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16 is the new 6, teens as toddlers

BY LENORE SKENAZY  |  When Walt Disney was 16 he forged his parents’ signatures and lied about his age so he could join the American Ambulance Corps, which was part of the Red Cross. That’s how he...

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I was the victim of a slide show

BY LENORE SKENAZY  |  A high school friend I hadn’t seen in years was passing through New York. We had just a few precious hours to catch up, so we wandered around Central Park, exulting in its blossom...

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Mother’s Day mission: Finding the will to chill

BY LEKNORE SKENAZY  | Mother’s Day is usually marked by burned toast, dandelion bouquets and crayon drawings of mommies and children with hearts all around them. It is a great day. This Mother’s Day,...

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Etan Patz fear vs. reality: It has never been safer to be a child

By LENORE SKENAZY | As we settle in to the reality that we will probably never know what happened to Etan Patz after he disappeared that May morning in 1979, maybe we can finally come to terms with the...

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The Platonic Oreo & the ever-more elusive vanilla ice cream

By LENORE SKENAZY | Not everyone shares my hobby, but let me put it out there. It is grocery shopping. Nothing I enjoy more. And since we live in the city, I’m shopping all the time, because who has...

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For the love of the bodega in N.Y.C.

By LENORE SKENAZY  |It is the place you can grab a gallon of milk or a can of frosting at midnight, but is it possible it is also one of those amazingly New York things that, like Central Park, makes...

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Are we too hard on sex offenders?

By LENORE SKENAZY | Emily Horowitz spends a lot of time with people other professors don’t. Criminals. Domestic violence victims. Domestic violence perps. Sex offenders. Guys convicted of murder. A...

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Are we too hard on sex offenders?

BY LENORE SKENAZY  |  Emily Horowitz spends a lot of time with people other professors don’t. Criminals. Domestic violence victims. Domestic violence perps. Sex offenders. Guys convicted of murder.  A...

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A slice of old New York survives Downtown

BY LENORE SKENAZY  |  To me, “old New York” is the city I moved to in 1981. Back then, the subway cars were so covered with graffiti, you couldn’t see out the windows. You always added a 20-minute...

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Hey ‘iWatch,’ you could be the next Zenith or RCA

BY LENORE SKENAZY  |  As you fantasize about getting yourself the very coolest, hippest, newest gadget on the block — an Apple Watch, that is — pause for a moment to consider the perspective of the...

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X-Men & other superheroes of gay marriage

By Lenore Skenazy | Superman helped America find its fighting spirit. Captain America did his white male, square-jawed, hetero-normative bit, too. But it was the next generation of superheroes — the...

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The X-Men & other superheroes for gay marriage

BY LENORE SKENAZY  |  Superman helped America find its fighting spirit. Captain America did his white male, square-jawed, hetero-normative bit, too. But it was the next generation of superheroes — the...

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Something to nosh on: Downtown’s delis came decades after the Jews

By LENORE SKENAZY | Every time Ted Merwin sat down to research his new book, he would get hungry. After  interviewing him, I had the same problem — I ran out and bought myself half a pound of Hebrew...

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Law forces N.Y. doctors to prolong the suffering for terminally ill

  By LENORE SKENAZY| Agony is not something most of us want to live through, especially when the end result is not something great, like childbirth, or learning to walk again, or recovering from...

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N.Y.C.’s new slang dictionary

BY LENORE SKENAZY |  New Yorkers have always had their own slang. We all know that “coffee regular” means coffee with milk and sugar. A “straphanger” is a subway rider (though, come to think of it,...

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25 years for teen who had sex with minor

By LENORE SKENAZY | Les and Amanda Anderson arrived in New York from Indiana this past Thursday night and headed straight to Times Square, as many tourists do. But as they gaped at the billboards and...

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Memories of the city’s summer smells: Can you believe some are sweet?

By LENORE SKENAZY  | Summer in New York is nothing if not pungent. So pungent that there are certain smells that conjure up a New York August the way the smell of crayons whisks you right back to first...

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Busty, skinny or broody? Fashion’s got a decade & jeans for you

By LENORE SKENAZY  | You get up in the morning and walk out the door clad in history. Every item you’re wearing owes a debt to the genius of yesteryear, just as surely as Elvis owes a debt to Muddy...

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Separate & unequal schools in New York City

BY LENORE SKENAZY   |  What’s it like to be a substitute in the New York City public schools? That’s not what Elizabeth Rose’s new book, “Yo Miz!,” is about. It’s about what it’s like to be a sub at 25...

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Stop it — the Hudson Yards subway station got built, and it’s beautiful

By LENORE SKENAZY  | Do yourself — and your soul — a favor. Hop on the 7 train and go to the last stop in Manhattan, the brand- spanking-new one: 34th Street Hudson Yards. You will emerge into the...

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