“You wonder how these things begin.” That’s a line in the “The Fantasticks,” the wisp of a musical that ran seemingly forever at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in the West Village, from 1960 through ...

If Monday is the beginning of the summer of hell for commuters, these last days are some of kind of transitional space, an existential version of the Frank R. Lautenberg Rail Station, known by ...

I’m nearing a milestone birthday. Yet it feels not so long ago that I was a boy longing to become a man, whatever that was. Now that I have been there for so many decades, it strikes me that the state ...

Editor’s Note: Alfred Döblin, the Weimar-era author of ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz,’ was born on this day in 1878. To honor this occasion, we revisit this award-winning story about the writer’s connection ...

New York is a city of landmarks. For tourists, they serve as markers in an unfamiliar place. The Empire State Building – midtown. One World Trade Center – lower Manhattan. The George Washington Bridge ...

I was not paying much attention on Friday to the story of Paterson Mayor Joey Torres’ watch. If I understood it correctly, he was planning to raffle off a $13,500 watch to help defray his legal fees.

It’s become common practice for Broadway audiences to stand and applaud at the end of a show, particularly musicals. It doesn’t matter if the show was extraordinary. Somehow this practice of standing ...

In politics, authenticity sells. More than issues, charisma or even money – authenticity or the lack of it is a game changer in politics. That’s why Chris Christie’s shining marquee bulb went dark.

“My! People come and go so quickly here!” Donald Trump’s White House is beginning to look a lot like Munchkinland, that county of diminutive people in Oz. Dorothy, fresh from Kansas, is taken aback by ...

About 25 miles separate the gilded Fifth Avenue fortress where President-elect Donald Trump lives from Rosa Parks Boulevard in Paterson. It might as well be an ocean. Make that an ocean of blood. On ...