New York lost a towering figure in the world of journalism with the death Tuesday of investigative reporter Tom Robbins, who exposed corruption and abuse in both the local government and the private sector.

Best known for his columns and reporting at the Village Voice and at the New York Daily News, Robbins started out as a community organizer on the Lower East Side.

“It was a time of landlords were abandoning houses, some of them were setting fire to them,” he said in a 2021 interview on CUNY TV. “And I just saw such amazing and appalling things going on, I said, ‘I’ve got to write about this somehow.’”

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Legendary muckraking journalist Tom Robbins died Tuesday at the age of 76

Robbins exposed corruption in the pages of the Village Voice, the New York Daily News a

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