Jason Horowitz reports on the presidential dreams of Chris Dodd.
Lizzy Ratner and Azi report on the Berger Commission’s recommendations for closing and merging New York hospitals and why they are – and aren’t – a big deal.
Matthew Schuerman writes about the end of cheap rentals on the Far East Side Read More
With one day to go before the New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century announces which hospitals it thinks should close, there is plenty of speculation about what specifically the commission will recommend.
The New York Sun named six NYC hospitals which may be targeted for closure.
The Observer’s Read More
Lizzy Ratner has a smart funny piece in the new Observer about Jews who like soccer. Only the timing hurts: the best game today is Germany vs. Poland. I have to say it makes my sportsloving scrotum rather shy and reclusive when I hear a stadium full of Germans booming out nationalistic songs as Read More
Last Friday, we solicited your magic eight-ball readings about how the the voting would shake out at the two state conventions starting today in Buffalo and Hempstead. After sifting through the comments and emails (and inevitable campaign season spin), three popular themes seemed to emerge: Faso will win the Republican nomination by a hefty margin, Read More
Nearly seven weeks after riots broke out in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, tempers are still simmering — and offensive words are still flying. A reader directed us to a website called NYPD Rant, on which police officers complained about the recent transfer (no one seemed to know if it was forced or Read More
I look at the migration of political power to, of all places, the West Side of Manhattan, while Jason profiles one of the new Manhattan players, Jessica Lappin.
Lizzy Ratner has an undeniable piece on the whiteness of magazines.
Richard Brookhiser writes on life after Ariel Sharon.
And Joe Conason Read More
Ben digs into Hilary’s nuanced stance on the Iraq war amidst the pressure of polarized national politics.
Matt Schuerman assesses the status of Ground Zero in the wake of Mike’s LMDC board appointments.
I dash to D.C. and chat with Congressman Bob Menendez, who seems to be winning a four-way scramble for Read More
The Voice’s Wayne Barrett has what, if Anthony is still around tomorrow, will be next week’s story everywhere: That many of the candidate’s vaunted policy proposals are impossibly vague or seriously flawed.
From the start, the “man of ideas” thing was more strategy than content. There was a long, serious drumroll of “policy Read More
Hell to Pay
To
the Editor:
Lizzy
Ratner appears rather appalled by the state of affairs in Murray Hill [“Welcome
to Murray Hell!”, July 11]. I mean, imagine the horror of Murray Hill: a
community of fresh college graduates—many harking from the nation’s most
prestigious universities—who have Read More
The Transom has forgotten to direct your attention to items of interest in today’s paper:
Tom Wolfe, in remembering Nan Kempner in today’s Transom, said: “She loved to say that she was the basis of my creature in The Bonfire of the Vanities known as the ‘social X-ray.’ In fact, she wasn’t. But she Read More
