Making Education Brain Science
By JENNY ANDERSON
Neurology informs the approach at a Manhattan institution founded by members of the Blue Man Group and their wives for children from pre-kindergarten through third grade.
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The Battle for a Comic-Book Empire That Archie Built
By ROBIN FINN
Mark Matcho
Scenes from a real-life battle for the control of Archie Comic Publications.
What was long a beloved company run amiably by two families has become the stage for a bitter legal war.
Character Study
A Priest Unafraid of Trouble
By COREY KILGANNON
Over the years, the Rev. Patrick Maloney says he has run afoul of the authorities for helping people he believed were right.
Blaze Spreads on a Windy Day in the Bronx, Injuring 9 Firefighters
By PATRICK McGEEHAN and IVAN PEREIRA
Two firefighters who fell through a collapsing floor were among at least nine injured as they fought a fire that spread swiftly among four buildings.
Sunday Routine | Ashley Parrish
Coffee, With a Side of Catch-Up
By ROBIN FINN
The editorial director of the Web site Daily Candy uses her time to get current on social media, lesson plans and a stack of magazines.
Neighborhood Joint | Bedford-Stuyvesant
Jazz Sessions That Evoke an Earlier Era
By AUSTIN CONSIDINE
The weekly Brownstone Jazz concerts at a bed-and-breakfast in Bedford-Stuyvesant are intimate affairs that recall a time when house parties in the neighborhood turned into all-night jams.
F.Y.I.
Answers to Questions about the Titanic and New York
By MICHAEL POLLAK
Answers to reader questions on the Titanic’s lifeboats and principal owners.
Update
Cyclist Heads for Paralympics
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Damian Lopez Alfonso, the Cuban racer who lost both forearms in a childhood accident, has secured a wild card spot to compete in London.
- The Long Hard Ride of Damian Lopez Alfonso (June 12, 2011)
At the Table | Toby’s Estate
An Australian Import Speaks to Brooklyn
By LIZ ROBBINS
The first United States outpost of the popular Australian coffee company Toby’s Estate instantly attracted all the neighborhood’s types in Williamsburg.
App City
Reminding You Later
By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
Walking near a restaurant, you can get an instant message that, weeks ago, you had flagged it as a place to visit.
Spring Time
Dance of the Bumblebees
By MARIELLE ANZELONE
Bees are out foraging in a patch of forest on Staten Island.
Arts in the Region
Arts | Westchester
Use Your (Louder, Livelier) Library Voice
By PHILLIP LUTZ
Library music rooms are attracting enthusiastic audiences for first-rate folk, modern jazz and classical concerts in and around Westchester County.
Arts | Connecticut
A Mainstream Canvas for an Abstract Expressionist
By ANITA GATES
The revival of “Red” by John Logan focuses on the relationship between the artist Mark Rothko and a fictional assistant.
Arts | Long Island
Reinventing Venus and a Lying Puppet
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
Jim Dine’s Pop Art, drawing strongly on Pinocchio, the Venus de Milo and common objects, is on display in Roslyn Harbor.
Arts | New Jersey
Mornings After, Many of Them
By ANITA GATES
In an almost-solo revue, Maureen McGovern, best known for her Oscar-winning theme songs in two 1970s disaster movies, reminisces.
Dining in the Region
Westchester Dining | Mamaroneck
Middle-Eastern Fare, With a Corner-Diner Feel
By EMILY DeNITTO
The Hash-O-Nash restaurant has a long menu, including more than a dozen salads, many of them meals in themselves.
Connecticut Dining | Uncasville
Homage to an Abbey, Tucked Into a Casino
By STEPHANIE LYNESS
Two visits to a restaurant that was a departure from the Native American-themed visuals surrounding it helped form a complete picture.
Long Island Dining | Babylon
A Stylish Spot Beckons With Asian Flavors
By JOANNE STARKEY
Despite a few snags, Monsoon is an exciting new restaurant in Babylon, on Long Island.
