Have you noticed? There’s been a visible increase in graffiti across the city recently, residents say—from Manhattan to ...

NEW YORK-- Effy's Cafe, an Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side, was filled with longtime ... but as illegal graffiti. NYPD said the messages are considered political statements, which ...

But none came close when it came to cutting a rug. The Sharks and the Jets were the street gangs of “West Side Story,” and they lived and danced on Broadway in the late 1950s, a time when many ...

West Side Story explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks. The Jets are made up of working-class white teenage boys from broken homes and the Sharks consist mainly of Puerto Ricans.

Gangs have changed in the decades since West Side Story first came out—they are deadlier ... The soul of the street gang hasn’t changed much since the days of the Jets and the Sharks—but the world ...