Brooklyn Heights

What's worse library behavior: watching porn or stabbing someone?

2012-05-18 16:36:56

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Is that a poem in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?

2012-04-26 16:35:30

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Jog your way around New York

2011-07-10 00:00:00

New Yorkers are always on the run. Bankers rush from Wall Street to Midtown; harried shoppers tear through the narrow streets of NoLita and SoHo. Travelers may find it hard to keep up with the pace — unless they bring their running shoes and join...

Life with Norman Mailer -- and without him

2010-04-11 00:00:00

The voice explains a lot. You think, how could any woman live with the famously moody writer Norman Mailer for 33 years, and then you hear Norris Church Mailer's soft, authoritative, Marilyn Monroe-ish voice, with its 61-year-old Arkansas twang still...

Lynn Nottage always points a provocative pen

2009-04-19 00:00:00

In the course of writing a new play, Lynn Nottage sat in despair at her Brooklyn apartment as she looked over reams of research she had accumulated. The playwright had just spent two months at a Uganda refugee camp, interviewing women who had been raped...

Brooklyn, baby

2007-12-12 11:44:36

Regular visitors to New York should bypass the tried-and-true of Manhattan for the city streets less traveled. Just a hop, skip and a borough away lies Brooklyn, ripe for its own exploration. (PHOTOS INCLUDED) Regular visitors to New York should bypass...

Going Forward

2001-12-30 00:00:00

On Sept. 11, after we had heard the news about the terrorist attacks in New York and on the Pentagon, I was standing on the balcony of my apartment in Los Angeles on a rare night when I wasn't on the road. Suddenly I realized that something was...

Hailing the rails of New York

2004-10-17 00:00:00

Six separate realms make up New York City: the five boroughs and the world that buzzes mostly below. The city's subway system has its own music, culture and rules. A single station has more characters than a Dickens novel. Many New Yorkers consider the...

Widow Kills Self in Dream House

2001-12-14 00:00:00

There was already too much sadness in Pat Flounders' life. But the loss of her husband of 19 years in the World Trade Center terrorist attack was more than she could bear. So now she too is part of the human wreckage of Sept. 11. After orchestrating a...

David Berry

2001-09-17 18:30:29

Work and family were David Berry's two consuming passions. As research director at the brokerage firm of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Berry kept long hours. To cut down on commuting time, he lived with his wife and three young sons in Brooklyn Heights,...

A lost eatery, 500 years of food and a Floridian's response

2013-04-07 14:43:27

Digging into the mailbag, we range from a favorite lost lunch spot to sweeping sagas involving Florida's past. Where was The Rowena? Longtime area resident Susan Zwer sends memories of a bridesmaids luncheon at The Rowena in Orlando, also fondly...

'Girls' Season 2 finale recap, 'Together'

2013-03-18 06:57:00

Dear Lena Dunham, thank you.� Thank you for giving your characters some happiness. Thank you for this bumpy, ugly, imperfect sophomore season. Thank you for showing us everyone’s low points and high points. Thank you for not apologizing for...

A man takes a morning walk along the promenade in Brooklyn Heights as Lower Manhattan stands in a cloud of snow and sleet.

2013-02-08 00:00:00

Author Sergio De La Pava poses in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY on May 18, 2012.

2012-05-18 00:00:00

and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Since then, she's become known for her guest roles, as well as for her extensive charity work. Moore was born in 1936 in Brooklyn Heights, but her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 8 years old.

2012-01-26 14:46:57