the development of all early hip-hop – it was from him that the first New York producers and MCs repelled. Hip-hop’s ultimate breakthrough from parties like the ones on Sedgwick Avenue to the mainstream came at 1979th – when the New Jersey band Sugarhill Gang released the single “Rapper’s Delight”, which hit the top 40 of the Billboard magazine chart.

Punk

CBGB, 1973

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“Country, Bluegrass & Blues” was the name of a small concert club opened by Manhattan musician and entrepreneur Hilly Crystal in the East Village. At first, country, bluegrass and blues really sounded there, but a year later, friends suggested that Crystal organize concerts of young rock bands – and off we go. Within a few months, CBGB was home to the city’s emerging punk rock scene, with Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, and other great bands and performers playing their first big gigs here. In the late 70s, non-American punk and new wave musicians were already specifically planning their first US tours with the expectation of playing the first show at CBGB – for example, Elvis Costello and The Police did. In the 80s, the club became the Mecca of New York hardcore punk and one of the key places for the genre in general. In 2006, due to rental problems, the club had to close – on the last night of CBGB work, Patti Smith gave a many-hour concert. In 2007, Crystal died of lung cancer, and since then his friends and family have been trying to reopen CBGB at its original location – while designer John Varvatos operates at 315 Bowery.

Latin

“Salsoul” Joe Bataan, 1973

In 1964, musician Johnny Pacheco and lawyer Jerry Masucci founded Fania Records in New York, releasing Latin American music from old-fashioned Cuban dance to new-fashioned rock salsa. By the end of the decade, Fania had signed a bunch of artists who would change the essence of Latin pop music forever in the 70s. Puerto Rican Willie Colon, for example, filled salsa with gangster romance and street violence, and Panamanian Ruben Blades became one of the most successful Latin American composers at all – and even tried to be elected president of his native country (gaining a serious 18% of the votes). One of the most interesting wards of the label was Joe Bataan – a native of Harlem with Filipino roots, a brilliant singer and composer who crossed soul with salsa. Actually, his best album is called “Salsoul”. A classic of the New York dance floors of the mid-70s, this record is a collection of percussive rhythms and melodies aged in the sun, later sold into quotes, filled with gentle, but at the same time powerful, like a direct left strike, singing.

Mafia

Carmine Galante at the head of the Italian mafia in New York, 1974

In the 50s, Galante was the most important subordinate of one of the five main mafia families in New York – the Bonanno family. Managing heroin flows through Montreal in the United States, Galante at the end of the decade nevertheless got caught and went to prison for 20 years. In the 74th he was released ahead of schedule – and very quickly Galante subjugated all the street forces of the New York mafia. The figurehead was Philip Rastelli, who was in prison, but it was Galante who ran the mobilized forces of the Five Families. Galante was tough and bloodthirsty – and preferred to kill even when it could be avoided. At 79Galante himself was already killed – and on the orders of the Commission, the highest governing body of the American mafia. Galante was also a rare influential New York mobster with whom Frank Sinatra did not keep in touch – Sinatra was frankly afraid of him.

Restaurants

Sardi’s Dinner Theater on Long Island, 1974

New York’s chief restaurateur Vincent Sardi Jr., who inherited his father’s famous Sardi’s, a favorite of Broadway actors and Hollywood Russian guest performers – at 19The 74th opened a new 700-seat restaurant on Long Island. Visitors were served here on the principle of “theater and show” – that is, they could watch some kind of performance at the same time as the meal. The restaurant closed two years later and Sardi was forced to borrow money to keep Sardi’s afloat. The collapse of Sardi is symptomatic of the New York restaurant industry in the 70s: the best restaurants were no longer opening here, but in California.

fashion

Diane von Furstenberg dress, 1974

“Feel like a woman – put on a dress.” Diane von Furstenberg did not (as many believe) invent one of the most feminine pieces of clothing in history, she made it famous for centuries – the wrap dress, easy to put on and take off, hit all the right points in the consciousness of women in America in the 70s: it looked chaste and feminine at the same time, but at the same time it just sparkled with sex. Von Furstenberg is one of the few designers loved by second-wave feminists, who believed that the wrap dress reflected the new sexual freedom of American women.

