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2. Patti Smiths Just Kids and Andre Agassis Open: An AutobiographyWhen I was a young person, I always thought I would grow up and be either an athlete or an artist. And then I realized ultimately that ballet was both of those things. So these memoirs really s…

The red velvet seats at the David H. Koch Theater were quickly filling up not with the usual ballet audience, but with squirming, shrieking and giggling elementary school students. On a Tuesday morning in December, the day after the first snow of the season,…

The drone inspections could alleviate staff shortages at NYC's building department while saving money. More importantly, they could save lives. The council proposal comes days after falling debris from a fined building killed architect Erica Tishman while she…

Pause. The Chanel side. Nancy Turner Dear Diary: I was at the Union Square Greenmarket one Saturday when I was drawn to some radiantly green vegetable leaves. I had never seen anything like them. I was behind the table where they were piled up, so I cou…

Phase 2 was born Michael Lawrence Marrow on Aug. 2, 1955, in Manhattan. He was raised primarily in the Bronx, in the Forest Houses projects, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School, which in the early 1970s was rapidly becoming a graffiti hotbed. Conveniently…

Pranksters have hit up the gift shop at Trump Tower in New York City once again. Comedians Davram Stiefler and Jason Selvig aka The Good Liars  on Thursday slipped a bunch of President Donald Trump impeachment-themed postcards into the Manhattan store. We p…

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The Timess Corey Kilgannon writes: New York City is not known for producing collegiate athletic powerhouses. An exception was the basketball team fielded in 1950 by City College in Harlem the only basketball team to ever win two national championships in th…

Dear Diary: I was out at 3 p.m. on a Friday. I found a bench in Union Square Park. I had a bagel in one hand, an iced coffee in the other and just sat there. After a while, I went to catch the L. When the train came, it…