On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio compromised on a campaign promise to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City, offering instead to build the industry a new stable in an existing building. Maybe, a New York Times columnist suggested on Twitter, the city’s homeless can live in the old stables.
A few weeks ago, New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer zipped up a "pinch" of "herb" and four marijuana cookies into his backpack and brazenly carried his stash down Eighth Avenue and on to the subway to prove a point about New York's Stop and Frisk law.
Whitney Port is turning 24 today. Don't worry if you weren't invited to her party: You'll probably see everything that happened on an upcoming episode of The City. Others celebrating: Actress Patricia Heaton is 51. Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, is 72. Governor Rick Perry of Texas is…
As bloviators all over the internet and the airwaves rush to kick Rosie O'Donnell while she's down, the Times' 'About New York' columnist Jim Dwyer is sticking up for her. "The first day of the post-Rosie O'Donnell era on "The View" television show has come and gone, and by any fair accounting, an often useful…
Hot Times news! (Maybe! Google isn't telling us if it's been announced elsewhere. Damn you, stupid python.) In the course of one of those "Talk to the Newsroom" conversations with Metro editor Joe Sexton (they do too cover New York!), the following question comes over the wire:
