New York’s Tammany Hall, byword for corruption, gets landmark status
Jonathan Allen Reuters reports for Chicago Tribune. [Credit: Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia Commons] The former home of Tammany Hall, which became a byword for patronage and corruption as the headquarters of New York City’s powerful Democratic political machine, has been declared a historic landmark. A vote to protect the four-story neo-Georgian building in Union Square was held on Tuesday by the city