From the New York Times (registration required.):
For most former mayors of New York City, the trip into the dusty files of history began with hundreds of boxes of mayoral papers and artifacts being carted from City Hall across Chambers Street to the Municipal Archives in the old Surrogate\’s Court. There, city archivists undertake a long, slow process of sorting and indexing.
Aides and friends of Rudolph W. Giuliani, however, decided that he deserved better. So, on Dec. 24, just a week before leaving office, Mr. Giuliani\’s staff hammered out an unusual agreement with the city\’s Department of Records and Information Services, giving custody of all of his mayoral papers and artifacts to a private nonprofit group that Mr. Giuliani will control . . .
But the transfer of these items, which remain city property, into the custody of the nonprofit group, the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs Inc., has drawn the ire of some archivists and historians, who fear that Mr. Giuliani will try to filter history to bolster his image . . .
\”It\’s particularly a terrible idea, because the Giuliani administration had a very dismal record on making information accessible to the public,\” said Michael Wallace, a historian and co-author of \”Gotham: a History of New York to 1898.\”
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