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Gary Shteyngart Had The Idea For Google Glass, But His Editor Thought It Was...
In this week's New Yorker, Gary Shteyngart chronicles his adventures wearing Google Glass. Russian émigré novelist Mr. Shteyngart is a prime candidate to pioneer the technology. After all, his last...
View ArticleThank God: Subway e-Ticketing May Soon Become a Reality
Anyone who’s ever waited in line for a MetroCard or set foot in the soul-sucking purgatory that is the Port Authority will be excited for the following news: British analysts believe mobile transit...
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AP and News Aggregator Kiss and Make Up
The Associated Press and news aggregator Meltwater have had a rocky relationship, but today, the two companies announced that they would end their court battles and enter a partnership. The couple's...
View ArticleCouncilman Calls on New York Post to Apologize to Huma Abedin
Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson has a message for the New York Post: Lay off Anthony Weiner’s wife. Mr. Jackson, who is also running for Manhattan borough president, went on a brief solo rant...
View ArticleNew Poll Shows Anthony Weiner Continues to Sink
Anthony Weiner’s candidacy is continuing to drop in the wake of revelations that he continued sexting random women long after he resigned from Congress, a new poll out this afternoon confirms. And...
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What Makes Fox News More Angry: Marijuana or Muslims? (Video)
Hard-hitting Fox News Pop quiz time: what is more antithetical to the foundational tenets of Fox News's ideology? That a Muslim academic would dare to write a book about Jesus, or that a commercial...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer Says Anthony Weiner Shouldn’t Be Mayor
As the city’s Democratic establishment rallies against ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s comptroller candidacy, it turns out there’s something they can both agree on: Anthony Weiner shouldn’t be mayor. Mr....
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Trust In Tax Breaks: Co-ops and Condos Held by Trusts Will Get Abatements,...
Tax benefits have been extended to properties owned by trusts. The last few months have been a fraught time for a number of privacy-loving and estate-planning New Yorkers who looked likely to lose a...
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NYT Weiner Profiler on Sexting Question: ‘Never Even Occurred to Me to Ask!’
Anthony Weiner's comeback and subsequent mayoral run kicked off in April Jonathan Van Meter's cover story in The New York Times Magazine profile. Unfortunately, Mr. Van Meter--like the rest of the...
View ArticleTesty Weiner Unfazed by Sinking Poll Numbers
An increasingly short-tempered Anthony Weiner brushed off new poll numbers out this afternoon that show his comeback candidacy tumbling following his latest sexting revelations. Speaking to reporters...
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Burning Love: On ‘Hothouse,’ Boris Kachka’s Adoring History of FSG
Boris Kachka Book publishing hums along on mythology. It may not be lucrative, but the noble job of bringing books into the world is enough of a cause for many former English majors to sign up...
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Down to the River: Newly Minted Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop Plans Big
(Illustration by Scott Anderson.) On the day of his inauguration earlier this month, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was interviewed about his plans to transform his city. With bravado, the...
View ArticleWeiner’s Legislative Record Comes Under Fire at Forum
As Anthony Weiner’s campaign continues to unravel, the former congressman’s spotty legislative record came under scrutiny–along with his sexting habits–at a forum dedicated to disability issues this...
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SAC Faces the Music: Preet Bharara Goes Nuclear on Hedge Fund—Is Cohen Next?
Preet Bharara. Last Thursday, when the government charged SAC Capital with perpetrating an insider-trading scheme from 1999 through 2010, the move answered a lot of questions people had been asking of...
View ArticleEditorial: Booker for Senate
New Jersey Democrats will choose their nominee for the late Frank Lautenberg’s Senate seat on Aug. 13. Their choice ought to be Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who is that rarest of species, a political...
View ArticleEditorial: Thompson’s Tirade
Former city comptroller and current mayoral candidate William Thompson is a reasonable person with a solid record. On the campaign trail, he has avoided egregious demagoguery—unlike, say, his rival...
View ArticleEditorial: Leave It to Jeter
On a Sunday afternoon when baseball’s shame was on display in Cooperstown, the captain of the New York Yankees stepped into the batter’s box at Yankee Stadium and delivered the first pitch he saw into...
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Book Reviewed: Choire Sicha’s ‘Very Recent History’ and the Rise of Post-Fiction
The first book by Choire Sicha, a former editor at Gawker and The New York Observer, is, according to its subtitle, “an entirely factual account.” The book, titled Very Recent History follows “John,”...
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Digging for Pay Dirt: Former Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe Spreads New...
Mr. Benepe with a red-tailed hawk. Adrian Benepe donned swim trunks for the opening of McCarren Park pool (after the ribbon cutting, he jumped in and swam a lap). High Line co-founder Robert Hammond...
View ArticleWeiner Spokeswoman Apologizes for ‘Slutbag’ Tirade Against Ex-Intern
Anthony Weiner’s spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, issued an apology tonight after a profanity-laced interview with Talking Points Memo, in which she described a former campaign intern as a fame hungry...
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