Posts published in “New York City”

New York Today: New York Today: A Forest on the Back of a Bike Friday: A moving start to Wildflower Week, your weekend lineup, and a call for lovers.

The Sistine Chapel of Comic-Strip Art On a beer-splotched wall of a Midtown sports bar, a forgotten relic from the heyday of cartooning, featuring Beetle Bailey, Fred Flintsone and some jokers from Mad magazine. With cameos by James Thurber, Ernest…

Sunday Routine: How Johnny Temple, Book Publisher and Rocker, Spends His Sundays During the day, Mr. Temple gets a little loud at his kids’ soccer games. Later, he’ll often meet “writer friends” for drinks at the No. 7 restaurant near…

Their Husbands Abused Them. Shouldn’t Divorce Be Easy? For survivors of violence, ending a marriage can be a harrowing, costly and drawn-out experience.

Lauren Ridloff’s Quiet Power: ‘My Life Has Changed in Every Way’ The Broadway debut of the deaf actress in “Children of a Lesser God” has brought her accolades. But she’s not sure what to make of it all.

New Yorkers Who Love Where They Live New Yorkers are hard to impress, but some are such big fans of their apartment buildings that they act as volunteer cheerleaders.

Album: The Ballad of a Neighborhood Deli Lotto tickets, egg on a roll, cold beer in summer and a little bit of home.

Man Charged With Hacking Into and Defacing Military and Government Websites A California man is believed to have accessed sites for West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and the New York City Comptroller’s Office, along with thousands of others.

On Schneiderman Case, Cuomo and Vance Reach a Tense Truce The governor and the Manhattan district attorney sought to show a unified front, though it was hard to forget their war of words from a few days earlier.

Metropolitan Diary: Tickets for Baryshnikov Going to a sold-out performance and hoping for a miracle.

The Plastic Straw Is Losing Status as New York’s Big Sipper The city hasn’t outlawed it, but many restaurants and cafes — concerned about the environment — are replacing it with paper, metal or no straw at all.

From Japan to Harlem, a Gospel Singer Is Born A traditional Japanese pop singer, TiA, joined the choir of a church after hearing the rhythmic sounds through the wall of her apartment in Harlem.

N.Y.U. Promised Reforms in Abu Dhabi. Report Says It Has Reneged. The university has not repaid thousands of workers at its ambitious Middle East expansion and has dragged its feet on compliance.

Rep. Tenney’s Fervor for Trump Invites Ridicule, but Not From Voters Claudia Tenney, a Republican congresswoman from Central New York, has drawn scorn for some of her remarks, but not necessarily in her district.