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Saturday at Dolce: Inside Dolce and Gabbana's Fifth Avenue Flagship Bash

Melissa Berkelhammer | Posted 05.08.2013 | New York
Melissa Berkelhammer

If you want to ensure some serious star wattage at your store opening party, then throwing it the Saturday before the Met Ball is a safe bet.

Double Dipping, Deadlines and Discrimination: Fear and Loathing on the Way to the Closing Table

Ron Gitter | Posted 05.08.2013 | New York
Ron Gitter

Without question, a revitalized real estate economy greatly benefits New York. As we have learned all too often, however, a frothy market can produce disastrous results and unintended consequences when buyers have more money than sense.

PHOTOS: Park Renamed After Late Beastie Boy

AP | Posted 05.04.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- A New York City playground where the late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch learned to ride a bike as a child has been renamed in his honor. City of...

The Eternal Quest for the Affordable NY Nabe

Martin Kleinman | Posted 05.01.2013 | New York
Martin Kleinman

When Lena Dunham and her production team recently commandeered Bar Matchless in my son's Greenpoint neighborhood, he gave her the stink eye, turned on his heel and walked away. From the bar, and from the neighborhood.

PHOTOS: Leland Bobbé's 1970s NYC

Posted 04.28.2013 | New York

Photographer Leland Bobbé misses an old New York. The New York when Times Square, as he puts it, "wasn’t a playground for Middle America and the L...

PHOTOS: The Ghost Bikes Of NYC

Posted 04.19.2013 | New York

Across New York City, bicycles painted white are locked to signposts. Small plaques above the bikes read, "Cyclist Killed Here. Rest in Peace." Th...

Where Survivors Of Torture Rebuild Their Lives In NYC

Posted 04.18.2013 | New York

I walk in at seven o’clock on the dot, expecting to be one of the first to arrive at the benefit concert for the NYU/Bellevue Program for Survivors ...

NYC Parents Ditching Diapers For Au Naturel Toileting Trend

DNAinfo | Posted 04.18.2013 | New York

GREENPOINT — Pardis Partow decided to give her year-old son, Parker, some diaper-free time at home — much to the consternation of her Yorkshire te...

NSFW PHOTOS: Co-Ed Topless Reading Group Celebrates Spring

Posted 04.12.2013 | New York

The weather's finally getting warmer in New York, and members of the city's most topless literary club took to Central Park Tuesday to celebrate. ...

PHOTOS: Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn

AP | BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 04.11.2013 | New York

NEW YORK -- With the movie "42" bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places...

The NYC Superfans Dedicated To Taping Live Shows

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 04.10.2013 | New York

“At least my apartment now has an elevator,” Scott Bernstein puffs as he hoists a suitcase containing roughly $10,000 worth of audio recording equ...

WATCH: Manhattan 'Bros' Hunt For Hipster Chicks In 'Girls'-Inspired Show

| Posted 04.05.2013 | New York

By Meredith Hoffman, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer WILLIAMSBURG — After a marathon viewing session of "Girls" last year, Anthony DiMieri re...

PHOTOS: All The Hats At NYC's Easter Parade

Posted 04.01.2013 | New York

Revelers marched along Fifth Avenue in New York City Sunday for the annual Easter Parade dressed in their Sunday best, and donning extravagant, colorf...

Sitting Down With One Of NYC's Best Storytellers

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 03.27.2013 | New York

Peering out through a window in Thomas McKean's studio on 13th Street in the East Village, the Empire State Building is framed between cracked wood, i...

WATCH: The Burning Of Chametz In Williamsburg

Posted 03.26.2013 | New York

Jews across the world marked the beginning of Passover Monday. In Brooklyn's South Williamsburg, a large crowd gathered for the Burning of Chametz. ...

Reviving The Boys Choir Of Harlem

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 03.12.2013 | New York

On West 132nd Street in Harlem one day late last year, a group of twenty or thirty tiny kids, boys in khaki pants and girls in green and blue skirts, ...

PHOTOS: The Survivors

Posted 03.10.2013 | New York

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 20th Anniversary tour of the country stopped in NYC last weekend. Some 2,500 people, many of them Holoca...

WATCH: Friday Night Magic In NYC

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 03.07.2013 | New York

Worldwide, there are ninety million registered Magic: The Gathering players. Now in its 20th year, the game—in which two players wage battle using t...

PHOTO: Kimye As Kate And Leo

Posted 02.26.2013 | New York

On Sunday, Buzzfeed posted a photo of some sign art at the Tribeca Whole Foods."This is hanging in the flower section of a Manhattan Whole Foods," wro...

WATCH: NY's Hardest Working Party Photographer

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 02.22.2013 | New York

If you've ever picked up a magazine or a newspaper filled with photos from celebrity galas or film premieres, chances are you've noticed the photo cre...

Where To Watch The Oscars In NYC

DNAinfo | Posted 02.22.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — For many people in this city, the real Super Bowl hasn’t happened yet. It’s about to go down this Sunday night at the 85th Annual Aca...

WATCH: Harlem Isn't Happy About The Harlem Shake

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 02.20.2013 | New York

Harlem isn't too happy about the "Harlem Shake." Filmmaker Chris McGuire decided it was time to ask the people who actually live in the Manhattan ...

PHOTOS: Portraits In Grand Central

Whitewall | Posted 02.19.2013 | New York

In honor of the 100th-anniversary of New York’s Grand Central Station, photographer Timothy Briner restricted the third installment of his series ...

PHOTOS: NYC's Disappearing Laundromats

Posted 02.19.2013 | New York

When laundromats, like bodegas, begin to disappear from a New York City neighborhood, it's often a surefire sign of gentrification. The Snorri Br...

LISTEN: Inside The Algorithm That Drives OkCupid

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 02.13.2013 | New York

There are more than eight million people in New York City, and a myriad of ways to meet them. Given our increasing reliance on social media to stay co...