"Writers receive so many scam emails. I knew I was shortlisted and that it probably wasn’t a scam. And I just wrote a book ...

The East End's Black history is a thread that connects pioneering entrepreneurs such as Emanuel Seymour and B. Smith with modern business and cultural leaders such as Dick Parsons, Colson Whitehead, ...

"It operated as a school recently enough that at the opening party, alumni milled about under the spell of their own memories. Salvatore Ferragamo was a student, as were Stefano Ricci’s family, Emilio ...

It was a scene out of a Hollywood movie. On a raw March day in New York City in 1992, 71-year-old Leona Helmsley was admitted to New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, the very hospital to which ...

Squisito! We found ourselves in an enclave of legacies, an Italian institution steeped in nostalgia neatly tucked-away on east 64th street: Tony’s Di Napoli. But the space is special for something ...

“I lived in Manhattan in the ’70s, and Brooklyn was another planet,” says Dirk Wittenborn, the novelist, screenwriter, and downtown habitué turned Brooklyn Heights resident. But even back then, ...

After falling from a waterspout, onto which he had clambered from a moving train while filming his 1924 silent comedy Sherlock Jr. Buster Keaton complained of a headache. He treated it with whiskey ...

In 1975, the Rolling Stones invaded Montauk for five surreal weeks and helped mark the village as a haven for chic outsiders. Their epic ballad “Memory Motel” helps tell the tale From our archives.

Going naked was like waving a defiant flag in the ’60s counterculture, as at muddy Woodstock. Al Goldstein founded Screw magazine in 1968, and Suck, the radical feminist mag, was launched in London ...

Within Sag Harbor’s two square miles lies a character-filled past that could rival any village in America. Founded in the mid-1700s as a shipping and whaling port, it was at one time second only to ...

28-year-old Gabriel Smith’s haunting debut novel Brat is both terrifying and, at turns, laugh-out-loud funny. PETER DAVIS meets the literary world’s newest star in New York. The word “BRAT” is ...

For nearly a century, New York has enjoyed a kind of fictive counterpart, a place of the imagination brought to life on screen: a “dream city” of the movies, in fact, which has mesmerized and ...