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Is the NYPD at War With Itself?
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The NYC Roots of Trump and 'Go Back Where You Came From'
(Big City)A Bookstore, Finally, Comes to the Bronx
(Big City)Two 12-Year-Olds Drew Swastikas on a Playground. Is That a Hate Crime?
(Big City)The Battleground of Black Hair
(Big City)The Rich Didn't Always Need $238 Million Penthouses
(Big City)The $15 Minimum Wage Is Here. It's Not Nearly Enough, but It's a Start.
(Big City)The Year That Bill de Blasio Became Donald Trump* and 9 Other Improbable Transformations
(Big City)Marijuana and Murky Promises
(Big City)Job Growth Gets Stuck on the Subway
(Big City)
Job Growth Gets Stuck on the Subway
(Big City)New York was supposedly getting better for cyclists. What happened?
NEW YORK — On a particularly humid evening this week, hundreds of cyclists gathered in Washington Square Park for an action reminiscent of the years when AIDS summoned so many to protest bureaucratic indifference to tragedy.
'Everybody ain't surfing this rainbow wave': Class divisions in gay rights
In January 1966, Time magazine published an essay called “The Homosexual in America,’’ which offered a glimpse into mainstream perceptions of gay life. It accepted the consensus that homosexuality was the result of a “disabling fear of the opposite sex,” concluding that such an orientation was “a pathetic, little second-rate substitute” for a meaningful life, a “pernicious sickness.”
Gloria Vanderbilt: The inventor of the personal brand
It was not until I got to college and met people whose lives, like Vanderbilt’s, were preciously circumscribed by maps guiding them back and forth between the Upper East Side and key leisure destinations on the Atlantic coastline that it became clear what real status was — and how little it had to do with a pair of jeans carried home in a bag from Bloomingdale’s.
The empty storefront crisis and the end of the American dream
NEW YORK — Sam Il-Rumi came to the United States with his parents and brothers in 1980, fleeing the occupied West Bank and settling in New York, where his father opened a pet-food store in the East Village.
Really, Mr. Mayor? President? Really?
NEW YORK — This week, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign, a project that has generated all the promise and enthusiasm of an afternoon in small-claims court, announced that its candidate had received his first endorsements. You might assume that those endorsements came from local elected officials, because that is so often the way of things. They did not. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, he of bass guitars and El Paso, has gained more support from New York congressional representa...
Where are the statues of LGBTQ pioneers? Here are 11 worthy New Yorkers
NEW YORK — For all of June, New York City will serve as host to World Pride, the biggest celebration of gay liberation in the world.
No end to the abuse of Evelyn Nesbit
Recently, I sat down with a young real estate executive to talk about an office building his company had bought and renovated to fit the style and tastes of the modern creative-class worker.
Women take the cosmic fall for male greed
NEW YORK — Late last week, Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, trumpeted what he clearly considered was a big win for his office — the conviction of Anna Sorokin, the fictitious heiress, the party-girl swindler, the Robin Hood tipper, the danger to minibars.
'The Lehman trilogy' criticizes capitalism, at $2,000 a seat
NEW YORK — Since its American debut at the Park Avenue Armory last month, “The Lehman Trilogy” has had New Yorkers of a certain breed held tightly at the forearms. A play about money and decline, it has been chewed over by those still on top.
