New York City

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John Travolta and Denzel Washington face off in this New York subway thriller. But will they hijack a classic?
By Andrew O'Hehir Jun 12, 2009

  • Sheriff Rudy, crime fighter?

    The true story of policing in New York under Mayor Giuliani is less flattering than he would have us believe.
    By Joe Conason November 16, 2007

  • Obamastock '07

    Obama campaign says 24,000 came to an event in New York City Thursday night that looked more like a music festival than a campaign rally.
    By Alex Koppelman and Rebecca Traister September 27, 2007

  • Call 311 for the 411 about sex

    Not even New York mandates comprehensive sex ed in schools.
    By Lynn Harris August 8, 2007

  • A move that's likely to fail

    New York City considers banning the words "bitch" and "ho."
    By Catherine Price August 7, 2007

  • A condom for every city

    Could New York, Thailand and India work together toward a future where every condom had a spokesperson and every city its own prophylactic?
    By Catherine Price July 3, 2007

  • Giuliani's loyalty to an accused priest

    A grand jury accused Alan Placa of molestation and his diocese has suspended him, but the presidential candidate continues to employ his lifelong best friend as a consultant.
    By Alex Koppelman and Joe Strupp June 22, 2007

  • Mike Bloomberg could buy the White House

    He just quit the GOP and became an independent. But does America crave a sane version of Ross Perot with actual governing experience?
    By Walter Shapiro June 12, 2007

  • Rudy Giuliani, president (of Phi Rho Pi)

    How America's mayor scrapped his way to the top of the least popular fraternity on his college campus, and other tales from his early political life.
    By Paul Schwartzman May 15, 2007

  • I left New York for San Diego and now I don't know where I am

    I'm a New Yorker. I don't think Californians really get where I'm coming from.
    By Cary Tennis April 18, 2007

  • "NYC's True Graffiti Problem"

    It's an ad, ad, ad, ad world.
    By David Puner March 9, 2007

  • "Too good for gridlock"

    "Reckless rabbi" busted in amazing TV investigation.
    By David Puner January 29, 2007

  • "The Hair Petting Game"

    Reaching out and touching everyone.
    By David Puner January 10, 2007

  • "The Emperor's Children"

    With her dazzling new novel about young literary elite in New York, Claire Messud secures her star status.
    By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow September 12, 2006

  • What they went through

    Our countrymen died real deaths on Sept. 11, and we need to listen to their last words.
    By Garrison Keillor August 23, 2006

  • "A Disorder Peculiar to the Country"

    Ken Kalfus' ingenious new book about an explosive divorce might be the best novel yet about 9/11.
    By Laura Miller July 25, 2006

  • The wily coyotes of New York

    The coyote that led cops on a wild chase through Central Park last week illustrates how this supremely adaptive wild dog can live anywhere -- including in the heart of a big city.
    By Christopher Ketcham April 1, 2006

  • The I-word goes public

    At a forum in New York, pundits and politicians called for the impeachment of George W. Bush.
    By Michelle Goldberg March 3, 2006

  • New York City Council to elect first female, openly lesbian speaker

    Christine Quinn is poised to become "the most powerful openly lesbian or gay official in the country."
    By Lynn Harris January 4, 2006

  • "No way to stop it"

    In the New York subways, commuters think of London, 9/11 and the likelihood of more attacks.
    By Rebecca Traister July 7, 2005

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    London KO's Paris for Olympics! Stunning fourth-round upset sends 2012 Games Thames-side. Dejected Parisians hint at retirement.
    July 6, 2005
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