Day: May 7, 2015

Coffey Park, History

Red Hook History: When graft was “honest” – the story of Coffey Park, by Connor Gaudet

In his folksy 1903 memoir Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, the very skilled ring democrat George Washington Plunkitt eloquently defended the manner in which so many politicians got rich off of taxpayer dollars. He states, “My party’s in power in the city, and it’s goin’ to undertake a lot of public improvements. Well, I’m tipped off, say, that they’re going to […]