Education
City College of New New York
City College of New New York
He worked for the Times from 1977-2013. Haberman began his association with The New York Times as a copy boy in 1964 and then as City College of New York correspondent. He then worked at The New York Post, returning to the Times in 1977.
His assignments included staff editor of the Week in Review section.
Metro reporter; City Hall bureau chief And, from 1982 to 1995, foreign correspondent in Tokyo, Rome, and Jerusalem.
He wrote "New York City", a twice-a-week column on New York, from 1995 to 2011. In his April 8, 2011, column, entitled "One Last Attempt to Explain New York City", he announced that it would be his last "New York City" column.
In May, 2011, he began writing a column called "The Day" for The New York Times online "City Room" blog.
That column ended in January 2013, and he began a new series of interviews for the Times. In 2014 he began writing an online series for the Times called Retro Report, linked with video documentaries exploring the long-term consequences of major news stories from the past He is the editor and writer of "The Times of the Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and ities that Shaped the Decade," published in 2013 by Black Dog & Leventhal.
In 2015 he was inducted into the New York Press Club"s Hall of Fame.
Haberman is a graduate of The Bronx High School of Science (1962) and City College of New York (1966). He was drafted by the United States. Army in 1968, serving two years in Germany.
Over the years, he covered such major events as the Attica prison rebellion in 1971, the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986, South of Korea"s pro-democracy uprising in 1987, the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and 1991 Persian Gulf War, the 1993 Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestinians, the rise of Islamic terrorism in the Middle East and the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
