David Dinkins
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David Norman Dinkins (born July 10, 1927) is an American politician, litigator, and author who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.
He was the first and, to date, the only African American to hold office. Dinkins, one of the first African-American Marines to serve (1941–1946), received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School (1956). Dinkins began his political career by serving in the state Assembly (1966), then rising to mayor of Manhattan, New York.
After leaving office, Dinkins' reign in New York City plunged more sharply and quickly than at any other time in recent New York City history.
Dinkins served on the board of directors of the United States Tennis Association as well as a member of the Jazz Foundation of America.
He sits on the boards of the Children's Health Fund, the Association to Protect Children, and the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.
Dinkins is also on the advisory board of Independent News & Media and the Black Leadership Forum, and is chairman emeritus of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS.
Early life and education
Dinkins Jr.'s uncle, Sarah "Sally" Lucy and William Harvey Dinkins Jr., was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and his father, Robert Harvey Dinkins Jr., was a barber and real estate agent. When his parents divorced when he was six years old, he was raised by his father. As an infant, the Dinkins rode Harlem before returning to Trenton. He attended Trenton Central High School, where he graduated in 1945.
Dinkins attempted to enlist in the United States Marine Corps after graduating, but was told that a racial quota had been empty. He finally found a recruiting station that had not filled their quota for Negro Marines, as he described it; however, World War II was over before Dinkins finished boot camp. He served in the Marine Corps from July 1945 to August 1946, earning the rank of private first class. Dinkins was one of the Montford Point Marines to be honoured with the Congressional Gold Medal from the US Senate and House of Representatives.
In 1950, Dinkins received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Howard University. He earned his LL.B. In 1956, Brooklyn Law School was founded.
Personal life
In August 1953, Dinkins married Joyce Burrows, the daughter of Harlem political eminence Daniel L. Burrows. David Jr. and Donna were the two children's of a second child. Joyce Resigned from her position at the State Department of Taxation and Finance when Dinkins became mayor of New York City. Both were members of the Church of the Intercession in New York City. Joyce died on October 11, 2020 at the age of 89.
Dinkins was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha and Sigma Pi Phi ("the Boule"), the oldest collegiate and first professional Greek-letter fraternities, respectively, established for African Americans. He was raised as a Master Mason in King David Lodge No. 1's. F. & A. M., PHA, was founded in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1952.
Dinkins was part of an Episcopal Church delegation to Haiti in 1994.
Dinkins was hospitalized in New York on October 31, 2013 for pneumonia treatment. On February 19, 2016, he was hospitalized again for pneumonia.
On April 13, 2018, Dinkins appeared in "Risk Management," the 19th episode of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods' 8th season.
Political career
Dinkins, who practiced private law from 1956 to 1975, grew through Harlem's Democratic Party party group, starting at the Carver Democratic Club under J. Raymond Jones' banner. Denny Farrell, Percy Sutton, Basil Paterson, and Rangel were among an influential group of African Americans politicians, including Denny Farrell, Percy Sutton, Basil Paterson, and Charles Rangel; the former three men, as well as Dinkins, were referred to as the "Gang of Four." Dinkins, one of fifty African American investors who aided Percy Sutton in the establishment of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation in 1971, was a pioneer.
In 1966, Dinkins briefly served in the 78th District of the New York State Assembly. He served as president of the New York City Board of Elections from 1972 to 1973. He was set to take office in late 1973 as New York City's first Black deputy mayor, but "difficulties resulted from [Dinkins'] inability to pay federal, state, or city personal income taxes for four years." Rather, he served as a city clerk (from 1975 to 1985, Robert D. McFadden referred to him as a "pointee appointee who maintained marriage licenses and municipal records" from 1975 to 1985. He ran for mayor of Manhattan in 1985, his third attempt at the office. Dinkins was elected mayor of New York City on November 7, 1989, defeating three-term incumbent mayor Ed Koch and two others in the Democratic primary and Republican nomination runoff, defeating Rudy Giuliani. Dinkins, a Lubavitcher Rebbe, asked Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson's blessing and support during his campaign.
