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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s offer to stay on as top cop when he takes office, The Post has learned — a bridge-building move that comes despite their profound political differences. The highly anticipated appointment fulfills Mamdani’s campaign promise to keep the respected 44-year-old police executive in the prominent role as the far-left candidate looks to ease concerns from the moderate wing of the Democratic Party and Big Apple bigwigs as he builds out his administration.

Students at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts want some of their tuition money back because they say virtual classes aren't what they paid for — but instead of addressing the situation, the school's dean sent them a video of herself dancing to REM's "Losing My Religion." Following several communications between students and the school administration, Dean Allyson Green earlier this week attached her dance video to an email to students in which she explained that she doesn't have the authority to refund tuition and that it's "challenging" for the school to give students their money back...

Jim Tisch, the leader of Loews Corp., said the U.S. did a “good job of killing” the hotel business by lambasting corporate travel and hurt American International Group Inc.’s ability to return bailout funds by curbing pay. “The criticism that took place of group travel was really a death knell for the industry,” Tisch said yesterday in an interview at an office of the New York-based holding company, which owns hotels. “It’s easy for the politician to get the sound bite. What they are doing with those sound bites is putting maids and bellmen out of work.” Loews’s hotel unit...

Top city politicos are floating Loews big for mayor.Have two terms of Bloomberg taught city Democrats that what they really need to do is run a businessman for mayor? Sources say that the technocrats’ fantasy candidate right now is Jonathan Tisch, the co-chairman of Loews Corporation and a big Democratic donor (his dad is Preston Robert Tisch, the billionaire New York Giants co-owner who died last year). Longtime Democratic operative and top Andrew Cuomo adviser Tonio Burgos admits that he made the suggestion to Tisch “a few weeks ago.” “Whether Jon Tisch self-finances or raises a lot of money, which...

NEW YORK (Nov. 15, 2005) -- Robert Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants and a civic leader in New York City for several decades, died of brain cancer. He was 79. Tisch died at his home, a family publicist said. Three weeks ago on Oct. 25, the Giants' other co-owner, Wellington Mara, also died of cancer. Wellington Mara was the son of team founder Timothy J. Mara. Tisch bought 50 percent of the Giants in 1991 from Tim Mara, Wellington Mara's nephew, not long after the Giants beat Buffalo in the Super Bowl. He also was U.S. postmaster general...

For some veterans of CBS News, the departure of Dan Rather from the network's evening newscast represents a kind of coda on a long, sad song of decline from greatness. The news organization that did the most to define broadcast news from the early days of radio through the golden age of television in the 1950's and 1960's has gone through a marked falloff in the last 15 years, probably suffering more than any other network from the shrinking of resources that matched its shrinking audiences. But the notion that Mr. Rather's decision to give up his anchor job is...

But a legion of critics faulted Mr. Tisch's performance. "Is that the legacy he wants to leave, that he made a lot of money?" Gerard R. Roche, an executive recruiter who often placed managers at the company, asked at the time. "CBS is a disaster." Media spokesmen were even more scathing. "He took an institution that was important in this country, and he strangled it," said Alex S. Jones, host of "On the Media," a public radio program, in a 1995 interview in The Times.