A real estate broker recommends Ruxton Towers, at 50 West 72nd Street, to many friends from her college days.

Experts in prison ministry say the work of David Berkowitz, through his descriptions of his self-proclaimed redemption, stands out.

Six years after Jack Rosenblatt’s death, his friends got together and published his detective novel.

Feeling the passage of time ever more keenly, old friends from the Century Athletic Club gathered for wisecracks and stories, one more time.

A good inscription in a used book offers a hint of relationships beyond the ones imagined by the volume’s author.

The Neediest Cases Fund gave Catherine Gunderson help with food and furniture. Friends have given her newfound joy.

David Ware, the renowned saxophonist, did not want a kidney transplant, fearing that someone else’s life force would be inside him. He was wrong.

Ellen Frey McCourt pushed her husband, Frank McCourt, to stop talking about his years in Ireland, and to write about them. Thus, “Angela’s Ashes.”Ellen Frey McCourt was something of a human tuning fork as her husband, the writer Frank McCourt, worked on “Angela Ashes.”

Ellen Frey McCourt pushed her husband, Frank McCourt, to stop talking about his years in Ireland, and to write about them. Thus, “Angela’s Ashes.”Ellen Frey McCourt was something of a human tuning fork as her husband, the writer Frank McCourt, worked on “Angela Ashes.”

Judge Sonia Sotomayor leaving her Greenwich Village apartment building in May.The Supreme Court nominee revels in the city’s kaleidoscopic spin even as her professional life is so consuming that she has spoken of forgoing traditional markers of personal success.