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At The Table | Broadway: A Feast for Stomach and Eyes

By all rights, the narrow public plaza carved out of Broadway between 38th and 39th Streets should have been empty last week beyond the scurrying city walkers, their jackets buttoned and their collars turned high against a damp November chill. But ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Giants

Trauma Surgeon of Wall Street

COMMUTER Mr. Cohen at Grand Central Terminal after riding a Metro-North train from his home in Irvington, N.Y. EARLIER this fall, after a busy month of shuttling to Washington, H. Rodgin Cohen, the dean of Wall Street lawyers, settled into a table ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Subaru,  U.S. Congress,  Wells Fargo,  United States Department of the Treasury

Poetic Connections | Heartbreak: Better to Have Loved and Lost? Don’t Be So Sure

It’s impossible to describe that sickening mix of restlessness and lethargy that apathetic frenzy that comes with the loss of love. That’s why screenplays, dramas, novels and, especially, poems are constantly written about such stuff. The following ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Is Younger Gotti’s Teflon Better Than His Father’s?

On Tuesday morning, though, as the epic case was in the middle of closing arguments, it evinced a new, unexpected and rather odd level of legal fatigue when the defendant himself, perhaps annoyed by the drawn-out process, or maybe just bored by the ...

From ALAN FEUER, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Riley,  Victoria Gotti,  Curtis Sliwa,  Guardian Angels

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,  Guardian Angels,  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

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