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Tag Archives: New York City
New York Gets To Keep Its Broken Housing Market
New Yorkers seem to like their decades-old housing “emergency,” and the courts are likely to let them keep it.
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Unreasonable Suspicion In The Big Apple
Being white and middle-aged places me above suspicion, at least on the streets of New York City.
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An Ivy League Course In Buying Government Power
For an Ivy League course in cynical politics, look at the $76 million slush fund Columbia established to get the nearby land it wanted.
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New York Remakes Itself, 30 Feet Above The Pavement
There are two ways a great city can maintain itself. There is the Paris way, in which the monumental architecture …
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Green Shoots For A Frozen Housing Market
Almost exactly two years ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told “60 Minutes” that he was beginning to see “green …
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What Makes An Artist?
For centuries, philosophers have asked the question: “What is art?” People interested in buying real estate in New York City’s …
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Thoroughbreds At Losing Money
I have never been a gambler. I pay attention to horse racing twice most years, and three times at most. …
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In Memory Of Harold Elkin, 1926-2010
Contrary to popular belief, social networking existed long before the Internet gave us applications like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. Our …
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New York’s Taxi Time Warp
You can hail a cab in a New York minute – in midtown. But the city’s taxi system is stuck in the days of the Chrysler Airflow.
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