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...Wild West out there.' ROBERT GOTTHEIM, district manager for Manhattan Congressman Jerrold Nadler, on the treacherous airspace above the Hudson River, where a helicopter collided with a small plane on Aug. 8, killing all nine people on both aircraft...
Back in his days as the geek god of clerks at Manhattan Beach Video Archives, Quentin Tarantino must have looked at all those World War II movies, especially the ones about plots to kill Hitler, and realized what was wrong: everybody knows the ending. Bad guys lose. Hitler died in his bunker. Where's the suspense? Where's the ambiguity? Most films about the war treat the historical record as sacred, which often serves as an excuse for lofty moral judgments. Only a few bold souls created alternative versions, like the 1963 film It Happened Here, in which Kevin Brownlow...
Over two spring days in 1959, trumpeter Miles Davis convened five other musicians at a Manhattan studio for a new recording project. Released 50 years ago this week, the resulting album - Kind of Blue - became one of the best-selling and most influential jazz recordings of all time. Drummer Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving performer from the celebrated album, which also featured jazz legends John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and Bill Evans. Now 80, Cobb continues recording and is currently touring the world through January with his band to mark the anniversary. He spoke with TIME about Kind...
...construction worker motions at me to roll down the window. "How do you like it?" he asks. I tell him I'm not sure yet, since I've been in the car for approximately 3½ minutes. "Good luck," he says. I cross to the east side of Manhattan and park the car for a couple of minutes to run an errand. When I return, guys in their 20s are standing near the car, one of them taking a picture...
...holds particular contempt for the all-but-absent SEC ("one of the most dysfunctional and inept periods in the commission's history"). Also in her sights: Fairfield Greenwich, a tony hedge fund that funneled more than $7 billion into Madoff's pockets, and J. Ezra Merkin, a major-league Manhattan investor who received a staggering $470 million in fees from Madoff. Merkin vacuumed up $2.4 billion from a veritable Who's Who of Jewish New York, including Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and Yeshiva University. "You were nothing more than a glorified mailbox," one of Merkin...