NYC Summer Streets' initiative will expand to all five boroughs this summer | amNewYork
Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams New York City is making around 20 miles of its streets car-free on various Saturdays this summer as part of its Summer Streets initiative expansion, Mayor Eric Adams announced in Queens on Monday.The initiative, which was first launched in 2008, will see large sections of roadways in each borough blocked off from vehicular traffic on five Saturdays over the course of July and August.
De Blasio's pension at stake after misusing NYPD detail, report states
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Critics of former Mayor Bill de Blasio say his $113,131-a-year pension should be garnished if he continues refusing to pay back taxpayers the money he owes for misusing his security detail while in office, the New York Post reported.
TD Five Boro Bike Tour: Where to watch it in Brooklyn
Brooklyn's streets will be filled with thousands of bicyclists this Sunday as the world's most popular bike ride, the TD Five Boro Bike Tour is back at full strength.
I Heard a Voice Coming From Behind a Nearby Stack of Books'
Dear Diary: My wife and I were walking back to our West Village apartment on a cold, rainy winter evening after an early dinner of Indian food in the East Village.As we approached Broadway and West 12th Street, it started raining harder.I glanced up at the sign above the entrance to the Strand bookstore.
The hottest celebrity in town right now is an enchanting 12-foot-tall Syrian refugee puppet.She's drawing masses of admirers, but that's not always a good thing.
'When you live in New York City, you've got to recover': At the 36th Street station, more officers and plenty of commuters.
The platform was crowded and the mood was somber Wednesday morning as police officers patrolled the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, about 24 hours after a gunman shot 10 people inside a train approaching the station.
Across continents and decades, 'Past Lives' is the most affecting love story in ages
Teo Yoo and Greta Lee star as Hae Sung and Nora, childhood sweethearts who reconnect decades later in Past Lives.A24 Past Lives opens with a shot of three people sitting at a bar in New York a man and a woman, both of Asian descent, chat with each other, while another man, who's white, looks silently on.
As I Entered the Gallery, I Saw a Well-Dressed, Middle-Aged Woman'
Dear Diary: A few years ago, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and, as is my habit, stopped in to say hello to my favorite painting, Velazquez's Juan de Pareja.My custom is to take a seat on the bench across from Juan, and then together we carry on, silently, having long intense conversations on art, philosophy, aesthetics, even politics.
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'He was king of New York': Art installation honors Biggie at foot of Brooklyn Bridge * Brooklyn Paper
A pair of Brooklyn business groups enlisted the help of local artist Sherwin Banfield to honor the legacy of Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G" Wallace in the late rapper's home borough with a newly erected statue near the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.The interactive installation is a nine-foot structure made of stainless steel and bronze.
Good morning.It's Friday.We'll visit someone who has lived with the effects of Hurricane Sandy's damage and destruction for a decade.Image Credit...Andrea Mohin for The New York Times Debbie Ingenito slipped the little box with the Christmas ornaments out of the plastic sandwich bag she keeps them in.
How a Comedic Actor Who Writes Novels for Tweens Spends His Sundays
Last year, Maulik Pancholy's debut novel, The Best of It, a middle-grade book (for readers age 8 to 12) was banned in school districts in Florida and Texas for its portrayal of a gay Indian American boy.
Brooklyn Public Library announces dynamic works for 2022 book prizes
Brooklyn Public Library on Monday announced the "longlists" for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for fiction and nonfiction/poetry, recognizing writing that exemplifies the spirit of Brooklyn.
An obsession with language, and how it simultaneously frees and limits thought, has been a consistent thread in Xiaolu Guo's work since her 2007 debut, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.Like that book, her marvellous new memoir, Radical, is organised around short chapters with disparate words and phrases as titles.
Andrew Dominik's Blondeimagines that, after the premiere of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, an emotional and eager Marilyn Monroe ( played by Ana de Armas) rushed to a hotel suite, expecting to meet her long-lost father.
How this photographer takes incredible optical illusion photos of the moon
Wondering how to take impressive optical illusion moon photographs?Well, you could take some tips from Nina Wolfe.This New York photographer specialises in stunning optical illusion photographs that make the Earth's satellite look bigger than ever.Wolfe has taken dozens of gorgeous photographs that make the moon look absolutely enormous in juxtaposition with buildings on the skyline in NYC and elsewhere.
Not a radical idea': Students, staff, supporters march over Brooklyn Bridge for CUNY funding | amNewYork
Days after the state legislature proposed hundreds of millions of dollars in new investments for City University of New York, close to 100 students and faculty members rallied for additional funding as they seek a tuition-free CUNY and a better quality of education.Marchers, joined Sunday by a bevy of local elected officials, called on the State Senate, Assembly and Governor Kathy Hochul to enact the New Deal for CUNY legislation that would fully fund CUNY, improve faculty-to-student and advisor-to-student ratios and make undergraduate education tuition-free again.
