New Site Helps You Attain Your Dream of Sharing a Hotel Room With a Gross...
If the threat of semen-soaked remote controls, bed bugs and USA Today being your only newspaper option didn’t scare you away from hotel stays, Easynest may turn you into a homebody: The new website...
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Ice Ice Maybe: Losing Our Cool at New York’s Minus 5 Ice Bar
Last week, The Observer ventured to New York City's drunken iceberg, the Minus 5 Ice Bar at the Hilton Hotel. Herewith, a blow-by-blow account of our chilling experience. The Central Park Room at Minus...
View ArticleQuinnipiac: Anthony Weiner Back on Top
Earlier this afternoon, Quinnipiac University released a new poll taking the temperature of the New York City electorate and found former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s mayoral candidacy in good shape....
View ArticleQuinn Rolls Out Support From Former Puerto Rican Governor
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn jetted across the city Monday to show off her newest endorsement in the mayor’s race: former Puerto Rican Governor Sila Maria Calderon. Ms. Calderón, who said she...
View ArticleJohn Liu Equates NYPD With George Zimmerman
City Comptroller John Liu–one of the most left-leaning candidate in the mayor’s race–has long been a critic of the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which he believes should be abolished. But...
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The Greedy White North: America’s Hat Is America’s Twin
In June, I took my daughter Marguerite to Canada to say goodbye to my brother Steve and his family before they moved to Bali, of all places. For the past decade or so, Steve has lived outside Creemore,...
View ArticleEditorial: Kelly’s the Man
Ray Kelly should be the next secretary of Homeland Security. His departure as police commissioner after a dozen years would be a loss for the city, but the entire country would benefit if he were...
View ArticleThompson Accuses Weiner of Being Swayed By Taxi Cash
Former Comptroller Bill Thompson is ramping up his attacks on mayoral rival Anthony Weiner after new fund-raising data revealed Mr. Weiner has been raking in cash from the taxi industry. Mr. Thompson’s...
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Doing Time With Pornstache
Pablo Schreiber in Orange is the New Black.Though his character’s nickname sounds a bit like an X-rated Bond villain, actor Pablo Schreiber is proud of the role he plays on Jenji Kohan’s new Netflix...
View ArticleEditorial: A Lesson in Humility
Three disgraced politicians found their way back into the news over the last two weeks. Only one of them has earned the public’s forgiveness. Only one of them can claim to have learned anything from...
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Welcome to the South Street Tweeport! Downtown Tourist Trap Aims for Cool,...
On a recent summer Saturday afternoon, the weather is perfect but the South Street Seaport’s so-called Tourist Alley is devoid of tourists. Nearly eight months after Sandy ransacked the area, its...
View ArticleWill the Real Joe Lhota Please Stand Up?: Candidate’s Allies Long for Lhota...
Some politicians adore campaigning; buttonholing commuters, making the church rounds to share their visions for the city and having heart-to-hearts at senior centers. And then there are candidates like...
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On the Page: David Rakoff and Louis Begley
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish David Rakoff (Doubleday, 128 pp., $26.95) David Rakoff's posthumous novel of longform verse, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish stands as the...
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Good TV, Terrible Bosses: Brett Martin Examines the Boob Tube Manly Men of...
Todd A. Kessler was the boy genius of the Sopranos writers’ room. In 1999, he wrote a teleplay, “D-Girl,” about a gangster who writes a screenplay (You Bark, I Bite) that is so good, it changes the...
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Abby Huntsman is Leaving HuffPost Live for The Cycle
Abby Huntsman (Image via Twitter). Abby Huntsman is leaving HuffPost Live to become a co-host and resident Republican on MSNBC's The Cycle. Ms. Huntsman, who has been a host at Huffington Post's...
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At Home With Sadie Stein
Sadie Stein, at home. When it comes to matters of the home, Sadie Stein, like a character in a Barbara Pym novel, takes pleasure in the small things. The nerdy-stylish deputy editor of The Paris Review...
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Black Men Who Matter: Malcolm, My Birthfather and Trayvon
(Photo: Getty Images) I moved to Boston after college to find my birthfather. My sole black parent, who, I’d been told, used to spend a lot of time hanging around the Berklee School of Music—not as a...
View Article5Pointz Residential Redevelopment Inches Closer to Approval
A contentious plan to demolish 5Pointz, a revered Queens graffiti mecca, and replace it with big apartment towers came closer to reality today when Borough President Helen Marshall gave it her nod of...
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Gawker Hires J.K. Trotter As Gossip Reporter
Shortly after former gossip reporter John Cook was named editor-in-chief of Gawker, he posted a job listing on the site for a new gossip reporter. Five months later, that position has finally been...
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Who Killed the 125th Street Bus Lanes? Officials Point Fingers While Harlem...
Don't expect to see one of these on 125th Street. With buses regularly crawling along 125th Street at less than 3 miles per hour and the vast majority of residents dependent on public transit,...
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