Sam Roberts

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A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

The youngest and longest-serving chaplain in New York City history, he was also the first Jewish chief chaplain in the modern era.

A broken window transformed him into a professional organizer and lobbyist to regulate rents and restrain landlords in New York.

He was a watchdog over casinos when they were introduced in New Jersey. He went on to run the nation’s most profitable one, in Connecticut.

With her husband, Dan, she ran four theaters in Manhattan and a company that distributed foreign and independent classics.

He became one of the country’s best-known criminal defense lawyers after winning acquittals in three cases that spawned a new nickname for Mr. Gotti: “the Teflon Don.”

As a New York State assemblywoman, she began a campaign that finally bore fruit in 2019, when the Legislature extended the deadlines for victims to file claims.

His many novels, including the prizewinning “The Butcher’s Boy” and the Jane Whitefield series, can have readers rooting for both protagonist and antagonist.

His temperate approach was in sharp contrast to his more combative predecessor, but he continued to pursue corrupt unions and financiers.