It was called "New York's night of Birmingham horror ... as riots broke out later that summer in six other cities, including Rochester, N.Y.; Jersey City, N.J.; outside Chicago, and Philadelphia.

The SummerStage free concert series throughout New York City kicks off Wednesday night in Central Park. Marcus Miller, a ...

There’s nothing like a New York City ... night in Central Park. (Their alarm clocks, he writes, filled the park with “a mild cacophony of the seconds passing.”) Jonathan Franzen recalls the ...