Articles Written by:    ANDY NEWMAN     

Change the Parade Route? Can They Even Do That?

From Felix the Cat in 1927 to Bolt the dog in 2008, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has adapted, over the years, to changing times and cartoon fashions. But one thing has always been constant: the final stretch of the parade route, down Broadway ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  29 Mar 2009

First Move in a Brooklyn Council Contest

Andy Newman Delia Hunley-Adossa, at a public meeting earlier this week. In what will undoubtedly come to be known as the City Council Battle of Atlantic Yards, Delia Hunley-Adossa, who is pro-Atlantic Yards, made her first speech as a candidate on ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, NYT: City Room,  20 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Andy Newman,  Sam Roberts,  Bernard Madoff

Irish premier's visit has a somber feel

NEW YORK: With the formerly highflying Irish economy now in an even deeper tailspin than the American one, the Irish prime minister's annual St. Patrick's Day visit to the United States has an unusually somber feel about it. In a speech Sunday night at ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, International Herald Tribune,  16 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Brian Cowen,  Barack Obama,  McDonald's,  George W. Bush

Irish Premier’s U.S. Trip Has Dark Tone

With the formerly highflying Irish economy now in an even deeper tailspin than the American one, the Irish prime minister’s annual St. Patrick’s Day visit to the United States has an unusually somber feel about it. In a speech Sunday night at the ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  15 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Brian Cowen,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  McDonald's

Bronx Woman Held in Death of Grandson, 4

A 4-year-old boy was found beaten to death in his grandmother’s Bronx apartment, and she has been charged with his murder, the police said Sunday. The boy, Kevion Shand, died of blunt impact injuries and brain hemorrhaging, according to the medical ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  22 Feb 2009

Pet chimpanzee attacks woman in Connecticut

A 200-pound pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Connecticut, viciously mauled a woman he had known for years, leaving her critically injured with much of her face torn away, the authorities said. The 90-kilogram animal was shot and killed on Monday by the ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, International Herald Tribune,  17 Feb 2009

Final Sermon for Marble Collegiate Church’s Leader

The notice board outside Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan did not seem designed to draw attention. “Sunday February 1,” it said. “Dr. Arthur Caliandro. ‘Go with faith.’ ” But at Marble Collegiate, the landmark church on Fifth Avenue and 29th ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  1 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Norman Vincent Peale

Lobster on the Menu And History in the Air

The flaps deployed, the landing gear descended and the gleaming Boeing 707 touched down on New York asphalt. More precisely, according to a contemporary account, the jet “settled like a snowflake on the icy runway at Idlewild Airport.” It was a few ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  25 Jan 2009
Related Topics: American Airlines,  Boeing,  Carl Sandburg,  Jack Kent Cooke,  Susan Hayward

The Neediest Cases: A Sponsor of Literary Readings Gets a Little Help With Living

A while before his nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, in the days when he was rooming with Sugar Ray Robinson’s ex-wife, Stanley Tannen turned to begging on the street. This year, Mr. Tannen found himself begging on the street again. It ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  1 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Sugar Ray Robinson,  Philip Seymour Hoffman,  Whoopi Goldberg,  Martin Sheen,  Anne Frank

Sheepshead Condo Project May Proceed

A copy of the plans for a new building project in a section of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, known as Homecrest, from 2007. (Photo: G. Paul Burnett for The New York Times) Foundation slabs were missing. Records of required safety tests on concrete were ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  9 Dec 2008
Related Topics: New York Times Company

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