Governors Come and Go, but This Reporter Keeps Slugging Away
By JEREMY W. PETERS
Fredric U. Dicker’s distinctive brand of journalism — old-school beat reporting, searing commentary and a dose of showmanship — has made him a potent force in Albany.
Offerings like fruit, bowls and clothing are left humbly in Jamaica Bay, but then wash up along the shore to threaten the ecosystem.
Fredric U. Dicker’s distinctive brand of journalism — old-school beat reporting, searing commentary and a dose of showmanship — has made him a potent force in Albany.
He is unknown, but a possible picture is emerging: a white man with a job, a car and access to burlap bags.
The fund-raising project returns for the first time since 2008, when printing stopped after it was learned that the cover model had appeared naked in a video.
Antonio Calvo’s suicide has devastated a tight community of scholars and students on the Princeton campus, with admirers faulting the university for how it handled Mr. Calvo’s dismissal.
Testimony appeared to support the prosecution’s theory that the defendants knew the purpose of the standpipe and knowingly took the steps that led it to fall.
Buildings in New York City will be required to phase out using the most-polluting heating oil under a new regulation that is expected to improve air quality significantly.
Some New York theaters have discovered that lobby concession stands can extend the life of their spaces beyond showtime and become places where patrons can sit before or after shows.
At treadmill classes, there’s no jogging along at a nice, easy clip.
Mucca Pazza will be at Santos Party House on Thursday. Phil Lipof of ABC News will host a series of performances and conversations at Feinsteins at Loews Regency.
A converted tool barn from the 1850s features an added guest wing and a heated swimming pool on more than five acres.
Two men convicted in the 1992 kidnapping of Jennifer Negron, 16, have filed court motions to have their verdicts overturned, saying evidence had been covered up.
The secret seasoning, and the service, has brought lovers of Puerto Rican home-style cooking to El Nuevo Bohío in the Bronx for decades.
When the Black Eyed Peas performed at Terminal 5 in Manhattan to promote the updated Volkswagen Beetle, questions about the car were off limits.
Live video streams from the 12th floor of a library at New York University where a pair of red-tailed hawks has a nest.
Marie Winn, the author of “Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male’s Story,” will be responding to readers’ questions.
New Yorkers who hail from other countries recall why certain items made the journey with them.
A shop where a small repair might be done for free, and talk therapy is used to explain the rest.
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