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New York Post
2 weeks ago
New York City

Homeless migrant busted for taking historic NYC fireboat on wild joyride: cops

A 22-year-old migrant from Ecuador took a historic fireboat on a wild journey down the Hudson River before getting stuck and hopping onto a sailboat in Manhattan. [ more ]
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2 months ago
New York City

Albert K. Butzel, Lawyer and Protector of the Hudson, Dies at 85

Albert K. Butzel was known for his work as a lawyer in defeating public works projects that threatened the environment.
He successfully blocked the Westway landfill and highway project along the Hudson River and helped stop the plan to build a hydroelectric plant in Storm King Mountain. [ more ]
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2 months ago
New York City

Albert K. Butzel, Lawyer and Protector of the Hudson, Dies at 85

Albert K. Butzel was a lawyer who fought to protect the environment and benefited New York City subway riders and the Hudson River ecosystem.
He successfully blocked the Westway landfill and highway project and a plan for a hydroelectric plant in Storm King Mountain. [ more ]
New York Post
3 months ago
New York City

Cops stumped as mystery car disappears into Hudson River

A mysterious car pulled up to a pier in Rockland County and rolled into the Hudson River, with the car and driver still missing.
Authorities have been conducting a search but have been unable to locate the car or identify the driver. [ more ]
New York Post
3 months ago
New York City

NY's $17 billion 'Gateway' tunnel project already years behind schedule, audit reveals

The Gateway project to build new tunnels under the Hudson River is already running two years behind schedule.
The project is facing challenges in staffing up and awarding contracts, which could result in significant delays and increased costs. [ more ]
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10 months ago
New York City

Fare Evasion: An Economic Necessity for Some, a Burden for the M.T.A.

Good morning.It's Monday.We'll look at fare evasion in the subways.We'll see how the favorites did at the Tony Awards, and we'll get details on a deal for a movie studio at Pier 94.The question is, is it good for the city?Image Credit...Dakota Santiago for The New York Times If today is just another Monday in New York, about 700,000 passengers will ride buses without paying the fare.
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10 months ago
New York City

Accused in Missing Man's Grisly Killing: His Ex-Wife and Her Husband

Just before 4 p.m. on April 28, 2020, Steven Kraft did as he often did on Tuesday afternoons.He left his job at a deli in Marlboro, N.Y. and headed across the Hudson River to Beacon, where he picked up his two middle-school-aged children from his ex-wife's house.He caught up with them over a fast-food dinner before returning them to their mother's home around 7 p.m.
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1 year ago
Law

A man who killed 8 bicyclists in Manhattan is convicted and may face the death penalty

A group pauses in 2017, with some in prayer, at a makeshift memorial on a New York City bike path that that honors victims of an attack who were stuck and killed by a rental truck driven by Sayfullo Saipov.The Islamic extremist was convicted of federal crimes on Thursday and could face the death penalty.
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www.amny.com
10 months ago
Brooklyn

City lifting ban on e-bikes in parks starting June 20 for yearlong pilot | amNewYork

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams The city is lifting its ban on e-bikes and scooters in parks and greenways as part of a yearlong pilot starting June 20, the Parks Department announced on Wednesday.The policy change, announced by the Adams administration in March, will permit the operators of most e-bikes and e-scooters to ride on park drives, such as the loops in Central and Prospect parks, as well as the city's greenways, such as those along the Hudson River, East River, Harlem River, and Jamaica Bay.
DIRT
11 months ago
NYC real estate

Three-Floor Manhattan Penthouse Boasts Eight Terraces, Epic Views

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A spectacular penthouse in a recently opened West End Avenue condo building is a perfect choice for those who crave privacy at home in the heart of jam-packed New York City.The building, designed by COOKFOX Architects, features 57 residences.Compass is handling the sales.One notable point about the puzzled-together complex is that it manages to gracefully integrate and interpret three distinct façades from three neighboring buildings: a 1915 palazzo-style structure; a new construction tower; and the beautiful West End Collegiate Church.
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11 months ago
NYC real estate

