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Code Orange And June Bugs

Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rochelle Lefkowitz

It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.

NYC Odd Couple, Bloomberg And Silver Pressure Port Authority on Trade Center Towers

nytimes.com | CHARLES V. BAGLI | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Although the negotiations over the World Trade Center site have gone nowhere, the deadlock has produced something of note: a startling alliance betwee...

NYC Prep And The Best NY Teen Movies And Shows (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NYC Prep, New York City's latest rich-teens-in-the-city show, unveiled last night, and we thought it would be a good time to weigh in on other New Yor...

Park Avenue Paparazzi Angers Residents

nytimes.com | SARAH KERSHAW | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

The sight of doormen in charcoal gray jackets and smooth white gloves is de rigueur on Park Avenue -- Main Street for a rarefied slice of Manhattan. T...

Best New York Movies (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Directors have struggled to capture the essence of New York City since the first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was set here in 1927. At turns romantic and ...

Traffic Free Times Square Is A Half-Baked Concept

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Stephen C. Rose

Last February Manhattan was apprised of an incipient revolution. Cars and trucks would no longer be welcome in Times Square and on a small stretch of ...

New York Real Estate: How to Spot A Good Deal

New York Times | ELIZABETH A. HARRIS | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Many New York City apartments have had drastic price reductions in the last few months, as sellers chase after a cascading market. But a discount from...

Correction Officer Resigns Over Bar Mitzvah in Jail

New York Times | JAMES BARRON | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

A top Correction Department official who is suspected of approving a bar mitzvah at a New York City jail last year has submitted his resignation and t...

Food Fight At P.S. 9: Mother's Battle Against Junk Food Gets Extreme

New York Times | SUSAN DOMINUS | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

MeMe Roth, a publicist and an Upper West Side mother of two, is getting really, really mad -- "and I do not mean angry," she clarified. "I mean mad, l...

Vaccines Against Terrorism

Meredith Lopez | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Meredith Lopez

I am through the looking glass, people. I have discovered a deep, dark secret of the utmost importance to our national security. This secret goes far...

A Most Ingenious Job Search

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dr. Susan Corso

My taxi driver had tacked to the back of the seat in front of me a professional resume announcing the job search intentions of recent LaSalle MBA graduate James A. Williamson III.

Review -- The Girlfriend Experience

Will Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Will Menaker

The main character and her boyfriend both earn a living by inflating the egos of rich pricks by pretending or more troublingly, not-pretending to form a personal connection with their clients.

Jon Gosselin Seeks Condo Board Friendly to Douchebags

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Andy Borowitz

Reality star Jon Gosselin, who has been looking for a New York apartment in recent days, has given the following marching orders to his realtor: find a condo board that is friendly to douchebags.

J. Ezra Merkin, Madoff Financier, Quits Synagogue Position

New York Times | Paul Vitello | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

J. Ezra Merkin, the financier who entrusted sizable portions of his friends' and investors' money to what turned out to be Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi s...

Air Force One Photo-Op Cost $328,835 -- Here's How the Feds Could Have Gotten Their Picture for $6

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Meathead

So my question is, why does Air Force One need a new portrait? Whatever the purpose, photographer and Photoshop guru Scott Kelby knows how to save the government $328,829.

How to Fill Yankee Stadium's Pricey Empty Seats

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Dave Astor

Given that the team's super-rich owners used taxpayer subsidies to help finance their gilded ballpark, it serves them right that they're losing some revenue.

Report: Pontiac Dies on Monday

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Steve Parker

Pontiac was chosen as the "easiest" to kill since it was cut from GM's self-defined herd of four "core brands," Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick.

Midday. Midtown. Manhattan.

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Robert Rosenthal

There's something kind of cool about taking in the Big Apple like a tourist from a quintessential vantage point, without a camera, map or tour guide.

Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex?

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Robert Rosenthal

Is Salami and Eggs better than sex? No. But it's a damn good second place. Decide for yourself at Salumeria Rosi.

Seeking Common Ground in a Sacred Space

Caroline Cooper | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Caroline Cooper

As one guest put it, paraphrasing Desmond Tutu's famous statement, "Religion is like a knife -- it can be used to slice bread or to kill people."

Times Square To Be Turned Into Pedestrian Mall

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

NEW YORK — Two heavily used swaths of New York City's Broadway will become pedestrian plazas in May to help reduce traffic and pollution. It's ...

Free Store Opens In New York City

Dave Pinter | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dave Pinter

The Free Store is a model of economic sustenance that we believe could be used (at least on a small scale) in cities worldwide.

'Officer, Our Fate Is in Your Hands'

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Jan Herman

During one of Waller's recording sessions in the 1930s, when he made about 300 sides for Victor Records, somebody gave him the idea of doing "Bach up to me."

Wall Street Gives Obama Thumbs Down

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dan Dorfman

Europe, Japan and the United States are all in the midst of a recession and the world's fastest growing emerging markets, among them China and India, are slowing markedly.

Senate Republicans: Please Help

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sally Kohn

While conservatives would have us think that the crisis we're in is a fluke, the reality is that we have all been standing on the curb of opportunity for far too long as prosperity passed us by.