New Jersey Dining | Hightstown
Steaks, Chops and Chorizo, Too
By KARLA COOK
Mercer Street Charcoal Grill and Deli is the dream of its cooking co-owners, who hail from Puerto Rico and Ecuador.
April 15, 2012
In Place of Detention, Brooklyn Program Offers Students Inner-Reflection
By AIDAN GARDINER
A zen Buddhist priest teaches meditation to students who are frequently put in detention or suspension because they start fights or cause trouble, teaching them how to understand volatile emotions and, hopefully, curb impulsive behavior.
April 13, 2012
The Week in Pictures for April 13
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Subjects include wildfires throughout the region, Occupy Wall Street activists' move to the sidewalks, and a kidney transplant between brothers.
April 13, 2012
Baby Hawks Get Their Close-Up
By EMILY S. RUEB
Hawk Cam 2012: a close-up look at life in the nest, including the first high-resolution photos of the baby hawks.
April 13, 2012
Holland Tunnel Inbound to Shut Overnight
By ANDY NEWMAN
The lanes from New Jersey will be closed 1 to 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Next weekend, the outbound lanes will close.
Big City
A Killing, and Queries About a Life
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
It’s impossible to view Henry Wachtel, who is charged with killing his mother, apart from the life suggested in a film about troubled teenagers.
Multimedia
City Room
Painting a New York Everyman
By MARIE ELENA MARTINEZ
In his 13th solo exhibition, the artist Max Ferguson captures his father, Richard, against a backdrop of a fading midcentury New York.
Reviving Bed-Stuy Jazz
Every Friday evening a brownstone parlor in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn becomes an intimate jazz club recalling the heyday of the neighborhood's jazz past.
Father Pat and the Brinks Job
Father Pat Moloney, an East Village activist, talks about his arrest in connection with a $7.4 million Brinks robbery in 1993.
From Real Estate
Buyer Confidence: Portent or Blip?
By VIVIAN S. TOY
Some signs, like bidding wars and more people at open houses, indicate that the New York City real estate market has turned the corner.
Habitats | East 11th Street
A Test Kitchen for Design
By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM
Kimberly Peck lives in the Cast Iron Building at 67 East 11th Street. An architect, she tries out her ideas on her home.
Living In | Hollis, Queens
Serene, for All Its Hip-Hop Cred
By JAKE MOONEY
An orderly and largely working-class community in Queens was made famous by Run-DMC, the rap group.
Big Deal
Fitness Fever, With You in Mind
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
For residents of the city, the ultrahealthy lifestyle can sometimes find them, even in ways they weren’t expecting.
- Follow Alexei Barrionuevo on Twitter: @alexeinyt
From Fashion & Style
Possessed
Meanings in the Market
By DAVID COLMAN
Amy Cappellazzo, the chairwoman of postwar and contemporary development at Christie’s, has a quartz crystal she says has no significance or worth. Unless she says so.
From the Sunday Magazine
Robert Caro’s Big Dig
By CHARLES McGRATH
He has spent 36 years and 3,388 pages telling the story of Lyndon Johnson. He is nowhere near done.
When Is a Flip Not a Flop?
By BILL KELLER
The four Republicans who broke with their party on New York’s gay-marriage law were supposedly marked for electoral death. But that’s not exactly how it is working out.
It’s the Economy
The Amazing Matzo Stimulus
By ADAM DAVIDSON
The making of a $130-million-a-year industry.
Drink
The Subversive Charm of Day Drinking
By ROSIE SCHAAP
Drinking in the day is an occasion unto itself, to be enjoyed on its own congenial terms.
News, data and conversation about schools in New York City.
Reasons to Be Sent to the Principal's Office
April 13, 2012
Learning to Run a Business by Running a Business
April 13, 2012
Teacher Data Reports
View recently released teacher data reports by searching for your school.
Behind the Poster: 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
April 13, 2012
Expanded Drawing Center to Reopen in September
April 13, 2012
Hawk Cam 2012
Back for a second season, we're streaming live from a window ledge overlooking Washington Square Park, where a pair of red-tailed hawks incubated two eggs, both of which have hatched.
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