New York back issues from October 2008:
From the editors.
Oct 06, 2008 ... SPECIALLY OBSERVANT readers of this magazine (there must be a few) might note that they've seen the cover of this magazine before, and indeed they have, on the debut issue of New York, dated April 8,1968. The only difference is that here the Manhattan skyline is rendered in metallic ...
40 perpetual revolution: the ongoing saga of a city that thrives on upheaval.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... THE DAY THAT THE FIRST issue of New York Magazine hit the stands, April 1, 1968, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 861, and nobody was leaping from window ledges. They were more likely jumping for joy. The sixties had witnessed the creation of the modern Wall Street, a nascent ...
Boom-bust-boom town: in 1968, many New Yorkers were panicked about the city's future too. Needlessly, as it turned out.
Oct 06, 2008; ... NEW YORKERS HAVE pretty much always felt elegiac about the transformation of their city, with alarmist peaks every half-century or so. (And given that we're now approaching the half-century anniversary of the alarming start of the last prolonged New York's-going-to-hell era, our present ...
Who matters most: the top ten New Yorkers who reshaped the city, picked and ranked.(THE INFLUENTIALS)(Table)
Oct 06, 2008 ... <Pre> RANKING 1. 2. PANEL RIC BURNS is a Andy Warhol Jackie Onassis documentaryWarhol ran throughOnassis came to New York filmmaker and all the major currentsbecause it was the capital writer, best ...
The mayors--and the crises they had to deal with--were very different. But the challenges of governing New York are remarkably similar over time.(IN CONVERSATION: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG AND ED KOCH)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... THE CURRENT OCCUPANT leaned back on a plush red couch; his puckish predecessor sat in a stiff-backed chair. Michael Bloomberg and Ed Koch were in one of City Hall's private offices, talking seriously about the issues and enemies they've confronted as mayor, and the changes in the city ...
Tony Kushner.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Tony Kushner, Playwright, Why you came here: To go to Columbia. Louisiana in 1974 had no institutions of higher learning and no gay people. First New York job: A liquor store on Third Avenue. It was tedious, a lot of heavy-lifting and pretending I knew ...
Conan O'Brien.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Conan O'Brien Late-night host First New York apartment: A girl I knew told me she had a room in a brownstone in Williamsburg. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I pictured quaint Colonial Williamsburg, with gaslit cobblestone streets and butter ...
Lou Reed.(Musician)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Lou Reed Musician First apartment: Ludlow Street, because it was cheap. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] First job: I filed burrs off nuts in a factory. New ...
Head-liners: what became of ten memorable newsmakers.
Oct 06, 2008; ... Joel Steinberg's abused girlfriend; her testimony helped convict him of killing their adopted daughter HEDDA NUSSBAUM In 1988, Nussbaum testified that her live-in boyfriend, Joel Steinberg, had beaten their 6-year-old adopted daughter, Lisa, to death. (The adoption was never ...
The day everything changed: modern New York, with its safe streets, its gentrified Brooklyn, and booming tourist economy, was born on January 1,1994. And, love him or hate him, it was Rudolph Giuliani who made the city what it is.
Oct 06, 2008; ... THE VERSION OF HISTORY that goes down as conventional wisdom rarely reflects the complexity of what actually happened. As the years pass, the newspapers condense the narrative into digestible shorthand. The winners get to keep repeating their version on television and in books, while the ...
Martin Scorsese.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Martin Scorsese Filmmaker First apartment: Elizabeth Street and the Bowery, which sometimes went by the more exciting name of Skid Row. We chose to live there because there was too much fresh air in Corona. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Martha Stewart.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Martha Stewart Television hast First apartment: On 114th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue. It was a dump. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Current apartment: 77nd and Fifth. Where else in the world you'd like ...
What things cost: a look at the exponential rise of New York's cost of living over the past 40 years. (Prices not adjusted for inflation--what you see is what you pay.).(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... BURGER AT '21' CLUB $5 [right arrow] $30 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE TUTION $2,100 [right arrow] $37,372 BOX SEAT AT YANKEE STADIUM [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] $4 [right arrow] $250 LARGE CHEESE PIZZA AT ...
