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Leonard Quart writes, "Movie theaters have always had an extraordinary significance for me. In pre-pandemic New York, I used to attend six to eight films a month. Today, I go

For 55 years, my wife and I have been living in a rent-controlled apartment in Greenwich Village. It has allowed us to live comfortably, while many other renters in our

It’s only a month into the New Year, and there is a great deal of city news that moves me to reflect on the state of New York City.

Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "The film offers a clear and powerful, if slightly too sanitized version, of a Russian hero and martyr."

Famed British playwright Tom Stoppard, born in 1937 in Czechoslovakia, was the son of a Jewish doctor who fled the Nazi occupation with his family to Singapore. When the Japanese

Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "The city’s gentrification is another sign, for better or worse, of how the city continually transforms itself."

Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "Adams is hard to get a handle on. His contradictions and nightcrawling are tabloid fodder, just like Jimmy Walker’s pleasure-seeking was in his time."

Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "The city may not become free of violence or rapacious developers because unions are on the upsurge, but the rise of unions suggests that a

It’s hard to generalize about New York City’s private schools. They run from the elite all-girls Brearley School on the Upper East Side and the top academic co-ed Horace Mann

Eagle columnist Leonard Quart writes: "The nagging problem that the eight elite, exam-based schools confront is that they are the citys most segregated."