Crime Waves: Staten Island Stabbing, Scare Tactics

|| October 19, 2009 | 10:32 a.m.

A 17-year-old Staten Island girl stabbed her younger brother with a steak knife, says The Post. "Their mother got between them, pleading for calm," and convinced her daughter to drop one of her two knives. But the girl "darted around her mother seconds later, stabbing her brother in the chest with the other knife." Quanaya Tyler now faces assault and weapons charges.

S.E.C. Hires Young New Enforcer

by Reid Pillifant

October 16, 2009 | 5:07 p.m

Just days after two victims sued the S.E.C. for not sniffing out Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, the agency has announced a new chief operating officer for its enforcement division.Bloomberg reports that it's Adam Storch, a 29-year old from Goldman Sachs' business intelligence unit. "Before joining Goldman Sachs, Storch was a senior analyst at accounting firm Deloitte & Touche and an intern at Neuberger Berman LLC," Bloomberg writes.Business Insider also points out that Mr. Storch... Read More>>

Wild Things Reconsidered

by Molly Fischer

October 16, 2009 | 5:06 p.m

Where the Wild Things Are crashes into theaters today, carried by the hugest wave of hype imaginable.The reviews have come out (some good, some less good), but at this point it seems irrelevant--the film's publicity has been so comprehensive as to render a 800-word review absurd. A MoMA show, an HBO documentary, a civic celebration, and then there are the tie-ins--a soundtrack by Karen O, fine, but a novelization? What are you doing, Dave... Read More>>

The Long Call Goodbye

by Reid Pillifant

October 16, 2009 | 4:16 p.m

Ken Lewis, the outgoing C.E.O. of Bank of America, held his final conference call to go over quarterly numbers today, and the Times says he's struck an "elegiac note."“I just wanted to say thank you for the ups you’ve shown me during my time with you and the support you’ve shown the company,” Mr. Lewis said. “It’s been a pleasure to lead Bank of America and interact with all of you. I have no... Read More>>

'Who Tweets?'

by Molly Fischer

October 16, 2009 | 1:41 p.m

This week, the Magazine Publishers of America held its first Magazine Innovation Summit. The Observer's Chloe Malle attended the "Decline and Rise of Magazine Journalism" panel, which was moderated by Slate's Jacob Weisberg and included The New Yorker's Susan Morrison and Gawker's Nick Denton.Denton obligingly played the destroyer of received wisdom. Weisberg asked about how Gawker fact-checks:“We don’t,” Mr. Denton replied flatly. “We aim to get the truth over time. The verification model is... Read More>>

Apthorp: It's Alive!

by Molly Fischer

October 16, 2009 | 12:44 p.m

The Apthorp has long been something of a real-life New York fantasy--think New Yorker writers in sprawling, decaying, rent-controlled Upper West Side apartments; think celebrities; think angels in the Renaissance Revival architecture.After a high-drama condo conversion in 2007, though, market reality has made things considerably less fantastic.Last winter, Max Abelson chronicled the Apthorp's tortuous recent history:What was once a rental farce became a joke about a rabbi, red ants, a gun-carrying real estate manager,... Read More>>