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What Becomes A Landmark Most?
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What Becomes A Landmark Most?

I AM KNEELING in damp grass marveling at an anachronism in the world of Ubers and Waze: a sandstone marker about two feet high, handcarved with an old fashioned “24 M…” and missing its remaining “iles to New York.” It is mortared into a long wall and looks out on US 1 like some Knight Templar of American history. In the 1800s, this is how you might have found “the old Jay place” in Rye. Even with its inscription fragmented, it conjures visions of mail carriers on horseback, with dirt-streaked, buckled shoes wedged into stirrups looking for a familiar guidepost to tell them the distance to their secret assignation or a good beer down the road.

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The Case For Taking A Gap Year
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The Case For Taking A Gap Year

ACADEMIC BURNOUT is a growing issue for students across the U.S. Far from being “the best years of our lives,” most will recount that high school was like living on a conveyor belt of SAT tests, extracurriculars, and self-doubts while under extreme pressure to rack up achievements that might help you to stand out from the crowd. Students graduate with a sigh of relief, hopefully anticipating a future full of opportunities, only to be body-slammed by another four years of even more intense academic pressure. Some students roll with the punches and learn to juggle essays and schedules and “adulting,” but a growing number are being leftbehind.

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Scott Swimming Pools
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Scott Swimming Pools

Scott Swimming Pools, Inc. is a luxury design-build swimming pool company celebrating its 80th year in business this year.

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One Atlantic Events

Over the ocean, your perfect special event venue is waiting.

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Everything We Love Is Locked Under Glass
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Everything We Love Is Locked Under Glass

Everything We Love Is Locked Under Glass

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Humanity First
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Humanity First

Humanity First

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Our Little Racket
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Our Little Racket

Our Little Racket

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Chicken McMansions
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Chicken McMansions

Chicken McMansions

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Footnotes From The World's Greatest Bookstores
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Footnotes From The World's Greatest Bookstores

TRUE TALES AND LOST MOMENTS FROM BOOK BUYERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND BOOK LOVERS

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The Opioid Crisis: One Man's Journey And A Nation's Challenge
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The Opioid Crisis: One Man's Journey And A Nation's Challenge

The Opioid Crisis: One Man's Journey And A Nation's Challenge

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The Flip
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The Flip

The Flip

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Brain Fitness It's All In Your Mind
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Brain Fitness It's All In Your Mind

FROZEN IN MID-SENTENCE, YOU FORGET A NAME. WITH YOUR PEN POISED OVER A CHECK, YOU CANNOT RECALL THE DATE. YOU’VE GONE INTO THE KITCHEN, BUT YOU CAN NO LONGER REMEMBER WHAT FOR. AND WHERE IS THAT DAMNED CELL PHONE? ARE YOU ONE OF THE WORRIED WELL? MANY OF US ARE ANXIOUS TO LIVE A LONG LIFE, BUT FEARFUL OF OUR POTENTIAL FOR THE HUMILIATION AND DEBILITATION OF DEMENTIA. WHAT TO DO? SHOULD YOU TRY A COMPUTER GAME? MAGNESIUM TABLETS? A WEEK AT AN EXPENSIVE BRAIN TRAINING CENTER? BRAIN FITNESS IS THE NEW BUZZWORD AND WEALTHY AGING BABY BOOMERS ARE EAGER TO BUY A HEALTHIER BRAIN. 

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Truth Or Consequence: History In the Digital Age
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Truth Or Consequence: History In the Digital Age

Truth Or Consequence: History In the Digital Age

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The Einstein Legacy Project
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The Einstein Legacy Project

The Einstein Legacy Project

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Megyn Kelly Settle For More
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Megyn Kelly Settle For More

Rye’s Megyn Kelly, in the Spotlight

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Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry
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Women Create Their Own Opportunities In New York's Growing Weed Industry

On a recent Thursday evening in downtown Manhattan, nearly 50 women and a few men, ranging from millennials to baby boomers, gathered in a sleek co-working space to talk about weed.

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Sam Waterstonon Grace And Frankie
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Sam Waterstonon Grace And Frankie

Finding Humanity and Humor in Aging 

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Saint In The City
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Saint In The City

SEEKING THE STARMAN ON THE STREETS OF SOHO

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Mah Jong Memory
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Mah Jong Memory

I REMEMBER MAH JONG through a haze of memory and my mother’s Benson & Hedges cigarette smoke. The mysterious ivory tiles, abundant in number and exotic in design took center stage on a card table in our living room, set on long, sleek wooden racks with surplus tiles stacked in rows and others spilling into the table’s center.

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The Heirs
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The Heirs

ELEANOR BELONGED to that class of New Yorker whose bloodlines were traced in the manner of racehorses: she was Phipps (sire) out of Deering (dam), by Livingston (sire’s dam) and Porter (dam’s dam).

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Colonial Day Along The Gold Coast
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Colonial Day Along The Gold Coast

DO YOU KNOW ABOUT COLONIAL DAY? At Nathan Hale One Regret Elementary School, where our son Oliver attends fifth grade, it’s a BIG production in which the school gym is transformed into a kind of Colonial America mall. Students research life as a particular colonial artisan and collect props and design shop signs to create their “storefront” in a refrigerator box. Colonial Day teaches students how to work as a team, hone their public speaking skills and spend money.

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Midtown In Motion
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Midtown In Motion

THINKING ABOUT A PIED À TERRE?

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We Can End America's Addiction Crisis... But Only Together
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We Can End America's Addiction Crisis... But Only Together

I HAD A HORRIBLE FEELING that late October Friday in 2012. God knows, I’d been in that situation many times before – wondering if Austin was OK. But this time felt different. That Wednesday, he leftvoicemails that sounded confused – from a friend’s phone, because Austin had misplaced his, again.

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