Group biographies are ambitious undertakings. To weave together divergent narratives, even about the most widely known figures, is a challenging feat; to make it coalesce, the writer has to find the ...

The Slips of lower Manhattan—sites of former ship berths on the East River, now landfill paved into streets and plazas—evoke, in our historical memory, the tall ships and chandleries of the 19th ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, Coenties Slip was a vestige of old New York at the tip of Manhattan, overlooking the East River and in sight of the Brooklyn Bridge. Ignored by the neighbouring financial ...

An audience of mostly families filled half the Hartford Civic Center Tuesday for the first night of “Grease On Ice,” a version of the movie about 1950s teenagers who sing their way through troubles.

This cover image released by Harper Collins Publishers shows "The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever" by Prudence Peiffer. (Harper Collins Publishers via AP) “The Slip,” ...