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Follow the Money, and the History

For bankers and brokers, Wall Street is not so much a place as perhaps a dream (or, last year, a nightmare): a churning pool of risk, debt, credit and information that is best realized in the physical world as the blinking screen of a Bloomberg ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Local Stop | Wall Street: Follow the Money, and the History

For bankers and brokers, Wall Street is not so much a place as perhaps a dream (or, last year, a nightmare): a churning pool of risk, debt, credit, and information that is best realized in the physical world as the blinking screen of a Bloomberg ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brooks Brothers,  Alexander Hamilton,  Robert Fulton,  New York Stock Exchange,  Deutsche Bank

Sunday Routine | Curtis Sliwa: Going Along for the Rides

Curtis Sliwa, 55, has spent the last 30 years riding the New York City subways as the founding member of the Guardian Angels crime-patrolling group. He has a second career as a radio talk show host on WABC-AM (770). He spends each Sunday touring the ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Curtis Sliwa,  Benjamin Franklin,  Long Island Rail Road

At The Table | My Little Pizzeria: They Heeded the Call of an Old Haunt’s Slices

The unpretentious My Little Pizzeria, at 114 Court Street in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, is clearly nothing special. It’s certainly not a fancy joint or a local institution; it’s just a hole in the wall, one of New York’s many thousand ordinary ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Rooms: Interior Shots: Where You Wanted to Go

When the Rooms column came to a close this month after visiting 54 intriguing and generally inaccessible interiors in New York, we asked for your suggestions on places you might have liked to see. Respondents suggested everything from shuttered ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Chrysler

Mob Informer Tells Court He’s Gay, Crossing a Line

There are certain rules explicit rules that all made members of the mob are meant to follow: No beards. No sleeping with another gangster’s wife. No cooperation with the government in accordance with “omertà,” the Mafia code of silence. But then there ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Mormando,  Jack B. Weinstein,  John Doe,  Roy Cohn,  Anthony Salerno

At The Table | Degustibus Cooking School: A Spanish Interlude for a Pair of Foodies

Tucked away near the women’s coat department on the eighth floor of Macy’s in Herald Square, De Gustibus Cooking School is a tastefully fastidious place designed for those with a love of haute cuisine and a healthy disposable income. Four or five ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Rooms: Oh, the Places We Went (and Didn’t)

Here’s an old story: A traveling barfly finds himself in a small town near the border and entertains the locals at the tavern one night with amazing tales of his adventures. This barfly has been everywhere, of course, and makes a great impression, ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Per Se,  Larry Flynt

What If You Wrote 'Rooms'?

Photographs by Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Places off-limits even to Rooms, clockwise from top left: the Bonanno family club in Brooklyn; the Metropolitan Club; the Federal Reserve; and Goldman Sachs. Share your thoughts in the comments box below; ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Federal Reserve,  Goldman Sachs

A Resting Place for the Flotsam and Jetsam of Commuting

Among those questions that will always haunt New Yorkers When will the Knicks win? Why is Page Six actually on Page 8? Where does Donald Trump get his hair done? one of the most persistent is: What, in point of fact, do the thousands of commuters who ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Long Island Rail Road,  Joe Torre

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