Walt Frazier and the birth of hoop cool.

Times Square’s sin and vice and squalor helped define the New York experience. They still do. In our minds.

The latest dockside showdown between hoods and cops brings Budd Schulberg -- whose On the Waterfront defined one era in New York and whose What Makes Sammy Run? defined another in Hollywood -- back to the scene of the crimes.

Mark Jacobson hits the streets with horror entrepreneur Robert McCorkle.

Knicks legend Earl the Pearl tries to up the ante on jock food.

How could it be that there are more McDonald’s here than anywhere else?

John Lennon. Capitol.

David Johansen, the protean performer behind the New York Dolls and Buster Poindexter, reinvents himself once more.

From Sinatra's swagger to Moby's mixes, the city's had its share of the all-time-great gigs. A highly selective guide to the musical high notes that could only have been hit in this town.

Wynton Marsalis's horn virtuosity is well-known. But it's his gift as a sweet-talking, tough-minded businessman that's putting up his Jazz temple at Lincoln Center.