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by Michael J. Mangano You grow up in then-unfashionable Brooklyn, become an adult and make enough money to afford moving out of Brooklyn to Manhattan’s fashionable, expensive east side – then, years later, you learn that, even if you wanted to, you canâ€... More »
By Will DiNola *With a perceived lack of support from the New York arts community, a viral bodega gaffe video, and an urge to be experimental in campaign communication methods, NYC Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang tries his hand at poetry in an attempt to win ov... More »
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose any voters. While that statement may not have been completely accurate—e.g., if the person Trump shot was one of h... More »
A recent addition to the New York Times is a heartwarming weekly list on page 2 of the paper. The Week in Good News poses an immediate question. Is it better to read the good news before the rest of the paper or save it for after the editorial and the Op-Ed co... More »
By Stuart Green and Jennifer Moses 26 March 2017 “To help you find your grassy niche, many brokers have expanded their services by offering seminars and guided tours of the suburbs, sometimes connecting buyers with their agent counterparts beyond the borough... More »
Rivki Schlimovitz Shlomo Wachtelkoenigstein Rivki Haddassah Schlimovitz, 17, the daughter of Menachem and Esther Schlimovitz of Kiriat Joel, was married last night to Shlomo Yehuda Wachtelkoenigstein, 38, son of Gershon and Shulie Wachtelkoenigstein, of Boroug... More »
By David Eisenbach Bill de Blasio couldn’t sleep. Of all the objections to his ban on the Central Park horses, one haunted him. Where do they go afterwards? He hoped a rich animal lover out West would put them up on a huge ranch to roam around for the rest o... More »
by Dave Norton NEW YORK – In a stunning display of solidarity and disrespect toward New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, the New York Police Department again turned their backs on De Blasio outside of the funeral of a fallen officer on Sunday, to the utter de... More »
Essay by Dan Geddes See also: The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Inherent Vice, and Dys, an imaginary Pynchon novel Most Thomas Pynchon fans will not be disappointed by Bleeding Edge, his new novel set in New York in 2001. Some may be dis... More »
Henry Miller By Dan Geddes See also review of Miller’s The Air-Conditioned Nightmare Henry Miller is sui generis. It is difficult to place his works in a particular genre, though novels may still be the best category. Some have termed his works “au... More »
The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of the Founding of New York by Russell Shorto Review by Dan Geddes Historians have often treated the establishment of New Amsterdam by the Dutch as a footnote to the history of the United States. The Brit... More »
Review by Dan Geddes See also reviews of Rushmore and Moonrise Kingdom. Cast Gene Hackman … Royal Tenenbaum Anjelica Huston … Etheline Tenenbaum Ben Stiller … Chas Tenenbaum Gwyneth Paltrow … Margot Tenenbaum Luke Wilson … Richie ... More »