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Sunday Routine | Christine Vachon: When Being Home Is an Adventure

Christine Vachon, 47, is an independent film producer whose movies include “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Far From Heaven,” “I’m Not There” and the recently released “Motherhood,” starring Uma Thurman. A native New Yorker, she lives in the East Village with her ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

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Sunday Routine | O. Aldon James Jr.: Quoth the Raven, ‘Hey, Find Your Pen’

O. Aldon James Jr., president of the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park, sees the world through rose-colored glasses, and not just because the lenses of his spectacles are pink (he likes to say that the O., which is for “Oliver,” stands for ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

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Westchester: Teenage Drug Abuse on Rise

In Westchester County, the percentage of teenagers entering state-licensed treatment programs for abuse of heroin and pharmaceutical narcotics has stayed relatively low in recent years, according to Dahlia Austin, the county’s director of drug and ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  26 Sep 2009

In the City, Highly Productive Drug Mills

In New York City, heroin is being packaged in covert locations and distributed at levels not seen since the heroin crisis of the 1970s. The evidence, according to the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget G. Brennan, is the enormous number of ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  26 Sep 2009

Long Island: Securing Medicine Cabinets

When Lawrence W. Mulvey became Nassau County’s police commissioner in 2007, he was struck by the number of young people being arrested for heroin possession. In his earlier police experience, heroin addicts were usually decades older. But the mean age ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  26 Sep 2009

Open & Shut: Chronicle of a Changing City

THE DOUBLE WINDSOR, a 1,200-square-foot pub anchored around a horseshoe-shaped bar, serves only American craft beer, wine and cocktails right now, but one of its four owners, Greg Curley, said he hopes to start serving upscale pub grub within two weeks. ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

Young and Suburban, and Falling for Heroin

THE kids weren’t all right. They lived in the same comfortable Long Island town and were barely in their teens when they took their first hit of marijuana or sip of alcohol, propelling them on dark journeys they couldn’t seem to escape. Within a couple ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

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A Taste of Poland in Arty Brooklyn

Robert Stolarik for The New York Times WNYC Transmitter Park, at the west end of Greenpoint Avenue, is sprinkled with wood chips and picnic benches and separated from the water by chain-link fences and razor wire. For all the inroads made by hipsters ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  10 Sep 2009

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Downturn Catches Up to Cafe Frozen in Time

No one got the chance to say goodbye to Café des Artistes, the storied New York City restaurant that served up Old World fare under the gaze of the painted nubile nudes that perkily graced its walls. Café des Artistes, seen here in 2003, a landmark ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  30 Aug 2009

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Hope’s Two Acres

IT was shortly after 8 a.m. on a sun-drenched July day in this idyllic hamlet 50 miles north of Manhattan, and a hulk of a man named Venice Crafton was lumbering between beds of arugula, leaving outsize footprints in his wake. Mr. Crafton is 6-foot-2 ½ ...

From CARA BUCKLEY, The New York Times,  14 Aug 2009

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