Sidney Davidoff
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Sidney Davidoff is a senior partner in the firm of Davidoff Malito. Now a lobbyist and attorney, he was a personal aide or administrative assistant to NYC mayor John Lindsay. Hendrik Hertzberg called him "the Mayor's burly troubleshooter". [1] (http://www.bikereader.com/BikeReader/contributors/hertzberg/biketowork.html)
In 1968, when students took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University holding the active dean captive there, the mayor sent Davidoff as one of the mediators to broker the dean's release. [2] (http://www.publicanthropology.org/TimesPast/Harris.htm)
Somehow he got onto Nixon's enemies list, possibly because during a street fracas between Hard Hats and Peaceniks he "bravely" lowered the American flag to half-mast in honor of the 4 demonstrators killed at Kent State after Hard Hats had raised it in defiance. [3] (http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7074)
External links
- Biking to Work (http://www.bikereader.com/BikeReader/contributors/hertzberg/biketowork.html) by Hendrik Hertzberg
- "Remembering an Earlier War in America's Streets" (http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=7074) by Joe Guzzardi
- Dean's Lunch Features Davidoff (http://www.cardozo.net/life/fall2002/around.campus/#Deans_Lunch_Features_Davidoff_)
- Big Bust on Morningside Heights (http://www.publicanthropology.org/TimesPast/Harris.htm)