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New York (N.Y.)

Monumental Error

by J. C. Hallman,

Will New York City finally tear down a statue?

Stormy Waters

by Elizabeth Rush, Rebecca Elliott,

Defender of the Community

by Alan Feuer,

Bill de Blasio gambles on doing the right thing

Disco Inferno

by Douglas Crimp,

From notes taken in the 1970s by Douglas Crimp, an art critic. The notes appear in Before Pictures, a memoir that was published last month by the University of Chicago Press…

Packing Heat

by Tomas van Houtryve,

And Red All Over

by William J. Maxwell,

From the FBI file on Lloyd Louis Brown, who wrote the prison novel Iron City (1951), edited several Communist journals, and coauthored Paul Robeson’s autobiography, Here I Stand. The file…

A Grand Juror Speaks

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus,

The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way

Carbon Footprint

by John R. MacArthur, Robert A. Caro,

From a conversation between Robert Caro and John R. MacArthur, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of The Power Broker, Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, which won the Pulitzer…

A Little Girl’s New York

by Edith Wharton,

In my seventeenth year, there suddenly appeared in Fifth Avenue a very small canary-yellow brougham with dark trimmings, drawn by a big, high-stepping bay and driven by a coachman who…

Page Turner

by John Crowley,

The time is close at hand when the scattered members of the civilized communities will be as closely united, as far as instant telephonic communication is concerned, as the various…

Harlem Is Nowhere

by Ralph Ellison,

To live in Harlem is to dwell in the very bowels of the city; it is to pass a labyrinthine existence among streets that explode monotonously skyward with the spires…