Tales of the City, Revisited
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This year, for the first time since the towers crumbled, New York City&#39;s economy outperformed the nation&#39;s. The average price for a Manhattan condo or co-op broke the $1 million mark, a new record.
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A history of photography books illuminates the history of photography itself.
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As the author of a series about a Baltimore-based private investigator, Laura Lippman gives the city a much-appreciated picture of itself.
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Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese &#151; Yiddish, actually &#151; for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both funny and fascinating &#151; "The New York City Museum of Complaint" &#151; that were written over centuries to the mayor of a city famed for denizens who whine in public.
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Once again the city is beginning to stir. It's 11 p.m. Never has the term 'night and day' been better applied than when discussing the popular tourist destination.
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ATHENS -- How many gilded fairy tales do you want? There was the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta in 1996 and the Fantastic 5 in Anaheim last summer. Was anyone really counting on dethroning the Romanians at an ...
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.
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To appreciate this city, look up. Otherwise the very buildings that close in to create the Old World appeal may be too close to yield their secrets.
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Arts & entertainment: Any self-respecting world city now needs outlandish buildings, but what about the past? Superstar architect Rem Koolhaas explains why even he gets nostalgic.
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Steve Long of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is answering readers' questions this week on the neighborhood's history of immigration and tenement life.
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Charles Nicholl's book opens a window onto Jacobean London and the swirl of sights and sensations that surrounded William Shakespeare and inevitably found their way into his plays.
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In London this summer there have been two notable efforts to reclaim the past. The ever-venturesome Shakespeare's Globe, whose very architecture is an act of historicism, staged three performances in late June ...
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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If local legend is true, there are almost as many ghosts wandering the streets of the ancient English city of Exeter as there are people.
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Two new story collections explore young deaths, sexual infidelities, and unraveling marriages.
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Graham Hodges, author of "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver," is taking questions from City Room readers this week.