New York City

The Secret New York Alternative to a Tranquil Summer Beach House

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Walking, New York City Architecture, Summer, Museums, United Nations, Sculpture, Architecture, Vacation, Travel, New York City, Family, Gardens, Relaxation, Living News
Michelle Haimoff

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.

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The Foreigners are Coming, the Foreigners are Coming!

Cheryl Pearl Sucher | Posted 06.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Immigrants, Immigration, Real Estate, Weak Dollar, New York City, Living News
Cheryl Pearl Sucher

I'm considering studying Gaelic, Sanskrit, Korean and Mandarin. Enough to be conversational. Otherwise, how will I be able to get around New York?

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NYC Recycling Guns Seized After Crimes

New York Times | Al Baker | Posted 06.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Seized Guns, Police, New York City, Green News

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...

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Sex and the City Converts a Skeptic of the Show

Misa Dayson | Posted 06.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sex and the City: The Movie, Money, Sex and the City, Feminism, Anxiety, New York City, Entertainment News
Misa Dayson

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.

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Falling Cranes and New York's Growing Pains

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Crane Collapse, Upper East Side, Crane Collapse, New York Real Estate, Michael Bloomberg, Real Estate, Gossip Girl, New York City, Breaking News, Gentrification, Politics News
Sherman Yellen

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.

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Horsein' Around

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Art, Horse Race, Posters, Barack Obama, New York City, Hillary Clinton, Entertainment News
Ryan J. Davis

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.

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The Freedom Frank at Gray's Papaya: Let Freedom Relish!

Doree Lewak | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Barack Obama, Gray's Papaya, Freedom of Speech, Barack Obama 2008, New York City, Living News
Doree Lewak

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?

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Confronting Huntington

Robert Brustein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: A&P, Theatre, New York City Apartments, Theater, Theatre Arts, New York Times, Huntington Hartford, New York City, Entertainment News
Robert Brustein

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."

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How to Spot a New York Woman, No Matter Where She Lives

Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Women, Society, Fashion, New York, New York City, Home News
Marilyn M. Machlowitz

If someone mentions the title of a book, A New York Woman may not have read it, but she probably has met the author.

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Herb Alpert Made My Wife Cry

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: '60s Pop Music, Music Business, Popular Standards, Sergio Mendes, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Herb Alpert, New York City, This Guy's in Love With You, Beatles, Tijuana Brass, Record Industry, Jazz, Corrine Bailey Rae, Brazilian Music., Lani Hall, Tommy LiPuma, Rolling Stones, Burt Bacharach, Joe's Pub, Bill Moyers, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

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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The Street With Good Taste

Craig McCord | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Food Tours, Murray's Cheese Shop, Greenwich Village, Bleeker Street, New York City, Food, Cheese, Streets, Living News
Craig McCord

Anthony Bleecker was a New York City lawyer and poet whose best friend was Washington Irving. Legend has it that because the wagon ruts that passed fo...

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Can City Farmers Stand in for Supermarkets?

Tracie McMillan | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Making Cities Sustainable, Sustainable Food, Food Access, Obesity Epidemic, New York City, Eating Locally, Food, Urban Agriculture, Obesity, Supermarket Chains, Locavore, Local Farmers, Michael Pollan, Living News
Tracie McMillan

While urban farmers often share the ethos championed by Michael Pollan, they're getting their hands dirty for a more pragmatic reason: They can't find quality, fresh food close to home.

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Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid Says Hillary Clinton Should Stay In The Race: "People Should Just Cool Their Jets"

Erin Medlicott | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Democratic Primaries, U.S. Senate, Sen. Barack Obama, Book Signing, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Harry Reid, Democratic Party, Democratic Leadership Committee, Bob Torricelli, New York City, Harold Ford Jr., Nevada, Pres. George W. Bush, The Good Fight, Pres. George H. Bush, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen.Joe Biden, Pres. Ronald Reagan, Iraq War, Tip O'Neill, G.I. Bill of Rights, Searchlight Leadership Fund, North Carolina Primary, Indiana Primary, Home News
Erin Medlicott

"This primary is a good thing. Democrats have developed a way to raise $100 million, 80 percent in donations under $90. We have millions more registered voters, 50,000 new Democrats in Nevada."

