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By Mayor Eric Adams Posted on May 23, 2023 Photo courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Have you ever looked around your neighborhood and thoughtit would be great if we could have a community garden here, or maybe more afterschool programs for students, or special services for seniors?

The city will build out 13 new charging hubs for electric vehicles at public parking lots in the outer boroughs, the Department of Transportation announced on Monday.In all, the hubs across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens will add fifty new plugs to the city's EV charging network as the cars on the five boroughs' streets steadily electrify.

As the year nears its end, New York City Police Department (NYPD) brass on Thursday announced they made arrests in what they identified as two major Manhattan cases, one where an off-duty police officer was shot in his car in January and another involving a string of robberies that led to five possible fatal drug overdoses.

After Bjarke Ingels left Copenhagen for New York City in 2010, his first project in Manhattan was a real humdinger: The stark and pyramidal Via 57 West, an apartment building with a not-small hole sliced down the middle, allowing for a courtyard.Now Mr. Ingels is putting his stamp on other parts of the city, among them the Robert De Niro-backed Wildflower Studios, in Astoria, Queens.

When Izzy Yanay arrived in New York City in the late '70s, he was stunned he couldn't find any foie gras.After all, New York had stuffy French restaurants, if only a smattering of them.But they were apparently not stuffy enough to serve foie gras.Why won't they eat it?he recalls peppering everyone around him.

As the newest Staten Island ferry grumbled across New York Harbor the other day, you could easily imagine the woman for whom it is named in contemplation by a window.Her dress plain, her white hair in a braided crown, her eyes seeking the divine in the green-gray waters.THE Dorothy Day, for angular woman and massive vessel both.

Kathryn Marie Gallagher, a fashion designer whose pieces were worn by Lady Gaga, the actress Laverne Cox and dancers of the New York City Ballet, was working on her 27th collection last summer.A few weeks before her sudden death, she posted photos of translucent garments that reflected her Gothic aesthetic and her fondness for somber colors.

Bernard Rosen, the dependable first deputy budget director who advised four New York City mayors on how to close looming deficits by scraping together tens of millions of dollars here and tens more there, died on Oct. 22 in Queens.He was 91.The cause was heart failure, said his son, Eric, who is his only immediate survivor.

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."

Over a decade ago, Clio Goodman first tried her hand at desserts with Puddin', a shop that debuted on St. Marks Place that turned out to be a runaway hit.She opened with the backing of a client when she was 23 years old before she had any idea how to run a business or manage a shop.That shop led to her first cookbook thus far, naturally called , co-authored by Adeena Sussman and published in 2013.

New York can't get enough of Mexico City.As Mexico's capital surges in popularity as a travel destination for New Yorkers, it's sparked a wave of inspiration in the five boroughs.There's La Superior and Casa Pública, which have been anchoring Brooklyn's Mexican restaurant scene for years, and a handful of newer arrivals that include Aldama, Panzón, Taqueria Ramirez, and La Chilaquería - all of which opened in the last two years and claim to be inspired by Mexico City.

Ask New Yorkers of a certain age if Dimes Square is a place, genre or subculture and they'll likely answer "yes".Originally lifting its name from the area of the Lower East Side between Canal and Division Streets where DJs, e-girls and artists threw parties in the pandemic's early stages, the phrase rapidly became a catch-all referring to acts playing electroclash, alt-pop and indie rock at tiny Manhattan bars.

We lost Bernadette Mayer in 2022.Mayer was a poet and visual artist associated with the New York School.In this poem, the speaker wonders whether all signs pointing toward an early spring are true, despite it being only February.The poem's syntax traverses the hills and valleys of thought as the mind wanders from image to image in a stream-of-consciousness way.

"I've always wanted to meet Nate Neal!I mean, he just gets me."That's what the woman seated next to me at a recent conference said when she found out I work for AdExchanger.As the artist of AdExchanger's weekly comic for more than 13 years, Nate's playful style, creativity, humor - and hilariously on-point Easter eggs - were perfectly suited to our droll, sometimes mischievous (but always incisive) approach to covering the news.

