Donald Trump, Ed Koch and the Rev. Al Sharpton are some of the personalities in Jonathan Mahler’s vivid narrative of an influential time in the city’s history ...

“Somewhere in this city, possibly among these people, is a man… so close to the edge that when he breaks, it could change your life forever.” The movie is Night of the Juggler, and if you were lucky ...

Jonathan Mahler’s new book portrays the city’s rebirth as a glitzy capital of global finance — and a petri dish of ego, ambition and class division. Credit...Matt Dorfman Supported by By Garth Risk ...

In ‘Caught Stealing,’ director Darren Aronofsky delivers a twisted romp through a city in the midst of a surprisingly current ...

The journalist’s The Gods of New York surveys the overlapping crises facing New York City in the last four years of the 1980s. Why did you focus on the final years of the 1980s? During the 2016 ...

Mr. Mahler is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of the forthcoming book “The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: ...

Jonathan Mahler’s portrait of four crucial years in 1980s New York City shows a volatile and divided city in crisis, with loudmouths from Al Sharpton to Rudy Giuliani to Donald Trump accumulating ...