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THAT'S not a spider you see in the large photo at bottom, it's Lunga Buthelezi, a 15-year-old contortionist for the UniverSoul Circus, based in Atlanta and now in its 12th […]

SONIA WISOTSKY, Nicolina Nicolosci, Yetta Rosenbaum. These women were among the 146 workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, New York's most infamous disaster before the attacks of Sept. […]

WHEN a Staten Island ferryboat crashed into a pier and killed 10 passengers on Oct. 15, shock and sadness struck Landon Nordeman in an unusual way. Mr. Nordeman, a 29-year-old […]

I HAVE the feeling I don't have what it takes to be a Stepford Husband. An article in the local weekly newspaper said extras were needed for a crowd scene […]

THERE are a few things you should know if you are a parent and you take your child to the Warped Tour, the annual punk rock extravaganza that touched down […]

IT was graduation night at the Ophelia DeVore School of Charm. But instead of the caps and gowns worn by most new grads this time of year, the 11 newest […]

IT may be the only film festival to offer free valet bicycle parking. Indeed, the two-wheeler, not the stretch limo, will be the vehicle of choice when the third annual […]

THEY were the big brothers of the transformers that powered the model trains underneath the Christmas tree. Starting a century ago, 75 thick-walled buildings known as substations began to dot […]

WHEN F. Scott Fitzgerald, in 'The Great Gatsby,' wrote, 'This is a valley of ashes -- a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat,' he was describing the ash dump […]

The billboard high above East 86th Street near Third Avenue could make pedestrians look up and scratch their heads at the same time. There's something odd about the subway car […]

Ronald N. Davies, who as a Federal judge in 1957 ordered the schools of Little Rock, Ark., to integrate and prevailed over Gov. Orval E. Faubus, died on Thursday in […]

Love isn't all roses and bonbons, as the marketers of Valentine's Day (coming up on Wednesday) suggest. Witness the tales of four New York couples, who raised more than a […]

Christmas trees are heading to the mulch pile, or perhaps the hall closet. The holiday season traditionally ends, for Christian churches, with the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6. […]

It's smaller. It's lighter. And for the time being, at least, it costs 25 cents more. Beyond that, critics have complained, New York's new subway token is a bland symbol […]

'I FEEL like a kid in F. A. O. Schwarz at Christmastime,' says Robert B. Friedman, who recently moved into an apartment on East 58th Street in Manhattan, just six […]

LEAD: FIVE minutes before, her husband had died. In the intensive-care unit at Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center, Lucie McKinney took comfort in the people around her. FIVE minutes before, her […]

LEAD: ON the New Haven line trains last week, grumbling was in the air where smoke had once been. ON the New Haven line trains last week, grumbling was in […]

Presents books about New York City. "Semiautomatic," by Robert Reuland; "Death Match," by Lincoln Child; "Brooklyn Noir," edited by Tim McLoughlin; Others.

Focuses on Beth Israel and Saint Luke's Roosevelt Hospitals' billboard which is erected at East 86th Street in New York City, New York. Discovery by Joseph P. Brennam, a computer specialist at Columbia University, that the train used in the advertisement is not a New York train; Web site where an identical train could be viewed; Indication that the billboard will be replaced; Comments from Kathleen McGovern, vice president for public affairs and marketing at the hospitals.