Posts beloved City Desk supervisor Myron Rushetzky dead at 73: Part of the fabric of The Post

Myron Rushetzky — The Post’s beloved meticulous, sometimes maddening newsroom support-staff supervisor who churned out generations of ace copy kids — died peacefully Friday in the city he loved.Rushetzky, 73, was known as the gatekeeper of the City Desk — answering phones and announcing callers in his thick Brooklyn accent — over a career that spanned a mind-boggling 40 years. “He loved The Post,’’ said Susan Mulcahy, who started as a copy girl under Rushetzky at the paper in 1978 and went on to work for its famous Page Six gossip gang.Mulcahy, who recently co-wrote the book “Paper of Wreckage’’ about The Post, which was dedicated to Rushetzky, said he “was an important contact to make in the City Room because he knew everyone and everybody.“When you went away on a trip, he’d always demand you bring him back a shirt,’’ she recalled.

He kept a list that “on one side [had] people he loaned money to — and a number of people still owe him money,’’ Mulcahy said.“On the other side of the list are all the people who brought him T-shirts.I think I brought him three or four shirts over the years.”Stephen Lynch, editor of The Post’s print edition, said, “Myron mentored an entire generation of Post reporters.“He would take a ‘runner,’ help them, mold them, cajole them — then would advocate fiercely for them to be given full-time jobs,’’ Lynch said of Rushetzky’s former underlings — who include now-New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman.“Nothing made him prouder than watching one of his team graduate to the News Desk, and nothing made the paper better.”Post Deputy News Copy Chief Milton Goldstein started out as a copy kid along with Rushetzky in 1973 — and was by his side when he died at Manhattan’s New York University Langone of the glandular cancer adenocarcinoma.“I sat down, and I’m sharpening pencils, and Myron comes up to me and introduces himself, and 52 years later, here we a...