After Seven Years of Disputation, A Map Makes Its Debut

The New York Times–April 1, 2007
Until the very last second, it was unclear whether Nathan’s Famous, the legendary Coney Island hot dog stand opened by Nathan Handwerker in 1916, would make the cut, and whether Sarah Jessica Parker, who played a racy sex columnist in the television series “Sex and the City,” should be included [...]

In the Wee Hours, Worship and More

The New York Times–January 28, 2007

AT 10 o’clock on a recent Thursday night, the corner of 53rd Street and 13th Avenue in the heart of Borough Park was bustling with traffic. In this neighborhood, an ultra-Orthodox stronghold for the past decade, a sea of religious Jews clad in traditional black and white garb scurried in [...]