Portia Elan says a colleague’s remark about John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” set her on the path to writing her debut novel, “Homebound.” Elan, then a brand-new public school teacher, recalls…
Carl Wilson held a lead Tuesday night in the special election for a City Council seat on Manhattan’s West Side against Lindsey Boylan, in what has shaped up as a…
Channing Tatum is apparently nursing his heart with poetry and astrology amid news his ex-fiancée Zoë Kravitz is engaged. The actor took to social media on Monday with a series…
Taylor Frankie Paul and Doug Mason, the Dakota Mortensen-lookalike to whom she reportedly got engaged at the end of her canceled “Bachelorette” season, are trying to “get back together.” The…
Listen to article • 0:00 minWhen the Philadelphia-based auction house Freeman’s drew out an inventory of the esteemed family collection of Robert Sturgis Ingersoll, a late president of the Philadelphia…
Two men were shot inside a low-income apartment building serving formerly homeless families in Brooklyn on Tuesday, cops said. The victims were struck inside Stone House, a supportive housing residence…
Ricki Lake, whose eponymous talk show’s ratings were outstripped only by Oprah Winfrey’s in their respective heydays, has opened up about what made her leave New York City in the…
The death of a woman who apparently fell from a balcony in her stateroom aboard a Carnival Cruise Line vessel near Catalina Island was under investigation Tuesday. “Carnival confirmed the…
Listen to article • 0:00 minA 31-year-old Texas man was charged with allegedly paying a 13-year-old girl in Montgomery County to make child pornography, authorities said Tuesday.Mitchell Van Dusen was…
A Harlem man who prosecutors let rot in a cell for decades despite evidence overwhelmingly suggesting he was innocent of murder returned to Manhattan Criminal Court for the first time…
