Town Without Time” is a beautiful new collection of Talese’s city writing and it compiles over sixty years of his dispatches, profiles and reported essays about New York. The nearly 500 page tome collects many of his landmark pieces, like his profile of Frank Sinatra and his opus about the Bonanno crime family, but it’s also filled with more... See more

I have an almost religious relationship with this bar. Founded in 1892 and located just off Union Square, Old Town is a historic and venerated institution, yet to my surprise, it still manages to float a little under the radar. It boasts a majestic old world grandeur: there’s a marble and mahogany bar, stained glass windows, metal cash registers,... See more