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Dan Barry is a longtime reporter and columnist, having written both the “This Land” and “About New York” columns. The author of several books, he writes on myriad topics, including New York City, sports, culture and the nation.
11 months ago
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For that hard-to-buy-for someone, how about a 40-foot shipping container for $100? Or 100 cans of “Flying Insect Killer” spray? Two “wobbly wooden tables”?
10 months ago
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A mile north of where the Hotel Pennsylvania once stood, a shimmering piece of its history can still be seen through a shop window.
10 months ago
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Nobody disputed that the defendant had handed over a note demanding money — please — from a Newark bank. The only remaining question: How dangerous had he been, really?
10 months ago
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In “The Unclaimed,” the sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans tell four stories of dying alone — and living — in America.
8 months ago
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The silent film “The Callahans and the Murphys” was pulled after an uproar over stereotyping. What happened next tantalized one fan of old movies.
7 months ago
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He was ensnared in Ithaca’s homeless encampment. Then, in a blur of violence, he was gone.
5 months ago
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She was just a girl when her mother was stabbed to death in the Bronx. Now, an arrest based on DNA has brought her bittersweet relief.
4 months ago
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Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.
4 months ago
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For me, the decision by Boar’s Head to end production is just the latest blow to a somewhat squishy slice of national and personal history.
about 1 month ago
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Mayor Eric Adams is the first modern-era New York City mayor to be indicted. But A. Oakey Hall, his little-known predecessor, faced criminal charges 150 years earlier.
21 days ago