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Features
Special Collectors' Issue!
BY CHRISTOPHER BONANOS
New Yorkers may have famously tiny apartments, but when it comes to collecting, our ambitions know no bounds. In one man’s West Village house is a world-class toy museum, with tiny zeppelins and dry-docked steamboats. In a Brooklyn loft, a musician maintains a library of 15,000 pulp novels. New Yorkers’ personal obsessions range from vintage couture to medical photographs to brilliant Venetian glass to costume jewelry from Hollywood’s golden age. And then there’s Marilynn and Ivan C. Karp, who have what must be the city’s biggest collection of collections. Here’s our own display, of ten remarkable collectors. PLUS: New York’s best dealers in 23 kinds of collectibles, along with what’s hot in each field.
Fear Factor
BY CRAIG HOROWITZ
September 11 redefined safety in New York City. And police commissioner Ray Kelly, dissatisfied with the job the federal government has been doing in protecting us, has made combating terrorism his personal mission. In a little more than a year, Kelly has created our own virtual CIA and FBI, with agents around the world, high-tech SWAT teams with ultrasophisticated surveillance devices and weaponry, teams of intelligence analysts, and a bona fide former spymaster. All this, while holding the line on crime in a time of straitened budgets. Kelly, who was Dinkins’s last police commissioner, is obviously a man with something to prove. So how will we know if he succeeds? If nothing happens.
Departments
Intelligencer
BY MARC S. MALKIN
Colin Farrell, P.Diddy, Richard Johnson, and more.
Marketplace
Best Bets
BY RIMA SUQI
Theme pens, an oversize Alessi dog bowl, and a Mad magazine book of art.
Sales & Bargains
BY SHYAMA PATEL
Handy hoodies for gym and beyond.
Beauty
BY BETH LANDMAN KEIL
Custom-blend lipstick, ab cream for men, and a cozy new uptown gym.
Gotham
Dial-A-Thon
BY CHRIS SMITH
Eleven digits just to make a local call? Fingers, get ready to do some walking.
All Sewed Up
BY BETH LANDMAN KEIL
Face-lifts without surgery? Dermatologists break out the needle and thread.
Cruel Britannia!
BY CARL SWANSON
Can the British impose their class system on New York's chattering masses? Just try getting into the new private club Soho House.
Smoke Signals
BY DEBORAH SCHOENEMAN
Club owners plot how to blow holes in Bloomberg's smoking law.
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Columns
The Alter of Walter
BY MICHAEL WOLFF
In this media-obsessed town, no one is more obsessed over than Walter Isaacson. So is his departure from CNN a failure? Or an inspired calculation by media’s most brilliant careerist?
Cool on the Hill
BY MICHAEL TOMASKY
Hillary Clinton is redrafting the Democrats’ defeat into her personal anti-Bush platform. Now it’s time for action.
Critics
Last Farewell
BY PETER RAINER
The Last Letter is a shattering reflection on motherhood and loss.
Tears of a CEO
BY JOHN HOMANS
The not-quite-authorized version of Howard Lutnick’s post-9/11 life.
Can You Dig It?
BY JOHN LEONARD
ABC’s Veritas has a loopy, comic-book energy—and entertaining stories.
British Beauties
BY JOHN SIMON
Revelatory stagings of Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night from Sam Mendes.
In Brief
An eloquent Jenufa at the Met Opera.
Meze Haul
BY ROBIN RAISFELD, ROB PATRONITE
A Bay Ridge pilgrimage for the masterly meze at Tamoreen.
Enigma Variations
BY MARK STEVENS
Leonardo’s exquisite drawings, charged with motion and passion, at the Met.
New!
Beyond Belief
BY AMY SOHN
Naked City: Can love trump religion?
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