Recessions and Depressions

The NYC Homeless Population Is At Its Highest Level Since The Great Depression

Remember when Mayor Bloomberg said a few weeks ago, "Nobody's sleeping on the streets"? Well... At that time, the Coalition of the Homeless furiously responded by telling reporters that there was "no accurate measurement of New York City's unsheltered homeless population, and recent City surveys si ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg to NYC: Cut $2 Billion in 18 Months

Year Four of the Great Recession has taken its toll on budgets across the country: it's hard to not come across some sort of public service being slashed in the news almost every day. The reactionary politics of cut-and-save economics has hit New York hard since Downtown self-imploded in 2008 as Blo ... More >>

Small, Ethnic Newspapers May Not Be Immune to the What's Killing the Big Dailies After All

Things continue to look bleak for newspapers -- the Times-Picayune in New Orleans announcing recently that it's cutting down to three days a week seems like an ominous harbinger of things to come. In general, it's been taken as granted, however, that very small newspapers -- and in particular, the ... More >>

Five Things You Can Do to Buy NYC's Million-Dollar Parking Spot

Recession? What recession?This morning, the Post reported that the city's most expensive parking spot is now on sale at 66 E. 11th Street in a tiny private garage. The location lies within a $38.8 million loft owned by developer Moran Fareed and includes a shower that shoots vitamin-C-and-aloe infus ... More >>

SHOP AROUND

Culturemart serves up food for thought

Education Supplement: Unpaid Internships Aid Schools' Bottom Lines, But Do They Flout the Law?

Will work for credits

LEAPIN' LIZARDS!

If anyone can save the day, it's a red-headed orphan

Skywriting Freaking People Out Yesterday Was Just Art

Yesterday, an unseasonably lovely day, at some point around 4 in the afternoon, people suddenly started noticing messages in the sky in Lower Manhattan -- things like, "Lost Our Lease," "Last Chance," and "Now Open." The moderately terrifying messages -- last chance for WHAT, exactly? -- were attrib ... More >>

Americans Are Spending More Money On Things Like Premade Cocktails

via​In what appears to be a case of Carrie Bradshaw-onomics, the New York Times reports that, even amid these current financial straits, Americans have been buying more things they don't actually need over the past year. But this doesn't mean anything is actually getting better in the economy ... More >>

SARTORIAL STORM

Hurricane Irene is nothing compared to this

On the Lower East Side, People Are Selling 'Backyard Time Shares'

​Recall the summers when you were a child, blessedly free of school, living somewhere other than the Lower East Side of Manhattan, when you would wile away hours lying in the grass and watching butterflies pass overhead? You weren't in Tompkins Square Park, and you weren't tripping on acid. Re ... More >>

Updated Item On Playgirl Cover Model Tim Boyce

​He was spotted on rentboy.com, as I ran here a few months ago. To clarify, he was advertising as a masseuse. The old item, with all my positive feelings, was like so:

By 2020, Americans Will Be Able to Eat Their Global Competitors

​Congratulations courageous citizens of the world! Those of us in rich nations are growing larger by the minute, and those of us in the United States (despite a recession that's apparently not a recession anymore) are at the top of the heap, weighing everybody else down with our XXL tees and B ... More >>

STRAIGHT UP

A gin distillery grows in Brooklyn

A WRITER'S CONUNDRUM

When life throws you lemons . . .

A WHOLE NEW WORLD

Prepare to have your mind blown

PRESIDENT OF OZ

Ease on down to Henry Street

Going On about Money Now Acceptable in Mixed Company

​Remember the old days, like before the recession, when talking about money was considered "gauche" and frowned upon at cocktail parties and sophisticated events? Well, now, thanks to so many people losing their jobs and the Real Housewives franchise being such a hit -- not to mention Goldman ... More >>

ROCK THE WHITE HOUSE

Andrew Jackson gets all emo

FLIGHT OF FANCY

Out of this world

ART WITH A VIEW

Artists take over DUMBO

OVER THE BOARDWALK

Have some rock 'n' roll, on us

'Siren Music Festival'

Tips From the Pros--Red Hook Lobster Pound Says: Lobster's Cheap... So Grill It, Baby!

Photo by foodistablog @ FlickrLobster prices have, er, tanked along with the economy, which just might be the silver lining we've all been waiting for. The Red Hook Lobster Pound is selling its fresh Maine lobster for a bargain $10.25 per pound. So, while everyone else is sucking down dogs this wee ... More >>

I AINT SAYIN' SHE'S A GOLD DIGGER

When times are tough, just marry up

HIGH MARX

A Communist and a fugitive get cozy

EMO PRESIDENCY

Andrew Jackson like you've never seen him

Dow Suffering from Negative Energy

"In these times of recession and possible job losses," reads the press release, "a Baylor University researcher and positive psychology expert says above all else, never lose hope and view change as an opportunity." Psychology and neuroscience professor Dr. Michael Frisch lays it all out in his new ... More >>

ODE TO BEARDS

Damn you, grizzly men. I love you!

Best Cooking Show Ever?

A friend just called this to my attention (via Jezebel). It's the first episode of a show called Great Depression Cooking, featuring a 90-something, pretty adorable woman named Clara showing you the dishes that her family used to cook during the Great Depression. Well, hooray, we're all poor agai ... More >>

Thomas Keller Dropping Tables

While Thomas Keller isn't doing anything crazy like three course, $35 recession tasting menus at his restaurants, the famed chef is feeling the pinch. Corporate reservations for the private dining room at Per Se have reportedly all but dried up, and it's getting easier to snag a table at the French ... More >>

Three Doors Down+Hoobastank

Caroline Kennedy and 'Daily News' columnist Michael Daly: The princess and the pea-brain

Michael Daly's column has to be a put-on. If it's not, then give him an "F" for fatuous. In "Let's make Caroline Kennedy our special envoy to Washington," the self-serious Daily News scribe fights back his tears about Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal from the Senate appointment race and opines: Ma ... More >>

NO LAUGHING MATTER

Your favorite comics raise money for autism

Skeen's Burger on the Cheap

Looking to grab Ryan Skeen's much vaunted burger on the cheap? In the latest recession meal deal to come in, Irving Mill (116 East 16th Street) is offering Burger Beer Mondays. For $15, you get the famed Irving Mill burger, made from bavette, beef cheeks, and pork fatback and topped with cheddar, ... More >>

Gourmet to go?

When Wall Street Coughs, Business Schools Scramble

How educators are dealing with the crash of '08

Daily Flog: California, here we go; crisis also sweeps through Asia

Barbara Bush Hides Out in Art World, Parties While Russian-American Economy Burns

Morning Papers: Drugstore Prices, Ugly Buildings Go Up

Tabloid Exclusives on David Paterson and Dick Cheney

Ben Stein, Propagandist, in Expelled

Spending that Ferris Bueller capital

WRITE ON

Russell Banks discusses his new novel

Et Tu, New Jersey?

Four formerly stiff states proclaim their right to swing

Leftover Democracy

Our Plan for Iraq Vote? Kind of Like Florida.

Rich Man, Poor People

The Billionaire Mayor and the Income Gap

New Kid on the Block

City Hall Has a New Boss. Wish It Were You?

The Welfare-Reform Catastrophe

During Recession, Millions Are Being Hurt by Workfare Rules

Checking in for Waldorf Hysteria

Free Traders and Fair Traders in Stalemate as CEOs Converge on New York