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Diary of an Aspiring New Yorker: April 24, 2008

Nicholas Brown | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Diary of an Aspiring New Yorker, Homelessness, Penn Station, Homeless, Subway Beggars, Poverty, New York City, Newyork, Living News
Nicholas Brown

it's impossible to alleviate the suffering of paupers simply through personal charity, but at a certain point a person's circumstances become so abject that ignoring her fractures your humanity.

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Blythe Danner Plus Natural Gas Garbage Trucks = Real Greening, Not "Green Washing"

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Greening, Environmental Justice, Sustainable South Bronx, Smithtown, Green Garbage Trucks, Green, Environmentalism, Union Square, Gwyneth Paltrow, New York City, Natural Gas Garbage Trucks, Blythe Danner, Haulers, Environment, Asthma, Natural Gas, Garbage Trucks, Business News
Linda Cronin-Gross

Today, as she has done countless times over the last 35 years, actor Blythe Danner stood up for the environment. Not the newly-sexy environment, but ...

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New York Magazine's 'This Is New York' Issue Cover: Very White, Lots of Dudes

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Madonna, Woody Allen, Gloria Steinem, Sex and the City, Spike Lee, NY Mag 40th Anniversary, Pop Culture, New York City, New York Magazine, New York Magazine This Is New York, New York Magazine 40th Anniversary, Women in Pop Culture, Carrie Bradshaw, Ariel Levy, Emily Nussbaum, NY Mag This Is New York, David Letterman, Rhoda, Media News
Jessica Wakeman

I did a doubletake when I arrived home tonight to see the cover of New York magazine's "This Is New York, 1968 - 2008" issue. Apparently the cultural titans among us are very white and have penises.

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Bloomberg's Budget Choices Hit Students Hardest

Dan Brown | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Keep the Promises, New York City Public Schools, Public Schools, Joseph L. Bruno, Mayor Bloomberg, Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers, Michael Bloomberg, Uft, New York State Assembly, New York City, Politics News
Dan Brown

The CEO mayor's logic may work in terms keeping a company's stock price afloat despite "belt-tightening" or lay-offs, but it doesn't fit one bit for schools.

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What Debbie Did for Dallas Bloomberg Does for New York, Or How to Destroy a City Without Bombs

Sherman Yellen | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bloomberg, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, West Side Rail Yards, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg, New York City, Bloomberg Rail Yards, Politics News
Sherman Yellen

What Bloomberg is prepared to dish out for New York's West Side is an ecological and aesthetic disaster, screwing our city in ways that even poor Eliot Spitzer could never think of doing.

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Coke and Hookers, Very Nice. Now Let's Discuss Congestion Pricing.

Nick Antosca | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congestion Pricing, Hookers, Eliot Spitzer, Mike Bloomberg, David Paterson, Cocaine, Eliot Spitzer Resignation, Governor Spitzer Prostitution, Support for Congestion Pricing, Eliot Spitzer Prostitution, New York City, Spitzer Emperor's Club, Elliot Spitzer Prostitution, Nyc, Eliot Spitzer Resigns, Elliot Spitzer, Elliot Spitzer Hookers, NYC Congestion Pricing, Eliot Spitzer Hookers, Politics News
Nick Antosca

As far as traffic goes, the lower half of Manhattan is sick and it's going to get sicker. Have you been to Times Square on a hot August day in this decade? It feels like being inside a grizzly bear's mouth.

