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In 1931, a writer named George Tichenor made his way from his home on West 21st Street down to the Lower East Side to see a play. Galicia Aflame, by [...]

Robert Caro, the celebrated author and biographer, is being honored for the 50th anniversary of his book "The Power Broker" with an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society. Caro is currently working on the final book in his series on Lyndon B. Johnson, which delves into topics like the Civil Rights Act and the Vietnam War. His meticulous research and attention to detail have made his books influential in the field of urbanism. "The Power Broker" has gained recognition from figures like Barack Obama and Pete Buttigieg, and its sales continue to rise. Caro's extensive research material, which didn't make it into the book, has been acquired by the New-York Historical Society. The article also mentions Caro's thoughts on President Biden and his decision to preserve his archive for future generations. [Extracted from the article]

We Made Another Book! Disco. The freak show. Neoconservatism. Q-tips. They all started in the world's most creative, inventive city. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK is on sale October 20. [...]

* ROSALIND FOX SOLOMON has rarely worked on assignment. When she first started taking photographs with an idea of making art, few would have expected her to turn that pursuit [...]

Look up when you walk through the World Trade Center Oculus, and you can forgive almost everything: the $4 billion bill as the rest of the transit system starved, the [...]

IN 1970, an artist named David Young bought a box of 1930s news photos at a secondhand store in Philadelphia. He just liked the look of them, he says now, [...]

IF THEY'RE TALENTED AND THEY'RE LUCKY, designer-artist-creators get to lob an icon out into the larger culture--the ultrafamiliar shape of Leo Fender's Stratocaster guitar, say, or Shepard Fairey's Obama poster. [...]

This picture made Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig's career. Almost nothing in it happened by accident. IT WAS NOVEMBER 22, 1943, and Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, was ready for the night [...]

DIANE ARBUS: IN THE PARK will be exhibited at Levy Gorvy starting on May 2. IN THE 1940s AND '50s, as a newlywed fashion photographer collaborating with her husband, Diane [...]

New York City's principal water supply aqueduct, the Delaware Aqueduct, is undergoing a major repair. The aqueduct, which is the longest tunnel in the world at 85 miles, has not been drained for repairs since Joe Biden was in high school. The section of the aqueduct that crosses under the Hudson River has been leaking for decades, losing up to 35 million gallons of water daily. To fix the issue, a new tunnel has been constructed and will be connected to the old tunnel, requiring the aqueduct to be shut off for eight months. The city's water supply will not be affected during this time, as there are backup systems in place. The repair project is expected to cost two billion dollars and has taken a decade to complete. [Extracted from the article]

This article from the New York journal discusses the recent performance of baseball player Aaron Judge. Despite experiencing a minor slowdown in early September, Judge has since regained his momentum. He recently hit a grand slam, leading the Yankees to victory. Judge's impressive statistics this season, including a .321 batting average and 53 home runs, have drawn comparisons to legendary players like Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. While Judge has yet to win a World Series, his exceptional performance has made him a fan favorite and a strong contender for the Most Valuable Player award. [Extracted from the article]

'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. These are nice,' begins an early scene in Tom Wolfe's 'Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's' published in New York Magazine's issue of June 8,1970. He was talking about [...]

A few days after the crash, I went down to the Park Slope corner where it had happened. There was--is--one of those makeshift altars, the kind that appear after every [...]

IT'S EASY to convince yourself, after a year in virtual space, that most of the world's knowledge is either online or can be acquired with a couple of Amazon clicks. [...]

IS THERE ANY FILM IN WHICH EVERYONE TALKS FASTER than His Girl Friday? Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the quintessential city-newspaper people, leaping from interview to interview and tip [...]

The Third Avenue Bridge in New York City experienced a mechanical issue on July 8 when it got stuck open after a barge passed through. The high temperature of 95 degrees caused the steel of the bridge to expand, leading to the malfunction. This incident, although rare due to fewer vessels using the river, highlights the challenges faced by swing bridges when they warm up and expand. It is important to note that this issue is not a result of global warming or aging infrastructure, as the bridge was replaced in the early 2000s and is in good condition. [Extracted from the article]

This article from the New York journal titled "The Chair Says 'Carrie': Parker-spotting at Gramercy Park" by Christopher Bonanos discusses the filming of the TV show "And Just Like That..." in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City. The article describes a scene being filmed involving the character Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, having a conversation with an actor dressed as an exterminator. The article also mentions the presence of fans who gathered to watch the filming and take pictures. The show is set to return in 2025. [Extracted from the article]

THE DATE WAS APRIL 20, 1978. The scene: the Great Hall of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. On the stage sat the Italian modernist Massimo [...]

YOU-OR YOUR mother or your aunt or your grandmother--probably first encountered Gail Sheehy's writing in 1976, when she published Passages. It was an immense best seller, one of the biggest [...]

TO CLARIFY: ERIC ADAMS has indeed left Borough Hall in the past six weeks. The Brooklyn borough president goes for walks across the street in Columbus Park, and 'every day, [...]

