Tag Archives: New York City

'Last Night in Brighton' by Massoud Hayoun is an intriguing and compelling story about who we are and how we our shaped by our pasts.

There is something about saying the names of those who died for all to hear that confirms that those lost existed and had lives that mattered to those who loved and knew them.

With ‘Children of Paradise’ Willie Nile has given an album perfectly suited to our time.

The glittering displays, eye-popping in their holiday finery of brilliant and colorful lights, emblemize the best of being a New Yorker.

The parking meter was an integral part of the city I never appreciated until it was gone.

Faded painted signs from times past linger on the sides of Manhattan's buildings, advertising everything from theaters to hosiery, meat markets to hotels, stables to department stores. Ben Passikoff's big, crisp photos of these relics preserve a vanishing history of industry in New York.

The hardest thing for me to accept now is that the stoop has been relegated to one function – being the steps to get into the building – instead of the vibrant place it had once been.

A longtime bartender's fury at nearly everyone, from NYC health inspectors to an intrusive and homophobic landlady, recollected in tranquility and conveyed with measured energy and often at breakneck speed, delivers not bitterness but symphonic tension and release – and laughs galore.

'Death of the Dying City' by Matthew Taub challenges the reader to believe in something good when the world around gives no reason to do so.

'The Knick's' second season is very exciting, dealing with intriguing issues, and ends with a huge twist. Soon to be available on discs, the release has many solid extras.