Metropolitan Diary: N Is for Never After all these years, still waiting for a train.
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Another New York Diner Turns Off the Grill, a Victim of Rising Rents Cup & Saucer is closing after more than 70 years in Lower Manhattan, the latest sign that the days of the classic city diner may be numbered.
Bob Wolff, Sports Broadcaster for Nearly 80 Years, Dies at 96 Mr. Wolff called Don Larsen’s perfect game, the Giants-Colts 1958 N.F.L. title game, baseball’s Game of the Week in the ’60s and the Knicks’ N.B.A. championship runs.
A Brooklyn Murder’s Decades-Old Origins in Rural China What began with a neighbors’ dust-up over household garbage in Fujian Province ends 20-some years later with a fatal shooting outside a Popeye’s in Sunset Park.
Scaffolding on Harlem Corner: Making Eyes Sore for at Least 17 Years The structure, erected for safety, has frustrated residents and business owners, and it shows how a temporary fix can become a permanent nuisance.
Side Street: A Photographer and His Subject Reconnect, 38 Years Later Radames Pagan was 12 in 1979 when David Gonzalez snapped his picture in the Bronx. A chance encounter and a mutual friend got them back in touch.
Saving Swimmers, Well Into Senior Years That lifeguard saving your life could be in his 70s. Such “lifeguards for life’ keep returning to work year after year on the beaches of Long Island.
New York City is an apt city for car sharing services. Congestion, high parking fees, and astonishingly high housing costs make it difficult to own a vehicle in Gotham. The good news is that there are plenty of high-quality car…
Cardinals on Opposite Sides of the Hudson Reflect Two Paths of Catholicism Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark tends toward the progressive spirit of Pope Francis; Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York hews toward Pope Benedict’s conservative views.
Amateur Sleuths Close In on Suspect in Case of a Stolen Rabbit The would-be rescuers believe they may know who took a gray bunny named Sunny from a shelter in East Harlem.
3 Men From Shelter Held in Sexual Assault on Woman Leaving Church The attack raised questions about the city’s oversight of a group home it funds for homeless and runaway young men in Jamaica, Queens.
Columbia Settles With Student Cast as a Rapist in Mattress Art Project The man, who was cleared by the university of responsibility in a rape case, said the university enabled his harassment by giving his accuser academic credit for a…
Gus Trowbridge, Turned King’s Integration Dream Into a School, Dies at 82 Mr. Trowbridge and his wife, Marty, followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideals in founding Manhattan Country School in 1966.
Franny’s in Brooklyn Will Close Next Month The owners, Francine Stephens and Andrew Feinberg, gave no reason, announcing that “It’s time to say goodbye” on the restaurant’s website.
Album: Sherpas of Elmhurst Leandro Viana, a Brazilian photographer in New York, finds kinship with the Nepalese Sherpas living in Queens.