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The first decision Jared Gurfein made when he and his wife split in 2009 was to high-tail it out of the marital neighborhood -- the East 60s. ''I wanted to [...]

Swelling of legs, hands and feet; capillary leak syndrome; fever; muscle pain; unusual bruising; dizziness, blurry vision; rash; hives; blisters; nervous system and blood disorders; lymphoma; swollen tongue; dry mouth; [...]

With tickets to certain musicals going for sums in the high three figures -- and don't forget the long, snaking lines even to get in the door -- Broadway audiences [...]

Before Art Lerner retired, he could not imagine how he would fill the days. He had few hobbies -- come to think of it, only one: fishing. But at his [...]

When a new job sent Olaf Olafsson from Silicon Valley to Manhattan in 1989, his wife, Anna, was well short of gung-ho about the move. ''She didn't know much of [...]

When certified theater geek Tim Federle turned 14, his mother took him to New York for his birthday, a gift that included tickets to a revival of ''Carousel.'' He still [...]

At some point -- it's tough to determine the exact moment -- the actor Mark Feuerstein had a flash of inspiration. Perhaps it was the day he opened the hall [...]

R. L. Stine, the author of the best-selling children's horror book series ''Goosebumps'' -- 400 million copies and counting -- is amazingly cheerful for a writer. He laughs at other [...]

The playwright and director Moisés Kaufman lives with his husband, Jeffrey LaHoste, in what Mr. LaHoste puckishly calls the smoked fish belt. Murray's Sturgeon Shop, Barney Greengrass and Zabar's are [...]

Decades ago, commercials for insurance companies followed certain formulas. There were the ads featuring happy families, with a voice-over offering reassurance that all would remain well for those who chose [...]

A few years after Jill Testa married, she and her husband bought a townhouse in Westchester County. It was the first new construction real estate Ms. Testa had owned, and [...]

The choreographer Kelly Devine grew up in Los Angeles, and stuck around for the first two decades of her career to stage dances for film, television, videos and commercials. She [...]

What would a celebrity profile be without some rich biographical detail? So here's a little something to get the ball rolling: Nelson DeMille's father, Huron, was a contractor. Chew on [...]

The Starbucks on Waverly Place in Greenwich Village was all but empty at 8:30 on a recent Wednesday night, but across the street at Boba Guys, a bubble milk tea [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe actress Stephanie Courtney has quite a weight on her shoulders. As the endlessly upbeat Flo in a series of commercials for Progressive Casualty Insurance -- 140 since the [...]

Growing up in central California, Betsy Wolfe was so infatuated with real estate that she routinely collected the circulars that listed homes for sale, fanning them out on the living [...]

A fragrance called green tea blows through the corridors of Sonesta hotels worldwide courtesy of Air Esscentials, a 10-year-old company in Miami that sells scent-diffusing systems. Green tea lemongrass, another [...]

Sofia Blankenbuehler, while out sick from school one day, heard a snippet of music coming from her father's studio on the top floor of the family's brownstone in Harlem. A [...]

A decade ago, shortly before their daughter, Caitlin Heising, started her freshman year at Brown University, Liz Simons, a former teacher, and her husband, Mark Heising, the founder of an [...]

When the Tony Award-winning lyricist Lynn Ahrens and her boyfriend, Neil Costa, moved to NoHo in the late 1970s, they were the only residents in their building (which was otherwise [...]

George Straw, a dedicated globe-trotter, doesn't like the water. Near the water is fine, but on the water? No thanks. And that goes double for under the water. ''A submarine [...]

Byline: JOANNE KAUFMAN George Straw, a dedicated globe-trotter, doesn't like the water. Near the water is fine, but on the water? No thanks. And that goes double for under the [...]

For years, the Brooklyn-born actress Margaret Colin described herself as a dyed-in-the-wool Woody Allen sort of New Yorker, one of those people who firmly believed that only cousins live in [...]

''He's the man with the answers. Alex Trebek is someone I trust.'' That's often the first comment from older adults when they call the 800 number at the life insurance [...]

The line for DÊì, a sweet shop in Greenwich Village, wound halfway down the block on a recent Thursday evening. Inside, employees wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the words ''eat dessert [...]

Two young women in white chamois robes exited the Himalayan salt sauna at Premier57, a spa in Midtown Manhattan, looking rosy and happily spent. The salt sauna, lined with burnt [...]

Byline: JOANNE KAUFMAN Two young women in white chamois robes exited the Himalayan salt sauna at Premier57, a spa in Midtown Manhattan, looking rosy and happily spent. The salt sauna, [...]

Daily, Jackie Hoffman looks around her one-bedroom apartment and thanks the Almighty for her quintessentially Jewish mother, Charlotte. ''She's a genius,'' said Ms. Hoffman, 56, who has a featured role [...]

It may well be, as the saying goes, that doctors' wives die young, shoemakers' children go barefoot and car mechanics drive wrecks. But if Beowulf Boritt is any proof, set [...]

Byline: JOANNE KAUFMAN It may well be, as the saying goes, that doctors' wives die young, shoemakers' children go barefoot and car mechanics drive wrecks. But if Beowulf Boritt is [...]

Since moving to New York City 16 years ago, Timothy Brown has lived in seven rentals, a succession of studios and one-bedrooms in Brooklyn, Chelsea, Murray Hill and now Kips [...]