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Frank Sinatra's Big Apple Box Set Tastes Sweet, Despite a Few Worms

Tony Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Radio City Music Hall, Jerry Lewis, United Nations, Tina Sinatra, Madison Square Garden, Nancy Sinatra, New York City, Tommy Dorsey, Paramount Theater, Manhattan, Skitch Henderson, Patsy's Italian Restaurant, Harry James, Vincent Falcone, Ella Fitzgerald, PJ Clarke's, Frank Sinatra, Carnegie Hall, Manhattan Center, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

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.

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Philip Roth and Woody Allen: Have I Got a Girl for You!

David Finkle | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Millington Synge, Lolita, Annie Hall, American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, Woody Allen, Soon-Yi Previn, The Dying Animal, The Godfather Parts I and II, The Playboy of the Western World, Francis Ford Coppola, Whatever Works, Vladimir Nabokov, Manhattan, The Human Stain, The Humbling, Frank Sinatra, Philip Roth, Mia Farrow, Entertainment News
David Finkle

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?

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The New York Subway: A Silent Symmetry (Photo Slideshow)

Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Mass Transit, Subway Slideshow, Here Is New York, New York Subway, E.B. White, Slideshow, Mta, New York City, New York News
Venkat Srinivasan

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.

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Guide To Mad Men's New York City

guestofaguest.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Mad Men, Betty Draper, Manhattan, New York City Mad Men, 1960s New York, Jon Hamm, January Jones, John Slattery, Roger Sterling, Donald Draper, New York, New York City, Amc, New York News

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 ...

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Why Us? How the Commuter Tax Chips Away at the Self-Sufficient Self-Employed

Samantha Marshall | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Albany, Manhattan, Self-Employed, Bill Thompson, Mta, Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax, New York, Fare Hike, Small Business, Freelancers-Union, Freelancers, New York News
Samantha Marshall

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?

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New Yorker Festival Attracts Throngs Of Fans Despite Publishing Woes

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, John Turturro, Roger Angell New Yorker, Calvin Trillin, Stephen Colbert, New York, Ronger Angell, Msnbc, Calvin Trillin Food Tour, Manhattan, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Maddow, Elizabeth Edwards, The New Yorker Festival, Ariel Levy, Joan Cusak, New Yorker Festival Humor Revue, New York News

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...

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Lil Wayne Appears At DNA Hearing In Gun-Possession Case

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Tha Carter, Dwayne Carter, Lil Wayne DNA Hearing, Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne Gun Possession Case, Lil Wayne Gun Case, Lil Wayne, Lil Wayne Possession Charges, New York, New York City, Tha Carter II, New York News

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...

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Hanging with Motherhood Writer-Director Katherine Dieckmann

Thelma Adams | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Manhattan, Women, Women in Film, Mothers and Sons, Motherhood, Uma Thurman, Parenting, Mothers and Daughters, Screenwriting, Parenthood, Punk, Screenwriters, Mike-Leigh, Katherine Dieckmann, Joan Didion, Women Directors, Working Moms, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

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.

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Celebs, Art Patrons Get Down At The Whitney Studio Party

guestofaguest.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York

Read More: Donatella Versace, Jennifer Hudson, Lindsay Lohan, Lake Bell, Taylor Momsen, New York, New York City, Mischa Barton, Manhattan, Leonard A. Lauder, The Whitney Museum, Versace, The Whitney Studio Party, Byrdie Bell, New York News

What happens when Versace and The Whitney Museum come together to celebrate Leonard A. Lauder? The Whitney Studio Party!...

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Paul Bergrin, Ex-Prosecutor, Sentenced For Running Brothel, Awaits Murder Trial

AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York

Read More: Paul Bergrin, Paul Bergrin Sentenced, Prostitution, Manhattan, Paul Bergrin Brothel, Newark, Paul Bergrin NYC Brothel, Paul Bergrin Newark Murder, Paul Bergrin Muder, Paul Bergrin Witness Murder, New York, New York City, New York News

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...

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Subway Train Derails In Lower Manhattan, 2 Line Rush Hour Delays Likely

nytimes.com | Michael M. Grynbaum | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Downtown Brooklyn, Subway Derailment, Manhattan, 2 Train Derails, Brooklyn, New York City Subway System, New York City Subway, New York City West Side, New York City Rush Hour, Subway Rush Hour, New York, New York City, New York News

A train derailment on Monday morning scrambled subway routes from Manhattan's West Side to Downtown Brooklyn. Straphangers should brace for an afterno...