A feminist icon and a rising star on the sexual revolution, the booty-call nineties, and the superwoman myth.(IN CONVERSATION: GLORIA STEINEM AND SUHEIR HAMMAD)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... WHEN SUHEIR HAMMAD ARRIVES at Gloria Steinem's apartment on the Upper East Side-the same one Steinem has lived in since 1968-the two embrace like old frineds. Then Sarah Palin comes up. "What is going on ?" yells Hammad. Steinem grins and shrugs. She's been working all day on an op-ed ....
Ray Kelly.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Ray Kelly Police commissioner Favorite New York noise: 1010 WINS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most accurate New York stereotype: ...
Barbara Corcoran.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Barbara Corcoran Real-estate magnate Why you came to New York: I was a waitress in a New Jersey diner, and my boyfriend paid for a week's stay at the Barbizon Hotel for Women. He said a smart girl like me should be living in New York. ...
Champs: five sports pundits rank the top ten New York athletes of the past 40 years.(Table)
Oct 06, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] <Pre> RANKING 1.2.3. PANEL JERMY SCHAAPLawrence Taylor Walt Frazier Reggie Jackson No An ESPN Alone among The best other New York reporterthe athletes ...
Yuppies in EDEN: how young urban professionals revived the city, turning it into their own personal playground (and inspiring a novel or two along the way. But not mine. No way).(Column)
Oct 06, 2008; ... I FIRST remember hearing the Y-word in '83, when I was living in the East Village, sharing an apartment with my best friend while working on my first novel and paying the bills as a slush-pile reader at Random House. I was enjoying a hung-over midday breakfast (we didn't use the word ...
Philip Glass.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Philip Glass Composer Favorite New York noise: The sound of an orchestra tuning up. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Biggest New York fear: That it might become an ordinary place. New Yorker who'd make the best ...
Rosie Perez.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Rosie Perez Actress When you arrived: I was born here, baby! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Biggest New York fear: The subway. I've been mugged and harassed, and someone actually tried to sexually attack me. ...
Tina Fey.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Tina Fey Comedian First apartment: Eightieth and Columbus. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I knew instinctively I was not cool enough to live downtown. We had a rat situation because of the ...
Edward Albee.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Edward Albee Playwright Why you came here: When I was 18, I abandoned my adoptive parents. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] First apartment: A sixth-floor railroad walk-up in Little Italy. Twenty dollars per month. ...
The most memorable advertisements Madison Avenue ever sold: a panel of New York ad executives ranks the top twenty since '68.
Oct 06, 2008 ... MADISON AVENUE has spent the past four decades refining the art of the big sell. To determine the very best ad campaigns developed since 1968, we polled four generations of creative directors to create a long list of nominees. Then two dozen contemporary Mad men (and women) ranked their ...
The original gossip girl: Liz Smith and the twilight of celebrity.(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... LIZ SMITH IS SITTING FRONT AND CENTER at Michael's, still a media whorehouse after all these years. It is the Wednesday after Labor Day and everyone is back. Smith herself just flew in from the Hamptons on a helicopter with Pete Peterson and his wife, Joan. You can practically smell the ...
Nico Muhly.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Nico Muhly Composer First job: I spent hours organizing an illustrator's photographs by category ("Funny Looking Dogs," "Buckets"), and filing away collections of fruit wrappers from Japan. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Current ...
Denis Leary.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Denis Leary Comedian First apartment: A 400-square-foot glorified closet on Thompson Street. A woman on a lower floor came home at three every night and played Sinead O'Connor's cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" over and over, full blast, window open, while ...
14,600 nights out: four decades of parties with Andy, Bianca, Nan, Marian, Sly, Liza, Brooke, Marc, Cher, and company.
Oct 06, 2008 ... 1960s Joan Baez and Jimi Hendrix at a Biafra relief benefit at Steve Paul's Scene, 1968. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nico and Andy Warhol in his studio. 1968; right, Giorgio di Sant' Angelo and Veruschka, 1969. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman at a ...