The Edgewater neighborhood will soon be home to Casadonna, a new Coastal Italian restaurant developed in partnership between David Grutman's Groot Hospitality and Tao Group Hospitality, marking their first joint restaurant between the popular groups.Casadonna - a fusion of Italian words translating to "house of the woman"- is set to debut this summer and will be located in the historic Women's Club building, which is also home to Klaw, and will serve Riviera Italian cuisine with traditional dishes from Naples, Taormina, Bari, Positano, and Gaeta served in a contemporary way.

It was a dark Saturday night last month on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Saturday nights can get very dark, but Sabrina Brier, in a rhinestone necklace and strapless plaid pantsuit, was agleam onstage at a basement comedy club called Caveat warming up the crowd.You're the butter, I'm the microwave, she announced.

Alleva Dairy, a 130-year-old cheese store in Little Italy, closed its original location on Wednesday but will reopen in Lyndhurst, N.J.The pandemic dealt financial blows to the shop, which opened in 1892 and became known for its fresh ricotta and mozzarella.The cheese store accumulated $628,000 in back rent and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.

Ignacio Mattos, the chef and restaurateur, gave New York one of its most original restaurants of the past decade, Estela.With his latest place, Corner Bar, he seems to be out to prove that originality is overrated.I'm not sure he succeeds, but he comes a lot closer than I would have thought possible.

Last week, I put a call out to Where to Eat readers for holiday-themed questions.You didn't disappoint, sending in a fun mix of dining inquiries.One reader wanted to know which bars and restaurants have the best holiday decorations; another was looking for a special holiday meal before Christmas Day.

Nikita RichardsonEating in New York City Nikita RichardsonEating in New York City Karsten Moran for The New York Times I'm an editor for the Food section, and I write the Where to Eat: New York City newsletter.Have you noticed the city's obsession with French dining?Well, that shows no sign of dwindling.

Close to three years after New York's first indoor dining shutdown, restaurants and bars continue to struggle.More than 4,500 have closed since the onset of the pandemic due to the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Since it's difficult to track restaurant and bar closings, experts say that number is likely much higher and will take years to fully assess.

I closed my eyes to connect with my mom and the first thing I saw was a sparrow.'At the tail-end of a social media distraction scroll, I stared at my computer, transfixed.There on my Instagram feed was the perfect signet ring: atop a gold band rested the engraved emblem of a sparrow perched on a branch looking blissfully over its shoulder.

It was over a decade ago when white tablecloths went out of fashion in New York, save for the fine dining holdouts dotting upper Manhattan.But what's old appears to be new again, only remixed for 2022, at Casino, a new restaurant opening Tuesday, December 13.Located at 171 East Broadway, near Rutgers Street, Casino is Aisa Shelley's first restaurant.

The amount of excellent food available in New York City is dizzying - even during a pandemic - yet mediocre meals somehow keep worming their way into our lives.With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we do come across lots of standout dishes, and we don't want to keep any secrets.

The Fantastic Four in 1981.Courtesy of Fantastic Four Dutch settlers may have brought Double Dutch to America, but it was Black girls who put it on the map, says Lauren Walker, president of the National Double Dutch League."Double Dutch is Black girl magic.It came from a union of young girls in their community getting together to socialize, and to engage in each other's dreams and ambitions."

Parents and advocates have long called on NYC schools to increase equitable access to care for students with diabetes - a disease that affects more than 13,000 children annually - and now a recent federal court settlement could finally address those concerns.On Jan. 27, a federal court ruled that New York City's Department of Education (DOE) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by routinely denying students with diabetes access to field trips and bus transportation, a matter that stemmed from a 2018 class-action lawsuit where parents of students with Type 1 diabetes alleged the DOE systemically failed to provide basic and appropriate care for their children.

Celebrity chef David Burke has signed on to open his first new restaurant in three years at an office tower in Midtown East.According to the New York Post, the Iron Chef America star is bringing a 148-seat modern American brasserie called Park Ave Kitchen to 277 Park Avenue, between East 47th and 48th streets, in May 2023.

The plant-based banquet at Little Saint, Healdsburg
If you're like me, you can smell a vegan cupcake a mile away.I admit, when I catch the scent, it's a bit frightening.To be clear, I'm not actually vegan, just allergic to dairy.But I've felt deprived of dessert at so many dinners and events throughout the years that now, when I encounter sweets that are safe for me to eat, I ingest an obscene amount.