If modern New York City has a guiding spirit, an Obi-Wan Kenobi that has helped govern our fates in mysterious ways, it may well be a building that few city residents alive today have ever set foot in. When the … Continue reading
Jacob Javits was a four-term U.S. senator from New York, a liberal Republican (he was a staunch advocate of civil rights and an early opponent of the Vietnam War) whose final political move was to run for his own seat … Continue reading
Today’s Madison Square Garden (born 1968) is now the oldest arena in both the NBA and NHL, but it almost didn’t make it to its twentieth birthday. In 1982, noting the flurry of sports teams then moving to New Jersey … Continue reading
Well, that was quite an evening. After a day of meetings—relentlessly tweeted and retweeted despite being held behind closed doors—to debate which NFL teams, if any, would be allowed to move to Los Angeles, the league’s 32 owners decided that … Continue reading
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who already owned 80 percent of the Brooklyn Nets and 45 percent of the Barclays Center where they play, completed his full set by buying the remaining shares of those two items from developer Bruce Ratner … Continue reading
Last winter, the process of deciding which NFL team or teams would be the first to return to Los Angeles in two decades was in shambles. St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, having used an “all the other kids have … Continue reading
Like most years in New York City, 2015 was a bit of an odd bird. The Mets reached the World Series on the shoulders of a player who earlier in the year was pilloried for his controversial comments. There was … Continue reading
The debates continue over whether last week’s ISIS terror bombing in Beirut was undercovered by the media or just unappreciated by an uninterested public — even though, as Jim Naureckas pointed out on Tuesday, US news outlets overwhelmingly skewed their … Continue reading
With the San Diego Chargers, the St. Louis Rams, and the Oakland Raiders seeking to pick up and move to Los Angeles, and with representatives from those three cities set to present the NFL with stadium proposals to keep their … Continue reading
With the league’s relocation window not opening until January, the never-ending game of multidimensional chicken over which NFL teams will or won’t move to Los Angeles has settled into a slow simmer. In the meantime, we’ve been getting a steady … Continue reading