This Wednesday, The Job, Denis Leary's sitcom about Upper East Side detectives, debuts on ABC. Leary brought in eighteen-year NYPD vet Mike Charles, who says his assignment is "to make it real."

The wealth of the East End attracts a horde of tip-hungry, itinerant workers. Inside a share house devoted to paychecks — and a bit of voyeurism.

Particularly if it’s prime meat. New Yorkers blithely brave the right sort of beef.

Where are the African-Americans? New Yorker editor sparks politically correct contretemps at Howard Dean fund-raiser.

First-time novelist David Amsden talks to New York authors about how they got started.

Pret A Manger had buzz, but misread New York's palate. Can it rework its recipe?

SoHo and Lower West Side

At 72, with his business on fire and the White House calling, Oscar de la Renta is at the peak of his power. Now if only he can work out the line of succession.

To many New York teenagers, all the world’s a pharmacy. There is a vanishing distinction between pills for medication and for recreation, and the much-touted risk of suicide misses the point.

A new smut-splicing DVD player may create plot holes.