AVEDON ADVERTISING will be published by Abrams on October 8. WE ALL KNOW THE Richard Avedon style of portraiture: pure-white backdrop, classical pose, a Kissinger or Monroe (or even a [...]

LADY IN THE LAKE will be published by William Morrow on July 23. 'Baltimore is a city where they give directions according to what's not there anymore,' Laura Lippman says, [...]

In 1969, New York missed the Stonewall rebellion. But in the five decades since, we've covered the changing shape of LGBT life. September 24, 1973 'How 'Gay' Is New York?' [...]

TOM SLAUGHTER is out now from the Artist Book Foundation. IN 1981, JUST as Soho loft living became legal, Tom Slaughter moved to a building on Broadway near Prince Street. [...]

"Neighborhood News: The Cannabis Crackdown Begins" is an article published in the New York journal on May 20, 2024. The article discusses the start of "Operation Padlock to Protect," an initiative led by the Adams administration in New York City to crack down on illegal cannabis shops. Since the legalization of recreational marijuana in 2021, the city has seen an influx of both legal and illegal weed shops. The first raids targeted shops near schools and houses of worship, those selling to underage buyers, and those accused of selling harmful products. The goal of the operation is to close as many illegal businesses as possible within 30 days. The article includes a photograph of a raid at the New City Smoke Shop, where the owner was handcuffed and arrested. [Extracted from the article]

* Richard Nixon inadvertently helped New York grow up. The magazine was founded in 1968, the year he was elected to the presidency. A few years later, coverage of the [...]

My grandfather, Myron Sr.,came from Ukraine with athird-grade education. Even though Ukraine continuedto exist, it was certainly not allowedto celebrate traditional culture. Plast is instrumentalright now in delivering aid to thefront lines in Ukraine. CHAPTER 4 YESTERYEAR GLO:nyo/11apr22:42n1.jpg PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): . gl GLO:nyo/11apr22:43n1.jpg PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Myron Surmach at Surma Book& Music Co. in 1980. gl THAT TIME WHEN My Grandfather Ran the Show Markian Surmach, 60, wasof the third generation to operateSurma Book & Music Co. In the summer of '92, we went on tour to Ukraine, to anindependent Ukraine. [Extracted from the article]

And still at thecenter of it all is the enormous St. George Ukrainian Catholicchurch on Taras Shevchenko Place at 7th Street. CHAPTER 1 YESTERYEAR In 1931, a writer named George Tichenormade his way from his home on West 21stStreet down to the Lower East Side to seea play. In New York, all these immigrants from Ukraine, orformer Ukraine or future Ukraine, found themselves onapproximately equal footing, re-creating their old-world villagerelationships not exactly in peace but less fractiously. GLO:nyo/11apr22:26n1.jpg PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Veselka and the UkrainianNational Home circa 1975. gl To talk about that world, about Ukraine andUkrainians in New York, you first have to make a fewdecisions about what Ukraine is. [Extracted from the article]

I asked Austin whether he'd hit anyred tape regarding permits or licenses." In late October, for four successivenights, Austin and Butler invited smallgroups of people to the edge of the EastRiver in Greenpoint. [Extracted from the article]

SANLE SORY: VOLTA PHOTO is at Yossi Milo Gallery from April 24 through June 16. YOU'VE ALMOST SURELY never heard of Sanle Sory. Beginning in the late 1950s, he was [...]

We were looking at the future. 'Fiction and fact are indeed becoming hard to disentangle. I hope that, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley and I have added, constructively and [...]

The first time Camilo Jose Vergara pointed his camera at the corner of 125th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, it was 1989. Most of the upper floors of the building [...]

The Power To: THE BEST WAY to semi-reliably make money onBroadway is to own a Broadway theater, and theShubert Organization has 17 of them, far more thanany other entity. Because baseline costs are more orless fixed once a show is up, a hit or a flop is immediately obvious.(Say a musical costs $850,000 per week to run and ticket sales are$300,000. [Extracted from the article]

Cynthia Nixon has deftly made the decaying, infuriating transit system a central campaign issue. How much she, or anyone, can do about it is an open question. The intensity of [...]

But Enough About Us >> Cynthia Heimel, who died on February 25 at 70, was probably best known for her books of funny, sparky writing, much of it done for [...]

Predatory business practices * 'As he joined the discussion about family life, Casablancas talked about his seventeen-year-old daughter, Cecile. He said Cecile had been solicited by a photographer last summer [...]

The article discusses the replacement of street-corner wire trash cans with a more functional and aesthetically pleasing alternative. The old trash cans, made of steel mesh, were heavy and not ratproof, leading to issues with sanitation and cleanliness. The new trash cans have a lightweight plastic liner and are designed to be stackable for easier transport. While the old trash cans have been a familiar sight on the streets for almost a century, they are being phased out and recycled. [Extracted from the article]

The View From the Edge 'There are lights skating up 51 stories to the copper tops of the buildings of the World Financial Center,' Julie Baumgold wrote. 'They are lights [...]

In 1968, Johnny Carson's politics were limited by his network. ''The show is rigidly formatted, and we have a narrow range to work in. You begin to feel like a [...]