Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
speaker
1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On March 22, 2001, the last barge of trash sailed out for fresh kills.
Giuliani stood on his porch and saluted as it passed.
The dump was at that point the largest man-made object on Earth.
For the rest of the city, particularly its black and brown residents, the results were more mixed.
There was a viciousness to his efforts to clean up the city.
Homeless people were denied shelter or forced to pay.
Giuliani often refused to meet with black leaders.
Cops were sent out to, quote, empty the streets.
Executives at the local public radio station said that at some point they heard Giuliani say that his goal was to get poor people to leave New York.
Today, we call that self-deporting.
Frank Cipolla, the cable news guy, remembers you couldn't challenge him on any of it.
And there was another New Yorker I'm guessing you're familiar with, who grew up in the outer boroughs too, and thought, this is what a great leader looks like.
This is a clip from Larry King Live in 1999, one of the first times Trump flirts with running for president.
That year, Hillary Clinton was gearing up for her race against Giuliani for New York Senator.
Trump grew up in Queens in an environment a lot like Giuliani, wanting, like Giuliani, to put his mark on Manhattan, to build the biggest towers and put his name on them, to be respected, even though it would always elude him.
Giuliani was the model.
— They win.
When Rudy Giuliani took the stage at the New York Hilton to celebrate his election, it was the same stage Donald Trump would take 33 years later, celebrating his presidency.
There's a history to that term, forgotten, the forgotten borough, the forgotten men and women.
Around the time in the middle of the 20th century that the civil rights movement had really picked up, there'd been a shift, and white middle-class and working-class people started thinking of themselves as forgotten, that they had been left behind in the name of progress.
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