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The article lists what it calls the ten worst landlords in New York City, including Westchester County businessman Frank Palazzolo, Williamsburg landlord Jacob Bernat and his company Plaza Management, and businessman Sam Suzuki and his company Hunter Properties.

The article mentions tenant complaints and exposes ten alleged slumlords in New York City including Moishe Indig, Humphrey Stephenson, Aaron and Solyman Yashouafar of Milbank Real Estate, and Nell Rubler of Vintage Properties.

The article focuses on 81 Bowery, a tenement for Chinese laborers in the Chinatown neighborhood in Manhattan, New York.

The article focuses on the scandal involving the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the unlawful arrest of 32 at-risk high school students from Bushwick Community High School.

The article reports on the financial collapse of a number of companies owned by Moshe Rubashkin, a prominent member of the Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish sect based in Crown Heights, New York. The article presents details on a number of issues including government raids on a kosher meat processing plant owned by the Rubashkin family, a fire at a Rubashkin family textile factory and the rumor among observant Jews that there is a government conspiracy to take over the kosher meat industry.

The article discusses fund raisers who waylay pedestrians in the Union Square area of New York City. The author is critical of these individuals, citing their aggressive sales campaigns and their tenacity. Noting that the canvassers are often engaged in raising money for deserving charities the author points out that profit is the underlying motive that drives them.

The article discusses the careers of New York City's Ahmet Tosum and Erhan Yildirim, who operate a hearse service at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Beside consoling the families of the deceased, the men negotiate the burial transfer permits associated with international burials and shipment of caskets. Muslim families in Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan usually insist that their loved ones be buried back home, and the author describes how funerals are handled in Middle East ethnic cultures.

The article focuses on Jay Wallace, a former firearms merchant from Atlanta, Georgia. In 2005, Wallace was one of the gun dealers sued by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for contributing to the illegal firearms trade in that city. Wallace moved to New York to fight the lawsuit. While the case is still pending, Wallace has become enamored of New York and plans to become a permanent resident.

In this article the author discusses the 2008 election of officers of the Bangladesh Society of New York, an organization made up of immigrants from that country. The author describes a number of aspects of the election including the celebratory nature of the crowds voting at the Queens, New York, polling place, the candidacy of Mohammed Aziz for the office of president and the possibility that Bangladesh immigrants will eventually join mainstream U.S. politics.

This article discusses a political art project executed by fashion photographer Jordan Seiler throughout New York City since 2001 in which he vandalizes billboards and other outdoor advertisements, replacing them with his own artwork. It is stated that a city law has prohibited billboards within two hundred feet of any major highway since the 1940s, but that a legal battle with outdoor advertising agencies has persisted and often overridden the law.

The article describes the attempts by manager Steve Hindy of the Brooklyn Brewery, located in Brooklyn, New York, to find commercial space to expand the brewery's operations. Hindy, a member of the Prospect Park Alliance and the Brooklyn Historical Society, went to the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) for help, and was promised waterfront land that was available. But when Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the EDC conflicted with the American Stevedoring Inc., the offer was rescinded.

The article discusses how state officials are inspecting fish markets in the Chinatown section of New York City to ensure smaller specimens of the endangered blackfish tautog are not being served. Due to declines in the species' population from overfishing, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has made it illegal to catch tautog under fourteen inches and imposes fines and possible jail time for violating the law.

The article evaluates the hardware store Sisters Community Hardware located in Brooklyn, New York.

A review is offered for La Nacional, which is part restaurant, part dance floor, located in New York City.

In this article the author discusses aspects of New York City mayoral politics current in October 2008. A number of topics are addressed including the possibility that the incumbent mayor, Michael Bloomberg, might seek to overturn term limit provisions thus allowing him to run for the office again and the mayoral ambitions of Raymond Kelly, the commissioner of police in Bloomberg's administration.