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Dalton Parents Use HGH, Human Growth Hormone, To Combat "Shortness" In Their Children

nypost.com | Janon Fisher | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: HGH Shots, Human Growth Hormone, Manhattan, Humatrope, Jeffrey Stern, Private-Schools, Endocrinologist, Dalton Human Growth Hormone, Adolescents and HGH, New York City, New York, Dalton School, Dalton, New York News

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...

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Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr.: Staten Island Criminal Court Judge Transferred For His Revealing Facebook Posts

silive.com | John M. Annese | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York

Read More: Facebook in the Office, Manhattan, Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr., Staten Island Criminal Court, Staten Island, Facebook, New York, New York City, New York News

An outspoken Criminal Court judge who at one point broadcast specific details about his personal life on Facebook.com has been transferred from Staten...

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Navigating Competitive Motherhood Is A Job Unto Itself

Pauline Millard | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Manhattan, Relationships, Working Mothers, Kids, Pauline Millard, Motherhood, Babies, Lactation, Stay at Home Mothers, New York City, Childbirth, Living News
Pauline Millard

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.

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Buddha Bar Sued Over Unpaid Legal Bills

ny.eater.com | Scott Solish | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Buddha Bar Worldwide, Baker and Hosteler, Little Rest Twelve, Buddha Bar, Anja Bar, Manhattan, Fish, New York, New York News

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...

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John Slattery, Mad Men Star, Fights Sanitation Garage In Neighborhood

AP | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: West Side Highway, Manhattan, Mad Men, Department of Sanitation, New York Department of Sanitation, John Slattery, Roger Sterling, John Slattery Sanitation Garage, Pedestrian Safety, Sterling Cooper, New York City, New York, New York News

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...

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Hotel reviews, with a little investigative journalism

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Manhattan, Home News

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...

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The Rise And Fall Of New York: A Tragedy In 3 Acts

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Politics, Clinton, Economy, Empire State Building, American Declien, Rome, 9/11, Rockefeller, Obama, Recession, Coliseum, Ground Zero, Bush, New York News
Nelson Montana

I still love this town. But it saddens me to see how far it's fallen. Can the rest of the country be far behind?

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Study: NY Failing to Build Tech Innovation Economy

NY Convergence | NY Convergence | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home

Read More: New York City-New York, Manhattan, Home News

NYConvergence ORIGINAL A report just released by the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank, finds that while New York City i...

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The Waldorf Astoria Presidential Suite: President Obama's Hotel Room In New York (VIDEO)

Posted 09.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Presidential Suite, Video, Waldorf Astoria Presidential Suite, United Nations General Assembly, Manhattan, Barack Obama, Waldorf Astoria, New York, Obama Hotel Room, New York News

The presidential suite at the Waldorf Astoria hotel is really living up to its name this week. President Obama checked in Monday and will be there ...

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The Underground City on Governors Island

Nick Carr | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Ruins, Manhattan, Governors Island, Abandoned, New York, Goverthing, The Archaeological Dig, New York News
Nick Carr

Today, I finally got on the ferry and went out to Governors Island. Since January, Belgian archaeologists have been working strenuously to excavate the ruins of a former Governors Island hamlet called Goverthing.

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Leo

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Latinos, Manhattan, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Memorials, Leo Orris, Cuban Missile Crisis, New York City, Obituaries, Havana, Cuba, New York News
Margarita Alarcon

For years Dr. Leo Orris and his family would be our sanctuary, our conversations, our endless nights of discussions where themes would range from the history of SDS and SNICC to how to end the Vietnam War.

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As It Should Be: Moving On From 9/11

Mike Doyle | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

Read More: 9/11 Anniversary, Manhattan, New York, Chicago Tribune, Memory, Top of the World, September 11th, World Trade Center, Grieving, Chicago News
Mike Doyle

You can hold onto the past only for so long until looking backward becomes fear of moving forward. Sometimes a day should just be a day.

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Bernie Madoff's Manhattan Penthouse Up For Sale (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Madoff Penthouse, Video, Madoff Video, Madoff House, Bernard Madoff, NY Real Estate, Us Marshalls, Bernie Madoff, NYC Real Estate, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's where Bernard Madoff broke down and confessed to his massive fraud, frantically wrote checks for millions of dollars as the sche...

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New Apartments Are Too Little, Cost Too Much For Residents Losing Homes To Second Avenue Subway Work

New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 11.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Upper East Side, Second Avenue Subway, Rent Stabilized Apartments, Real Estate New York, 2nd Avenue Subway, Mta, NYC Subway Construction, New York News

Finding an apartment in Manhattan can be tough. Just ask the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Next year, dozens of New Yorkers in some of the c...

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