Politics / New Yorkers deserve better than Andrew Cuomo. The Nation Though the City of New York has been operating under that ...

Interstate highway 678, a 9.3 mile stretch of road ending at JFK International Airport, was named for Robert Anderson van Wyck. He was the first mayor of New York after it consolidated into five ...

But worthy of his own expressway? Still, he’s far more laudable than Robert Anderson Van Wyck, who posthumously gave his name to another busy road. It’s probably the only thing Van Wyck ever ...

"I'm Robert Moses. I can call it whatever I damn please!" The Van Wyck was named after Robert Van Wyck, who was the first mayor of Greater New York following the consolidation of the five boroughs ...

Robert Anderson Van Wyck won the same office in 1897 with a Tammany Hall-backed campaign featuring the slogan "To Hell with Reform." Advertisement Article continues below this ad The two mayors ...

The genealogy company MyHeritage found that de Blasio and Robert Van Wyck are 11th cousins five times removed, with an English knight from the 15th century as a common ancestor. “To find a ...

Robert Anderson Van Wyck won the same office in 1897 with a Tammany Hall-backed campaign featuring the slogan “To Hell with Reform.” The two mayors would seem to have little in common ...