After wandering in the urban wilderness for more than 20 years, New York Law School students finally have a dormitory of their own. The Promised Land is a brand-new 13-story building on East Third Street, where up to 99 law students will soon live and study amidst the music of angels.
Hell's Angels, that is. The Read MoreIt appears as though New York will get a new stadium after all. It won't be built on the West Side of Manhattan, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg wished. Instead, it will rise in the Flushing Meadows section of Queens, and it will be paid for not by the Jets, but by the Mets. Whether or Read More
On a warm June evening, the novelist Rick Moody sat on the floor of the placid backroom of the Ludlow Street bar Pianos, peeking out from beneath the brim of a porkpie hat at a shag-haired musician named Hannah Marcus. She was crooning about "dragon fruit" and stealing lap blankets from United Airlines. They were Read More
One of the big best-sellers last summer was the 500-page paperback The 9/11 Commission Report, which culled the results of a year of feisty, televised public hearings, at which officials like Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice had struggled to defend the Bush administration's failure to prevent the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Read More
One could be forgiven for thinking the city's financial condition is in pretty great shape these days. Recent articles about the local economy have been filled with cheerful words such as "recovery," "surplus" and "surge." When it was announced last month that the city would end this fiscal year with an unexpected $3.3 billion surplus, Read More
[From The Oprah Winfrey Show, May 23, 2005.]
TOM CRUISE: I'm gone. I don't care. OPRAH WINFREY: Are you sleeping? Are you getting enough sleep? CRUISE: No, no, I'm not. WINFREY: No, no, no. I heard you …. CRUISE: No, we got here last night. We had-what is that place with the popcorn and the caramel? Read MoreEt tu, Frank?
Until this spring, Maurice (Hank) Greenberg was chairman and chief executive of American International Group, the giant insurance company he had run for almost 40 years. In March, the board of A.I.G. fired him, after the company found itself under investigation by federal regulators for its accounting practices. The director who led the Read MoreBabies have bad taste in music.
On the weekends, certain Manhattan women go around in funny shoes that look like a mixture of hiking boot, slipper and something a French schoolboy would wear. When I jog, I go too slow to make a breeze. That New York Times multipart series on "class in America" sure is Read MoreIt's always interesting when a powerful institution takes a public look at itself. Last Sunday, The New York Times published a review of Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper, a book by journalist Laurel Leff, which details how The Times skirted the issue of the Holocaust during the early 1940's, Read More
Subway-Stair Stroller Lift (Single, Double and Triple Divisions)
Two-Door, One-Buzz Brownstone Vestibule Dash Fairway Tetrathlon (Cart Slalom, Appetizing Greco-Roman, Checkout Freestyle, Bag Clean-and-Jerk) First Avenue Synchronized Light Run (5,000m) LaGuardia Baggage-Handling Shot-Put Cyclist's 4,000m Individual Pursuit of Cabbie Who Sideswiped Him Rat-Avoidance High Jump Wall Street 100m Perp Walk (Securities, Commodities and Accounting Divisions) No. 5 Read MoreOn May 15, Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker opened up the Web page of The New York Times and read the following line:
"Newsweek apologized yesterday for printing a small item on May 9 about reported desecration of the Koran by American guards at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an item linked to riots in Pakistan and Afghanistan that Read MoreThere are a number of reasons why the Democratic Party, the dominant political organization in New York City, is having such a hard time winning Mayoral elections these days. The primary reason, of course, is the competence of the two Republicans-Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg-who broke the Democratic near-monopoly on City Hall.
Another reason has less Read MoreExcerpts from a review of the new movie Kung Fu Hustle from kids-in-mind.com, a movie Web site for parents.
KUNG FU HUSTLE Highly stylized martial arts comedy taking place in an anachronistic version of 1930's Shanghai: The dominant criminal gang invades a slum, but has a very hard time subduing its residents when some of them Read MoreNew York City residents use about 1.3 billion gallons of water a day, and most of us have no idea that it's only dumb luck that keeps the water flowing into our homes. In fact, the city's water system is balanced on the brink of disaster: If either of the two water tunnels which currently Read More
There's a time and a place for everything and 5:30 p.m. outside H. and M. on 34th and Broadway the day before Thanksgiving is neither the right time nor place for a fistfight.
Or so the four plainclothes NYPD officers would have me believe as they cuff me and stuff me into a cruiser. I'm delivered Read More
