* Andy Logan; Longtime New Yorker Writer

Andy Logan, 80, a longtime correspondent for the New Yorker who covered City Hall for the magazine for 25 years and was the first woman to write for its “Talk of the Town” section. The dean of the City Hall press corps for more than two decades, Logan amazed fellow reporters with her near-encyclopedic knowledge of New York’s social and political history. She covered five mayors, from John V. Lindsay to Rudolph W. Giuliani, and was fond of using their own words to expose hypocrisy. Born in Cleveland, Logan attended Swarthmore College, where she decided to change her name from Isabel Ann to Andy, in honor of New Yorker essayist E.B. White, who was also known as Andy. After graduating, Logan joined the New Yorker and in 1942 became the first woman to write for “The Talk of the Town.” During a half-century with the magazine, she wrote more than 260 articles on everything from the Nuremberg trials to Christmas toys. Logan wrote two historical books, “The Man Who Robbed the Robber Barons” in 1965 and “Against the Evidence” in 1972. On Tuesday in Manhattan of pancreatic cancer.