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Longtime Timesman Haberman wrote a column for the paper's Metro section for decades, where he crustily opines on everything from local politics to traffic regulations. Since 2011, he's shifted to the web with his "The Day" column for the Times' "City Room" blog.

A native of the Bronx, Haberman got his first job in journalism with the New York Post in 1966. He moved over to the New York Times in 1977, working for the "Week in Review" section before heading up the City Hall bureau during the Ed Koch administration. In 1982, Haberman went to Japan to become Tokyo bureau chief; five years later, he was dispatched to do the same in Rome. Following stints in Eastern Europe—where he says he was toughened up by the extreme poverty he witnessed—he was moved to Jerusalem in 1991 and spent four years reporting on the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. In 1995, he came back to New York and began writing his twice-weekly metro section column "NYC," featuring his lighthearted ruminations on life in the city. After being awarded a Pultizer Prize in 2009 for Breaking News as part of a team that covered the Eliot Spitzer scandal, he announced in 2011 that he had written his last "NYC" column, turning instead to the web for a column on one of the Times' blogs.

Haberman is divorced from his first wife Nancy Haberman, a publicist at Howard Rubenstein's Rubenstein Communications. Since the 1980s, he's been married to Kathy Jones, who works at Human Rights First.