"It operated as a school recently enough that at the opening party, alumni milled about under the spell of their own memories. Salvatore Ferragamo was a student, as were Stefano Ricci’s family, Emilio ...

There we were thinking of Merchant Ivory as the avatars of starchy propriety, making films as decorously well-behaved as a governess, clutching their inhibitions like pearls. And then along comes ...

Squisito! We found ourselves in an enclave of legacies, an Italian institution steeped in nostalgia neatly tucked-away on east 64th street: Tony’s Di Napoli. But the space is special for something ...

Not every high school foyer is decorated with headshots of students who happen to be movie stars, still has the wooden phone booths they once used to take calls from their high-powered agents, or is ...

For a city so dense with skyscrapers, and asphalt, New York also has a surprising number of parks, gardens, and leafy walkways among the concrete. New York is, above all things, a walking city: best ...

For nearly a century, New York has enjoyed a kind of fictive counterpart, a place of the imagination brought to life on screen: a “dream city” of the movies, in fact, which has mesmerized and ...

Within Sag Harbor’s two square miles lies a character-filled past that could rival any village in America. Founded in the mid-1700s as a shipping and whaling port, it was at one time second only to ...

Joseph Pulitzer was the Gilded Age newspaper baron who successfully laundered the questionable reputation of his tabloids by endowing a prestigious and eponymous prize still given annually by Columbia ...

Going naked was like waving a defiant flag in the ’60s counterculture, as at muddy Woodstock. Al Goldstein founded Screw magazine in 1968, and Suck, the radical feminist mag, was launched in London ...

It was a scene out of a Hollywood movie. On a raw March day in New York City in 1992, 71-year-old Leona Helmsley was admitted to New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, the very hospital to which ...

Smart retail stores are upping their gastro game and Bergdorf is (unsurprisingly) among the smartest, with considerable evidence recently on display. The Art Deco-inspired restaurant and bar evokes a ...