Steven D. Cuozzo (born January 17, 1950) is an American writer,
newspaper editor
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
,
restaurant critic
The terms food critic, food writer, and restaurant critic can all be used to describe a writer who analyzes food or restaurants and then publishes the results of their findings. While these terms are not strictly synonymous they are often used int ...
,
real estate
Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...
columnist
A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Column (newspaper), Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the fo ...
, and
op-ed
An op-ed, short for "opposite the editorial page", is a written prose piece, typically published by a North-American newspaper or magazine, which expresses the opinion of an author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board. O ...
contributor for the ''
New York Post
The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com.
It was established ...
''.
Early life
Steven D. Cuozzo was born on January 17, 1950, in
Ocean Hill, Brooklyn
Ocean Hill is a subsection of Bedford-Stuyvesant in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 16 and was founded in 1890. The ZIP code for the neighborhood is 11233. Ocean Hill's boundaries st ...
, New York. He and his brother, Joseph G. Cuozzo, were children of Lillian (February 19, 1922 - April 1970) and Joseph A. Cuozzo (November 14, 1916 – November 29, 1996), a Brooklyn electrical parts factory worker, and lived at 137 Hull St.
In describing growing up in the Italian-Irish neighborhood of Ocean Hill near the
J/Z line over Broadway, restaurant critic Cuozzo noted in 2009, "I recall
stoop sitting with neighbors and a happy blur of maternal grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins living in the building next door. I had my first pizza at a joint I recall as Jimmy's, on a corner lost to time a few blocks from home. The place boasted one big window, and the pies were a sublime fusion of gooey cheese and fragrant thyme, an herb I much prefer to oregano."
Cuozzo attended kindergarten at a Brooklyn Catholic school and, when he was about six years old, his family moved to
North Babylon in
Long Island, New York
Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United States and the 18th ...
, where he would live for the next 17 years.
In 1967, Cuozzo began attending
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...
located in
Stony Brook, New York
Stony Brook is a political subdivisions of New York#Hamlet, hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, Town of Brookhaven, New York, Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the No ...
. In 1971, Cuozzo graduated from Stony Brook University as an English major.
Career
1970s–1980s
After graduating from Stony Brook University, Cuozzo began his first city job in 1972 as an administrative assistant at the
Space for Innovative Development performing arts center.
In addition, the performing arts center included the dance company of American choreographer
Alwin Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 – May 8, 1993) was an American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, teacher. He had created the Nikolais Dance Theatre, and was best known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting and production ...
.
Cuozzo moved into a
Riverside Drive apartment in
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
and described his new experiences as marking his "portal of entry into Manhattan," where he had his "first whiff of big-city glamour and grit."
On December 18, 1972, Cuozzo began working as a
copy boy
A copy boy is a typically young and junior worker on a newspaper. The job involves taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper to another. According to Bruce Guthrie, the former editor-in-chief of the '' Herald Sun'' who began work ther ...
in the city room at 210
South Street at the ''
New York Post
The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com.
It was established ...
'', an American
daily newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
founded in 1801 by federalist
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795.
Born out of wedlock in Charlest ...
and primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area. In a 2012 interview, Cuozzo noted about his entry-level job that "In those days, it literally meant, besides getting coffee for the editors, it meant carrying pieces of copy around."
For the next four years, Cuozzo worked in the business run by
Dorothy Schiff
Dorothy Schiff (March 11, 1903 – August 30, 1989) was an American businesswoman who was the owner and then publisher of the ''New York Post'' for nearly 40 years. She was a granddaughter of financier Jacob Schiff. Schiff was interested in soci ...
,
an owner and publisher of the ''Post'' for nearly 40 years. Cuozzo later would characterize the ''Post'' during these four years as a "bastion of principled liberalism" that produced a "stunted
broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), ta ...
" with "the graphic appeal of a pothole" In 1976, liberal
Schiff sold the ''Post'' to conservative Australian American business magnate
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch ( ; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including ...
for a reported $31 million (equals $ million in ). Cuozzo subsequently worked for Murdoch for many years and, in 1996, would be described as viewing Murdoch as "part Santa Claus, part
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboya ...
and always larger than life."
In August 1977, the core of Cuozzo's childhood Brooklyn neighborhood of Ocean Hill was destroyed by
looters and
arsonists
Arson is the crime of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Although the act of arson typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, water ...
during the
New York City blackout of 1977
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which w ...
.
Cuozzo would describe this in 2012 as one of his worst memories.
Cuozzo was promoted at the ''Post'' in early 1979 to entertainment editor with the title arts and leisure editor.
On November 29, 1980, Cuozzo married Jane Hershey, daughter of Solomon G. Hershey, a professor of
anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, ...
