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Gronkowski could be the difference in Super Bowl

BY DEBORAH GLICK | Sunday is the Super Bowl. Not only will the winner determine the champion of the league but it is the most widely watched televised event in the United States. Last year the Super Bowl was watched by more than 112 million people and this year the number may be even greater. The Seahawks read more here »

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Bob the Painter: Memories of Robert De Niro, Sr.

January 29, 2015 No Comment

BY MINERVA DURHAM | What a handsome man he was when I first saw him in the autumn of 1977 standing in the kitchen of his ex-wife, Virginia Admiral, in her loft on the corner of Spring and Lafayette in Soho, New York City. Tall, lean, somewhat rugged but graceful, Bob De Niro, Sr. had read more here »

Evan Forsch, Week of Jan. 29, 2015

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Letters, Week of Jan. 29, 2015

January 29, 2015 No Comment

Real Chumley’s is long gone To The Editor: The headline on Karen Butler’s letter in your Jan. 15 issue said it all: “No to faux Chumley’s.” From across the street, where I’ve lived for the better part of 30 years, it’s clear that, except for the facade, 86 Bedford St., the former Chumley’s, has been completely read more here »

Baruch forward cracks 1,000-point career mark

January 29, 2015 No Comment

BY ROBERT ELLKIN | The Baruch College basketball team has a very good chance of going all the way and winning the regular season title in the City University of New York Athletic Conference, and the Bearcats also have a chance of posting an excellent record in the process. In addition, they have a read more here »

Xavier JV rollers take 2nd in C.H.S.A.A. finals

January 22, 2015 No Comment

BY ROBERT ELKIN | Sophomore Michael Spencer turned in a better performance in the third and last game when he rolled a 215. But he didn’t have complete support from his Xavier High School teammates at Astoria Bowl in Queens in a final match in the Catholic High School Athletic Association junior varsity championships. Their read more here »

Mayor and speaker are M.I.A. on small businesses

January 22, 2015 5 Comments

BY SHARON WOOLUMS | A huge gap has developed between the will of our community — outraged at continued closings of iconic businesses, demanding that something be done — versus the silence of elected officials who continue to do nothing to protect these threatened merchants, even as the crisis worsens. I wrote my first column in read more here »

Editors, not terrorists, killed U.S. political cartoonists

January 22, 2015 3 Comments

BY TED RALL | Terrorism doesn’t scare political cartoonists nearly as much as editors — and the corporate bean-counters who tell them what to do. The Charlie Hebdo massacre couldn’t have happened here in the United States. But it’s not because American newspapers have better security. Gunmen could never kill four political cartoonists in an American read more here »

Letters, Week of Jan. 22, 2015

January 22, 2015 No Comment

Pier55 appears inspiring To The Editor: Re “Praise and excitement versus fear and loathing at Pier55 public hearing” (news article, Jan. 15): As working theater artists and parents of a child in public school in the West Village, we are inspired by plans for the new performance and open public spaces proposed for Pier55. As read more here »

Right now more than ever, the city needs unity

January 22, 2015 2 Comments

As we’re still at the beginning of this new year, there’s no question that these are very fraught times, both at home and abroad. The city continues to feel tense after the non-indictment of a police officer in the death of Eric Garner during Garner’s arrest this past summer. There are ongoing protests — with marches read more here »