New York City had a passionate fling with a soldier—but he didn’t look as good in the cold, gray dawn.

Dr. Jan Quaegebeur doesn’t just repair sick children’s hearts—he reinvents them. How gifted is he? Ask 3-year-old Dorothy McCollum. Or her mom.

Eliot Spitzer and his legal swat team conduct their investigations like a crusade. A blow-by-blow account of the current insurance-industry probe, and what it reveals about the man who would be governor.

How a devoutly Jewish, pillar-of-rectitude partner at Paul, Weiss turned into a passionately Catholic, extravagantly compensated legal caddy to the disgraced Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski—and wound up accused of being a greedy corporate looter.

In life, Dr. Robert Atkins was a renegade, doing battle with the medical Establishment over his famous low-carb diet. In death, he’s the focus of a holy war, pitting ascetic versus libertine and disciple versus disciple. The schisms in the Church of Atkins.

At Rao’s on 114th Street, Mafia types with guns rub elbows with Sopranos actors—it’s all part of the show. But when Louis Barone pulled out his Smith & Wesson and shot another man at the bar over an insult, the show turned real.

The greenmarket at Union Square brought new flavors to New York restaurants and home kitchens—and saved family farms in the bargain.

His drug dealing led to eight years in prison—and a novel, a show based on his life, the editorship of High Times. Maybe crime does pay.

Did you go a little crazy while your shrink was on vacation? Well, every summer on outer Cape Cod, the shrinks go a little crazy, too.