“The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” (premiering tonight on PBS). And in 1776, the awful violence of war was centered in and around New York City. Between late August and mid-November, five significant battles were fought within New York City’s present-day borders … Read more
The brute who sucker-punched “Boardwalk Empire” star Steve Buscemi in Manhattan last year mumbled a head-scratching apology Thursday — as he was sentenced to six months in jail. Clifton Williams, 51, said he was “sorry” for assaulting Buscemi, 67, who was taking a stroll through Kips Bay when he walked up to the Hollywood icon … Read more
NYC’s hardest-working St. Patrick’s Day act might just be The Prodigals, a long-running Celtic punk band that will play four back-to-back gigs in Manhattan and Queens this Friday. One of those stops will be iconic Irish pub Paddy Reilly’s in Kips Bay, where the band have had a weekly residency for 26 years. It was … Read more