The New York Post’s man about town Steve Cuozzo recalls 50 years on the job and life in ever-changing New York City.
Praise the Lord, the holiday season marked my 50th anniversary of working at the New York Post.
Ever attuned to the city’s changing fortunes, The Post called out corruption in City Hall and in the corridors of corporate power. It challenged the prevailing left-liberal orthodoxy. And it has defied death time and again, mocking detractors who forecast our doom. No episode in our tumultuous history rivaled the two-month “carnival” of winter 1993 when The Post fell under the control of two maniacs: financial fraudster Steven Hoffenberg and C-list real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld.
The newsroom was a cloud chamber of cigar and cigarette smoke. We didn’t see our first newsroom computers until 1978 when mammoth, 18-inch-long “video display terminals” presented stories in four-by-five rectangles. Former editor-in-chief Col Allan’s midnight e-mails scorched our hard drives. But we cheered wildly when he entered local pub Langan’s in triumph the day in 2006 when The Post finally overtook the Daily News in circulation.
But once, when I was still in a trial run for the job, I failed to catch that an important word was missing in a headline on the proof, so it said that a 1970s politician pleaded guilty rather thanguilty. I expected it was my last day in the newspaper business. But, “Hey, we all do it sometimes,” the boss reassured me.
Soon after we moved uptown to Rockefeller Center in 1995, Reneée Zellweger popped into our Sixth Avenue lobby to complain that an item on Page Six made her sound “slutty.” Page Six chief Richard Johnson went down to hear her out. He later cracked, “We need a booth in the lobby so they don’t have their lawyers call.”
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