A pilot program at three locations where two or more riders can hop into a cab for a discounted fare should be rolling out next month, the Taxi & Limo...
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.
The New York Observer | Irina Aleksander and Meredith Bryan | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
After years spent ducking through secret doorways past relentless doormen, suffering low ceilings, taxidermy, Mary Kate Olsen, the French Vogue editor...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Comedy
While Eric Holder did not indicate how long the detainees might be held at the DMV, he did say that the DMV "is capable of detaining them indefinitely."
Will Schwartz | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
We were perversely short-sighted with the way we handled Eliot Spitzer. We prioritized our blood lust for personal justice over our desire for effective public policy.
Gerald Shargel | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
Even Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a self-described "jackal," will be presumed innocent. But with all the constitutional embroidery, will Mohammed receive a fair trial in Manhattan?
wsj.com | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
Federal prosecutors filed an amended complaint Thursday seeking the Alavi Foundation's majority stake in New York's Piaget building, alleging the foun...
Brooklyn The Borough | Brooklyn The Borough | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
The unofficial Bard of Brooklyn stopped by Greenlight Books last night to christen the borough's newest independent bookshop. Jonathan Lethem, author ...
Tony Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
Despite all the missteps and bad choices that went into making it, you should buy this box. Why? Because Frank Sinatra was the greatest singer of the 20th century, and he could teach the singers of the 21st century a thing or two.
David Finkle | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment
Roth and Allen are producing works it's difficult not to describe as clichés. What could be more commonplace than men obsessed with proving that male elders remain attractive to their female juniors?
Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
New York's subway started 105 years ago, on Oct. 27, 1904. Ever so often, the subway distances itself from the stereotype of a noisy metropolis, providing freeze frames of silent symmetry.
guestofaguest.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
One of the best parts of watching Mad Men (besides the expertly crafted plot and character development) is the perfectly recreated world of 1960s New ...
Samantha Marshall | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York
What makes state legislators -- along with hapless mayoral candidate Bill Thompson -- think we're the perfect source of revenue to close the MTA budget gap?
AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The journalism industry may be in precarious shape, but you wouldn't have known it at the annual New Yorker Festival, where star wors...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Lil Wayne's gun possession case is putting a leading edge of DNA science under a microscope. As the Grammy-winning rapper sat in a M...
Thelma Adams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
I was frustrated by the absence of movies where a mother is the lead and her issues are the film's main focus, where she is a significant character expressing her soul and existence.
guestofaguest.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
What happens when Versace and The Whitney Museum come together to celebrate Leonard A. Lauder? The Whitney Studio Party!...
AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A prosecutor-turned-defense lawyer won't go to jail for running a Manhattan brothel but remains behind bars as he awaits trial on cha...
nytimes.com | Michael M. Grynbaum | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
A train derailment on Monday morning scrambled subway routes from Manhattan's West Side to Downtown Brooklyn. Straphangers should brace for an afterno...
nypost.com | Janon Fisher | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Jeffrey Stern's mother wanted him to have every advantage -- from his schooling at Manhattan's prestigious Dalton School to summer camp in the Berksh...
silive.com | John M. Annese | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
An outspoken Criminal Court judge who at one point broadcast specific details about his personal life on Facebook.com has been transferred from Staten...
Pauline Millard | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
During visits to Madison Square Park, I started to grasp the complicated terrain of Manhattan Motherhood, and how I wished someone had written a guide about what to expect when breeding in New York City.
ny.eater.com | Scott Solish | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
The downward spiral of the space formerly known as Buddha Bar continues, with news leaking today that the owners are being sued by their attorneys ove...
AP | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — "Mad Men" star John Slattery says not in my back yard. The actor, who plays advertising executive Roger Sterling on the hit televisi...
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home
JENNIFER BROWN/THE STAR-LEDGERWill Begeny, of Oyster Hotel Reviews, checks out the bedding and photographs his room at the W hotel in Hoboken. Oys...
nydailynews.com | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York