, and
Lenore Hershey, editor-in-chief of the ''
Ladies' Home Journal
''Ladies' Home Journal'' was an American magazine last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. In 18 ...
.''
Jane Hershey was a New York-based writer and editor who contributed to a variety of periodicals, including ''
Good Housekeeping
''Good Housekeeping'' is an American women's magazine featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, and health, as well as literary articles. It is well known for the "Good House ...
'',
Fodor's Travel Publications
Fodor's is a publisher of English language travel and tourism information. Fodor's Travel and Fodors.com are divisions of Internet Brands.
History
Founder Eugene Fodor was a keen traveler, but felt that the guidebooks of his time were boring ...
, and ''
Hollywood Magazine
''Motion Picture'' was an American monthly fan magazine about film, published from 1911 to 1977.Fuller, Kathryn H. “Motion Picture Story Magazine and the Gendered Construction of the Movie Fan.” ''At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences ...
.''
In the fall of 1981, Cuozzo was promoted to assistant managing editor in charge of features.
In addition to performing the duties of features editor, Cuozzo also was organizing contests and sweepstakes in the paper.
On a weekly basis, his job was to come up with a prize, which included a trip to Hawaii and "win breakfast with the baby elephant at the
Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in ...
."
By January 1988, Cuozzo had been working at the ''Post'' for about 16 years and held the position of assistant
managing editor
A managing editor (ME) is a senior member of a publication's management team. Typically, the managing editor reports directly to the editor-in-chief and oversees all aspects of the publication.
United States
In the United States, a managing edito ...
.
Commenting in September 1981 on a widespread concern that the ''Post'' would close, Cuozzo noted, "We were seemingly on the brink of extinction about 12 times in a much more heart-stopping way than this has yet become. I have full confidence in the boss (Murdoch) to somehow steer us through this as long as he is legally able to."
1990s
In August 1990, ''Power Partners: How Two-Career Couples Can Play to Win'',
written by Cuozzo's wife Jane, was published.
As both Cuozzo and his wife had careers as writers, the book focused on how dual-career couples can enhance their relationships by promoting each other's careers.
The book played on tennis analogies and suggested that couples behave as coordinated
doubles teams—for instance, providing their spouses' business card at opportune times to help them acquire new clients or accounts.
In 1993, Cuozzo held the position of managing editor of the paper.
However, in early 1993, Cuozzo and Gerard Bray, the paper's previous interim editor, were appointed co-executive editors, with
Marc Kalech, the former metro editor, being elevated to managing editor.
Each would be working under
Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill (born William Peter Hamill; June 24, 1935August 5, 2020) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture th ...
, the new editor-in-chief of the ''New York Post''.
About a month later, on Monday, March 15, 1993, the 400,000-circulation ''New York Post'' filed for
bankruptcy protection
Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor ...
.
Hamill and 72 other staffers had been fired the previous Friday, with Hamill and 50 of the staffers being rehired on Wednesday, five days later.
With the ''Post'' down to its last 11 rolls of film, and lacking any money to develop any film, executive editor Cuozzo said, "We are in imminent danger of shutting down unless we can get help quickly. We're probably out of money."
He noted how prior ''Post'' owner
Abraham Hirschfeld
Abraham Jacob Hirschfeld (December 20, 1919 – August 9, 2005) was an American real estate investor, Broadway producer and political candidate from New York City. He was the owner of several buildings in Manhattan. He served as treasurer for the ...
refused to pay overdue bills for vendors, delivery, or security guards, or to pay
Social Security
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specificall ...
taxes and pension contributions.
Cuozzo arranged to have rival newspaper, the ''
Daily News'', lend the ''Post'' film.
At the end of March, Rupert Murdoch signed an agreement to reclaim the ''Post.''
Predicting that Murdoch would become less abrasive, as compared to his prior ownership of the ''Post'', Cuozzo noted, "He is a different Rupert Murdoch than six or seven years ago. I suspect in his second coming he would be less involved in the affairs of the paper because he now has a television network and a studio to look after." Cuozzo took the story to
Times Books
Times Books (previously the New York Times Book Company) is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company.
Times Books began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969, when The New York Times C ...
and, in April 1993, signed a contract with them to write an anecdotal memoir about the ''Post''.
In October 1993, the
Newspaper Guild
The NewsGuild-CWA is a trade union, labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933. In addition to improving wages and working conditions, its constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's busin ...
labor union went on strike and Cuozzo was put in the position to help publish the paper with only editors and managers.
At the time, he felt that the union failed to recognize that, without Murdoch, there would be no ''Post'' and no jobs for anyone at the ''Post.''
Cuozzo saw the Guild's 1993 strike actions as "bullheaded and
intransigent."
In June 1996, Cuozzo's book, ''It's Alive! How America's Oldest Newspaper Cheated Death and Why It Matters'', was published.
