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Open & Shut: Chronicle of a Changing City

BOOK CULTURE, on Broadway and 114th Street, across from Columbia University, is the latest in a long line of independent bookstores at this busy corner location. Preceded by Morningside Books, and by Papyrus before that, this store departs from their ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University

Drug Activist Leaves Kunstler Fund for Senate Bid

Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times Randy Credico worked for the lawyer William M. Kunstler for many years. The film, made by two of Mr. Kunstler’s daughters, Emily and Sarah Kunstler, burnishes the memory of Mr. Kunstler, who lived in a townhouse at 13 ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Larry David,  New York Times Company,  Charles E. Schumer,  HBO

Masking-Tape Art, With One Vehement Critic

In the New York art world, it is hardly surprising that some young upstart artist is the talk of his neighborhood because of his public art project along 23rd Street, from Seventh to Eighth Avenue. And New York City being what it is, it’s no surprise ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sam Bassett

Permitted Behind Police Lines, but Not Welcome

“WELCOME to Police Headquarters,” announces the sign at the entrance to 1 Police Plaza in downtown Manhattan. That passes for humor to Leonard Levitt, a former police reporter and columnist for Newsday, who needed the help of civil rights lawyers to ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: William J. Bratton,  New York Post,  George Brown

For Judges Standing By, a Quiet Election Day

Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times At the Manhattan training office of the Board of Elections, judges on Tuesday heard very few cases brought by voters unable to vote at their polling place. There were plenty of people in the Manhattan training office ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

Her Jokes Are From Morris Park, Not on It

Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times “My whole family lived here — I felt like I knew everybody,” Adrienne Iapalucci said of Morris Park, her neighborhood in the Bronx. “In Manhattan, you don’t even know who lives in your building.” Adrienne Iapalucci, 3 ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Regis Philbin,  Honda,  50 Cent

A Counterclaim on the Origin of the Yankees' Logo

Could the New York Yankees’ famous “bat in the hat” emblem — perhaps the most famous logo in sports — have first been scrawled on a bar napkin around 1947 at the 21 Club, for a team owner who had bellied up to the bar? That is the claim put forth by ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  John Steinbeck,  Sonja Henie,  George Steinbrenner,  New York Mets

Seltzer Man Returns, and the Fizz Flows Again in Brooklyn

Uli Seit for The New York Times Ronny Beberman, 62, at home in Queens, recuperating from a fall off his seltzer delivery truck. The great seltzer drought of Brooklyn is over. But last week, Mr. Beberman, in full neck brace and back brace, was back on ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company

Giants of Jazz Rest Modestly in Peace

Scott Joplin’s grave site St. Michael’s Cemetery in Queens is marked by a perfectly respectable little plaque, but it lies flush in the grass and would go unnoticed but for a couple of flowers and a miniature American flag stuck next to it. It is as a ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: James P. Johnson,  Barack Obama

Seltzer Man Is Out of Action, and Brooklyn Thirsts

The cellphone would not stop ringing. “Ronny, you’re 10 minutes late,” one caller whined. Ronny Beberman, 62, at home in Queens, recuperating from a fall off his seltzer delivery truck. But Ronny Beberman had a good reason. Having tumbled eight feet ...

From COREY KILGANNON, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

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