Howard Smith, Trend-Spotting Columnist, Dies at 77

Mr. Smith’s Scenes column in The Village Voice was the message board of the hippie counterculture in the 1960s.

Surging Rents Force Booksellers From Manhattan

The rising cost of doing business in Manhattan is driving out many of its remaining bookstores, threatening the city’s sense of self as the center of the literary universe.

    



Media Decoder: Manhattan Community Papers Revamped Under New Editor

Kyle Pope, Pulitzer Prize winner and former top editor of The New York Observer, is now running five small community newspapers in Manhattan.

    



First Business Tenant Is Set for a Trade Center Building

A media management company, GroupM, signed a lease to occupy nine floors of what would be the World Trade Center site’s third office tower.

    



Campaign Spotlight: Ads Celebrate Mozart in the City

A WQXR campaign aims to present the composer in an accessible, even quirky, light, while reminding New Yorkers that the radio station offers great programming.

    



William Morris to Invest in Droga5, an Ad Agency

The giant talent agency is close to acquiring a 49 percent stake in Droga5, an independent advertising agency whose clients include Coca-Cola and Motorola.

    

Condé Nast Faces Suit From Interns Over Wages

The interns, who worked for W Magazine and The New Yorker, say they were paid less than $1 an hour.

    

TMZ and New York Post Tabloid Tours of Manhattan

Two bus tours take riders on a tabloid excursion around Manhattan to revisit the sites of celebrity mayhem and mischief.

    

McCandlish Phillips, Times Reporter, Dies at 85

Mr. Phillips, associated with The Times for more than 20 years, wrote a 1965 exposé of a man in Queens with an Orthodox Jewish background who was a senior Ku Klux Klan official.

    

City Campaign Targeting Teenage Pregnancy Draws Criticism

The city’s public education effort speaks frankly about the increased chances that teenage mothers will become impoverished, but critics say it reinforces stereotypes.