Several weeks ago The Times reported that the former Dateline NBC co-anchor Stone Phillips and wife, Debra, nabbed a rarely available Gramercy Park North penthouse--the two-bedroom was last on the market in the 1960s. Due to a bidding war,... MORE >
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sent an email to supporters this afternoon criticizing the nays in the House who voted against the 9/11 health care bill last night. The subject line was... MORE >
Late Night host Jimmy Fallon has been sued by an underling who was demoted and eventually fired, he alleges, because of his gender. This discrimination charge is surprising, not just because these lawsuits tend to go the other way... MORE >
Take that, Manhattan! The Department of City Planning published on its Web site today its 182-page Peripheral Travel Study—in an extensive effort to identify opportunities for short and long term strategic plans to address transportation needs in the boroughs outside... MORE >
Trying to recreate Sylvia Plath's salad. Chelsea's wedding will cost $270,000 per hour. Facebook postpones its... MORE >
Non-profit, Manhattan-based online news outfit ProPublica has jumped on the Tumblr bandwagon, joining the many other media organizations that have felt the need to represent themselves on the hip blog platform recently.... MORE >
Early last Friday morning, an employee of the Spotted Pig in the West Village found a man inside the closed bar with three bottles of liquor. Edward Wilson, 27, allegedly sneaked into the bar around 6 a.m. through the... MORE >
Something interesting on the internet for a summer Friday! Rising Stanford sophomore Sam Gerstenzang launched a website yesterday — weddingcredential.com — that tallies how many times different keywords (e.g. the names of Ivy League Schools, investment banks) are mentioned... MORE >
Penguin Books celebrates its 75th birthday today, and The Guardian has a short account of its... MORE >
Come Monday, the mayor's inner-circle will be full again. New deputy mayor for economic development, Bob Steele, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs and the former CEO of Wachovia, starts in his new job, a bit more than... MORE >
Come Monday, the mayor's inner-circle will be full again. New deputy mayor for economic development, Bob Steele, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs... MORE >
Something interesting on the internet for a summer Friday! Rising Stanford sophomore Sam Gerstenzang launched a website yesterday — weddingcredential.com — that tallies how... MORE >
Mike Grimm, a G.O.P challenger to Democrat Mike McMahon's Congressional seat, took in over $200,000 in his last filing.But in an effort to show... MORE >
"When I meet restaurant lovers, New York Times readers, and people familiar with my memoir, certain questions come up time and again," writes Frank... MORE >
"[The apartment building] is superbly situated one block from Central Park, B/C/1/2/3 trains and cross-town bus."This is, appropriately, the first line of the Shares of... MORE >
A company called MyType that seems to operate some sort of personality-based social networking site has published what is being referred to as a... MORE >
The perennial attempt to hike subway and bus fares is one of the more ritualistic political dances in New York. Any leader of the...
Seeing Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right—seeing her face register a spectrum of feeling as if it were the evening news—I was...
Until recently, I was a ding-dong about interior decorating, thinking it was frivolous, superficial: a silly pursuit for rich socialites, O.C.D. neat freaks obsessed...
When the Transom first encountered former congressman Joe DioGuardi, the Republican who is making a primary bid to challenge Kristen Gillibrand for her Senate...
Food and DrinkNothing justifies binge drinking like a little booze knowledge to toss around. And with the wealth of educational options this week, you'll...