Dinkins was elected in the aftermath of a corruption probe that resulted from the demise of long-serving Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman and prominent New York City political leader Meade Esposito's American Mafia-influenced patronage network, leading to the resignation of Queens Borough President Donald Manes and a string of criminal arrests in the city's Democratic leadership. The New York City Board of Estimate (which served as the primary governing instrument of many patronage networks for decades, often superseding the mayoralty in power) was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in March 1989; the board of Estimate abolished the Board of Estimate and assigned the majority of the Board's responsibility to an expanded New York City Council following a successful referendum in November. Koch, the presumed Democratic nominee, was severely harmed by his administration's links to the Esposito network and his treatment of racial issues, which was highlighted by his fealty to wealthy interests in predominantly white areas of Manhattan. Dinkins was able to attenuate public perceptions of his previous patronage assignments and emerge as a formidable, reform-minded competitor to Koch. In addition, the fact that Dinkins was an African American helped him to avoid rumors that he was hiding the Black vote by campaigning for whites. Though a large number of African American voters was vital in his election, Dinkins campaigned around the city. William Lynch Jr., a political consultant who became one of his first deputy mayors, served as Dinkins' campaign manager.
Dinkins pledged racial reform in January 1990 and dubbed New York City's ethnic richness a "gorgeous mosaic." During the 1980s, the crime rate in New York City had risen alarmingly, and the number of homicides in particular hit an all-time high of 2,245 cases, the first year of the Dinkins administration. The rate of most violent crimes, including all categories of violent crime, dropped during the remainder of his four-year term. That brought an upward spiral to an end and sparked a pattern of falling rates that continued and accelerated beyond his tenure. However, the high absolute figures, which were high in his administration, as well as a modest decline after (homicide down 12% from 1990 to 1993), resulted in Dinkins' political struggles as a result of the assumption that crime remained out of control under his watch. In fact, the Dinkins started a recruitment process that expanded the police department by a whopping 21%. "He obtained the state Legislature's permission to dedicate a tax to thousands of police officers," the New York Times reported, "he kept schools open into the evening" but not a single student was arrested."
Dinkins' term was defined by increased scrutiny and oversight of police conduct, which resulted in friction between Dinkins and the city's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA). Dinkins introduced a bill in 1992 to rename the Civil Complaint Review Board (CCRB), the oversight body that investigated police abuse allegations, from half-cop to all civilian and make it independent of the New York Police Department. Dinkins tried to defuse tensions after the Washington Heights Riot, fueled by Jose "Kiko" Garcia's beating, an undocumented Dominican Republic immigrant, by a police officer, began by inviting Garcia's family to Gracie Mansion. This remark outraged the PBA's, who said that Dinkins' behaviour demonstrated favoritism against Mr. Garcia and bias against the police. The city PBA orchestrated a protest against Dinkins' policing position on September 16, 1992, which quickly became angry when nearly 4,000 off-duty police officers blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and knocked over police barricades in an attempt to compel City Hall. The nearly 300 uniformed on-duty officers did nothing to prevent the rebellion. Despite the riot and protests from the PBA, the CCRB was reorganized and became independent from the police department in July 1993.
Dinkins' attempt to stop locksmith licenses was rejected.
Dinkins made last-minute discussions with the sanitation staff during his final days in office, seemingly to protect the public record of garbage removal. When Dinkins ordered the departure of Victor Gotbaum, Dinkins' appointee on the board of education, Giuliani, who had defeated Dinkins in the 1993 mayoral election, blamed Dinkins for a "cheap political tactic," promising to guarantee Gotbaum's replacement six months in office. Dinkins also signed a last-minute 99-year deal with the US National Tennis Center. The Dinkins administration reached an agreement with the US Open that provides more financial benefit to the City of New York each year than the New York Yankees, New York Mets, New York Knicks, and New York Rangers combined, by negotiating a fee based on the event's gross income. Fashion Week, Restaurant Week, and Broadway on Broadway were all created under Dinkins.
