A rescued dog at Kennedy Airport this month.
Christina Beckles, an ex-Golden Gloves champion, now spends most of her time and money saving abandoned and abused dogs from a beach in Puerto Rico called Dead Dog Beach.
GOAL-ORIENTED Matt Green, a former civil engineer, is walking every street in New York.
In 2010, Matt Green embarked on a cross-country hike. Now, unable to go back to a desk job, he has decided to walk on every street in New York City.
Stanley Wissak, 84, says his fleet of 140 medallion cabs in Queens is such a profitable investment that he has established trusts for his grandchildren by putting medallions in their names.
When she’s not on the road, the singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson spends Sundays in the kitchen and on her comfy couch catching up with her husband.
To some people, dirty shoes are like a dirty car, or a filthy mind. So they trek to Louis Shoe Rebuilders, in the Empire State Building, to get the shine of their lives.
A look at books about New York, including on the friendship between Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry and artisans in the city.
The New York Jets’ acquisition of the quarterback Tim Tebow stirred much talk, and even inspired a mini hoax, on Twitter.
The first installment in a series showing, in words and pictures, how the season emerges week by week in a forest by a brook on Staten Island.
The Neuberger Museum features artworks that a South Bronx artists’ center, Fashion Moda, sold 30 years ago at an international show to comment on elitism.
Connecticut’s deep involvement in the Civil War, and the human toll, create a lasting emotional resonance in artifacts on display at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
An exhibition seeks to link paintings by William Sidney Mount to the political, economic and social events of his time.
Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, is an elegant but highly challenging production with verbal gems.
North Star, in Pound Ridge, N.Y., serves contemporary American cuisine from an experienced chef, Franz Fruhmann.
Today’s food co-ops tend to be slick community market reinventions that have thrown off their original members-only rules, volunteer requirements and even vegetarian philosophies.
Orto, opened by the talented chef-restaurateur Eric Lomando in February, serves rustic and earthy cuisine in a historic house.
At the sleekly designed MK Valencia, the menu is large and wide ranging, filled with familiar dishes that are less Spanish and more Italian and American.
March 24, 2012
The police arrested about a dozen people on Saturday during an Occupy Wall Street march that organizers said was meant to protest police tactics and brutality.
March 23, 2012
Subjects include the St. Patrick's Day Parade, a building collapse in Upper Manhattan and a City Hall photographer.
March 23, 2012
A fitting memorial service for a passionate Jets fan from Brooklyn.
March 23, 2012
He travels the country tending to patients, and his latest call was to the old carousel at Prospect Park that will soon open for the season.
“Mad Men” plays to libertine fantasies of louche living, but it also gives credibility to the liberal belief that high taxes won’t constrain the rich.
Rebecca Greenfield, 36, began photographing quinceañeras three years ago, documenting the elaborate festivities celebrating budding womanhood.
Matt Green is determined to walk every street in all five boroughs of New York City. The distance is around 8,000 miles and is expected to take him over two years to complete.
Christina Beckles, who lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, is the founder of the Sato Project, a rescue organization that brings abandoned and abused dogs to the continental United States from Puerto Rico.
Louis Shoe Rebuilders, on the ground floor of the Empire State Building, was founded a decade before the skyscraper towering over it was completed.
Sales seem to be rebounding in Harlem. Prices are rising, and inventory has fallen.
It can seem hard to believe, but there was a time when people didn’t value Central Park for its views.
The landscape in this Bronx neighborhood has transformed, but it is still relaxed and friendly.
Hervé and Dacotah Rousseau wanted to move from a house in the country to an apartment in Harlem.
George Ehret and Jacob Ruppert, two of New York’s most important beer-makers, had neighboring breweries in Yorkville.
New York University’s latest proposal to expand in Greenwich Village has caused a storm of protest. Michael Kimmelman considers how to balance development with the local ecosystem.
Ford is replacing the police version of the Crown Victoria with the Taurus-based Police Interceptor, which the New York Police Department recently took for tire-smoking test runs at Citi Field in Queens.
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View recently released teacher data reports by searching for your school.
March 22, 2012
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