Giuliani for 2012?Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is preparing to run for the US Senate and, if successful, may have a tilt at the White House in 2012, according to Republican Party inside sources.
New York
Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY Times
News Corp’s Wall Street Journal is stepping-up its New York coverage, and it’s all part of Rupert Murdoch’s single-minded plan to strike a massive blow against the liberal world by buying-out or destroying the NYT, says Michael Wolff.
The sex diaries of the city that never sleeps
Thanks to Craigslist, GPS enabled social-networking iPhone apps and a host of other technological developments, sex has gone digital and nowhere more so than in NYC. NY Mag examine their anxiety filled Sex Diaries series to find what Sex in the City really means.
Bloody foodiots! The rise of the gourmand wanker
New Yorkers’ water-cooler chitchat has changed. They used to talk about sex and politics and TV shows. Now they can’t stop yapping about what they’re shoving down their pie holes, says Joe Pompeo.
The fake New York Post
Last year, political pranksters The Yes Men put out a fake edition of the New York Times. Now they’ve given the Post the same treatment in honour of the current UN meeting with the headline: “We’re Screwed”
Video of the Day: Taking flight over New York
A paper plane is tossed from a building in New York’s financial district. See how it flies.
Postcards from NYC: death of the music shop edition
What are music shops looking like in the Big Apple? Well, stuff the music shops, it’s the Apple store that’s getting all the traffic…
Modern design from a Victorian era
The latest hipster home trend? Victoriana oddities like taxidermied dogs and skeletons of birds. Lovers of sleek minimalism look away.
Socialitopoly!
Manhattan’s rich socialites are bored — no-one’s throwing parties any more. So Vanity Fair is indulging their need for amusement with a board game. Get your Louboutins and take stroll down Park Avenue.
For Sale: New York flogs all its stuff
You know times are tough when New York Magazine writes a three page article about tips for garage sales with a suggested $20 maximum on any item.
Apps for the Big Apple
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hopes is throwing open the city’s data to Web developers with a contest to create the best App with the domain name .nyc.
Love New York, hate the taxes: why one billionaire’s leaving
Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive, writes billionaire Tom Golisano.
Is the recession really making us better people?
Nope, says Derek Thompson; we’re not spending less due to sudden epiphanies about altruism and the true value of money — we’re just broke.
New New York
New York City is feeling the squeeze of the GFC more painfully than most. An examination of how money affects this city and the social implications of the big bust.
Fine dining off the menu in New York
In New York, a certain elevated culinary ecosystem that has long characterised metropolitan life has begun to feel threatened. The chic Madison Avenue café scene has enjoyed better days.
Video of the Day: Meet Madonna’s new neighbours
Madonna is back in New York — she’s bought a place in the less than snooty East 81st Street. What do her neighbours think? Is the sidewalk large enough for her horse?
The opportunist’s guide to real estate
With home values are dropping all over the US, ruthless buyers are picking up bargains.
The low-flying plane that had New Yorkers clutching their chests
A jumbo jet being chased by a F-16 fighter jets buzzed Lower Manhattan, frightening New Yorkers. But it wasn’t terrorists behind it — but Obama.
NYC fine dining goes cheap
Discounting is a strategy high-end restaurateurs usually avoid out of fear of eroding the cache of their brands. But times are tough.
Hello, Dolly
Making a stage musical of 9 to 5 was not her idea, but the opportunity to create a line extension for her worldwide brand, combined with the creative challenge of writing songs for Broadway, piqued Dolly Parton’s interest.
Bake off: NYC’s finest cupcakes
Fifteen bakeries — from Brooklyn’s Baked to Two Little Red Hens uptown — dropped off more than 75 cupcakes to New York Magazine headquarters for judgement day.
New York in Lego
Berlin-based conceptual illustrator Christoph Niemann’s misses New York. A lot (by the signs of his Lego ode to the Big Apple).
How to get an Airbus A320 out of the Hudson river
Dragging the wreck out the water in photos.
NY plane crash: Don’t study the safety card
There is something about single aisle jets like the one that splashed down on New York’s Hudson River today that you are never told in safety briefings, writes Ben Sandilands.
