New York City in the 1980s was not necessarily a beacon of hope. By then, the crack cocaine epidemic had fully sunk its teeth in, with homicide rates reaching rates that had never been seen before, ...

The journalist’s The Gods of New York surveys the overlapping crises facing New York City in the last four years of the 1980s. Why did you focus on the final years of the 1980s? During the 2016 ...

Mr. Mahler is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of the forthcoming book “The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: ...

From 1980 onwards, Ron Weideman transformed his nightshift taxi into a rolling portrait gallery, photographing an extraordinary cross-section of New York City life during a pivotal era of cultural ...

The Westies were a real organized crime gang in New York City that worked with the Italian Mafia.

Jonathan Mahler’s new book portrays the city’s rebirth as a glitzy capital of global finance — and a petri dish of ego, ambition and class division. Credit...Matt Dorfman Supported by By Garth Risk ...

The New York that Mahler describes is unstable, vulgar and dangerous. Substance abuse and homelessness are public health emergencies. Histrionics and tribalism have become the coin of the realm in ...

A large Andy Warhol portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat in a jock strap is the first thing you see at “Downtown/Uptown.” And the choice is fitting, said J. Scott Orr ...

Brand-new crime drama The Westies follows the Irish-American gang’s operations in 1980s New York City ...