New York City

If you're feeling a little insecure about your achievements, don't read this article. Jacob Appel, 39, has an envy-inducing, jaw-dropping resume. The New York City resident is a trained and working psychiatrist and a medical school professor. And he's qualified to work as a lawyer. In his free time, he works as ...

Do you speak fluent Mandarin? Can you cook a four-course meal? Ride and groom a horse? Steer a 32-foot boat, manage an art collection, and clean an ice rink? Do you have celebrity contacts? And do you have the looks of a global supermodel? If so, have you ever thought about becoming a nanny? According to ...

Working at a car wash may be better than digging a ditch, as the 1970s hit song says, but employees in New York City who work cleaning cars and trucks say pay and working conditions need vast improvement. A report released Tuesday shows that car-wash workers are paid less than minimum wage, routinely denied ...

Danny Camacho's forearms are covered with red welts, in the clustered pattern distinctive to the bite of the Cimex lectularius. Camacho lets bed bugs feast on his blood bimonthly. The 55-year-old has to keep the insects well-fed so that when he scatters them around his home in New York's borough of Queens, ...

About a year ago, controversy arose after it was reported that the New York Police Department had shown an anti-Muslim film during officer training. In response, an official at first denied that the movie had been shown, then said it had been viewed only "a couple of times." A year later, however, documents ...

New York City is many things to many people. But if there's one feature that most agree on, it's that Gotham is an expensive place to live. The average rent for a Manhattan apartment is nearly $3,000 a month, roughly three times that of the average rent paid nationwide, so it can tough making a living in the ...

As a New York traffic agent, Olatakumbo Erinosho's job involved writing tickets. So it was a little unprofessional for Erinosho to rack up over $450 in parking tickets herself. And it was illegal for her to try to prevent authorities from towing her 2007 Cadillac Escalade on Monday morning. ...

It's not often that you hear the details of a career lived on the streets, let alone by someone who raised a family from the money she earned working them. But Barbara Terry supplied them for an article in The New York Times. Trained to be a medical lab technician, by age 21 Terry's husband had left, leaving ...

One marker of an industry's seriousness is whether it requires its new practitioners receive formal training or licensing. But a price tag of $1 million for the right to enter a field might be the pursuit of a profession not worth the expense. ...