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Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams The city has given the greenlight for weekend events to move forward as smoky conditions that have shrouded the city in recent days begin to dissipate, officials said during a briefing Friday.Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city's health commissioner, said weekend events such as the Governors Ball Musical Festival and the Belmont Stakes can proceed as planned.

Crystal's Corner is a monthly column written by New York City Council member Crystal Hudson (District 35), Chair of the Committee on Aging.Every New Yorker knows there are a handful of fundamental truths about living in the greatest city in the world: Times Square should be avoided at all costs, we have the best bagels, and your landlord is probably terrible.

Preparations for the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge are underway, with this year's event on New Year's Day marking the 120th anniversary of the traditional icy dip into the Atlantic.Organized by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, this year's "Plunge for Coney" event will see thousands of fearless participants descend onto Coney Island Beach in blankets and bathing suits in an effort to fundraise for the community.

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New York City saw its first baby of 2023 come into the world at the stroke of midnight at a Brooklyn medical center.Kingsley Mei arrived at the stroke of midnight - right around the time the ball finished dropping at Times Square - at NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health Center, according to the medical facility.

Thousands of New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island on Sunday to participate in the 120th annual Polar Bear Plunge, starting the New Year with a splash in the freezing cold Atlantic Ocean.The Coney Island Polar Bear Club, the oldest winter bathing group in the country, has been hosting the yearly icy swim since 1903 - and now uses the event as a fundraising event for local community organizations like the Alliance for Coney Island, the New York Aquarium, and the Coney Island History project.

More Than Likes is a series about social media personalities who are trying to do positive things for their communities.Before he was New York Nico (handle: @newyorknico), the popular social-media documentarian of New York's quirks and characters, Nicolas Heller was the mayor of 16th Street at age 3. On his walk home from nursery school, Mr. Heller would check in with all the friendly faces on the block: the manager at Steak Frites who kept a tub of ice cream with the boy's name on it; the security guard at the tile store who tipped his cap and made funny faces at him; the antique-clothing salespeople who would turn their standing mirror around so he could see his reflection.

The smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles north that turned New York into a scene of unsettling gloom on Wednesday arrived as if from a burning building blocks away, draping the city in a thick and otherworldly orange-gray hue.In the air hung the acrid smell of a campfire.Not fog, not mist, not really weather at all this was something new to even veteran New Yorkers.

Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in court in New York on Jan. 22, 2020.The actor has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records.Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, File, Pool NEW YORK Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records.

Jollibee, the Filipino fast-food chain with a cult following in the United States, will open its next location in Elmhurst, Queens.The chain has signed a lease at 91-19 Queens Boulevard in Flushing, across from the Queens Center Mall, the website Secret NYC reports.It's Jollibee's fifth location in the city, following the opening of its flagship outpost at 1500 Broadway, between West 43rd and 44th streets, in Times Square last year.

Alexander Campagna and his wife, Andrea, lifelong residents of Buffalo, were ready to wait the blizzard out.They had stocked the fridge and planned for a quiet holiday weekend indoors at their home in suburban Williamsville, N.Y., as long as the power stayed on.Then, on Friday at 2 p.m., with the storm already swirling and snow rapidly piling up, making roads impassable, there was a knock at the door.

Unlike the swift hype cycle surrounding virtual worlds and digital collectibles, AI is positioned to have enduring impacts on the marketing landscape, according to Pratik Thakar, global head of creative strategy and integrated content at Coca-Cola.With the initial burst of excitement from brands around technologies such as NFTs and the metaverse fizzling out, it has seemed artificial intelligence has taken its place as the latest marketing buzzword.

Rihanna hasn't even performed at the Super Bowl yet, and her halftime show look has already inspired a wax figure.On Tuesday, Madame Tussauds announced two new wax figures of the singer and business mogul - just in time for Sunday's big game.The statues will feature Rihanna's showstopping ensemble from the 2018 Met Gala and a yet-to-be-revealed costume from her highly anticipated halftime performance.

On Thursday evening, more than 1,000 writers, presenters and guests gathered for the PEN America Literary Awards at Town Hall near Times Square.Just before 6 p.m., the staff set up a small red carpet area for what has been called the Oscars for books.Slowly, luminaries from the worlds of literature and entertainment Susan Choi, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Lorne Michaels, Diane Sawyer arrived.

Karin Fong is an Emmy award-winning director and designer.A founding member of Imaginary Forces, she works at the intersection of live-action, design, and animation.The California native finds inspiration in everything from surrealism to "Schoolhouse Rock" - and it shows.Karin's work expresses a love of storytelling, strong concepts, and striking imagery.

When you think of the results from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), images of swirling colorful clouds in nebulae, galaxies older than we've ever seen before, and infant stars being born probably come to mind.In its first year in space, results from NASA's new powerhouse telescope have graced the cover of Scientific American, billboards in Times Square, and the computer screens of avid astronomy enthusiasts and casual readers alike.

Virtual restaurants - the online businesses that exist on delivery apps but don't have a storefront of their own - might be getting out of hand.Four bodegas on the Upper East Side account are operating under at least 76 different names on Seamless, local website Upper East Site reports.East Side Market, at 1463 York Avenue, near East 77th Street, is responsible for at least 18 of them, appearing on the app under Fatties Philly Cheesesteaks, Baker's Boys Breakfast Sandwiches, Jay's Breakfast Bar, Croissant Club, and other names.

A fish and chips chain from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay - called Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips, of course - has touched down in Times Square at 1500 Broadway, near Seventh Avenue.Manhattan gets the fourth U.S. location of this growing chain, which got a tepid thumbs up from the Washington Post last month for its well-battered fish and "airport" fries.

How do you honor the death of a comedy club?First, you kill.Walking onstage late Friday night at the final headlining show at Carolines on Broadway, which after three decades is closing its doors, Dave Attell handled that job quickly, spraying punch lines, roasting the front row and making sure the raucous audience knew it was part of history.

After the two fought in a game, Chicago White Sox pitcher Joe Kelly wanted to confront former New York Yankees prospect Tyler Austin in Times Square.At the early start of the 2018 season, the Yankees were up at Fenway Park to take on their most hated rival, the Boston Red Sox.At the beginning of the game, Austin slid into second base and appeared to spike a Red Sox infielder with his metal cleats.

Federal prosecutors filed charges on Tuesday against a 19-year-old Maine man whom the authorities have portrayed as carrying out a jihad-inspired terrorist attack on three New York City police officers near Times Square on New Year's Eve.State prosecutors said last week that the man, Trevor Bickford, had told investigators after he was arrested in the attack on the officers that he had come to New York to kill people and carry out jihad.