Letters

Firefighters, Not Rudy, Are Heroes of 9/11

To the Editor:

Mitchell Moss wrote a rave review of the movie World Trade Center [“Stone’s Film Shows New York’s Heart,” Aug. 21]. Although Rudy Giuliani’s name is not mentioned, his picture is in the column. Why has the media made Mr. Giuliani symbolic of the Read More

Let’s Hope They Have Cheap Rent

Last Sunday sixty people were evacuated from a couple of buildings at 345 and 347 West 16th Street because of a fire. And then, after the FDNY extinguished the blaze, they discovered that sections of the buildings were crumbling. Now the tenants have to wait till the building’s shored up before they can Read More

From Great Neck, With Attitude-An American Jewish Blossoming

Great Neck , by Jay Cantor. Alfred A. Knopf, 703 pages, $27.95.

Every author has an obligation to the reader’s right hand. The left hand already belongs to him: It’s holding all the pages that have been turned so far. The right hand, though, is sending electronic pulses back to the reader’s fickle brain, precise Read More

Re-Greening of Mark: Perennial Cocky Kid Tries to Tone It Down

As he prepared for the crucible of a New York Mayoral

campaign, Public Advocate Mark Green gathered his top advisers in his downtown

office to watch videotapes of a speaker whose eloquence and lively wit have

delighted Mr. Green for decades. The speaker was Public Advocate Mark Green.

As the tapes played, 

Hank Sheinkopf, Read More

The Most Ambitious Woman in New York

Who Ivy Supersonic Is

It was Saturday night, about 9 p.m., and Ivy Supersonic, wearing a black leather skirt, black corset bustier top and brown six-inch platform boots, was sitting at Verbena, a country inn kind of place two blocks away from her Irving Place studio apartment.

Ms. Supersonic makes feathered hats. She is Read More