Two New York novelists on the death of Times Square, the afterbirth of the Lower East Side, and the importance of ghosts.(IN CONVERSATION: RICHARD PRICE AND JUNOT DIAZ)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... RICHARD PRICE AND JUNOT DIAZ are having a very nice year. Diaz's first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won the Pulitzer Prize; Price's eighth, Lush Life, got some of the best reviews of his career. (He says he feels like "an overnight sensation 35 years in the making.") ...
The Holy house of hip hop: on August 11, 1973, D.J. Kool Here didn't know he was revolutionizing pop music--he was just trying to keep people dancing. The rec room where it all went down might have been forgotten, until it became a battleground for the future of affordable housing.
Oct 06, 2008; ... ON AUGUST 11, 1973, in the rec room in an unassuming brick apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, hard by the Major Deegan Expressway, a 16-year-old Jamaican immigrant changed pop music forever. This is the night that Clive Campbell, later known as Kool Here, invented hip-hop at his ...
Sarah Jessica Parker.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Sarah Jessica Parker Actress First apartment: Roosevelt Island. My parents had read in New York Magazine that the island was "the affordable way to live in New York." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Current neighborhood: The West ...
Urban renewal: the changing look of everyday life.(Definition)
Oct 06, 2008 ... URBAN RENEWAL The ...
The New York actor.(Brief article)(Photograph)
Oct 06, 2008; ... It might seem specious to observe that New York actors seem more real than their West Coast counterparts. But look at them--the movie stars, the Broadway divas, the character oddballs, the certifiably unclassifiable. They're here, they walk among us, they're in the world instead of inured ...
Brooklyn revisited: the author returns home to find that everything, and nothing, has changed.(Essay)
Oct 06, 2008; ... AS A NATIVE SON, MY JOURNEYS into the old country of Brooklyn have always been a mixture of joy and melancholy. Both, of course, are shaped by time, by what's changed and what hasn't. For me and for millions who started life in Brooklyn, and then went away. [ILLUSTRATION ...
Brooke Shields.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Brooke Shields Actress First apartment: At 345 East 73rd Street. I did pogo-stick shows in front of the building. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] First job: An Ivory Soap commercial. I was 11 months old, and ...
New York's hometown auteur on whether a lifetime of psychoanalysis has paid off, and why kids from Yale no longer like good movies.(IN CONVERSATION: WOODY ALLEN)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... FEW WOULD ARGUE THAT Woody Allen is the filmmaker most identified with New York, a distinction that has less to do with the settings of his movies (though most were shot here) than with a sensibility that is urban and anxious and obsessive, and often (still) very funny. Born in the Bronx ...
Donald Trump.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Donald Trump. Real-estate developer First apartment: A small studio on Third Avenue and 75th Street. It was 1971. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The East Side was the place to live. Current neighborhood: Trump Tower, ...
Mike Nichols.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Mike Nichols Director Why you came here: The Holocaust. Favorite place to be alone: Central Park. It's a miracle to have it near you. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Favorite New York noise: A home run in Yankee ...
Geoffrey Canada.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Geoffrey Canada CEO, Harlem Children's Zone First apartment: Four years in Harlem, beginning in 1991. I was very much the oddity back then--a man in a suit and tie going to work every day. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New York's best ...
The legendary French chef and current culinary star on French vs. American cuisine, absentee celebrity chefs, and why your cote de boeuf costs $150.(IN CONVERSATION: ANDRE SOLTNER AND DAVID CHANG)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... AS THE CHEF OF Lutece for 34 years, Andre Soltner lived through astounding changes in New York's--and America's--culinary culture. In fact, he was largely responsible for some of them, like the shift to fresh, high-quality ingredients and the adoption of a lighter, more modern approach to ...
The haute-est cuisine: what are the most important restaurants of the past 40 years? The assignment asked for ten; I asked for a dozen. being a food writer, I meant a baker's dozen. but then, I am insatiable--so there are fourteen.(List)
Oct 06, 2008; ... 1. LUTECE With Alsatian Andre Soltner in the kitchen Lutece set the gold standard for what a French restaurant should be in America. 2. THE FOUR SEASONS Austerely luxurious, staunchly American in a fancy-French era, an early booster of California wines, ...
