Covert Operations
The billionaire Koch brothers have declared war on Obama.
The billionaire Koch brothers have declared war on Obama.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Apr 2011 40min Permalink
Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.
Alex Haley, Malcolm X Playboy May 1963 35min Permalink
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In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.
Saki Knafo The Believer Jul 2010 10min Permalink
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Vignettes of the residents of South Elliot Place.
Stacy Abramson New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink
A day in the life of a Brooklyn laundromat.
N. R. Kleinfield New York Times Jan 2010 10min Permalink
War stories from the world of Manhattan real estate, written during an era when everybody knew the Internet would completely change the business and nobody quite knew how.
Susan Orlean New Yorker Feb 1999 20min Permalink
April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.
Dennis Hevesi New York Times Oct 1988 20min Permalink
In a windowless room just outside of New York City, overworked air traffic controllers manage the world’s most-trafficked piece of sky—until all those blips on the screen become too much.
Darcy Frey New York Times Magazine Mar 1996 35min Permalink
The author wanted to give up her day job but keep her lifestyle. So she turned to Seeking Arrangement, a site that pairs rich, older men interested in “companionship” with 20-somethings interested in “gifts.”
Melanie Berliet Vanity Fair May 2010 10min Permalink
Lenny makes $5,000 a week selling coke. It was easy to get into the business after finishing prep school. Getting out and going legit after his final score is proving much more difficult.
David Amsden New York Apr 2006 25min Permalink
Lance Stephenson, the latest in a long line of Coney Island basketball prodigies, carries a burden none of his predecessors did: restoring New York City’s reputation as the hoops capital of the world.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Apr 2009 25min Permalink
Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”
Jimmy Breslin New York Apr 1969 10min Permalink
How do you handle an infestation when you live on the Upper East Side and bedbugs could hurt the value of your apartment? With discretion.
Marshall Sella New York May 2010 15min Permalink
In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.
Graham Rayman Village Voice May 2010 25min Permalink
Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.
Michael Idov New York Apr 2010 15min Permalink
From Stefani Joanne Germanotta to Lady Gaga: the self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose creation of the world’s biggest pop star.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Mar 2010 30min Permalink