Radio

Bruce Springsteen WNEW-FM concert, 1975

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In late 1967, WNEW-FM, a radio station that had previously played various pop standards, suddenly began to broadcast youth music – from psychedelic rock to new folk music. In the early 70s, its format expanded even more: progressive rock, avant-garde classical music, German krautrock bands sounded on WNEW-FM. Later, WNEW-FM became one of the first stations in New York, whose DJs regularly aired disco and punk rock. One of the best episodes of the station’s biography is the broadcast of the New York concert of Bruce Springsteen, which has already received critical attention, but has not yet sold very well.

Underground

second incarnation The Loft, 1975

Hippie and audiophile David Mancuso started parties at his space The Loft back in ’70 – but their second incarnation, at 99 Prince Street, became much more famous. Private (all their own, no one else), free (even food and alcohol were not sold on them, but offered), with the best DJs in the city (from Arthur Russell to Larry Levan), with the latest music (Mancuso had unlimited access to more unreleased records) and the best stereo system in the world (the Mancuso setup is considered the Holy Grail among American audiophiles), they were not only the place where all the party-goers of the city wanted to go, but also the platform that launched the phenomenon of “mutated disco” – music that took disco as its starting point point and made it a little weirder, a little more intelligent, a little more interesting. People who were far from the mainstream — punks, contemporary artists, classical musicians — were often responsible for the creation of the “mutated disco”, so their music came out rather not for connoisseurs of Donna Summer (although for them too), but for aesthetes and fans of the avant-garde. Mancuso’s parties were inspired by ZE Records, which published bands with names like Kid Creole & The Coconuts and briefly became terribly trendy on both sides of the Atlantic, in New York and France.

Financial crisis

Gerald Ford v. New York, 1975

“Ford to the City: Die Already” was the headline on the front page of the Daily News on October 30, 1975. New York was on the verge of bankruptcy, the mayor’s office and the city administration decided to ask for financial support from the US government – but President Ford refused them. Subsequently, it was only possible to save the city from the threat of bankruptcy by emergency measures – including the closure of municipal schools and hospitals, the reduction of the transport base and the freezing of public sector salaries.

Terrorism

LaGuardia airport explosion, 1975

On December 29, a bomb exploded at LaGuardia airport, killing 11 people and injuring 74 others. More than a thousand people were involved in the investigation, but the perpetrators of the attack never found. Later, Croatian nationalist Zvonko Bušić, who took a New York-Chicago flight hostage in 1976, became the prime suspect, but no evidence was found linking him to the airport bombing. The LaGuardia bombing was one of the many terrorist attacks that rocked the United States in the 70s: the most famous of New York, in addition to the Bushic hijacking of the plane, occurred in 72, when Brooklyn resident Joe Woitovich took hostage the local branch of Chase Bank, demanding money for a gender reassignment surgery for her lover.

Cinema

Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, 1976

Robert De Niro, suffering from insomnia and plowing through the bad quarters of Manhattan. Trying to cope with her pimp – Harvey Keitel – 14-year-old Judy Foster. A thumping saxophone in a brilliant soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann. Martin Scorsese captured the New York of the 70s with pinpoint accuracy and portrayed it exactly as the story tells us about it: sad, gloomy, cruel, abnormal.

Crime

murders by David Berkowitz, 1976

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Taxi Driver, whose hero was a Vietnam War veteran, rhymes with the story of New York City’s most notorious serial killer of the time, David Berkowitz (aka Son of Sam), who killed six man and wounded seven more. Berkowitz was caught in August 1977: he confessed to the murders and claimed that he was provoked by a neighbor’s dog, which was allegedly possessed by a demon. The court, however, found Berkowitz sane and sentenced to life imprisonment. At 19He converted to Christianity in 1987, and now regularly appeals to the New York State Pardons Commission with a request not to consider the issue of his possible early release, because he “deserves to be tortured and atoned for his sins by death.” The terrible and absurd fate of Berkowitz also appeared in the history of music – already in 1978, the song “Son Of Sam” appeared on the album of important punk rockers Dead Boys.

