The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” ...

The Gangs of New York ending wraps up a complex and heavy Martin Scorsese film. The 2002 drama stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role of Amsterdam Vallon, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as the dastardly ...

When we think about the mafia in Buffalo, we tend to think about Bills Mafia. But long before the Bills Mafia made it onto ...

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Who rules the streets and skies of the city? From posh park dwellers to scrappy sidewalk scavengers, discover how New York’s pigeons have evolved to survive in two very different worlds.

The author, 97, raised money for the food pantry at his old church by reading from “Legs,” the gangster novel he began his ...

Director Rebecca Miller looks back on spending time on Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York set, years before she profiled the filmmaker in her new documentary Mr. Scorsese "His attitude was not ...