The single best meal I ever had.
Oct 06, 2008 ... In 18,814 tries CHOOSE THE BEST MEAL I've eaten as a restaurant critic? My brain reels in a barrage of taste memories; it's all but impossible to single out just one. But for an all-time cuisinary high, that first astonishing dinner at the preposterous Palace stands out from the ...
Enter edamame: and sea salt. And kiwis. And ficelles. And other food-world breakthroughs.(Chronology)
Oct 06, 2008; ... 1968 * Quenelles [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Takeout tandoori chicken * Miss Grimble's cheesecake 1970 * Cold noodles in sesame sauce * Riunite 1972 * First McDonald's in New York ...
Peep: a Times Square veteran remembers all too well how dirty sex could get.(TIMES SQUARE BOOTH BABIES)
Oct 06, 2008; ... I WORKED AT TIMES SQUARE PEEP shows from 1982 until 1995. Back when Times Square was a red-light district, you could get anything there. You wanted to meet someone, get laid, make money, get high? No problem. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Ian Schrager.(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Ian Schrager Hotelier Current neighborhood: Nolita. A lot of people from around the world live in midtown. Downtown is more occupied by real New Yorkers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Craziest New York story: One night, myself ...
Hamid & sons: an immigrant family's 40-year quest for the American dream.(Abdul Hamid)
Oct 06, 2008; ... ONE DAY in 1968, Abdul Hamid walked into the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, hoping to obtain a visa. He was 40 years old, had five children, and had never been to America before. His black-and-white passport photo shows an unsmiling man with dark hair and a thin mustache; his height ...
Assimilation and its discontents: how success ruined the New York Jew.
Oct 06, 2008; ... A NEW YORK JEW is a kind of universally acknowledged wizard, like a Swiss banker, an English tailor, or a Parisian couturier. Fast-talking, funny, obnoxious, able to conjure some shimmering, tantalizing brilliance on the fly while complaining about the stale Danish and bad coffee and ...
The never-ending parade: Forty years of open-air peacocking.(Chronology)
Oct 06, 2008 ... WA'VE ALWAYS dressed for an audience. Rarely hidden behind steering wheels, anxious to escape our tiny homes, we've strutted and pranced and collided-the mainstream bumping into the subversive, the Birkin bag next to the B-boy--since before there were sidewalks. In the past 40 years, we've ...
Rock stars past and present on the invention, influence, and half-life of New York punk.(IN CONVERSATION: DEBBIE HARRY AND SANTOGOLD)(Interview)
Oct 06, 2008; ... DEBBIE HARRY IS STILL a young punk: Dressed in a loose floral dress and Converse sneakers, she pouts a little while waiting for Santogold to put on an elaborate purple leather jacket and lime-green hot pants, then carefully pack up a suitcase's worth of clothes after her photo shoot. But ...
The (anniversary edition) approval matrix: our deliberately oversimplified guide to 40 years in the culture capital of the world.
Oct 06, 2008 ... SO WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED in New York over the last four decades? Let's see. There was Letterman. And hip-hop. And, you know, books. And pretty much everything else that was important in American culture, except maybe country music and Hollywood. So how do we fit it all in here? Simple: We ...
Agenda.(Brief article)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... 1 THE CLOWN There's no resisting the Charlie Chaplin of Italian cinema: Alberto Sordi. He somehow paired movie-star good looks with Everyman status. All nine films in this retrospective are worth seeing, but Mafioso is unmissable. October 3 through 9 at ...
Movies.(Agenda)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... NEW THIS WEEK ALLAH MADE NE FUNNY A trio of comedians--Mo Amer, Azhar Usman, and Preacher Moss--crack wish about their Muslim American heritages in this comedy-tour flick. It's a valuable undertaking, but a few standout moments are significantly funnier than the ...
Six for the road.(THE TIME CAPSULE)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008; ... Francophiles will find many tempting films at the Barbet Schroeder retrospective, but Paris Vu Par is the hardest to resist. In the 1965 Schroeder-produced anthology work, directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Jean-Daniel Pollet (whose segment ...