Amy Schumer Sells a Spacious Penthouse on the Upper West Side

The comedian Amy Schumer has finally closed on the sale of her Upper West Side apartment, a sprawling, glass-enclosed penthouse with wraparound terraces and an expansive rooftop deck overlooking the Hudson River.The buyer of the unit, perched atop 190 Riverside Drive, at West 91st Street, is the award-winning composer and lyricist Benj Pasek.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Sports

New York City Triathlon Moves to the Fall After Summer Heat Disruptions

After years of interruptions from extreme summer heat, the New York City Triathlon will move to the fall, with a race date of Oct. 1.The change comes after what has been a rough few years for the race, which is a 1,500-meter swim in the Hudson River, a 40-kilometer bike ride through Manhattan and the Bronx, and a 10-kilometer run ending in Central Park.
troyrecord
1 year ago
New York City

The Capitol Connection by Alan Chartock: Manhattan is THE place and will always be so

New York State is a pretty big place.When we try to figure out the ethos of state as a whole, we surely have to divide it up into smaller pieces.Buffalo is not Manhattan and never will be.The rural counties are a completely different beast than the Big Apple.From Buffalo to Staten Island, there are a lot of little pieces to put together in order to construct the jigsaw puzzle that is New York State.
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1 year ago
NYC real estate

Edward Albee's Loft Tops a List of High-Profile Deals in October

The playwright Edward Albee's longtime home, a TriBeCa loft where he wrote some of his most celebrated works, hosted rehearsals and readings, and displayed a vast collection of art, has finally sold six years after his death.The sale price was about $5.6 million, far lower than the nearly $9 million initially sought by his estate.
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10 months ago
New York City

Homes for Sale in New Jersey and New York

Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Paul Gibson Bergen | 12 Palisade Plaza, Edgewater, N.J.A four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, 3,900-square-foot raised ranch built in 2001 on the bank of the Hudson River, with a vaulted entryway framed by wood pillars, upper and lower decks, communal living space on the upper level and bedrooms downstairs, a family room with a gas fireplace, a game room, a sunken media room, a two-car detached garage and a small beachfront on the river.
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10 months ago
New York City

Smoke Leads to Cancellations of Hamilton' on Broadway and Hamlet' in Central Park

As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City and seeped into theaters, alarming both ticket holders and performers, the Broadway production of Hamilton and a Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet both canceled performances.Hamilton announced at 6:45 p.m. that it was canceling its 8 p.m. performance Wednesday night because so many cast members had called in sick.
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10 months ago
NYC music

Turning 100, the New Jersey Symphony Sticks to Home

When the New Jersey Symphony was planning this season's centennial celebrations, which come to a close this weekend, a question kept coming up: Would the orchestra be going to Carnegie Hall?After all, appearing at Carnegie even if that means renting the hall is a mark of excellence and validation, an exclamation point on a tour or a special occasion.
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1 year ago
NYC music

Lucy Simon, Singer and Broadway Composer, Dies at 82

Lucy Simon, who with her sister Carly began performing and recording as the Simon Sisters during the folk revival of the 1960s, and who then almost three decades later became a Tony Award-nominated composer for the long-running musical The Secret Garden, died on Thursday at her home in Piermont, N.Y.
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10 months ago
NYC real estate

Little Spain Is All but Gone. Will Our Lady of Guadalupe Be Next?

The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic house of worship on West 14th Street, is a grandly inventive architectural oddity and the mother of all Hispanic storefront churches in New York City.Manhattan's first church created for a Spanish-speaking congregation, it was cobbled together out of two adjacent rowhouses in 1902 and 1917.
Mansionglobal
1 year ago
NYC real estate

A Penthouse 'Farm' at NYC Tower With Unique History Listed for $12.5 Million

A farmhouse-style residence on Manhattan's Upper West Side has hit the market for $12.5 million.No, that's not a typo: A penthouse at the Opera building on Broadway between West 76th and West 77th streets has been reimagined in the modern farmhouse style, according to listing agent Pat Lehman of The Fabrikant Bond Team at Compass.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC real estate