In the book, Cuozzo uses his experiences from when he joined he ''Post'' as a copy boy in 1972 through his mid-April 1996 receipt of the ''Posts new Sunday edition to present an anecdotal
memoir
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobi ...
that traces modern history at the then-195-year-old ''New York Post'' and describes its effect on America's news culture.
In addition, throughout the book, he expresses his views, such as the ''Post'' "asserted the importance of human emotions in the affairs of the world" and the newspaper's "emphasis on individual accountability" instilled discipline in American society,
crediting the ''Post'' for capturing "the energy" of New York City and originating what he characterizes as the United States' positive trend towards
tabloidization
Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism (usually dramatized and sometimes unverifiable or even blatantly false), which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as ...
of the news.
Cuozzo described the Post's ''
Page Six
The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com.
It was established i ...
''
gossip column
A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine. Gossip columns are material written in a light, informal style, which relates the gossip columnist's opinions about the personal li ...
as "a meaner brand of gossip, and more personal," saying it was used to settle scores "not unlike that of nuclear aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy: to intimidate Third World nuisances." He described former ''Post'' owner
Abe Hirschfeld
Abraham Jacob Hirschfeld (December 20, 1919 – August 9, 2005) was an American real estate investor, Broadway producer and political candidate from New York City. He was the owner of several buildings in Manhattan. He served as treasurer for the ...
, who four years later would be convicted of
soliciting murder, as "a squat bundle of free-floating hostility." In 2004, New Zealand-born Australian
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
editor and journalist
Frank Devine
Frank Devine (17 December 1931 – 3 July 2009) was a New Zealand–born Australian newspaper editor and journalist. Devine was born in the South Island city of Blenheim and started his career there aged 17 as a cadet on the ''Marlborough Expr ...
stated that the September 2003 book, ''The Murdoch Archipelago'', drew extensively on Cuozzo's ''It's Alive!'' book for the Murdoch Archipelago's account of Murdoch's experiences with the ''Post.''
In October 1996, Cuozzo appeared on ''
Think Tank
A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmenta ...
'', a discussion program that aired on
Public Broadcasting Service
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(PBS) and was hosted by
Ben Wattenberg
Benjamin Joseph Wattenberg (born Joseph Ben Zion Wattenberg;Roberts, Sam New York ''Times'', June 29, 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-29. August 26, 1933 – June 28, 2015) was an American author, neoconservative political commentator and demographer, ...
.
The show, entitled ''Is Public Journalism, Journalism?'', set out to discuss whether there was a new journalism that "sets out to go beyond just the facts and tries to shape the agenda."
In commenting on conventional journalism during the show, Cuozzo noted that an underlying assumption of its journalistic elitism is "that the public is incapable of making up its own mind or listening or applying any critical thinking to issues in an environment in which there are many voices being heard."
During the show, Cuozzo contrasted
tabloid journalism
Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism (usually dramatized and sometimes unverifiable or even blatantly false), which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as ...
with the area in which he works, noting, "Tabloid journalism is journalism driven by a focused concentration on individuals as distinct from the workings of institutions. So even if we cover institutions, such as government or the
Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a ...
, we tend to do so from the point with the perspective that they're run by individual men and women."
Cuozzo noted that monopoly newspaper markets tend to publish articles that "march in lock step with the advertising community," and newspapers that promote or tolerate
public journalism do so with the hope of selling more advertising rather than selling more papers.
In describing the ''Post'' and its place in New York public journalism, Cuozzo noted, In November 1998 at the age of 48, Cuozzo took on the assignment as the ''Post's''
restaurant critic
The terms food critic, food writer, and restaurant critic can all be used to describe a writer who analyzes food or restaurants and then publishes the results of their findings. While these terms are not strictly synonymous they are often used int ...
, in addition to his position as executive editor.
As a new restaurant critic, Cuozzo said that he would aim to "appeal to the great body of restaurant goers who are passionate about dining out without necessarily being food specialists."
Cuozzo planned to review one dining establishment each week.
In November 1999, Cuozzo began his weekly commercial real estate column, "Realty Check".
In the first column, entitled ''Ross Ready To Set Sail on Columbus'', Cuozzo interviewed real estate developer
Stephen M. Ross.
By 2012, Cuozzo was characterized as developing a view that "restaurant folk are meaner than brokers and developers."
2000s
In August 2000, Cuozzo served as one of eight food experts to provide their choices for the 10 elite chefs of Manhattan.
Cuozzo and the panel selected in their top 10, chefs including
Daniel Boulud
Daniel Boulud (born 25 March 1955 in Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu) is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, Singapore, the Bahamas, the Berkshires and Dubai. He is best known f ...
,
,
Nobu Matsuhisa
Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa (松久 信幸 ''Matsuhisa Nobuyuki''; born March 10, 1949) is a Japanese celebrity chef and restaurateur known for his fusion cuisine blending traditional Japanese dishes with Peruvian ingredients. His signature dish ...
