The Daily Green | Brian Clark Howard | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green
1. San Francisco, CA The city is known for its stable, relatively mild climate and progressive viewpoints, and 90% of San Francisco residents have a ...
Reuters | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
NEW YORK - New York City's yellow taxi fleet now will go green at the rate of 300 new hybrid cars a month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday, ...
Laura Weiss | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
At the Fancy Food Show, artificially enhanced products like Marble Pop were a distinct minority. Sustainability was in the air-- and many fancy food producers were breathing in big gulps of the stuff.
Lia Petridis | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
A whole generation defines New York City by its glamour and "Sex-and-the-Cityness" rather than its obvious and fundamental problems. Why is hunger in New York City such a common phenomenon?
Pauline Millard | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
Brokers are here to help you: The whole apartment-hunt process is like dating and in the end it's not about selling anything, but finding the perfect match.
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 07.05.2008 | Entertainment
Beyond its cultural and historical importance, the Roxy remains a beloved fixture of New York nightlife and has earned the right to reopen in the neighborhood that it has fostered for over 30 years.
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living
There's an even stronger impulse driving some to the vigilante act than grandiosity: the realization that if you do nothing, you've essentially allowed yourself to be held hostage, not necessarily to the perpetrator, but to fear.
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living
If spontaneous and proportional to the crime, the vigilante act, as opposed to the practice, is not a crime. In fact, there's no shortage of situations which call for taking the law into one's hands.
AP | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living
NEW YORK - Four manmade walls of water are cascading into the East River off Manhattan in a public art spectacle that Mayor Michael Bloomberg called t...
Laura Weiss | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green
If locally grown veggies are packed in plastic tubs, crammed into trucks, and shipped off to grocery stores, how different are they from any other produce section offering?
Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
With an estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS reports that the U.S. is home to "one of the largest HIV epidemics in the world."
Peter Miller | Posted 06.23.2008 | Business
Limiting the money apartment buildings could make from their retail stores prevented the Wal-Mart-ization of NYC. But the law changed, and now they can cash in on whatever rents the market can afford.
Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
At 89, Pete Seeger is not only a reminder of our nation's history of turbulence and triumph, he is also an inspiration for our vibrant future.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 06.19.2008 | Living
It's been two months since New York City restaurants with 15 or more nationwide outlets were compelled by law to publicly display calorie counts on all their products. This is particularly hard on Starbucks: Not only are the drinks outed, but those killer pastries as well.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living
Here are six places in Manhattan where you're unlikely to run into anyone you know and where, for once, you might actually be able to hear yourself think.
Cheryl Pearl Sucher | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living
I'm considering studying Gaelic, Sanskrit, Korean and Mandarin. Enough to be conversational. Otherwise, how will I be able to get around New York?
New York Times | Al Baker | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green
In New York City, where taking illegal handguns off the streets is high on the mayor's agenda, thousands of firearms make it into the hands of law enf...
Misa Dayson | Posted 06.02.2008 | Entertainment
I could never accept that Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte represented the modern New York woman. But I still left Sex and the City: The Movie laughing and entertained.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
Events like this morning's disaster will happen again and again because in Bloomberg's New York a crane hangs dangerously over the world below every few blocks.
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment
After the Kentucky Derby, the horse Clinton picked died on the track after finishing second, Gregory de la Haba took the bizarrely symbolic event as a sign to finish the piece.
Doree Lewak | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living
It doesn't matter than Gray's Papaya endorsed Obama, the essential issue is about our freedom of speech. So the Papaya Man wanted to enter the political conversation -- who doesn't?
Robert Brustein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment
I thought I had been summoned into Huntington's presence to discuss artistic matters. Instead, he remarked upon the title of the magazine and asked me what I thought of "Theatre."
Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home
If someone mentions the title of a book, A New York Woman may not have read it, but she probably has met the author.
Tony Sachs | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment
My wife was a puddle of tears at Herb Alpert's show with his wife, singer Lani Hall, at Joe's Pub in New York last week. If you know Herb Alpert's music, you know it's not the type of thing that starts people spontaneously weeping.
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Charlie Rose | Posted 07.23.2008 | Entertainment