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33 unusual facts about the New York Times


39 Conduit Road

The New York Times noted that Hong Kong has had many controversies over whether developers have overstated the square footage of apartments and the value per square foot of property transactions, for example, how to count terraces, common areas and other features.

Black Bike Week

A Baltimore, Maryland police detective who is also a motorcyclist told The New York Times, "I've seen it myself. When the white bikers come to Myrtle Beach, the town rolls out the red carpet. When the black riders come, they roll it right up." City officials said that the much younger crowd, and nearly double attendance, of Black Bike Week justified the difference in the city's response to the two events.

Boris Schapiro

They conferred with Alan Truscott, the The New York Times bridge editor, and agreed they would all observe Reese–Schapiro and record how many fingers were visible when each held his cards in each hand.

Caller ID spoofing

# The New York Times sent the number 111-111-1111 for all calls made from its offices until 15 August 2011.

Catherine Galbraith

The book includes personal anecdotes as well as photographs, and was described by Joseph Lelyveld of The New York Times as a "graceful and accurate book" that makes the reader wish for more stories.

Children, Incorporated

The two books, one of which was a New York Times Best Seller, are attributed as having encouraged over 4,000 individuals to sponsor a child through Children, Incorporated.

Courage of the West

A New York Times review said, "Nothing of cult director Joseph H. Lewis' much-vaunted flair is on display in this average musical Western".

Dorothy Schiff

The book generated significant publicity after The New York Times reported on its front page that Schiff, in the book, claimed to have had an affair with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Finley Heights

He considered the heights to be islands lying in a great transverse channel across the Antarctic Peninsula and named them "Finley Islands" for John H. Finley of The New York Times, who was then president of the American Geographical Society.

Fit to Print

The film includes interviews from reporters, staff members, and media experts within several major U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

Forest swastika

In September 2006 The New York Times reported on another forest swastika in Eki Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, on the edge of the Tian Shan Mountains.

George W. Daley

When the World closed its doors in 1931, Mr. Daley went to work for The New York Times as a copy editor in the sports department until his death in 1952.

Glyn O'Malley

He and his work have been written about extensively by such publications as The New York Times, American Theatre, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Weekly Standard, and Cincinnati Magazine—which called him 'the most talked to and talked about playwright in 2003'.

Hudson Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport

It was reported in The New York Times that he declined to contribute to party funds in turn for the peerage, feeling that his party contribution and unpaid services in relation to the Port of London were great enough to warrant the distinction without payment.

KEF

The New York Times has recognised KEF as: "The leading audio company in Europe", also a "Well known to American High-End audiophiles".

Max Hoffman

An article about Hoffman in 2007 by The New York Times reviews his life, and includes his photograph provided by the Hoffman Foundation.

My Name Is Modesty

Juan Morales of The New York Times called the film one of the "vivid examples of Mr. Spiegel’s sly, visual directing style".

Network science

This network representation of social structure was found so intriguing that it was printed in The New York Times (April 3, 1933, page 17).

New and Selected Poems

David Orr, writing in The New York Times, described Menashe as a "wry but essentially optimistic poet, and his best writing demonstrates that the stylistic limitations we choose quickly cease to be limitations, even when we identify them as such", singling out Menashe's poem "The Niche" for praise.

Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project

A 1980 article in The New York Times stated: Killing I-95 means that the entire length of the turnpike almost surely will become the official I-95 artery through the state, thus assuring it a continued source of toll revenue.

Peruvian Connection

The business grew slowly but steadily until a style writer from The New York Times did an interview with Annie for what would turn out to be a quarter-page article in the paper's Style section.

Protos of Nonnendamm

The Protos gain worldwide acclaim in 1908 when it was first to cross the finishing line in the 1908 New York to Paris Race organised by the newspapers Le Matin of Paris, and The New York Times - six competitors covered some 13 000 miles, an additional 10 000 miles being over sea.

Robert Olby

Its publication before Crick's death in 2004 was disallowed by Crick; and it is entitled Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets, after an article in The New York Times on February 2, 1962.

RoomSync

In August 2010, The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote an article titled “Don’t Send In the Clones” where she challenged the self-selection process of roommates that is offered by RoomSync.

Salvatore Naturale

He sported a faint blond mustache and crude tattoos on his arms and thighs and lived mostly as a drifter, but a The New York Times article stated that he remained in contact with and occasionally lived with his mother.

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In 1975, John Wojtowicz wrote a letter to The New York Times expressing concern that people would believe the movie version of the events which he said was only 30% accurate.

Sebastiano Martinelli

The New York Times, upon Martinelli's arrival in America as the new apostolic delegate in 1896, published a thorough assessment of the bishop's personal appearance and personality.

Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry

David Lattimore wrote a review of this book for The New York Times Sunday Book Review Supplement.

