Saturday, November 29, 2025

Tom Stoppard RIP

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Probably the world's greatest playright, Tom Stoppard , has died. Plays like Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Jumpers, Travestie...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Black Friday on 47th Street

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  Read more about the 47th Street Diamond District below:
Monday, November 24, 2025

Remembering Francis Ellen Work: Princess Diana's NYC Great-Grandma

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There are, and have been, royal scandals galore -- Mrs Fitzherbert! Mayerling! Rasputin! Wallis Simpson! Epstein! Megxit!  And, of course, D...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Just Breaking Balls a 'Lil Bit

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Actually, it's never really a good idea to bust a wiseguy's balls.

When the Russians Invaded NYC

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It's impossible to imagine a time when the United States and Russia were strong allies. Since the rise of the Soviet Union more than 100...
Monday, November 17, 2025

The City Within: Inside the Secret World of NYC's Orthodox Jewish Community

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Sunday, November 16, 2025

The Band on SNL — October 30, 1976

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Nearly fifty years ago -- on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976 -- the great rock band The Band gave their final performance (with the orig...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Two Classy Brits Talk About the NYC Mayor-Elect

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I was going to blog a little bit how about the Mayor-Elect, Zohran Mamdani, is from my childhood neighborhood, Morningside Heights . Zohran ...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Classic Mr NYC

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Well, I'll be darned. Mr NYC's powers of prophesy have hit again.  In 2021 I blogged about the late 1980s Broadway musical Chess , ...

Eric Adams, We Hardly Knew Ye

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As the bizarre spectacle of Eric Adams ' time as mayor comes to its ignominous end, The Daily Show did us a big favor of putting togeth...