3 October 2026
October 3, 2026
Fiorello LaGuardia: Five Foot Two and Larger Than Life
On my late-morning walk through Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, I paid a visit to the grave of New York City’s 99th mayor, known to most today by the airport named in his honour: Fiorello La Guardia, “the Little Flower”. The diminutive mayor was born in Greenwich Village in 1882. His father, Achille […]