With this summer’s addition of balloon rides, at Bethesda Fountain near 72nd Street, kiddie rides, at the site of the winter ice skating rink under the banner Victorian Gardens, and concerts, Central Park’s reputation is being pushed beyond the traditional limits of a public park into the more trafficked... read more

Paris Hilton has been injected front, bathing suit and chaise lounge into the thick of the Presidential campaign by John Wayne McCain as a way to differentiate his approach from that of Barack Obama’s.  You know Paris is a silly sort of thing and so is Senator Obama.  All talk and no action. Rising... read more

With the Conventions looming, announcement of vice presidential candidates nominees to be made  and three debates scheduled, we are close to getting clarification on where the two major contenders for President stand and how the 2008 election will play out. Barack Obama has just come back from a trip... read more

It appears the Honorable Charles Rangel, powerful Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has an ethics problem.  Serious questions have been raised about his living arrangements, specifically his lease of not one, but four, rent controlled New York City apartments. Rent Control is the local... read more