The crisis that gripped New York City in the 1970s provided grimy grist for several iconic movies, including “Serpico,” “Death Wish,” “Taxi Driver,” and “The Warriors.” Shot in 1978 though not ...
On the afternoon of May 2, 1975, the heads of three major New York commercial banks sat down with Governor Hugh Carey at his midtown Manhattan office. The meeting was brief and the bankers got quickly ...
Patrick Smith interviews HSF Kramer partner Richard Farley about his new book: "Drop Dead: How a Coterie of Corrupt Politicians, Bankers, Lawyers, Spinmeisters, and Mobsters Bankrupted New York, Got ...
David Byrne and Debbie Harry's bands were two iconic New York bands of the '70s, but which one achieved the greatest success?
Sex and the city in decline : Midnight cowboy (1969) and Klute (1971) -- Longing for the return of Vito Corleone : The godfather, parts I and II (1972 and 1974) and Mean streets (1973) -- ...
One of our favorite movies of Sundance 2025 was a quiet and introspective two-hander from director Ira Sachs that plays more like a documentary than a biopic and even clocks in at a brisk 75 minutes.
Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir. Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on ...