A Music Producer Finds a Waterfront Home, and a More Harmonious Commute

I run the music department.
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"I gotta pay for it, so I'm there every day working and writing, constantly finding new writers and engineers to keep it going," Mr. Brown said.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC real estate

A Retiree Finds Somewhere to Call Home in Brooklyn

A New Yorker found himself in a precarious housing situation after retirement.He finally moved into his own furnished one-bedroom apartment in East New York.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC real estate

They Traded Southern California for Upstate New York (and a Barn)

When Los Angeles no longer felt right to a hairstylist and his partner, they knew they were ready for a big change.It came with a Hudson River view.
Puck Prose
11 months ago
National Hockey League

Next NHL Stadium Series in the NYC Area Will be Better Than the Last

A few months ago, it began to be rumored that MetLife Stadium would host an NHL Stadium Series game in the 2023-2024 NHL season.MetLife Stadium is home to the New York Giants and New York Jets of the NFL, but infamously actually located just across the Hudson River in New Jersey.The New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils were the two most likely teams to play in any potential outdoor game there.
www.winemag.com
11 months ago
Wine

An Unprecedented Frost Destroyed Much of New York's Wine Crop. What's Next?

In the early hours of May 18th, temperatures across the northeast plummeted below freezingbreaking all records and putting New York State crops at risk.New York is the third-largest wine producing region in the U.S., and the damage is still being assessed.Still, many are already calling it the worst freeze the state has seen in decades.
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1 year ago
Wine

Shipping Wine? Send It By Boat

The schooner Apollonia has become a part of business-as-usual for Nika Carlson, owner of Greenpoint Cidery, who makes farmhouse-style cider at her Hudson, New York facility.The bottles are loaded aboard the sailboatabout two weeks later, they arrive at the dock in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where locals can pick up a boat box.
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11 months ago
New York City

2 Bodies Found in Manhattan Rivers Are Identified as Missing Boys

The bodies of two boys, who family members said were together shortly before they disappeared over a week ago, have been recovered from separate locations in the waters off Manhattan, the police said Saturday.One of the boys, Alfa Barrie, 11, who lived in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx, was last seen on May 12, the police said.
Brownstoner
11 months ago
Brooklyn real estate

A Picturesque Catskill Italianate for $799K

Just a few blocks from Catskill's Main Street, this mid 19th century brick Italianate offers a picturesque exterior and a spacious interior with some period details.At 166 Bridge Street, the house on the market is within the National Register-listed East Side Historic District, amid a dense concentration of late 18th and 19th century architecture.
Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

5 Historic New York Houses With Holiday Decor to Visit

If a relaxing holiday escape is in the cards, you can step back in time and get some seasonal inspiration at one of New York's many historic sites.We've rounded up five houses outside of Brooklyn that have festively decked their period rooms and are offering special tours and programs.Holiday House Tours at Boscobel House and Gardens Garrison, N.Y.
Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

City to Spray for Mosquitoes in Brooklyn This Week

New York City's mosquito spraying season is in full swing, this time heading into four different boroughs this week.
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11 months ago
New York City

Small Earthquake Hits Just North of New York City

A minor earthquake rumbled through parts of Westchester County in New York early on Friday, with tremors reportedly felt in New York City and towns in northern New Jersey.There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.The earthquake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 2.2, occurred around 1:50 a.m. about a mile south of Hastings-on-Hudson, a village of about 8,000 people, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Observer
11 months ago
NYC drinking

The Best Rooftop Bars in New York City

Once the weather warms up, it's officially rooftop season in New York.Whether you're craving inventive, Instagram-worthy cocktails (perhaps with a popsicle, or complete with a side of a movie night with epic views) there are rooftop locales for every type of adventure.If you don't feel like making the journey all the way to a hotel for your waterfront or cityscape photos, check out one of these ultra-glam rooftops, found all across New York City.
Secret NYC
1 year ago
NYC drinking

