Cafe Edison, a Longtime Broadway Hangout, Is Closing
By GLENN COLLINS
The 34-year-old coffee shop, home of Broadway deals and Eastern European Jewish cooking, has been asked to leave by the owner of the Edison Hotel, the restaurant’s manager said.
A report called on the Correction Department to bolster screening at Rikers Island after an undercover investigator carried over $22,000 worth of drugs and alcohol through employee checkpoints.
As New York decides where to slot casinos, it should examine the still-struggling economy that surrounds the Mount Airy property in Pennsylvania.
The 34-year-old coffee shop, home of Broadway deals and Eastern European Jewish cooking, has been asked to leave by the owner of the Edison Hotel, the restaurant’s manager said.
A divided Legislature will put Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in a powerful position, allowing him to play deal maker between Republicans and Democrats.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, offering his first public comments on the election since his victory speech, said voters were motivated by “dissatisfaction with a Democratic administration in Washington.”
Representative Steve Israel is stepping down as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, turning down a request from Representative Nancy Pelosi to return for a third term, but is hoping to remain within the Democratic House leadership.
Ask tenant leaders about Mayor Bill de Blasio and they say so far so good. Many landlords, though, say they are just bracing themselves for the next hit.
A jury accepted Ms. Jordan’s claims that she had acted in the throes of an “extreme emotional disturbance” when she poisoned her son in 2010.
New Jerseyans, in a new poll, said they preferred Gov. Chris Christie’s response to that of the federal government.
In a newly published paper, a Columbia University doctoral student argues that the city has far fewer rats than had been thought. About six million fewer.
After days of controversy over the second most powerful post in the New York Police Department, Benjamin B. Tucker was sworn in as the first deputy commissioner.
Officers Tyrane Issac and David Afanador also face misconduct charges in the arrest of Kaheem Tribble, 16, in Brooklyn.
A clinical psychologist and her patient will appear in a show called “Borderline,” which features the two women playing themselves and dealing with the patient’s borderline personality disorder.
Donna Taylor, the principal of the Brooklyn School of Inquiry, said she regretted telling a group of parents and children that “if you don’t speak Spanish, you’re going to clean your own house.”
After surviving the Ebola virus in August, Nancy Writebol, a 59-year-old missionary, donated blood plasma to Craig Spencer, the patient in New York.
The Office of Civil Rights found that the university, which is already enacting reforms, failed to respond quickly and fairly to students’ complaints.
Critics say they will take their protests to donors, not just managers of the museum.
Restoring three pieces from the federal Work Projects Administration at a hospital on Roosevelt Island presented many challenges.
Derrick Lawson, 21, raised in a public housing development in Queens, felt “lost” in college the first time around. But now he hopes to have an associate degree by 2016.
For more than 100 years, The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund has provided direct assistance to children, families and the elderly in New York. An article will appear daily through Jan. 23 to highlight the help given to people in need.
Dr. Gwen Korovin was known for being close to many of her celebrity clients. In the case of Joan Rivers, perhaps too close.
The artist’s 1881 painting of the actress Jeanne Demarsy was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum for $65.1 million.
Ridgewood, Queens, is the new frontier for bohemians who are either priced out of Brooklyn or fed up with it.
Dialogue is loudly delivered in service of an Issue, with a capital I, in Nikkole Salter’s tale of a mother’s effort to get her daughter a better education.
With medical marijuana coming to New York, a curious collection of players is jockeying to cash in.
Franck Bohbot, a French photographer living in New York, photographed several barbershops in the city during the past year. “You feel that so many stories happened there,” he said.
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