Tom Dworetzky

Dateline Yale--$40,000 a year, two-drink minimum. Yep, the prestigious gateway to the CIA, a career as a thespian and the U.S. Presidency for Both Bush, father and son, and Clinton, now offers a course on New York nightlife. College is a fine time to party, and I support a liberal amount of irrational exuberance mixed in with cramming for grades, but somehow, in these difficult economic times, I find a college course about the history of partying a bit...disconcerting.

Dateline Yale--$40,000 a year, two-drink minimum. Yep, the prestigious gateway to the CIA, a career as a thespian and the U.S. Presidency for Both Bush, father and son, and Clinton, now offers a course on New York nightlife. College is a fine time to party, and I support a liberal amount of irrational exuberance mixed in with cramming for grades, but somehow, in these difficult economic times, I find a college course about the history of partying a bit...disconcerting.

I'm from New York, so when I'm on the street, I'm talkin' here, as Dustin Hoffman said in the movie Midnight Cowboy. I mean, as a New Yorker, I like to talk, live, to other people. That's half the fun of living in a crowded city. That's changing, it seems, as a new generation focuses more on texting than talking, and it's changing everything.

Your favorite food cart may soon get a letter grade to tell you just how clean it is. Queens State Senator Jose Peralta is planning to introduce a bill this week that will propose just that, according to various published reports.

Senator Charles Schumer wants to protect you from being stalked at the mall. By tracking your movements via your cell-phone, that is.

Baruch is taking no chances that a repeat tuition protest will turn into another melee. Mitchel Wallerstein, president of the college, has issued a letter rescheduling all Monday, Nov. 28th, classes after 3 p.m. normally held at the Newman building. Instead, the classes will be held Friday, Dec. 2nd, at the same time and place they were originally scheduled for.

Ready for Christmas?

For Cyber-Monday, SoHo fashionistas and fashionisters looking for environmentally friendly, socially responsible clothing, there's a slew of hot online stores to check out -- and even a brick-and-mortar one in downtown Manhattan!

I had just been chatting, over a ridiculously expensive turkey sandwich that Monday (right before Thanksgiving, what was I thinking?), about the declining fortunes of the once-great American Empire. But enough, for the moment, about me, first let's see what Columbia's Herbert J. Gans, emeritus professor of sociology, had to say about superfluous jobs in his recent New York Times Op-Ed piece--and whether what he astutely observed could lead, within the century, to the breakup of th...

A raging fire in Brooklyn at 12:17 p.m. yesterday put five into the hospital--all in critical condition, and rushed to New York Presbyterian Cornell Weill Medical Center.

Ever wonder how Siri understands you? It's called natural language processing and, starting in January, two of the field's leaders from STanford will teach a free online course teaching you how to create these types of leading-edge programs.

Appliances, computers, electronics, cameras, clothes, watches, ribbons or bows, you name it and it's for sale on Black Friday, the most important retail day of the year.

Samsung Galaxy s2-iPhone 4s comparison has competitor hitting back in the funniest Ad to hit TV in a long time.

Claudia Tillery, a 42-year-old New York City school teacher, is charged with having plied the boy with drugs and alcohol during two-year affair.

Where do the top one percent live? Not actually possible, using IRS data, according to a Brookings Institution researcher. But his study did find out where the top three percent live.

Taken the High Line Park? Now you can try the undergound Low Line, at least if a NASA and Google pair get their way.

Thirteen news organizations in New York City formally complained Monday to Mayor Mike's administration. What is this, they asked, more or less, some totalitarion foreign land that represses free speech?

Iconic New Yorkers and Mia Farrow and Woody Allen's 23-year-old son, Ronan, hit the Rhodes Sunday...won a prestigious Rhodes scholarship, that is.

Occupy Wall Street Spends Night at New School in Greenwich Village

Occupy Wall Street brought a Sunday serenade to Bloomberg's home--with drums and chanting. And vows to keep it up for 24 hours, until 2 p.m. Monday.

Shortly after 1 a.m., police moved in and cleared OWS protesters from Zuccoti Park, making approximately 70 arrests.