15 Best Fireplace Bars And Restaurants In NYC - Secret NYC

It's cold out there!And with a "winter bomb cyclone" set to approach NYC and the Northeast this weekend, it's time to stay warm by any means necessary.Whether that means snuggling up in your apartment, or meandering to grab a drink around the town, it should be done with thought!To make things easier, we've rounded up some of the coziest bars in NYC.
Fox Business
11 months ago
NYC real estate

Mike Myers' $20 million New York City penthouse hits the market

Mike Myers' New York City private-floor penthouse apartment has hit the market.The "Austin Powers" star, 59, has listed his home for $20 million with Compass Realty.The condominium is located in the coveted West Chelsea neighborhood, just above Highline Park in Manhattan."The penthouse is exceptional for the following reasons," Leonard Steinberg, Compass chief evangelist and corporate broker, said in a statement.
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1 year ago
NYC real estate

New Condos and Old Townhouses Lead the Pack in February Sales

Mickey Drexler, the veteran retail executive who ran J. Crew and the Gap for many years, finally sold his TriBeCa townhouse, a former coffee-roasting plant built in the 1890s that he transformed into a fashionable single-family home.The sale price was $23.5 million, which was a sizable discount from the nearly $30 million he had sought when the house, at 464 Greenwich Street, first hit the market almost seven years ago.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

No Architecture inserts "garden folly" into New York duplex apartment

Wooden structures supporting net hammocks rise up through the two-storey interior of this apartment in New York's West Village, designed by No Architecture.The Urban Tree House residence comprises two units in a skyscraper overlooking the Hudson River called 165 Charles Street, designed by Richard Meier & Partners and completed in 2005.
SFGATE
1 year ago
SF real estate

Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany Drop the Price of Their Tribeca Penthouse Loft to $10.8M

"Top Gun: Maverick" star Jennifer Connelly and her husband, fellow actor Paul Bettany, have slashed the price of their Tribeca penthouse loft.
SFGATE
1 year ago
SF real estate

Bauhaus Along the Hudson: One-of-a-Kind Design in New York

Bauhaus-style homes from the early 20th century are extremely rare in the U.S., so when a grand model in Massachusetts came on the market last month, design aficionados took notice.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC real estate

An Opera Star Is Selling His Starter Home in the West Village

Anthony Roth Costanzo, the countertenor - and real estate impresario - bought his one-bedroom co-op on Horatio Street nine years ago.He is asking $965,000.
SFGATE
11 months ago
SF real estate

Behold Birchwood: The $1.8M Hudson Valley Home Is in Harmony With Nature

Realtor.comThe 1970 home known as Birchwood is a modern marvel that sits between a 500-acre park and the Hudson River in New York.The asymmetrical, 3,600-square-foot house is wedged into a wooded mountainside.It has had no fewer than three architects working on it over the years.It's fully restored and available for $1,850.000.
SFGATE
1 year ago
SF real estate

Drummer Anton Fig's Airy NYC Apartment on the River Hits the Market for $2.9M

Getty Images / Realtor.comAnd the beat goes on.Longtime drummer Anton Fig, who played in Paul Shaffer's house band for the "Late Show With David Letterman," is ready to make a move.The musician recently listed his posh, loft-like apartment on Manhattan's West Side for $2,995,000.He paid $2,404,000 for it in 2015.
SFGATE
1 year ago
SF real estate

It's Divine: Listed for $2.8M, Former NY Church Is Ready for Its Next Congregants

MLS via Realtor.comA once-hallowed building in New York's Hudson Valley has served an array of purposes since it was constructed nearly a century ago-and it's ready for another.Constructed in 1933, the red brick structure began its life as a church and has been born again as a yoga space, photo studio, chocolate factory, and events venue.
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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.
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1 year ago
New York City

The Robots Can't Take Taxi-Whistling Away From Me

When I was a kid, I spent my summers at a sleep-away camp in the Berkshires.The activities on offer included baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, swimming, sailing, fishing, water polo, archery, arts and crafts (my 92-year-old mother still has a faux-opal necklace I made for her), photo lab (I took a lot of bad pictures of elm trees) and electronics shop (I have Proustian memories of the smell of solder: gross yet intoxicating!).
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1 year ago
Sports

Who is Fairleigh Dickinson, the No. 16 Seed That Beat Purdue?

