The weird history and uncertain future of New York City’s shoreline.

The story of Kokie’s, and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood.

Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman were young and in love and pregnant and partial to heroin and living in a Village apartment with a lot of heavy weaponry lying about. Then they were arrested, and their stories started to change.

Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

How the borough bounced back.

On Queens’ stubbornly unchanging Roosevelt Avenue, where immigrants pay $2 a song to grind against hired dancers and shuttered houses of prostitution have given way to rolling brothel-vans.

A mystery writer moves into an apartment where a grisly crime was committed.

The old and the new in New York.

On New York City’s housing projects.

On New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.

A profile of Salvatore Strazzullo, who represents celebrities, whether major or minor, who get themselves in trouble in Manhattan after dark.

Talking with the influential New York gallerist.

What one woman spends in a year.

The psychic benefits of leaving New York.

The director on Obama, the state of black cinema, the Knicks, the Nets, the tragedy of public education in America, gentrified New York and why he lives on the Upper East Side.

A veteran critic reviews 32 shows in 30 days.

Visiting his daughter in San Francisco, the author longs for food delivery in Manhattan.

A profile of Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, a hacker star of Anonymous and resident of a New York City housing project.

Growing up on B-movies.

The author reflects on his mayoral run with Norman Mailer against John Lindsay.

At the bar one night a couple of weeks after the primary, I looked up from a drink and saw my face and Norman's face floating across the screen on the NBC First Tuesday show. It is a network thing, and they did a 20-minute look at our campaign. The show reinforced my opinion that Norman and I had some of the most terrific lows in the history of anything that ever took place in this city. And, perhaps, a couple of highs that could be recognized as time passes a bit. Like maybe colleges for years will be using the things Norman Mailer was saying out in the streets.

On the trade school’s business model and its founder, a former movie producer named Jerry Sherlock.

The toll of being a cop on the most successful force in the country.

A profile of 25-year-old Lena Dunham, showrunner and star of HBO’s Girls.

"Opium does not deprive you of your senses. It does not make a madman of you. But drink does. See? Who ever heard of a man committing murder when full of hop. Get him full of whiskey and he might kill his father."

A journey into New York’s turn-of-the-century opium dens to find out who gets hooked and why.