Dinkins' term was etched by events such as the Family Red Apple protest, a boycott of a Korean-owned supermarket in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and the 1991 Crown Heights riot. "I have no doubt that the criminal justice system has operated fairly and openly" after Lemrick Nelson was cleared of murdering Yankel Rosenbaum during the Crown Heights riots, Dinkins said. "I continue to fail to comprehend the decision," he wrote in his memoirs later.
Mayor Dinkins visited Israel in 1991, as "Iraqi Scud missiles were collapsing" in Israel, and the Mayor's press secretary said, "security will be tighter and gas masks would be issued for the contingent."
A decline in the economy harmed the Dinkins administration, which resulted in reduced tax income and budget deficits. Nevertheless, Dinkins' mayoralty was honed by a string of notable accomplishments. In Dinkins' final years as mayor, New York City's crime rate, including the murder rate, decreased; Dinkins advised the state legislature not to allocate certain tax money for crime prevention (includes an increase in the number of the New York Police Department and after-school programs for teenagers); and he recruited Raymond W. Kelly as police commissioner. During Dinkins' tenure, Times Square was swept up, and he begged The Walt Disney Company to rehabilitate the old New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street. To build the USTA National Tennis Center, the city negotiated a 99-year lease of city park space to the United States Tennis Association, not just in New York but around the country." In northern Harlem, the South Bronx, and Brooklyn, Ed Koch's attempt to rehabilitate dilapidated housing in the city's north Bronx and Brooklyn continued; overall, more housing was restored in Dinkins' first term than Giuliani's two terms. The city invested in supportive housing for mentally impaired homeless people and saw a decrease in the number of homeless people in the city's homeless population hit its lowest level in two decades, thanks to Governor Mario Cuomo's support.
In 1993, Dinkins defeated Republican Rudy Giuliani in a rematch of the 1989 election. Dinkins won 47.3 percent of the vote, down from 56% in 1989. One factor in his demise was his apparent indifference to the Jewish people's suffering during the Crown Heights riot. Giuliani in Staten Island had another good vote this year, with a referendum on Staten Island's secession from New York being held by Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Later career
Dinkins, a professor of educational service at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs from 1994 to his death.
Dinkins served on the board of directors of the United States Tennis Association. He served on the boards of both the Children's Health Fund, the Association to Benefit Children, and the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund in New York City. Dinkins served as chairman emeritus of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS as well as the advisory board of Independent News & Media and the Black Leadership Forum.
Dialogue with Dinkins, Dinkins' radio show, aired on WLIB radio in New York City from 1994 to 2014. A Mayor's Life: A Mayor's Life (Anthrone) published in 2013.
Despite the fact that he never attempted a political comeback, Dinkins remained somewhat active in politics following his mayorship and endorsements of various candidates, including Mark J. The 2001 mayoral election went green, and it was well-known. Bill Thompson, who won and Bill de Blasio in 2013, is a supporter of Democrats Fernando Ferrer in the 2005 New York city mayoral election. Dinkins endorsed and actively campaigned for Wesley Clark during the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries. Dinkins served as an elected delegate from New York for Hillary Clinton in 2008. Dinkins endorsed former Mayor Michael Bloomberg for president in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries on February 25, 2020, just days before a Democratic debate.
Dinkins served on the board of directors and served on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America in 2013. He worked with the group to save the homes and lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, as well as musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina. He served on the boards of the Children's Health Fund (CHF), the Association to Benefit Children (Agency), and the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF). Dinkins served as chairman of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, as well as emeritus. He was a promoter of college education, and he served on the Posse Foundation National Board of Directors until his death in 2020.