By Ronald M. Davis, M.D. and William D. Novelli

The promise and hope of Medicare has always been that older Americans and the disabled would have high-quality, affordable health care coverage. But that promise is quickly eroding for the 2.9 million Medicare patients in New York.

Filming Is Up But Will It Last?

By Heather Corcoran

Sometimes – especially when you’re running late and some kid with a clipboard and headset tells you to step to the other side of the street – it seems like all of New York is turning into a film set.

Time Shares Aren’t Just For Apartments And Houses

By Kerri Fortune

Brendan Kane wanted to sail but decided his busy schedule and the hefty price tag of owning a yacht made his dream impractical.

By Alysha Brown

Mark Twain once called it heaven on earth and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas may call it home, but Bermuda isn’t resting on its laurels to attract vacationers. Many of the island’s high-end properties are wrapping up major renovations and additions.

An avenging serial killer in “Dexter” is the tip of the iceberg on Showtime this fall; stay tuned for pot-dealing suburban moms, over-sexed Hollywood scribes afflicted by writer’s block and the antics of a politician-gangster pair of brothers.—Sascha Brodsky

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What the Professionals Buy at the Greenmarket

By Sylvie Bigar

It’s a rainy Wednesday morning in October and the only patch of brightness is chef Philippe Bertineau’s slick red rain jacket at the corner of 17th Street and Park Avenue. But then he starts walking towards the Union Square Market and the colors of the fall explode around him.

By Alysha Brown

Miami might be Florida’s bustling cultural capital but the Keys, with their idyllic white sand beaches, turquoise waters and first-class resorts are a reminder of Florida’s Caribbean influence. So think twice about jetting off to St. Barts or the Turks and Caicos for a quick getaway, as you might be pleasantly surprised staying stateside.

By Elissa Gilbert

I landed in Amsterdam and it was like I hadn’t left New York at all. I couldn’t read the street signs and the skyline stopped at the fourth floor, but the city felt very much like home: pedestrians thronged the streets, cars, busses and trams jostled for space with bicyclists (even if the rider was more likely to be a suited businessman toting his briefcase in the basket than a messenger). The elegant canal houses seemed slightly off-beat versions of town houses and brownstones back home. We hit traffic jams because of a new subway line under construction.

In the summer of 1949, when Nicholas K. Coch was a young boy, his father took the family to pick berries in a New Hampshire forest. A forest fire had recently swept through and produced fertile ground for berry patches. Noticing that the trees were not only blackened by flames but were also broken, Coch asked his father why.