Dubai—A friend and I once invented a game to keep us entertained at media events. We called it Dubai Bingo. Certain words and phrases crop up with such frequency in Dubai conversation that you could mark them off on a little card: Traffic, construction, heat, superficial, rent, Used to be just sand and This is Read More
Dubai—A friend and I once invented a game to keep us entertained at media events. We called it Dubai Bingo. Certain words and phrases crop up with such frequency in Dubai conversation that you could mark them off on a little card: Traffic, construction, heat, superficial, rent, Used to be just sand and This is Read More
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade may be over for the year, but the magic and mayhem still linger. While the police say the crowd was generally better behaved than in years past, that doesn’t mean anybody would mistake the event for the Steuben Day Parade.
On June 12, at 3 p.m., the police ordered Read More
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade may be over for the year, but the magic and mayhem still linger. While the police say the crowd was generally better behaved than in years past, that doesn't mean anybody would mistake the event for the Steuben Day Parade.
On June 12, at 3 p.m., the police ordered a Read MoreIt was Marsha the Moose in mufti, it had to be. Even though she wasn't wearing her antlers, her bright purple jumpsuit with puce piping was a dead giveaway, as was her smug grin as she climbed into a BMW 540. While she looked at me and my gaggle of kids, she undoubtedly saw birthday-party Read More
No Diplomatic Immunity
For UES Flower Picker A word of advice to crooks: It's best to commit your crimes on streets that aren't home to foreign consulates, especially those important enough to warrant NYPD sentry boxes in front of them. That's the lesson one plant-loving petty criminal learned on June 23, when he chose to pick Read MoreFinicky Fares Get Ride
They Hadn't Bargained For A calculation that all of us have to make at one time or another (with increasing frequency, it seems) has to do with strategies for dealing with a kamikaze cabdriver. If you should have the misfortune of landing one, should you confront him and risk offending him? Or Read MoreEnraged Double-Parkers Take On Ticket-Writing D.O.T. Agents
Let's face it: One of the most perilous uniformed jobs in New York isn't that of a cop or even a correction officer on Rikers Island, but rather that of a traffic agent for the city's Department of Transportation. At least that's what two recent incidents on the mean Read MoreThe massive red, white and blue wreath of flowers from the Indian Consulate standing outside the 19th Precinct on a recent afternoon may have been meant not just to thank the NYPD for its hard work and heroism over the last few weeks, but also to remind them who their friends and supporters are in Read More
On a recent afternoon, 25-year-old tennis pro Nabile Taslimant stood next to a clay court at Town Tennis, an unmarked club on East 56th Street, gloomily observing one of the tragic pantomimes of his profession. On the adjacent court, a weary-looking pro was intentionally losing to an old man who had demanded a match.
After the Read MoreWednesday 11th
If you're in the Hamptons today and you notice that the beaches and restaurants seem oddly empty, that's because every high-powered lawyer, spin doctor and political fixer in town is inside sweating bullets to minimize the fallout from a recent, unfortunate late-night incident involving a young woman, an expensive German automobile and much Read MoreA burglar who impersonates a repair man better darn well make sure something is broken. Otherwise, he might meet the fate of the perp who managed to arouse the suspicions of his intended victim and the police on May 11.
Members of the 19th Precinct Community Policing Unit spotted the alleged thief knocking on the front Read MoreThere's nothing cozier than a furnished womb.
Sent out into the world with nothing more than Ivy League degrees and their big jobs on Wall Street, a brave new school of young investment bankers has forsaken personal freedom, their sense of self and hard-won existential ideals. The exchange: free rent. Plus Mama, Papa and a permanently Read MoreSouth of the Border, West of the Sun , by Haruki Murakami. Alfred A. Knopf, 205 pages, $22.
The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has built an international following because his stories move so effortlessly between the surface reality of materialistic yuppie life and the horrors of a sensitized imagination. His tools are a flatly realistic prose Read More