The Eternal Grind

The movie was received generally negatively, with The New York Times saying, "Obliged by her Famous Players contract to star in pedestrian melodramas like The Eternal Grind, it was no wonder that Mary Pickford yearned to become her own producer".

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it four stars, his highest rating, while Vincent Canby of The New York Times also reviewed it favorably, calling it "a good, tough, unsentimental movie".

Truscott Senior Swiss Teams

The trophy for the contest, named in memory of ACBL Hall of Fame member and former bridge editor of The New York Times Alan Truscott, was put into play in 2006 by the United States Playing Card Company.

University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

The school also collaborated with The New York Times in 2012 to produce two web documentaries exploring development pressures and land disputes in Brazil.

Walter D. O'Hearn

A versatile writer and editor, he wrote book reviews for The New York Times, did analytical reporting from the United Nations and produced whimsical pieces about two denizens of Montreal's Point St. Charles – Mrs. Harrigan and Mrs. Mulcahy – discussing the vital issues of the day, which were published in the Montreal Star and later issued in book form.


1939 New York Yankees season

In its coverage the following day, The New York Times said it was "Perhaps as colorful and dramatic a pageant as ever was enacted on a baseball field as 61,808 fans thundered a hail and farewell".

1963 Pulitzer Prize

Anthony Lewis of The New York Times, for his distinguished reporting of the proceedings of the United States Supreme Court during the year, with particular emphasis on the coverage of the decision in the reapportionment case and its consequences in many of the States of the Union.

Alan Lightman

Since that time, Lightman's essays, short fiction, and reviews have also appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Dædalus, Discover, Exploratorium, Granta, Harper's Magazine, Harvard Magazine, Inc Technology, Nature, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, "Salon",

Andrew Cockburn

Apart from his books he has written for National Geographic, Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, CounterPunch, Condé Nast Traveler, New York Times, and the Dungarvan Observer.

Blogosphere

Political blogs are often tied to a large media or news corporation, such as "The Caucus" (affiliated with The New York Times), "CNN Political Ticker", and the National Reviews "The Corner."

Bobby London

In 1978, London won the Jury Yellow Kid Award for Best Artist-Writer, contributed illustrations to The New York Times Op-Ed page from 1976 to 1981, and wrote and drew the Popeye syndicated daily comic strip for King Features from 1986 to 1992, at which point he was fired for doing an allegory about abortion.

Clancy Philbrick

In 2009 Clancy painted a large rock into a pink brain, dubbed The Brain Rock, on the Connecticut shoreline sparking local controversy after an article on the rock was published in The Day and The New York Times.

Consumers Union

In March 2005, CU campaign PrescriptionforChange.org released "Drugs I Need", an animated short with a song from the Austin Lounge Lizards, that was featured by The New York Times, JibJab, BoingBoing, and hundreds of blogs.

Eakins Press

In the three decades before his death, Eakins Press published 56 books that were described by The New York Times as being "notable for their meticulous, elegant design", including works of photography, poetry, sculpture and the New York City Ballet.

Elin McCoy

Elin McCoy is an American wine and spirits columnist for Bloomberg Markets, international wine judge, and a contributor to publications such as Food & Wine, The New York Times, House & Garden and Zester Daily.

Glynn Wolfe

The New York Times, January 30, 1984 "75, He Takes a 26th Wife. Glynn Scotty Wolfe, who is 75, married for the 26th time Saturday at a wedding chapel on the Las Vegas Strip. Wearing a black tuxedo and an ear-to-ear smile, Mr. Wolfe walked out of the chapel with his bride, 38-year-old Christine Camacho, the oldest of his brides."

Goddess of the Market

In a review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin said the two books "make many of the same points and touch on many of the same biographical details", although Maslin prefers Heller's book for its greater detail.

Harold Brodkey

“Entering The Runaway Soul,” wrote Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times, “is like arriving at a monthlong house party and being accosted at the door by your host, who sticks his mouth in your face and begins to talk.”

Honest Tea

In 2009, Honest Tea US got an unpaid endorsement when The New York Times revealed that the White House is now stocking Honest Tea, as it is President Barack Obama's preferred beverage- specifically, the "Black Forest Berry" and "Green Dragon" flavors.

Howard Roffman

The book, Heir to the Empire by noted science fiction author Timothy Zhan stayed on the The New York Times Best Seller list for nineteen weeks, paving the way for a highly successful re-launch of the franchise.

I Was Dora Suarez

Writing for The New York Times, Marilyn Stasio proclaimed: “Everything about I Was Dora Suarez … shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far.”

James J. Donovan

Articles on James J. Donovan can be found in multiple newspapers, such as the Bayonne Times archives, The Jersey Journal, The New York Timeschicken The New York Herald Tribune, The Hudson Dispatch The Jersey Observer, Bayonne Facts, and The Creamington Daily record.

