It's Tuesday in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to overhaul parts of Brooklyn’s Linden Boulevard, which some lawmakers have deemed the city’s "new Boulevard of Death."
Transportation department officials last night showed a local community board a redesign that would add bus lanes, concrete islands and expanded pedestrian space to a one-mile stretch of the street between Fountain and Conduit avenues.
Housing attorneys in New York City say there's been a "worrying uptick" in landlords threatening to call ICE during disputes with tenants.
Former NYPD Sergeant Erik Duran, who was convicted of manslaughter for throwing a cooler at a man during a drug bust, was released from state prison yesterday and will remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced that during the World Cup, bars and restaurants in New York will be able to stay open later and apply for permits to host outdoor watch parties.
A West Village resident who works for Elon Musk's xAI company created a website that streams live security camera footage of the lines outside several popular restaurants — ostensibly to indicate how long wait times are — and it's creeping some people out.
My neighbors at work: on one-block, one-way Church Street, weighted at one end by a blue limestone Renaissance Revival for the Presbyterians, 1872, and at the other a Gothic Revival for the Episcopalians, 1869.
The common crows are nondenominational, but prefer the high eves of the First Presbyterian for their messy nests, cawing and rattling, mobbing a red tail hawk with evil intentions, defending their alleyway. Folks come and go for the free lunch, the “poor of pocket and the poor of spirit alike”, the sign says, hot meals prepared by silver-haired church ladies who, like the crows, form their own community of caring.
Nearby are Saint Joseph’s, a Gothic with a patterned brickwork tower built in 1872 for the Catholics, and the First Baptist (formerly the Second Baptist), a Greek Revival from 1847, and the smaller, plainer 1978 Unitarian Universalist, with its rainbow flag and monthly poetry nights, all welcome, even the atheists.
I bypass these houses of worship on my way to lunch spots, the courthouse, the thrift store, the coffee shop, putting off my vow to someday visit, as I’ve done in far-off places—the modest and mighty in Florence, Nova Scotia, New York City—but never these beauties, my holy neighbors.
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More than two dozen rare books — including a bound collection of love letters by poet John Keats — were stolen at some point between 1982 and 1989 from the Long Island estate of John Hay Whitney, a wealthy New York publisher who once served as president of the Museum of Modern Art.
