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Feb 11, 2001 · Abraham D. Beame, an accountant and clubhouse Democrat who climbed the gray ranks of municipal bookkeeping and confounded oddsmakers to become mayor of New York in the mid-1970's, only to spend...
Feb 13, 2001 · NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (JTA) Abraham Beame, the first Jewish mayor of New York, died Saturday at 94 of complications from open-heart surgery. The son of Polish Jewish immigrants who grew up on the...
Feb 14, 2001 · New York City yesterday quietly remembered an immigrant accountant who rose to become its gentleman mayor in the bleak days of the 1970's fiscal crisis, a calamity that turned him out of City Hall...
Oct 16, 2015 · Abraham Beame, who was in his second year as the mayor of New York, was no stranger to the city’s budget and its challenges. During two stints as comptroller, he had seen the drop in...
Feb 16, 2001 · NEW YORK — Abraham Beame, the first Jewish mayor of New York, died Saturday at 94 of complications from open-heart surgery. The son of Polish Jewish immigrants who grew up on the Lower East Side and attended City College, Beame was mayor between 1974 and 1977. His tenure was plagued by New York City's worst fiscal crisis.
Feb 11, 2001 · NEW YORK -- Abraham D. Beame, 94, the diminutive Democrat and former accountant who served as the 104th mayor of New York through the darkest days of the city's 1975 fiscal crisis, died Feb. 10...
Nov 6, 2012 · Nov 6, 2012. On November 6, 1973, Abe Beame was elected mayor of New York, the first practicing Jew to become chief executive of the world’s most Jewish city. (In terms of Jewish law, Fiorello LaGuardia, whose mother was Jewish, was also a Jewish mayor, but “the Little Flower” himself was a practicing Episcopalian.)
