Further evidence that Top Chef contestants are staying at one of the fabulous new Williamsburg condos at McCarren Park was obtained this weekend when production assistants were seen loading cameras and equipment into 20 Bayard. A laminated sign on the dashboard of one of their vans read "Magical Elves," which is a production company that often works for Bravo. The fifth season of the popular reality show is being filmed in New York, but......

According to a recently released international survey, quality of life in New York City has been slipping compared to other cities around the world. New York ranked 46th in 2006, 48th in 2007 and now 49th. That’s twelve places behind Boston! Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland are also ranked higher for “quality” living in the survey, which was conducted by a global consulting and investment firm, Mercer. At least we solidly defeated Baghdad, which came......

Photo courtesy Jim Baldassare. For two decades Rose Mary Woods banged away on her typewriter in relative anonymity for her boss Richard M. Nixon, until, in November of 1973, she found herself testifying in federal court about that time she accidentally erased 5 minutes of White House audiotape. Her little oopsy just happened to omit part of a conversation between Nixon and Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman in June 1972, three days after the Watergate......