When four men were charged this week in the brazen armed robberies of two Manhattan jewelers, their ages suggested it might not be their first encounter with the criminal justice system. It wasn’t. Among them, according to officials and court documents, the men have ties to the Genovese, Lucchese and Kansas City, Mo., crime families; […]
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On the Smoke Crisis, New York City’s Mayor Chokes
As apocalyptic smoke bore down on New York City from Canadian wildfires this week, a familiar sensation rose in the acrid, choking air. New Yorkers, once again, were on their own. Mayor Eric Adams’s slow, muted response to the unhealthy smoke left the city’s more than eight million residents unprepared, scrambling to protect themselves. By […]
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The Right Has a Vigilante Fetish
It’s no coincidence that they’re soliciting donations through GiveSendGo, which Rittenhouse also used, and not the mainstream crowdfunding site GoFundMe. Penny’s lawyers understand that their client fits neatly into the right’s established narrative. Despite his lawyers’ claim that “there’s nothing political about this case,” it’s also no coincidence that Penny gave his first interview to […]
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Did N.Y. Leaders Leave Residents Unprepared for the Air Quality Crisis?
New Yorkers have grown accustomed to being inundated with well-intentioned warnings from city and state leaders, for everything from incoming snowstorms to virus outbreaks. But as the skies darkened dramatically over New York City on Tuesday evening, the air suddenly rich with acrid smoke, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul made no public appearances […]
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Cardi B Had A Truly Wild Comparison For The Smoky Air Conditions In New York City This Week
For the past week, social media users have been marveling — and fretting — over photos of the New York City skyline as a haze of smoke from Canadian wildfires has rendered the air quality a murky shade of orange (and not very safe to breathe). The tableau has been compared to the aesthetic of […]
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N.Y.C. Jails Chief Is Hiding Dysfunction at Rikers, Federal Monitor Says
A year and a half into Louis A. Molina’s tenure as correction commissioner, the federal monitor overseeing the Rikers Island jail complex on Thursday took direct aim at his leadership, saying that the violence there remains unabated and that officials are hiding information about it. “The commitment to effective collaboration, as evidenced by the department’s […]
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There Is No Plan For This Predictable Event, New York City’s Mayor Says
Hundreds of Canadian wildfires have blanketed the northeast with apocalyptic and dangerous smoke. For a period this week, New York City had the most polluted air of any major city in the world. But as of 5 p.m. on Wednesday, after the city had been enveloped in a hellscape of fire smoke so thick residents […]
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New York City Residents Will Soon Have to Compost Their Food Scraps
For New Yorkers, the city’s war on trash is about to hit home. On Thursday, the New York City Council is expected to approve a bill that will require New Yorkers to separate their food waste from regular trash, much as they already do with recyclable items. The residential mandate would roll out borough by […]
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Wildfire Smoke Envelops the U.S.
Residents of the western U.S. and Canada have become grimly accustomed to smoke-clogged air from wildfires during the summer months. This week, the problem has spread to the Midwest and the East Coast. New York City was filled with reddish haze yesterday, with its worst air quality on record. A Broadway matinee was interrupted when […]
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New York Nico Celebrates the City’s Colorful Side
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 […]
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How to Clear 500,000 Feral Cats From New York’s Streets
All was hushed just before dawn when Debbie Gabriel double-parked at her usual spot on Lefferts Avenue, a neighborhood of single-family homes and low apartment blocks in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Almost as soon as she turned off the ignition, street cats in all shades and sizes started pouring out from an alley behind a tall iron […]
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Everybody Made ‘Dune’ Jokes After NYC And Other Northeast Cities Were Plagued With Hazardous Air Quality And Orange Haze
For the last week, wildfire smoke from Canada has drifted southward, turning the air of the American northeast increasingly toxic. By Tuesday, New York City had the most toxic air of any major worldwide city. On Wednesday it got worse. Not only did the air quality index in the metropolis soared past 400 — well […]
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Orange Skies and Burning Eyes as Smoke Shrouds New York City
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 […]
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How Long Will the Smoke Last?
