Discovering a restaurant host’s daring back story, a Brooklyn feud and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: As an ad man in the 1960s, I used to regularly ...

Every week since 1976, Metropolitan Diary has published stories by, and for, New Yorkers of all ages and eras (no matter where they live now): anecdotes and memories, quirky encounters and overheard ...

Why does your body always let you down at a crucial moment? On the morning I was leaving to drive to Wales, I woke with a stye on my left eye. It’s just typical. The four-hour drive took five hours ...

How a Dutch couple sheltered Anne Frank’s family and preserved her account of life under Nazi occupation. Miep Gies (right) and her husband Jan return to the house where the Frank family hid. When ...

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