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Richard Gere's Homelessness Drama <i>Time Out Of Mind </i>Will Hit You Hard
1. New York City is obviously the central setting of thousands of movies, and, being New York City, it’s adept at serving as whatever backdrop you want it to serve. It can connote romance or menace, limitless possibility or untold decadence, Candyland or the Hellmouth. But, as someone who lived ther...
Report: David Stern's Friends Want Him To Run For Mayor
What does a 72-year-old, bored, retired, and obscenely wealthy man in New York City do? Run for mayor, apparently, if his friends can talk him into it. ...
Taylor Swift Is Seinfeld's Daughter, And The Diplomat NYC Deserves
Across the ’90s, few pieces of music were more ubiquitous than a winding slap-bass jingle composed by studio musician Jonathan Wolff. Every week, tens of millions of Americans heard it open and close Seinfeld, a sitcom so beloved that even its kitschy theme song has become iconic. At the beginning o...
<i>The Warriors </i>Gives Us The Best Fantasy Version Of NYC Ever Filmed
When Bill de Blasio was running for the New York mayor’s office a few years ago, Matt Drudge expressed the fear that de Blasio’s New York would look like the great 1979 gang movie The Warriors. The obvious retort to that: Wouldn’t that make you want to vote for de Blasio? Who wouldn’t want to live i...
Spend A Whole Mess Of Time With This Great Map Of NYC Basketball
In advance of All-Star Weekend, NBA.com has put together this interactive map of the history of New York basketball. ...
The Next High School Sub-4 Mile Probably Won't Happen On Saturday
On Saturday, Garrett O'Toole, a high school student from Massachusetts, will attempt a sub-four minute mile at the adidas Grand Prix in New York City. Could he or one of the 13 other boys in the field accomplish what only five other American preps have ever done? There's a chance—there's always a ch...
Let's Go To The Movies
I thought of the old New Yorker theater the other day because it is where my brother and I saw Tron. Our old man dropped us off outside the theater and we asked some grown ups to get us in. Later, I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show there. This was well past the theater's prime, but I am fortunate e...
The Case For New York City As Greatest City In The World
There was some rumor going around about a Space Jam sequel last week starring LeBron James. Now, I hated that movie. I didn't even like it in the ironic way that some people like it because it was badly acted or whatever. But anyway, the guy who directed Space Jam was a legendary ad director name...
The Main Ingredient: A Representative Slice
All I wanted was a slice. That's not too much to ask, is it? ...
The Bronx Is Burning
But that doesn't mean you should stop playing. ...
Nothing Says I Love New York Like Tattoos of Lou Gehrig and Patrick Ewing
I saw this dude on my subway ride to work today and asked if I could photograph the artwork on his arms. Every piece was about New York....
Up Jump The Boogie
If you don't know from Retronaut let me tell you, it's a place of wonder....
Instagram: All City
Life in and around the Big Apple according my pictures over on Instagram. ...
Hand Jive
You'll like this—Peter Duffy's 2009 New York magazine story on handball:...
And Where Do You Think You're Going? “I Said, ‘Out.’ Shit.”
Carlin on White Harlem. ...
Everybody Street
Over at Lomography, Cheryl Dunn talks about this cool-looking new documentary about New York City street photographers....
Rogue Kickball League Succumbs To The Man, Agrees To Shorten Its Games
An adult kickball league said to be a worse menace than the gang violence and heroin epidemic that once plagued New York City's Lower East Side has finally, mercifully been brought to heel....
Woman Seeking Ban Suggests Kickball League Is Worse Than Drugs, Gangs
A Lower East Side resident is trying to ban an adult kickball league, claiming it is "obnoxious" and on par with the heroin and gangs that characterized the Manhattan neighborhood decades ago....