High-Profile Builder Enters N.Y. Senate Race
Abe Hirschfeld, a New York City builder whose eccentricities often make headlines, announced Tuesday that he is running for U.S. Senate from New York.
Hirschfeld, most recently in the news when he was accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner, said he would be a candidate in the Independence Party, New York’s version of the Reform Party.
New York’s Senate race, to fill the seat being vacated next year by retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is expected to be a match between New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat.
Hirschfeld faces a retrial on the charges that he tried to kill his partner of 40 years. The first trial ended in a mistrial last month.
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