The men's basketball team at Fairleigh Dickinson University, a private commuter school with a campus in Teaneck, N.J., went 4-22 last season.Three of its best players and its coach were competing in Division II.And the Knights, playing in the Northeast Conference, didn't even win their conference tournament, a title they normally would have needed to make the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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1 year ago
Sports

Rutgers Men's Basketball Turns the Garden Red for One Day

The bundled masses, dressed in Rutgers red, crossed the Hudson River something that any true Jerseyite does begrudgingly, even when the temperature isn't hovering in the single digits.They filed into Madison Square Garden on Saturday morning, filling the arena nearly up to the Harry Styles banner in the rafters.
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1 year ago
Sports

They Came Out of Nowhere. Then They Went Everywhere.

The New York Times Sports department is revisiting the subjects of some compelling stories from the last year or so.In March, the men's basketball team from St. Peter's University in Jersey City, N.J., became the highest seed in the history of the N.C.A.A. tournament to advance to the round of 8, eliminating second-seeded Kentucky, No. 7 Murray State and No. 3 Purdue.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Sports

Huff, Pant, Sweat: High Heat Shortens the New York City Triathlon

Excessive heat disrupted the New York City Triathlon on Sunday, forcing organizers to shorten the race and make other accommodations for safety.
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1 year ago
New York City

Fairleigh Dickinson, Barely in the N.C.A.A. Tournament, Topples Purdue in a Shocker

COLUMBUS, Ohio Fairleigh Dickinson, a No. 16 seed in the N.C.A.A. men's tournament, on Friday night outclassed Purdue, a mighty No. 1 seed that boasted arguably the top player in college basketball, delivering the most shocking upset in the sport in half a decade.I can't even explain it.I'm shocked right now, Sean Moore, a junior forward who led Fairleigh Dickinson with 19 points, said after the game went final, his team on top, 63-58.
FanSided
1 year ago
National Football League

Cryptic Aaron Rodgers tweet only raises more questions

An Aaron Rodgers tweet on Monday night didn't provide any clarity as the Jets and Packers both await a decision from the quarterback.All day on Monday, fans in the NFL wanted to hear from Aaron Rodgers.When he finally spoke, he just confused and infuriated people more.Here's what the Packers quarterback tweeted at 10:43 p.m. ET: "SULLLLLL."
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1 year ago
Wellness

The Beauty of Expiration-Date Dating

So as a neurology nurse, Finbar said, what's one thing you'll never do?Nobody had ever asked me that question.Ride a bike without a helmet, I said.Or take cocaine.This was last June at a bar in Burlington, Vt., where I was in nurse practitioner school, and Finbar was well, I wasn't sure exactly what he was doing.
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1 year ago
Wellness

Tiny Love Stories: A Wife Who Left'

I'm 5-foot-4.The tallest man I've dated seriously was 5-foot-8; the man I once thought of as my soul mate was 5-foot-6.I like being eye level with my partner.I don't like being towered over.After a series of failed relationships, including a divorce, friends introduced me to a historian.They described him as charming and funny, but tall.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Wellness

Kayaking: An Outdoor Adventure and a Full-Body Workout

Why Not Try...
Watercraft sales exploded during the pandemic, and many more garages now have kayaks in them.But do you know how to get the best workout in one?
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1 year ago
New York City

How a Spotify Storyteller Spends Her Sundays

Mimi O'Donnell is the head of scripted fiction at the streaming company Spotify, where she has directed audio series like Case 63 with Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, and Quiet Part Loud, starring Tracy Letts and co-produced with Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions.Podcasts used to be mostly investigative reporting or talk show, the fiction space is new, she said.
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1 year ago
US politics

Biden Budget Routes $1.2 Billion to Big Transit Projects in New York

President Biden's budget plan, released on Thursday, routes about $1.2 billion to two of the biggest transit projects in New York City: the Second Avenue Subway extension and new train tunnels under the Hudson River.Because the funding was already allocated in the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that was signed into law in 2021, it does not require additional congressional approval, said Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader.
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1 year ago
New York City

