There we were thinking of Merchant Ivory as the avatars of starchy propriety, making films as decorously well-behaved as a governess, clutching their inhibitions like pearls. And then along comes ...

“It operated as a school recently enough that at the opening party, alumni milled about under the spell of their own memories. Salvatore Ferragamo was a student, as were Stefano Ricci’s family, Emilio ...

Squisito! We found ourselves in an enclave of legacies, an Italian institution steeped in nostalgia neatly tucked-away on east 64th street: Tony’s Di Napoli. But the space is special for something ...

Not every high school foyer is decorated with headshots of students who happen to be movie stars, still has the wooden phone booths they once used to take calls from their high-powered agents, or is ...

For 45 years, Avenue has chronicled Manhattan and its colonies in the East End, Palm Beach, Europe, and beyond. The result is a revealing and highly entertaining account of Manhattan power brokering, ...

Going naked was like waving a defiant flag in the ’60s counterculture, as at muddy Woodstock. Al Goldstein founded Screw magazine in 1968, and Suck, the radical feminist mag, was launched in London ...

It was a scene out of a Hollywood movie. On a raw March day in New York City in 1992, 71-year-old Leona Helmsley was admitted to New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, the very hospital to which ...

Libbie and David Mugrabi, of the billionaire art world family, have settled their messy divorce two years after the raunchy Hamptons dinner party that ended their marriage. “She asked for a hundred ...

For a city so dense with skyscrapers, and asphalt, New York also has a surprising number of parks, gardens, and leafy walkways among the concrete. New York is, above all things, a walking city: best ...

For nearly a century, New York has enjoyed a kind of fictive counterpart, a place of the imagination brought to life on screen: a “dream city” of the movies, in fact, which has mesmerized and ...

In a city where brawny mansions stand shoulder to shoulder, new money, old money, and no money often clash at the property line. A buyer may plunk down millions for a beloved home and, minutes after ...