Theater.(Agenda)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... BROADWAY PREVIEWS AND OPENINGS THE SEAGULL Kristin Scott Thomas makes her Broadway debut as Arkadina. The critically acclaimed Royal Court Theatre production features a new translation by Christopher Hampton and direction by Ian Rickson. Also starring ...
Hip-Hop Hooray.(THE UNLIKELY MIX)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Run-DMC meets Howard Zinn as the Hip-Hop Theater Festival returns for its eighth year of lively staged readings, dance, spoken-word performances, and visual art. Many events take place at NYU's Skirball Center, but the festival ...
Art.(Agenda)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... MUSEUMS AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM [outlined circle] [red star] "Martin Ramirez: The Last Works." Twenty-five brilliant drawings and collages by the self-taught, schizophrenic Mexican-American artist, selected from the 120-plus works discovered last year in a garage; ...
Lost and found.(THE OUTSIDER)(Martin Ramirez)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Plagued with severe paranoid schizophrenia, self-taught artist Martin Ramirez (1895-1963) lived out his final years confined to a Northern California mental institution where he created hypnotic drawings and collages of ...
Music & dance.(Agenda)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... CLASSICAL MUSCI "NEW YORK NOW" The Bryant Park concert series. Vocalists from New York City Opera perform 10/1 and 10/6 at 5:30. Bryant Park (go to bryantpark. org for more info); free. LEON FLEISHER The acclaimed pianist is joined by ...
Nightlife.(Agenda)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... CONCERTS ANDREW BIRD [red star] 10/6 and 10/7 at 7. The transfixing multi-instrumentalist. Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel, 363 W. 16th St., at Ninth Ave. (212-242-4300). BLACK KIDS 10/1 at 7:30 A high-energy band of popsters from ...
More than a voice.(THE SONIC WIZARD)(Andrew Bird)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Singer-songwriter Andrew Bird isn't content to rely on his voice, though his sweet baritone puts many indie wannabes to shame. The virtuosic Chicagoan strains violin and guitar (not to mention his own startlingly proficient whistle) through an ...
The word.(Agenda)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... READINGS BARTON GELLMAN The Washington Post reporter reads from his history of the Cheney vice-presidency, Angler. 10/1 at 7. Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway, at 82nd St. (212-362-8835); free. JUDY BLUME The beloved children's author presents ...
Restaurants.(Agenda)(Restaurant review)
Oct 06, 2008; ... NEW AND NOTEWORTHY ALLEGRETTI A veteran of Le Cirque 2000 and Atelier at the Ritz-Carlton cooks refined versions of such south-of-France fare as a quail-egg-enhanced nicoise salad, ravioli stuffed with oxtail and chard, and jasmine semifreddo for dessert. 46 W. 22nd ...
Bunch of grapes.(AT THE GREENMARKET)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Sad as it is to see summer's berries and melons recede from Greenmarket stands, fall brings its own distinct pleasures. First among them are New York State grapes, in abundance from now until mid-November. Indigenous ...
Kids.(Agenda)(Calendar)
Oct 06, 2008; ... EVENTS FOR CHILDREN FATHER GOOSE TALES Musician Father Goose brings his blend of folk tales and funk to Symphony Space. 10/4, 11 a.m. 2537 Broadway, nr. 95th St. (212-864-5400 or symphonyspace.org); adults, $25-$27; children, $15-$17. SHOP ...
Duck duck Father Goose time for a block party.(PLAYDATE)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Father Goose is best known as Dan Zanes's Jamaican secret weapon. But on October 4, he'll play Symphony Space solo, kicking off its fall kids' series. "It's kind of strange," Goose says. "I'm used to looking over and seeing Dan beside me. It's something to get used to." With two kids now ...
Work it.(REAL ESTATE SHOWCASE)(Brief article)
Oct 06, 2008 ... Set inside the 1930s Lewis Steel Products factory. SteelWorks Lofts at 75 N. Fourth Street in Willliamsburg is now selling studios to 3BR loft resiDences, including PHs and duplexes. Some units have terraces, some have private street entrances and EcoSmart fireboxes are available for ...