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BKReader
1 week ago
Brooklyn

Protesters Arrested For Blocking Traffic in Brooklyn Bridge

Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested for blocking Brooklyn Bridge. [ more ]
Brooklyn Paper
4 weeks ago
Brooklyn

The legacy of Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who saved the Brooklyn Bridge * Brooklyn Paper

Emily Warren Roebling played a significant role in the design and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Her family background, education, and connections influenced her involvement in the project. [ more ]
BKReader
3 months ago
Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Bridge is Lit!

The Brooklyn Bridge is now illuminated with new LED lights, enhancing its visual appeal at night.
The lighting project is part of a larger venture by the New York City Department of Transportation to preserve and improve the bridge. [ more ]
Brooklyn Paper
3 months ago
Brooklyn

'Hopefully, one day we'll be back': Vendors struggle to turn profit in Dumbo after Brooklyn Bridge crackdown * Brooklyn Paper

Former Brooklyn Bridge vendors hope city officials will find a solution to allow them to sell on the iconic landmark
City ban on vendors due to safety concerns has caused vendors to struggle to turn a profit in Dumbo under tight restrictions [ more ]
Brooklyn Paper
3 months ago
Brooklyn

DOT celebrates Brooklyn Bridge 'glow up,' iconic span will be lit for first time since 1983 * Brooklyn Paper

The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City will be getting new LED lighting for the new year.
The new lighting system cost $2.4 million to implement and is expected to last for 20 years. [ more ]
BKReader
3 months ago
Brooklyn

Vendors Set Up Stalls In Dumbo Days After Trading Ban on Brooklyn Bridge

Street vendors removed from Brooklyn Bridge have relocated to Washington Street in Dumbo.
Vendors prefer to earn a living rather than rely on government handouts. [ more ]
moreBrooklyn
Matador Network
1 month ago
Design

10 Tourist Attractions Around the World Created by Groundbreaking Women

Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Everglades preservation
Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge [ more ]
Inside Edition
1 month ago
Mental health

NYPD Helps Woman in Mental Health Crisis Come Down From Brooklyn Bridge

Prompt assistance in mental health crises is crucial.
Collaboration between authorities and mental health services is essential. [ more ]
staten-island
www.amny.com
10 months ago
Brooklyn

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.
silive
1 year ago
NYC politics

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.
Brooklyn Eagle
1 year ago
Brooklyn

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.
morestaten-island
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
New York City

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.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York?

Critic's Notebook
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.
Nytimes
2 years ago
New York City

'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.
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Arts

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.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough has died

Historian David McCullough, shown here in 2013, has died at 89.
He wrote extensively and compellingly about American history and won two Pulitzer Prizes.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

NYC mayor's 'End Gun Violence' Met Gala jacket sparks criticism online

Tracey Collins and New York City Mayor Eric Adams at the 2022 Met Gala on Monday in New York City.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
New York City

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.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC real estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

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Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

'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.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

The Scars of Hurricane Sandy, 10 Years Later

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.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

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 Eagle
1 year ago
Books

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.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
Writing

Radical by Xiaolu Guo review a woman of character

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.
Vulture
1 year ago
Writing

Marilyn Monroe's Truth Was in Her Poetry

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.
Creative Bloq
1 year ago
Graphic design

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.
Creative Bloq
1 year ago
Graphic design

Blink and you'll miss this optical illusion changing colour

(Image credit: @Beatonthebeeb via TikTok)
Who doesn't love an optical illusion?And sometimes even the most simple of images can have an uncanny effect.Today's optical illusion is no different.
www.amny.com
1 year ago
Brooklyn

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.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Coronavirus

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."
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

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.
I Prefer Paris
1 year ago
Paris

Yayoi Kusama & Louis Vuitton

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.
Design Milk
1 year ago
Design

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.
amNewYork
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Overnight storm waterlogs Brooklyn subways causing half-dozen line disruptions | amNewYork

The overnight storm soaked the New York City subways early Tuesday morning, causing service suspensions on half a dozen lines in Brooklyn.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Europe news

Jean-Jacques Sempe, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89

Beloved in France and popular around the world, he drew more than 100 covers for The New Yorker in an association that began in 1978.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Thousands march over Brooklyn Bridge to support legal abortion after Supreme Court leak * Brooklyn Paper

Thousands of New Yorkers rallied in Cadman Plaza before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of abortion rights on Saturday.
Faithandfearinflushing
1 year ago
New York Mets

Frustration Train (On the Other Track)

I had a lousy Tuesday.
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.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
East Bay (California)

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.
Pounding The Rock
1 year ago
Brooklyn Nets

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.
The Brooklyn Game
2 years ago
Brooklyn Nets

Injury bug returns as Nets face possibility of playing without three key players - The Brooklyn Game

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports
Anyone that follows the sport of hockey knows that its fans love to blame injuries and bad luck on the hockey gods.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Exercise

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.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

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."
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

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.
Brooklyn, NY Patch
2 years ago
Brooklyn

Brooklyn Bridge Climber + Sign Slashers + BQE Encampment Removed

Good morning, Brooklyn!I am your host Patrick Murray here with 4 headlines to start your day.
Partly sunny and mild with a high of 61 and a low of 46.
San Francisco Chronicle
2 years ago
From Twitter

Golden Gate Bridge was built with tons, and nerves, of steel

The first task was to build the two massive anchorages that would support the bridge's cables.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

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.
The Infatuation
1 year ago
Coffee

The Best Iced Coffee In NYC - New York - The Infatuation

Iced coffee is a lifestyle.For some, it's a seasonal pleasure that we cling to from the moment it's almost warm enough to put away our puffy coats.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

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.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC music

The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors

Three decades ago, the New York guitarist was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.His output still hasn't slowed.
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Time Out New York
1 year ago
Music

Singer-songwriter Jessica Carter Altman releases a new music video from her new EP

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Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

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.
Medium
1 year ago
San Francisco

Falling For The 1

The new 1 Hotel San Francisco offers a unique sense of calm
I've been covering travel for awhile now.
The Verge
1 year ago
Apple

Apple Maps turns 10 - and it's finally worth using

If you own an iPhone, I invite you to check out the Brooklyn Bridge in Apple Maps.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

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.
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The project took several years.
Wiz of Awes
1 year ago
Washington Wizards

What are the Washington Wizards Doing?

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.
TNW | Neural
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

No, MIT's new AI can't determine a person's race from medical images

Editor, Neural by TNW
Tristan covers human-centric artificial intelligence advances, quantum computing, STEM, Voltron, physics, and space stuff.
amNewYork
1 year ago
Brooklyn

'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.
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