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Martha Beck, Who Founded the Drawing Center in New York, Dies at 75

Ms. Beck established the small alternative museum the Drawing Center in SoHo in 1977, and marshaled modest grants to organize exhibitions of major-museum quality.

The Challenge of Writing Sylvia Plath’s New York Times Obituary 55 Years After She Died

It would be something like time traveling, only — unlike time travelers in the movies — I would know the future without having a chance to change it.

Lou Bender, Columbia Star Who Helped Popularize Basketball in New York, Dies at 99

Mr. Bender was an all-American player at Columbia whose play during the Depression helped popularize the game and make Madison Square Garden a magnet for college basketball.

Benjamin Gilman, a New York Congressman for 30 Years, Dies at 94

Mr. Gilman was a chairman of the House International Relations Committee and a leading Republican critic of the Clinton administration’s foreign policy strategies.

M. WILLIAM BRAY IS DEAD UPSTATE; Lieutenant Governor for 3 Terms Under Lehman - Led New York Democrats

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Mary Burke Nicholas Washington Dies at 88; Led New York Police Review Board

As Mary Burke Nicholas, the name by which she was known before 1994, Mrs. Washington held prominent government posts in New York throughout the 1970s and ’80s.

2,000 AT FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL CANTU; Archbishop Spellman Presides at Requiem Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral ITALIAN ENVOY PRESENT Other Notables at Rites for Italy's Commissioner General to New York World's Fair

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Hugh Carey, Who Led Fiscal Rescue of New York City, Is Dead at 92

Mr. Carey helped rescue New York from the brink of financial collapse in the 1970s and tamed a culture of ever-growing spending.

Carroll Petrie, a New York Philanthropist, Dies at 90

Mrs. Petrie and her husband, Milton, a retailing mogul who died in 1994, gave to a number of causes that included the Museum of Modern Art and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Clay Felker, creator of New York magazine, dies at 82

NEW YORK — Clay Felker, a visionary editor who was widely credited with inventing the formula for the modern magazine, giving it energetic expression in a glossy weekly named for and devoted to the boisterous city that fascinated him - New York - died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.