In a crackdown in July by a multi-agency task force, MTA chairman Janno Leiber pondered the psychology of drivers in expensive late model cars, who still try to beat tolls with ghost plates. ( Photo: MTA Live) Boro Pres Levine Calls for New Crackdown on Ghost Plates Have you ever seen a car zoom by with license plates scratched out or obscured by tinted or reflective covers? What about... Voices 16 Aug 2024 | 04:01
Sally Wen Mao has released a new book of collected poem from Graywolf Press ( Jess X Snow) Poet Explores China’s Complex Relations with the West As she shows in her new collection, Sally Wen Mao is a poet of fierce intellect and even fiercer imagination. Like the greats,... News 22 Sep 2023 | 03:45
Before writing “New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time,” author Craig Taylor had captured another city in “Londoners.” Not bad for an author from the sleepy British Columbia town of Lantzville. Photo: Mayita Mendez Author from Small Canadian Village Captures the Beautiful Rhapsody of New Yorkers As it nears its one-year anniversary in paperback in May, “New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time” (W.W. Norton &... News 21 Apr 2023 | 02:07
Jimmy Mulzet at home with his book. Photo: Zachary Weg Jimmy Mulzet’s Improbable Life of Adventure As he shows in his recent uplifting memoir, “Facing the Challenge, Beating the Odds: The Jimmy Mulzet Story” (Archway Publishing,... News 15 Dec 2022 | 12:11
The Caretakers of Memory Row There are an estimated 410,000 people ages 65 and older living with Alzheimer’s disease in New York City. Of these individuals... News 11 Oct 2022 | 12:36
Avi Bador at B&B Bagels on First Avenue and 73rd Street. Photo: Zachary Weg At B&B Bagels, Where There’s No Shortcut For almost a year, the spot that used to be one of New York’s first Bareburger locations on the corner of First Avenue and... News 03 Aug 2022 | 04:17
“The whole history of the place is very, very unique,” says guitarist Jakob Bro of the Village Vanguard. Photo: Zachary Weg Jakob Bro Lifts a Candle at the Vanguard At the Village Vanguard last night, Jakob Bro raised a candle. The forty-four-year-old Danish jazz guitarist may not have... News 08 Jul 2022 | 01:35
86th Street Photo on the Upper East Side. Photo: Zachary Weg The Photo King Waiting on Yury Pinkhasov was like waiting on a rock star. Pinkhasov is the owner of 86th Street Photo, one of the rare independent... News 26 May 2022 | 01:05
Sign in the window of Matto Espresso on First Avenue. Photo: Zachary Weg At Matto, Where the Coffee Flows for $2.50 There is nothing like a cup of coffee. At Matto Espresso, whose First Avenue and 53rd Street location opened around the start... News 06 May 2022 | 11:43
Author Mike DeCapite. Photo: Nathaniel Siegel A Lover in the City He wouldn’t say it, shy and mellow as he is, but Mike DeCapite has written the New York novel of the moment. A love story... News 01 Mar 2022 | 01:45
Entrance to The Abraham Joshua Heschel School. Photo: Zachary Weg And They’ll Stand Majestic Heschel High School was hard but it saved me. As the Upper West Side building turns twenty this year, at a time when students... Voices 12 Feb 2022 | 06:51
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Photo: Ed Rocha Goncalves The Resurgence of Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson The stage stood empty. Some tech men at Glasslands, the Williamsburg music room, asked each other when the previously heralded... News 31 Dec 2021 | 04:44
Butcher-in-Chief Francesco “Frank” Castrogiovanni of Ottomanelli Brothers. Photo: Zachary Weg ‘The Ottomanelli Way’ Sitting behind a wooden desk in his back office, blue-rimmed glasses perched atop his nose, Nicolo “Uncle Nick” Ottomanelli... News 23 Dec 2021 | 11:50
Alex Edelman in “Just for Us.” Photo: Monique Carboni Mining Comedy From the Haters On a recent chilly Sunday afternoon, between the brick walls of the Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village, the comedian... News 14 Dec 2021 | 03:00
Photo: Meir Pliskin Chanukah on Ice Returns to Wollman Rink Chanukah on Ice NYC will not only resoundingly announce the holiday when the event happens at Wollman Rink in Central Park... News 19 Nov 2021 | 03:42