As U.S. Argued for Death Penalty, Bike Path Victims Gave Voice to Pain

A little girl standing on her toes to place her palm on her deceased father's image on a television screen.A mother who has left her son's bedroom exactly as it was on Halloween 2017.A man married to a woman who lost her legs who clutches a pair of her socks in bed every night, yearning for the contact of her feet.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Bike Path Attacker's Father Testifies to Save Son: He Ruined Their Lives'

Habibulloh Saipov saw his son for the first time in 13 years this week.He said Thursday that he expected that he would never see him again.The son, Sayfullo Saipov, was convicted last month in Manhattan federal court of using a truck to kill eight people on the West Side bike path on Halloween Day 2017 and to injure many others.
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1 year ago
New York City

Bike-Path Attacker's Mother Says She Wanted Tired' Son to Leave U.S.

One day in 2017, Mukaddas Saipova, of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, saw her son whom she knew as helpful, loving and kind on a television news broadcast.She fainted, an ambulance came and she stayed in a hospital for a week.Her son, Sayfullo Saipov, had just committed the deadliest terrorist attack in New York City since 9/11.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

As Bike-Path Trial Nears Its End, Lawyers Argue Over Attacker's Life

A federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people in a 2017 truck attack on a Manhattan bike path, was a proud terrorist whose actions merit the most severe punishment the law provides the death penalty.He chose to come to this country and then fight for an enemy, the prosecutor, Amanda Houle, said during the closing arguments of the penalty phase of Mr. Saipov's trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Bike-Path Terror Trial Is Wrapping Up in Federal Court

The case of Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek immigrant who has been charged with driving a truck onto a Manhattan bike path and killing eight people on Halloween Day in 2017, is likely to go to the jury on Wednesday.The attack was the deadliest in New York City since Sept. 11, 2001, the authorities have said.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Jurors in Bike Path Terror Case Ask What Would Happen if They Acquitted

The jurors weighing the case of an Uzbek man charged in a deadly 2017 truck attack on a Manhattan bike path appear to be focused on a fundamental but stunning question: What would happen if they acquitted him?The issue has arisen in a flurry of notes the jurors have sent to the judge almost from the start of their deliberations, which began late on Wednesday and continued on Thursday in the trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger: Safety in the skies is paramount. Don't cheapen pilot training and experience.

In backrooms and dark corners, airline lobbyists, particularly the Regional Airline Association, are scurrying all over Washington, still trying to undo all the hard work that has been done to make air travel the safest form of transportation in human history.They're doing this for the usual reasons.
Secret NYC
1 year ago
Books

10 Most Beautiful And Best Libraries In NYC To Spend A Day At

Believe it or not, NYC's libraries are some of the most prestigious around the country (and world for that matter).Whether you're looking for somewhere to curl up with your new book, or want somewhere lesser known to admire architecture, there's plenty of places to do it!From the famous New York Public Library in Midtown to lesser known (but equally beautiful) spots, you're sure to be in awe when you see the detailing and book collections these places have to offer.
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1 year ago
New York City

A Pigeon Was Dyed. Then It Died. Now the Police Are Investigating.

The New York City Police Department's Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad said Thursday it was investigating how a white king pigeon, nicknamed Flamingo, ended up dyed completely pink before being found by rescuers.The bird, which was taken to a wildlife rehabilitation organization last week, died earlier this week.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Holland Tunnel Out of New York City Will Close Overnight Through 2025

More than a decade after Hurricane Sandy swamped it with 30 million gallons of brackish water, the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River is getting an overhaul that will divert traffic leaving New York City for nearly three years.The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced on Tuesday that it would close the New Jersey-bound north tube of the tunnel six nights a week, starting Feb. 5.
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1 year ago
New York City

