David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has appeared in New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, ArtNews, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and a host of other publications.
‘The Hairy Ape’, as staged in the 55,000 square foot space of NYC’s Park Avenue Armory, is a work of art: a painting, or a puppet show perhaps. You don’t see it, so much as sink into it.
Getting fired by Trump looked like a perfect PR move for the hugely ambitious and popular New York prosecutor. Just one problem, say his friends.
Until it folded in 1973, Barney Rosset’s Evergreen Review mixed erotica and cutting-edge writing with incendiary results. Now it’s back, with literary bad boy Dale Peck in charge.
In January 2014, during the run-up to Super Bowl XLVIII in New Jersey, the real action was taking place across the river in Manhattan, where the city had transformed into a weeklong pregame party. Jay Z, Drake, Kendrick Lamar and the Foo Fighters were headlining nearby concerts, and Times Square had been renamed "Super Bowl Boulevard.
"I like you. You and me, we’re going to be best friends.”
It is early January, and Eric Schneiderman is sitting in his 25th-floor office above Lower Manhattan, doing his best Donald Trump impression, puckering his lips into a duck face, scrunching up his nose and lowering his voice into something that resembles the president’s outer-borough growl.
Rob Pruitt was home watching MSNBC on election night when it became clear that the results were not going to go as he imagined they would.
Sliding in popularity and heading for a re-election fight, New York's mayor digs in against the tycoon based right in the middle of his city.
Everything about the apartment was great. They listed it at the broker-recommended price. Then no one showed up for the open house. There may be one reason why.
A group booked a Williamsburg gallery for a political art show. But when it turned out to be pro-Trump, the gallery canceled. Censorship? Well, it’s complicated.
The famous apartment complex entrance has been recreated in Chelsea as the gateway to an exhibition of the show’s covertly political art.
Republicans used to love the Common Core education standards. Then the Tea Party stepped in.Chris Christie was for it before he was against it. So, for that matter, was Mike Huckabee.
General feeling among donors, operatives and elected officials seems to be, "Trump? Really?"
Meet the incoherent outsider businessman running for president: Muscle Maker Grill entrepreneur Rod Silva
This was supposed to be the year of Pot-Palooza, when five states are set to hold ballot initiatives that would make marijuana legal for recreational users.
Bathers at the beach, a newspaper being swept along a city street, a puddle lying dark and inert on a sidewalk at night: A new exhibit reveals how the great photographer found inspiration in the Big Apple.
Now, they’re married, and she’s running for the congressional seat he’s giving up.
It was nearing ten o’clock on Saturday night, and hundreds of alumni of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation’s oldest African-American fraternity, were gathered in black tie at Terrace on the Park, a gaudy 1960s-era banquet hall in Queens, for the annual Juneteenth Gala dinner.
It’s a shame that Hollywood made such a hash of their one attempt to render Diane Arbus on screen. Her life begs for a biopic.
