Layers of history, futuristic skyscrapers, and a white-hot culture scene—plus karaoke and dumplings to boot.

Mom deserves more than a card and a five-minute phone call. This year, how about doing something really special for her?

How to throw one, behave at one, and survive the aftermath.

Here are the best sneakers to wear, the smartest places to show support—and more ways to treat your feet right, even if you’re barely moving a muscle.

This month's cold snap may make for a nasty trudge to the subway, but it's given the Northeast a beautiful coat of snow. Seize the moment, and hit the slopes.

I'm trying to finish my first novel, but my husband the aspiring rock star is always practicing at home. I can’t concentrate! Where can I go—or where can I send him—so we can hone our crafts in peace?

Once upon a time, the Bowery was all flophouses, whiskey joints, and legendary bums. The flophouses survive, but now they’re surrounded by celebrity lounges and multi-million-dollar lofts.

Months of poring over "A Nation Challenged" have paid off: You know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, Rumsfeld and Stufflebeem. But attentive reading will get you only so far . . .

For the first time in almost 50 years, New York has chosen a new official lamppost design to replace the ubiquitous “cobra head” luminaire.

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