On page one of the bestseller Lean In, readers are introduced to New Yorker Rosalind Einhorn. Einhorn grew up in a poor Jewish family in a crowded apartment in New York City. Just like the other women in her family, Einhorn was called "Girlie" while the young men...

When Jack Dorsey's obsession with trains and systems was revealed on 60 Minutes last week, I almost fell over, recalling that I became an admirer of his in the midst of the busiest train terminal in the universe: Grand Central.

It was there that I first met Dorsey's...

As I walked past the Apple store on Fifth Avenue Friday, I found myself blocked by a string of young 20-something male success stories. Rather than weave my way around the hedge fund manager set in their Hickey Freeman casual wear, I took the opportunity to listen to their banter....

New York Natives sat down with Cro-Mags founder Harley Flanagan for an exclusive interview about the events of the now infamous July 6 Webster Hall Cro-Mags blow-out during New York's CBGB Festival.

According to Harley Flanagan, he was invited to the Webster...

If there was a creative who epitomized the value of the idea we try to explore in our work on nynatives.com: the special worth of nativism, it was Nora Ephron. Even decades later, When Harry Met Sally from 1989 and You've Got Mail from 1998 still...

The Nuyorican Poets Café, the legendary venue that opened first in the mid 1970s, closed in the early '80s and then re-opened in the late '80s, is one of the cultural gems that keep NYC the hotbed of creativity that it has always been.

Ed Morales, author, lecturer, documentarian, journalist,...

What does it mean to be created by a neighborhood? What if the neighborhood that created you vanishes? And more intriguing, if the vanishing had something to do with your being there in the first place? What does that story look like?

We're talking about the Lower East Side --...

Hip Hop. These days, it means different things to different people. But anyone will tell you New York City was, and is, at the center of the scene. Hip Hop originally described the musical and artistic subculture born during the 1970s in New York's predominantly African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods.

This piece was co-authored by Laura LM Hill

Pure fate.

In 1963, a young photographer named William John Kennedy had nothing but fate. And that was more than enough.

After nearly 50 years, never-before-seen photographs of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana and their work have been published...

There are endless articles online encouraging investors to buy the same stocks as well-known billionaires like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates or Carlos Slim. It's easy to get whirled up in the excitement of a major move in the market and headlines like "Buy Railways Like Gates!" and "Consider China, Buffett's...

Just the other day, a high net worth fund manager said to me, "I won't tweet. I won't do it. I earn $1,000 an hour. Taking time to tweet would be a waste of time for me." My first reaction was "Oh no" we must all tweet for ourselves. Certainly...

The street noise between New Yorkers will always be a shared conversation we can not drown out. We are forever powerless over the jackhammer, the crash over the pothole, the boombox on a traveler's shoulder; the only silence we can experience exists between two people.

I became incredibly grateful for...

In New York City, we all know death and taxes are inevitable, but it's easy to remove fear around the latter by taking advantage of new programs and technology. I like free. We all like free and now many of you can file your taxes for free. Yes, 99% this...

As a business and finance expert people always ask me what keeps me on track with my personal finances. The following apps have changed my financial life, my health and my creativity. They're not the new "in" thing; they are money tools I've used for a year or more, which...

Although the world has changed quite a bit since Frank Sinatra crooned his love song to the city, there is no doubt people still come by the millions to taste a little bit of New York's magical Kool-Aid.

There are also millions who don't come here, rather they were born...

I leave Manhattan often and usually by train. Whenever there is an excuse to meet at Grand Central, even if I am not leaving the city I can't wait to zip to 42nd Street walk through the classic large heavy swing doors off Vanderbilt and breathe in a grand sense...

Ever wonder what it takes to have a day named after you in New York? No small feat but Rita Cosby's "extraordinary journalism and exemplary service on behalf of her community," inspired the State of New York to officially name October 11th, "Rita Cosby Day."

Rita Cosby has had an...

My friends have a lot of nasty, difficult, tiresome, depressed, troubled, confusing, greedy, outrageous, rebellious, selfish, irresponsible siblings. I do not. I am an only child.

The word only is so close to lonely in the English language that our minds immediately turn to unhealthy maudlin latch-key children left in...

If cryogenic freezing works and Larry King beats death, he's heading back to Bensonhurst. That's what he told www.nynatives.com in a recent interview. If all goes as planned, he told us he'll be walking down the street in Brooklyn two hundred years from now and "they'll probably just...

For years, I worked either Christmas Day or Christmas Eve. I was emotionally plucked from the shared cheer, the debate at the dinner table to wander into a busy newsroom on the west side of Manhattan as the young pup on the TV totem poll.

A small group of...