Passed away on Friday, April 24th, 2026 at his home surrounded by loved ones. Cherished father of Stephen H. Goetz (Liz), Cheryl A. Goetz and James P. Goetz (Joanna). Loving "Papa John" to Victor, Max ...

New York in the 1980s was a downtrodden city with visions of upward mobility. Manhattan’s Greenwich Village was still a moist, low-rent bohemia of working-class punks and poets. Some South Bronx ...

One Saturday afternoon in December 1984, a man got onto the number 2 train going downtown at West 14th Street in Greenwich Village. Blond, glasses-wearing, and scrawny, he did not fit anyone’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The sharpened screwdrivers, memorable and imaginary, tell a lot of the story. Three days before Christmas 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old electrical engineer living on 14th Street, got on a ...

Topsy turvy. In/out. Up/down. Left/right. What, which, how our country is today, who knows. I only know what it was when it worked. Newspapers wrote recently about the “subway vigilante” — 1984’s ...