Meatpacking District

Project Runway is becoming a bit predictable. Designers guessing what the challenge will be and debating who will be that episode's guest star? Check. Suede talking in the third person? Check. Field trip to an undisclosed location? Check. Corporate...

Looks like I scheduled my vacation a couple of days too soon. Sunday the Knicks City Dancers will hold open auditions at the Garden, with registration from 10 to 11 a.m., followed by tryout activities. At right is a picture......

In a new Tribeca Film Festival movie, the story of Journey and Arnel Pineda is told....

Can men and women really be just friends? Obviously, I am not talking about real life here. (Why would I want to do a thing like that?) If one were to survey the romantic comedies and sitcoms of the last......

She may have staged the most awesome fashion show spectacle of the New York season. Norwegian-born Elise Overland took over the ice rink outside the Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District and put her models on ice. Hopefully they got......

This summer, two of Los Angeles' best-known nightlife players go head-to-head, opening new clubs just blocks apart in a big push for their share of the increasingly competitive Hollywood market. Last month, SBE's Sam Nazarian and Syndicate Hospitality's...

Usually the trajectory that neighborhoods go through as they gentrify is entirely predictable -- and more than a little depressing. First a scruffy, down-at-the-heels area welcomes a few urban pioneers drawn by an attractive and affordable housing stock....

Private security patrols and cleanup crews have pulled out of the downtown Los Angeles' Arts District after a court ordered the city to dissolve a special district that had assessed property owners as much as $1.3 million a year to spruce up and protect...

Usually the trajectory that neighborhoods go through as they gentrify is entirely predictable -- and more than a little depressing. First a scruffy, down-at-the-heels area welcomes a few urban pioneers drawn by an attractive and affordable housing stock....

A man has a casual affair with a woman and then dumps her. The woman, now with child, longs for his return but is coldly rebuffed. Humiliated and left with nothing to live for, she kills herself with a sharp blade to the throat. The story of Puccini's...

NEW YORK (AP) — Flights resumed, but slowly. The New York Stock Exchange got back to business, but on generator power. And with the subways still down, great numbers of people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan in a reverse of the...

A New York steakhouse is offering a 12-ounce cut of real Japanese Kobe beef, which just recently became available in the United States, for $350. Marc Sherry, co-owner of the Old Homestead steakhouse in the Meatpacking District, said many customers have...