NYC marks the third anniversary of city's first COVID death; 45,000 have died since 2020
Mayor Adams Tuesday marked the third anniversary of NYC's first confirmed death from the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed 45,000 lives since March 2020."COVID-19 devastated our city, our families, and our lives," Adams said, in a statement."Today, as we mark three years since we recorded the loss of the first New Yorker to the pandemic, we pause to recognize the pain the past three years have brought."
Your Place or Mine movie review (2023) | Roger Ebert
Trouble is, we know the film's stars are capable of so much more.Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher are, of course, great-looking and charismatic, and both have perfectly snappy comic timing after all these years.So it's frustrating watching them try to take this safe, bland material and make it sing.
Louis Vuitton has invited for a second time, world renowned artist Yayoi Kusama to create a new collection.Kusama, who is 93 years old and lives in Japan, has received international acclaim and exposure in the last 15 years, now making her one of the most popular artists in the world.She is known for painting and creating infinity rooms with colored dots.
F5: Michael Hambouz Feeds Creativity With Creativity
Multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, illustrator, and independent curator are a few of the biggest hats Brooklyn, NewYork-based Michael Hambouz wears.The first-generation Palestinian-American creates chromaesthesia-influenced works - experiments in dimension and color, created under the guidance of music - to process bouts of loss and self-reflections on cultural identity.
No need for condolences - nothing of any real consequence went wrong, just a dog's breakfast of bureaucracy and mischance and annoyances waiting at every turn.
Electric air taxi firm launches big San Jose expansion and is in hiring mode
SAN JOSE An electric air taxi company has completed a leasing deal in San Jose that will enable the cutting-edge tech firm to soar into a local expansion and hire more workers.Archer Aviation has leased an office and research building in North San Jose that's about a half-mile away from the company's current headquarters in the Bay Area's largest city.
San Antonio at Brooklyn, Final Score: Spurs torched in wire-to-wire blowout by Nets, 139-103
The Spurs have started 2023 with a dud.Heading to the home of the Brooklyn Nets, winners of 11 straight and the hottest team in the league, a Spurs win probably wasn't on the menu, but this was a wire-to-wire blowout loss and one of the rare occasions outside of November where the effort and focus just wasn't there for San Antonio.
Why have I spent all this time walking normally, like an idiot? What happened when I tried Moonwalkers
Walking is all right, isn't it, but it's a bit slow.A bit ponderous.Wouldn't it be good if you could walk, but, like, go faster?That is the premise of Moonwalkers: a pair of wheeled shoes that promise you can walk at running speed, without any of the effort of actually running.Walk how you usually do, and our AI adapts to you, reads the website blurb.
Tsuta, world's first Michelin-starred Ramen restaruant, opens in Dumbo * Brooklyn Paper
The very first ramen spot in the world to garner a Michelin star, Tsuta, opened its first-ever location in the U.S. on Friday, right off the Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo."It took us over a year to find the perfect location," said Alan Lo, co-owner of the restaurant."We look at the Rockefeller Center, Soho, Hell's Kitchen, St. Marks Place and all over the Lower East Side, but we figured there is no better place than Dumbo to reach both New Yorkers and tourists from all over the world, including Japan."
Up for Auction: Nike Air Force Ones Signed by Ice-T
Good morning.Today we'll look at the city's auction of 50 gifts to past mayors.We'll also look at how prosecutors are once again scrutinizing Donald Trump's role in hush-money payments to a porn star.Image Credit...via Department of Citywide Administrative Services Like presidents, governors and other officeholders, mayors get gifts all the time.
Superstorm Sandy, 10 years later: A look back on the storm, its devastating effects, and the city's progress * Brooklyn Paper
Ten years ago this Saturday, Oct. 29, Superstorm Sandy slammed into the southern coast of New Jersey and rolled north to New York City, where it inundated the five boroughs with historic floods of up to 14 feet above sea level, knocked out electricity for millions, and caused at least $19 billion in damage.
41st Annual Great Irish Fair to return on Saturday in a brand new location * Brooklyn Paper
Kiss em, they're Irish!
The 41st Annual Great Irish Festival is Irish-steppin' into a brand new location in Brooklyn this Saturday - the Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Windsor Terrace.
Cobble Hill Neo-Grec Brownstone With Income, Central Air, Roof Deck Asks $5.5 Million
This penthouse in an historic Brooklyn Heights building has some rare and remarkable features, including a wraparound terrace bigger than the apartment.
Amy Stechler, Documentarian Who Helped Define a Style, Dies at 67
Ms. Stechler, who was married to Mr. Burns from 1982 to 1993, was credited as the writer and a producer on "Brooklyn Bridge," the 1981 documentary that was Mr. Burns's first major directing credit and the first major project of Florentine Films.
The day after the NBA Draft should be one full of hope for struggling and mediocre teams-but that was not the case for Washington Wizards fans as the sun rose on Friday, June 24th.
'Bans off our bodies': Thousands march in Brooklyn and Manhattan to preserve abortion rights | amNewYork
Thousands of New Yorkers supporting abortion rights marched on Saturday to protest the potential Supreme Court overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.