The worst period of hazy, unhealthy air in New York City will last from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning, according to a New York Times analysis of computer forecast models. The haze will likely vary in thickness through the overnight hours and could last through the day Thursday. The Washington, D.C., region can expect dense […]
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It’s the Perelman Performing Arts Center, But Bloomberg Gave More
It looked like it was never going to happen. Year after year, plans to build a cultural institution on the World Trade Center site percolated, only to then fizzle out. The International Freedom Center, the Joyce Theater, the Drawing Center, the Signature Theater, New York City Opera, a design by Frank Gehry — all were […]
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Air Quality This Week Gives U.S. a Glimpse of the World’s Air Pollution
In East Asia, years of chronic air pollution is one reason that wearing face masks was common well before the coronavirus pandemic. School children there are used to playing inside on bad air days. In the Korean language, bad air has a specific term — fine dust — and its levels are displayed in real […]
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Over 300 Cases Tied to Convicted NYPD Officers Are Tossed Out
Why It Matters The move by Mr. Bragg follows similar actions by district attorneys in recent years. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has been examining cases brought by 22 former New York Police Department officers who have been convicted of crimes. In November, the office dismissed 188 misdemeanor convictions going as far back as 2001 […]
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She Taught Millions of Kids the Wrong Way to Read
Dana Goldstein contributed reporting. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Dave Shaw, Sydney Harper, Robert Jimison, Mike Benoist, Liz O. […]
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Andrew Bellucci, Pizza Visionary With a Troubled Past, Dies at 59
Andrew Bellucci, who in the 1990s became one of the first chefs in New York City to achieve fame for pizza, then lost his job and reputation when an old crime caught up with him, only to return more than two decades later to a city full of pizzaioli inspired by his artisanal, traditionalist approach, […]
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NYPD Anti-Crime Units Returning to Illegal Tactics, Monitor Says
In 2020, with crime at historic lows, and amid the social justice protests that erupted after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Mr. Adams’s predecessor, Bill de Blasio, disbanded the units. But by the following year, gun violence was rising, and Mr. Adams, then a mayoral candidate, promised more aggressive policing. Critics called […]
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Uber Is Running Bizarre Ads Either For Or Against Congestion Pricing
Bloomberg / Contributor via Getty Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities. Uber is running salty ads about New York City’s congestion pricing plan that suggest it is against congestion pricing despite the company’s official stance being for congestion pricing. The beef centers on a small per trip fee instituted in 2019. […]
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Can Technology Solve the M.T.A.’s Persistent Fare Evasion Problem?
For years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has mostly relied on the same approach to deter people from sneaking into New York City’s subways without paying. As passengers trickle in, police officers stand next to turnstiles and write tickets to those who jump them. Yet even after a dramatic increase in enforcement, the transit system lost […]
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Justice For Jordan Neely: NYC Grand Juries Have Controversial History With Subway, Chokehold Cases
NewsOne Featured Video Supporters of Jordan Neely protest a rally in support of Daniel Penny at Collect Pond Park on May 24, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty A grand jury has been empaneled and is already beginning to hear evidence in the manslaughter case against a white man […]
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Stuyvesant High School Admitted 762 New Students. Only 7 Are Black.
Why It Matters: Elite high schools are a symbol, and a springboard. The city’s specialized high schools are considered crown jewels of the system and attract outsize attention. Students may receive few measurable benefits from attending them, some studies suggest. But the schools offer access to powerful alumni networks, and hold immense significance for many […]
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New York May Have Actually Lost Transit Riders by Building An $11 Billion Train Station
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities. In January, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveiled “Grand Central Madison,” a re-branding of the decades-delayed and eye-wateringly expensive East Side Access project that now brings Long Island Rail Road service to Grand Central in addition to Penn Station. […]
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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. […]
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Eric Adams Loves to Tell a Good Story. It Might Even Be True.
If there is one thing that Mayor Eric Adams has shown in his rise to power in New York City, it’s that he knows the value of telling a good story. There was the one about the family’s pet rat, Mickey, and the one about the gang fight, when he got hit in the head […]
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Why So Many Low-Income Tenants Face Eviction Cases in New York City
One of the largest providers of housing for mentally ill and formerly homeless people in New York City has started hundreds of eviction cases in an attempt to collect millions of dollars in rent that its tenants failed to pay during the pandemic, according to a new analysis of housing court records. The housing developer, […]
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A Veteran Business Journalist (and Wine Lover) Learns an Age-Old Lesson
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. We’ll look at a well-known New York store — and the troubles it has run into lately. Two words came to mind: caveat emptor. In English, buyer beware. I had been listening to one of the best and best-known business reporters in the country explain a story he had written. It […]
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Why New York City’s Lifeguard Shortage Is Worse Than Ever
As New York City’s 14 miles of public beaches open for Memorial Day weekend, the city is confronting its worst lifeguard shortage on record — something officials say is partly the result of a bitter fight between the city and the little-known but extraordinarily powerful unions that represent lifeguards. Millions of New Yorkers are facing […]
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Is It Legal to Sleep Outside in NYC? A Bill Aims to Clarify
The five words tucked into a bill listing the rights of homeless people in New York City seem straightforward enough: “The right to sleep outside.” The bill is sitting on the desk of Mayor Eric Adams. If it becomes law, it would seem to answer a question that has become a point of contention in […]
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