The deal marks a major breakthrough in a long-running effort to outlaw the industry. It is also likely to inflame Mamdani’s relationship with a powerful local union.

The playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in a new play that almost included a “Guys and Dolls” song break.

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After a young tourist was killed in a Central Park carriage accident this summer, the City Council is considering whether to ban horse-drawn carriages forever.

After a young tourist was killed in a Central Park carriage accident this summer, the City Council is considering whether to ban horse-drawn carriages forever.

The composer of “Spring Awakening” attends a meeting for the Buddhist lay organization Soka Gakkai International.

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Bob Mackie’s costumes are the best thing about “The Cher Show,” a Broadway bio-musical currently running at the Neil Simon Theatre.

Fiction by Zadie Smith, from 2015: “He could not get over how well he was handling the apocalypse so far.”

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The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely, knowing that the interview won’t come out until they’ve died.

At her new digs in the West Village, the actress and newly minted memoirist gets locked out.