Ex-Gynecologist Who Abused Patients Charged With Luring Them to Office

More than a decade ago, a woman traveled from Upper Saddle River, N.J., to Manhattan, crossing the Hudson River to see her gynecologist, Robert A. Hadden.After a routine checkup with a nurse in the room, Mr. Hadden left.Moments later, he returned alone, she testified on Monday, and sexually assaulted her.
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.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Dining

The Top Inexpensive New York Restaurants of 2022

I loved a lot of restaurants in 2022.Here are some where a normal person can eat an astoundingly good meal for about $10.An abnormal person, by which I mean anyone who orders the way I do, might spent twice as much.It will be worth it.As you wander through Chinatown's first Flushing-style food court, your eye may be caught by the signs hawking Sanmiwago's Taiwanese noodle soups and fried chicken.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Dining

Five New Restaurants to Try Near the Catskills

Do you remember the first time you drove or took a train toward the Catskills?Is there anything more magical?
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1 year ago
New York City

Hometown of Tyler Adams, U.S. Captain, Still Proud Even With Loss

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y.The United States may be out of the World Cup, but the team's elimination on Saturday did little to dim the pride for the team's captain, Tyler Adams, in his Hudson Valley hometown.Adams, 23, is one of the youngest players to be captain of the U.S. men's national team, and his play in Qatar had captured the attention of those around his hometown, Wappinger, between Poughkeepsie and Fishkill, near the banks of the Hudson River.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Environment

Gov. Hochul touts start of construction on transmission line bringing clean energy to NYC

ALBANY - Gov. Hochul celebrated the start of construction Wednesday on a 339-mile transmission line that will carry clean energy from Canada to New York City.The project, known as the Champlain Hudson Power Express, will transport hydroelectric power from Quebec to the city and produce about 10.4 million kilowatt-hours per year.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

The real black hole' in the UK's finances is HS2 let's kill off this monstrosity for good | Simon Jenkins

In April 2020, the then chancellor Rishi Sunak gave his approval to a new railway to Birmingham, expected to cost 44bn.Contracts were promptly signed.The overall HS2 project is estimated at 100bn.An infuriated Whitehall official told me at the time: Never let that man say he cannot afford any item of public expenditure.
Food & Beverage Magazine
1 year ago
Food & drink

New York Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One, Southern Glazers and Food Network, With Star Chefs such as Rocco Dispirito, Buddy Valastro and Jet Tila at Pier 76 in NYC, with highlighted sampling by luxury and sustainable tequila El Cristiano.

NYCWFF New York Wine & Food Festival was a star studded four day event showcasing the industry's most notable chefs, restaurants, beverages, wines and spirits brands, such as  El Cristiano Tequila.The Grand tasting events held at Pier 76 Hudson River Park on Saturday and Sunday, October 15th and 16th in Manhattan, featured incredible wine, food and beverage sampling, culinary demos, book signings by Food Network stars, and interactive experiences as guests overlooked beautiful views of the Hudson River.
Food & Beverage Magazine
1 year ago
Food & drink

THE LONG-AWAITED AND MUCH-ANTICIPATED BODEGA BAGEL BY SONIA EL-NAWAL DEBUTS IN HENDERSON SEPTEMBER 6TH

Bagel lovers rejoice - Bodega Bagel opens in Henderson September 6 th.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC real estate

Rupert Holmes, on Creating an Upstate Escape

Over the decades, the playwright, novelist and singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes has collected quite the haul of trophies and treasures.They include  deep breath, now  two Tony Awards (for the book and score of his 1985 musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood), two Edgar Awards, 16 gold records, and 15 platinum records, including for his 1979 earworm Escape.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties: In Williamsburg: a two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,120-square-foot apartment with a combined living and dining room, an open kitchen with a breakfast bar, a primary suite, a balcony that's accessible from both bedrooms, and a washer and dryer, in a non-doorman building from 2008.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC real estate

$1.4 Million Homes in New York, Rhode Island and Utah

A three-bedroom co-op in the Villa Charlotte Brontë in New York City, a 1795 house in Providence and a colonial-style home in Salt Lake City.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC real estate

$380,000 Homes in Texas, Maryland and New Jersey

A Victorian cottage in Galveston, a 1900 rowhouse in Baltimore and a one-bedroom apartment in Jersey City.
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Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