Jeffery Deaver

His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Los Angeles Times.

Jeremy Bash

He was interviewed by The New York Times in regard to an October 5, 2013 U.S. Special Operations Forces raid in Tripoli, Libya that resulted in the capture of Abu Anas al-Libi, a terrorist target who was indicted in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Jillian Tamaki

She is best known for her work in The New York Times and The New Yorker and also for her award winning collaborative graphic novel Skim with Mariko Tamaki.

Joel Osteen

His first book, Your Best Life Now, which was released by Time Warner in 2004, debuted at the top of the The New York Times Best Seller list, and has sold more than 4 million copies.

John Wilcockson

John Wilcockson is a British sports journalist and author who has covered professional cycling for over 40 years, reporting on major cycling events for NPR and the BBC World Service, and publishing articles in The New York Times, Outside, Men’s Journal and The Times, among others.

Keith Bunin

In his 2002 review of The Credeaux Canvas, Alvin Klein of The New York Times called Bunin "a brainy young playwright with the mighty mission of combatting mindlessness" and said his "works reveal a boundless sense of wonder".

Keri Smith

Smith is a freelance illustrator and has most recently worked for Random House, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe as well as for companies like Ford Motor Company, Gallison/Mudpuppy Press and Hallmark.

Kim Severson

Kim Marie Severson (born September 12, 1961 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin) is a writer for The New York Times.

Lawrence Edwards

Advocated for the New York City region as well as a Boston to Washington line by the Regional Plan Association, — the invention was praised by Secretary of Transportation John Volpe as well as editorials in The New York Times and professional and scientific journals.

Lawrence Fried

Lawrence Fried (b.June 28, 1926 – d.1983), was an American photo-journalists, whose work appeared in Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Vogue, Collier's, and Parade Magazine.

Levels of the Game

Robert Lipsyte of The New York Times, in his review of the book, wrote that it "may be the high point of American sports journalism".

Marc Leepson

His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and Smithsonian, Preservation, and Military History magazines.

Mark Jay Mirsky

Mirsky has also edited, and wrote the introduction for, Diaries: Robert Musil 1899-1942, and published several works and articles in The Partisan Review, New Directions Annual, The Boston Sunday Globe, and The New York Times Book Review.

Mountain House, San Joaquin County, California

In November 2008, The New York Times reported that Mountain House was the "most underwater community in America,"—the zip code with the highest amount of negative equity on its homes.

My Name Is Red

In The New York Times, Richard Eder describes Pamuk's intense interest in East-West interactions and explains some of the metaphysical ideas that permeate the novel.

Names of Burma

In spite of the usage by the US government, American news outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and CNN, and US-based international news agencies the Associated Press and Reuters have adopted the name "Myanmar".

Niagara Falls Reporter

Since its launch, the paper's reporting on a wide variety of topics has been cited or linked to by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, along with magazines like Editor & Publisher and the Columbia Journalism Review, and web outlets including Salon.

Salvador Bru

He has been regularly commissioned to illustrate for the Washingtonian magazine, corporations including Mobil, the United States Government, and newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe and The New York Times.

Secessionism in Western Australia

Western Australia was grouped with Scotland, Wales, the Basque Country, and Catalonia as "places seeking maximum fiscal and policy autonomy from their national capitals" in an October 2013 opinion piece in The New York Times.

The Comfort of Strangers

In The New York Times, the critic John Leonard wrote "No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work."

The Meeting at Telgte

Theodore Ziolkowski wrote in The New York Times that "Grass has chosen his historical analogy with brilliant precision" and that "the book is diverting as a history of 17th-century German literature, liberally sprinkled with quotations from the works and poetic treatises of the period".

Tim Carvell

Tim Carvell is an American writer known for this work for the TV comedy series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his print work in publications such as Mad and The New York Times.

Trading Places

Janet Maslin of The New York Times repeated some of Roger Ebert's sentiments stating that "Preston Sturges might have made a movie like Trading Places - if he'd had a little less inspiration and a lot more money."

Trio for Blunt Instruments

John Canaday, The New York Times (May 28, 1964) — Rex Stout, who gives his birth date as Dec. 1, 1886, is either the victim of false records or the beneficiary of a biological aberration, eternal youth.

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, have also appeared in numerous publications, including Essence, Family Circle, TV Guide, Ms., The New York Times, and the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche.

Virchand Gandhi

Strangers In This Land by E. Allen Richardson mentions this Parliament and Gandhi's subsequent interview with The New York Times.

Walhonding Canal

An article in The New York Times reported that as of September 3, 1893, the railroad had been occupying the state's canal property for more than a year and it had been six months without an action on the part of Attorney General Richards or the Republican-controlled Board of Public Works.