, and Gray Kunz, as well as Christian Delouvrier,
Mario Batali
Mario Francesco Batali (born September 19, 1960) is an American chef, writer, and restaurateur. Batali co-owned restaurants in New York City; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and Newport Beach, California; Boston; Singapore; Westport, Connecticut; and Ne ...
,
Eric Ripert
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization).
The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...
, and
Alfred Portale
Alfred Portale (born July 5, 1954) is an American chef, author, and restaurateur known as a pioneer in the New American cuisine movement.
Restaurants
After graduating top of his class from the Culinary Institute of America in 1981, Portale beca ...
.
In 2003,
gossip columnist
A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine. Gossip columns are material written in a light, informal style, which relates the gossip columnist's opinions about the personal li ...
and writer
Cindy Adams
Cynthia "Cindy" Adams (née Heller) is an American gossip columnist and writer. She is the widow of comedian/humorist Joey Adams.
Early life and education
Adams was an only child raised by her mother after her parents divorced.
Marriage to J ...
described her longtime boss Steve Cuozzo in an article entitled ''Leave Me Alone!'', writing: "
n 1981
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''.
History
...
Steve Cuozzo was dispatched to spy on me. Keep me on track. A lifetime later, he's still spying on me. Forget keeping me on track. He's now trying to derail me. The man has just gleefully sent me a tub of e-mails, each of which deposits bodily fluid upon my person. I mean, thank God he's my friend. Imagine if he didn't like me."
In 2005, the ''Post'' stopped running classic reviews directed towards "eating one's way through a new place every week," which was part of a trend in United States newspapers at that time.
Cuozzo attributed the decline of the newspaper restaurant critic to the dilution of the power of the critic through the numerous websites and blogs that allowed people to express their opinions about their meals.
Cuozzo also noted that restaurants had become bigger, more complex, and more press-savvy as other factors in the decline of the newspaper restaurant critic.
In July 2008, Cuozzo appeared on ''
Just in with Laura Ingraham'', a news program broadcast on the
Fox News Channel
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
.
2010s
In early 2010, Cuozzo and his wife Jane donated, on behalf of Jane's mother Lenore Hershey, to the Lenore Hershey School Fund for Girls at
Surprise Lake Camp
Surprise Lake Camp is a non-profit sleepaway camp located on over in North Highlands, New York (approximately north of New York City). It is the oldest Jewish summer camp in the United States.
History
Founded in 1901 by the Educational Allianc ...
, a non-profit sleep-away camp located in
Cold Spring, New York
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. In August of that year, New York City
restaurateur
A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who owns a restaurant, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspec ...
Keith McNally
Keith McNally (born 1951) is a British-born New York City restaurateur, the owner of several establishments including Parisian brasserie Balthazar, and formerly Nell's nightclub.
Personal life
McNally was born into a working-class family in ...
publicly equated Cuozzo to a "
centipede
Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...
" who was an "illiterate, low-life hack" and "gutter journalist" in reply to Cuozzo's characterization of McNally in Cuozzo's ''Whine And Dine'' and ''Eat's a Bad Year for New Places'' columns.
In reply, Cuozzo stated, "I've long suspected Keith McNally had a secret crush on me, and I'm thrilled he's finally found the courage to confirm it."
By March 2012, Cuozzo was writing his weekly "Realty Check" real estate column, was the ''Post's'' top restaurant critic, and edited the paper's ''Page Six'' gossip page.
In describing his experience with brokers and developers in writing his "Realty Check" column, Cuozzo noted in a 2012 interview, "Most
rokers and developersreally care about the city. They really love New York City and they love what they do and they derive extraordinary gratification from participating in the transactions that bring beneficial change to neighborhoods and alter perceptions about different parts of the city."
In July 2012, Cuozzo was ranked No. 96 in ''
The New York Observer
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's'' list of ''The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate,'' a subject he knows well. As of 2013, Cuozzo writes as a restaurant critic, real estate columnist, and op-ed contributor at the ''New York Post'' and lives with his wife Jane on the
Upper East Side
The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park/Fifth Avenue to the wes ...
in New York.
Publications
*
* Steve Cuozzo's first
byline
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: reporting on the formation of
Dennis Wayne's Dancers in the summer of 1975.
* Steve Cuozzo's first article as a restaurant critic:
* Steve Cuozzo's first weekly "Realty Check" real estate column:
* 1998 article co-written by Steve Cuozzo with wife Jane on their travels through Italy:
References
External links
New York Post articles by Steve Cuozzo*
* 2012 commentary on Steve Cuozzo's restaurant criticism:
* 2012 commentary on Steve Cuozzo's real estate views:
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