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In the original “King Kong,” the big ape scares a woman in her bedroom. Were there ever apartments in the Empire State Building?

Tattooed rockers, hipster ballplayers, Latino soccer players — everyone comes to McCarren Park.

Cafe Figaro, a holdover from Greenwich Village’s beatnik and folkie days, has finally closed.

There’s no question that eastern Chelsea’s restaurant scene has come into its own.

Rescue Ink members — gruff and beefy men, tattooed from head to toe — look like bruisers. But show them a lost kitten or an abused pit bull, and they become tenderhearted rescuers.

A quiet residential street in Pelham Bay has become a subject of controversy among neighbors.

For more than a decade, the “Hot Bird” signs visible from Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn have made vegetarians wince and poultry lovers pause.

When Catharine Nepomnyashchy tried to go on vacation early this month, Russia, and history, would not allow it.

With an unfamiliar mix of emotions, two dozen New Yorkers of Midwestern extraction gathered at a West Village bar to watch something none of them had ever hoped to see.

Although Leonard Phillips’ specialty is sake, he has another claim to fame: His store is one of the few places in the city that serves up body sushi.

A new plan to install semicircular benches along Broadway has roused opposition.

It was July 1961, and a sports-crazed 7-year-old had persuaded his dad and friends to take him to a Yankees game.

Reader responses to recent articles.

In the 1990s, Mikheil Saakashvili attended Columbia University to pursue a master of laws degree.

A diarist of the day-to-day captures images of people when they’re not looking.

If watching the coverage of the Olympics from Beijing leaves you craving Chinese food, authentic fare can be found at these restaurants in Chinatown.

At 91, Dr. Samuel Dvoskin has spent the better part of a century running and walking the streets of New York.

In Glendale, Queens, residents preside over neighborhood affairs with uncommon vigilance.

A dispute emerges between survivors and a synagogue over maintenance of Bayside Cemetery.

Lately, Olympic fever has set in at a bar in Little Italy that has been a magnet for young Asians from Chinatown and points beyond.