American Foursquare House in Columbia County Asks $565K

The street name, Rectory Lane, gives away a bit of the history behind this foursquare house in Stuyvesant, N.Y.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

Dezeen Awards 2022 architecture public vote winners feature cork-clad housing blocks

After 16,700 votes, Dezeen readers have named projects by Scott Whitby Studio, Officeu Architects and Rozana Montiel as the winners of this year's Dezeen Awards public vote in the architecture categories.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

"We're living through an epidemic of boringness" says Thomas Heatherwick

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has railed against the "characterless buildings" he believes dominate new urban developments and called for architecture with more "emotion" in a talk at Singapore Design Week.
Streetsblog New York City
1 year ago
San Francisco

The Day I Was Hit By a Driver Changed My Life, And My City, Forever

Every October, I get itchy.The air loosens, the light turns golden - and I begin to question life in the city all over again.
iRunFar
1 year ago
Running

This Week In Running: October 3, 2022

October's full of fun.There's Oktoberfest, Halloween, and Frugal Fun Day.And this past week, there was Ultra Pirineu, Spartathlon, and some World Mountain Running Association World Cup racing.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

HMS Queen Elizabeth anchors in New York as Truss plans to strengthen UK-US bond

HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived in New York for its deployment to the United States to host an Anglo-American military conference.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

5 Things to Know About New York's Primary on Tuesday

Several contentious races have stirred up intraparty fighting, with ramifications for Washington and how abortion politics will play out during the fall elections.
Chicago Sun-Times
1 year ago
Chicago White Sox

Andrew Vaughn becoming a Mr. Clutch for White Sox

In a short but impressive span, White Sox outfielder Andrew Vaughn has drawn comparisons to flight hero Sully Sullenberger and 17-year first baseman Tino Martinez.
Their link?
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

'Romeo & Juliet' Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed Lovers

With age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

One Day in the Heat: What Cooling Off Looks and Feels Like in New York

How do you stay cool when the weather is so hot?The answers are as diverse as the city itself.
Shady, if not scenic: One man cooled off under the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive in Manhattan.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

A Secret Platform That Might Make Penn Station Better

Samuel Turvey led the way to where he could admire his secret place from a distance.It turned out to be a not-so-secret secret place.It was right there in plain sight.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

Boy, 7, and Woman Dead After Boat Capsizes in Hudson River

Ten passengers were injured when the private boat overturned near a pier in Midtown Manhattan, officials said.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

Boy, 7, and Woman Dead After Boat Capsizes in Hudson River

Ten passengers were injured when the private boat overturned near a pier in Midtown Manhattan, officials said.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Science

Manhattanhenge, a unique urban phenomenon, sets for the last time this year

A woman rides a bike on 42nd St. in New York during Manhattanhenge in 2016.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Education

Opinion | An Ode to the Queen City of the Hudson

I had good reason to think that.At the turn of the 19th century, factories here produced glass, beer, natural wood dyes, clothing, furniture and more.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

N.J. Transit Shuts Down Train Service, Blaming Engineer Sickout

The closures came after a day of cancellations across the system that began in the morning and had worsened by the evening.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Dolphins in New York Harbor

For two years, an array of six underwater microphones tracked the feeding noises of marine mammals newly prevalent in New York waters.
It's a riddle.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Pennsylvania Republican primary conceded to Trump-backed Mehmet Oz

David McCormick has conceded the Republican primary in Pennsylvania for US Senate to the celebrity heart surgeon Dr Mehmet Oz, ending his campaign more than two weeks after the election as he acknowledged an ongoing statewide recount wouldn't give him enough votes to make up the deficit.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

The Women of Fleet Week Hit the Town

Shore leave for 3,000 sailors in New York City no longer means a night out for the boys.
It takes a certain panache to wear white in New York City.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

How a Delta Air Lines Executive Spends His Sundays

Ryan Marzullo is overseeing the design and construction of a new multibillion-dollar terminal at La Guardia Airport.
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