Disco

report “Ethnic rituals of the new Saturday evening”, 1976

The June issue of The New York Magazine published an article by British journalist (part-time one of the first rock critics) Nick Cohn about the new New York phenomenon – disco. Cohn’s report was so successful that it was immediately made into a film – “Saturday Night Fever”, which became one of the main symbols of the disco era, and the Bee Gees soundtrack was at the top of the list of best-selling records of all time for a long time. AT 90’s Kohn unexpectedly admitted that he invented the story from beginning to end, or rather, he composed it based on his trips to British nightclubs in the late 60s. This, in general, is noticeable in the article itself. So, in one of the passages, Kohn described the rigid division of the New York night disco into several “zones”, in each of which representatives of different races danced – while in fact, disco turned out to be almost the first genre that mixed representatives of all racial groups on the dance floor. , national or sexual identities. New York was the undisputed center of American disco – it was here that the largest discos were opened (for example, Starship Discovery 1), it was here that the main DJs were found (for example, Tom Moulton, who actually invented the meaning of the word “remix”) and it was from here that the best artists of the genre came out (for example, the founder of the group Chic Nile Rogers).

Crash

blackout, 1977

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On July 13, 1977, almost all of New York lost electricity for almost a day. Looting immediately began in the city, which, in the course of the blackout, acquired a general scale in some areas. Damage from the power outage was estimated at $11 million, an astronomical amount for a city on the brink of bankruptcy. But the blackout nevertheless made its contribution to the cultural development of the city: on July 13 and 14, 1977, a huge number of young black people, who later became hip-hop DJs and producers, stole their first turntables from electronics stores.

Bohemia

Studio 54, 1977

4, instantly becoming the most famous institution of its kind in the world. Thanks to their well-established connections, Rubell and Schrager managed to bring a crowd of celebrities to the party over and over again – from Andy Warhol and Michael Jackson to Freddie Mercury and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Broadway

“Annie”, 1977

Broadway in the 70s was going through hard times – the general New York crisis affected it not only deplorably, but, for example, the number of truly hit new productions is clearly decreased, and the theaters were fed mainly by revivals of successful old musicals. The musical “Annie” – the story of an orphan who escaped from an orphanage – turned out to be the main hit of the Broadway theaters of that era, having lasted on the stage for six years, took seven Tonys, became the basis for a film adaptation at 19’82 and went through two Broadway revivals and five off-Broadway productions.

Advertising

“I Love NY”, 1977

“I ♥ NY” T-shirts, badges, cups, caps began to appear everywhere in the USA in 1977. The logo was created by artist and The New York Magazine founder Milton Glaser and was first used as part of an advertising campaign to attract tourists to the recession-plagued city. The rest is known: Glaser’s logo has outgrown advertising and become an important pop cultural symbol. Already in the early 80s, he (like the entire campaign) was parodied by one of America’s greatest musical satirists Randy Newman, releasing the song “I Love L.A.”, the video for which begins just from the scene of a fight between two homeless people under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Politics

Ed Koch in charge of New York, 1978

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Democrat Ed Koch was mayor for 11 years—most of the 80s. It is quite possible that, had it not been for the blackout, he would not have become mayor: at first, Koch’s campaign, which focused on the safety of the citizens, lost heavily to the liberal campaign of future New York State Governor Mario Cuomo, who focused on the economy. Under Koch’s reign, New York enjoyed a financial renaissance and became one of America’s most successful cities. And Koch himself became more and more popular, not least because of populist actions like trips on the New York subway. Nevertheless, Koch became a bitter enemy of at least one important social group in the city, LGBT activists. During the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Koch took almost no steps to stop or prevent the spread of the disease – which is why on the day of his death, February 1, 2013, many LGBT organizations congratulated their supporters on the “death of the old witch” . The irony lies in the fact that the bachelor Koch, who was not seen in any romantic relationship, was considered by many to be a closeted homosexual – he was even forced to repeatedly publicly refute these rumors.

Revival

Pope John Paul II in New York, 1979

Photo: Thomas J. O’Halloran / U.S. News & World Report magazine

The first pope to visit New York was Paul VI in 1965, but John Paul II’s trip was far more significant.