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Let Justice Roll Down

Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Earl Denlinger, The Bronx, Holmes County, Roselynn Weaver, Jonathan Miller, Magdalena Overholt, The Bread Loaf School of English, Amish, The Way, Ohio, Mark Wagler, Pleasant View Mennonite Church, Mennonite, Catholic Central High School, Great Depression, The Great War, Jerome Overholt, Swamp Road, Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas, Lancaster Mennonite High School, Robert Weaver, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, New York City, Steubenville, Hartville, Cnn, Middlebury College, Rene Wagler, Fairfield Hospital, Marcia Miller, Rosedale Bible College, Lake High School, World War II, Aclu, Donald Thorn, Germans, Belize, Living News
Steven Denlinger

My Swiss-German world did not promote cross-cultural values -- most of my schoolmates looked pretty much like me. But something was different about the way my parents raised me.

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August: Osage County: Madness from The Plains

Matt Budd | Posted 03.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tennessee Williams, Tracy Letts, Broadway Plays, New York City, Entertainment News
Matt Budd

The play crashes and careens around the lives of this family in Oklahoma. From the pill-popping mother to the three daughters each with their own dark secrets, it's a play where the women take center stage.

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Corruption, Al Gore, House of Representatives, Ben Cardin, Martin O'Malley, Emanuel Cleaver II, Tammy Baldwin, Maria Cantwell, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Gregory Meeks, Eliot Spitzer, Niki Tsongas, Lois Capps, Pete Stark, New Mexico, New Jersey, Dennis Kucinich, Doris Matsui, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Carl Levin, Barbara Mikulski, North Carolina, Daniel Inouye, African-American Issues, Alcee Hastings, Ed Towns, Daniel Akaka, Edward Markey, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Massachusetts, Congress, Joe Biden, Kendrick Meek, Democratic National Committee, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kulongoski, John Baldacci, Geraldine Ferraro, Maxine Waters, Jim McDermott, Sheila Jackson Lee, Susan Davis, Hilda Solis, Davide Paterson, Michigan, Jimmy Carter, Brad Sherman, Hillary Clinton, Mazie Hirono, Dnc, Jim Clyburn, Senate, Hawaii, Barbara Boxer, Sam Farr, Sherrod Brown, Jesse Helms, New York State, Maryland, Washington, Tom Harkin, Mel Watt, Tom Allen, Howard Berman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Laura Richardson, Yvette Clarke, California, Democratic Primary, Maurice Hinchey, Nydia Velazquez, Maine, Superdelegates, Lynn Woolsey, Norm Dicks, Mike Honda, Rhode Island, New York Governor, Diane DeGette, Ron Wyden, John Tierney, Florida, Donald Payne, Patty Murray, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Jose Serrano, Corrine Brown, Loretta Sanchez, Texas, Henry Waxman, 2008 Election, Bill Richardson, New York City, Bob Filner, Carolyn Maloney, Iraq War, Jon Corzine, Tom Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse, Governors, Wisconsin, Jerry Nadler, Iowa, Georgia, Diane Watson, Louise Slaughter, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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Today's 100th Anniversary of Women's Day

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Vassar College, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, United Nations, International Women's Day, United States, Susan B. Anthony, New York City, Inez Milholland, Anne Morgan, Alva Belmont, Politics News
John Tepper Marlin

International Women's Day therefore needs to grow in importance not just to celebrate the achievements of suffragists but also to extend these rights -- in the United States and globally.

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Just a Temp?

Suzanne Grossman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business

Read More: New York City, Business News
Suzanne Grossman

Over these past few months I learned that not only am I not just a temp, I'm also not just the jobs with the fancy titles I've had or will have.

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Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and How People Like James Dolan Are Ruining New York City

Sal Nunziato | Posted 02.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Jon Cleary, James Dolan, Eric Clapton. Steve Winwood, Rosanne Cash, Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks, Elvis Costello, And Bruce Springsteen, New York City, Allen Toussaint, New York City Expensive, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

However unfair it may seem, I am blaming Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan for making NYC unlivable, unless you've got mad money or no conscience whatsoever.

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