A cabby shares the secret to playing trumpet, an empty car on the F and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s ...

Open the Journals. I dare you. Does your heart sink when you turn to the first page, each one slavishly reproduced in the author’s own handwriting? ‘Don’t read my diary when I’m gone,’ he wrote. You ...

One of the scariest things I’ve ever done is read my diary out loud to a room full of strangers. Perhaps that says more about the kind of soft-handed life I’ve ...