Hugh Carey dies at Shelter Island home
Photo credit: Newsday/Yarwood | Former Governor Hugh Carey in his law office. (March 15, 1985)
New York Gov. Hugh Carey
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Hugh L. Carey, a former two-term governor who helped pull New York City from the brink of bankruptcy in the 1970s and strove to check the state's heedless spending habits, died Sunday at his family's summer home on Shelter Island. He was 92.
"He will and should go down as the greatest governor in modern history," said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch. "It was his leadership that brought...
