NY Times: Local
- New York Today: Helicopter Season Got Off to a Bad Start. Will That Dampen the Appeal?
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 05:46 AMMonday: Some companies circumvent New York restrictions by operating from heliports in New Jersey.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police Officer Hired Hit Man to Kill Her Husband and a Young Girl, Officials Say
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 06:33 PMValerie Cincinelli, a New York City police Officer, paid $7,000 and suggested the best ways to kill her estranged husband, and her boyfriend’s daughter, according to a federal complaint.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robert Mnuchin Would Rather Not Discuss His Client (or His Son)
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 09:36 AMThe treasury secretary’s father, a New York art dealer, paid a record price last week for a work by a living artist. But for whom?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Thousands of Taxi Drivers Were Trapped in Loans, Top Officials Counted the Money
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 03:00 AMThe government profited and looked away as thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were ravaged by exploitative loans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - De Blasio Once Ignored Trump. But in Iowa, It Was All Trump.
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 06:38 PMThe mayor made his first trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate, showing off his new focus on criticizing Mr. Trump.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Last Chapter of bookbook: A Greenwich Village Institution Closes
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 11:40 AMAfter 35 years on Bleecker Street, the store will close by the end of this month. But the owners will still ply their wares at a nearby farmer’s market — and at a pickle stand.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Album: The City’s Most Arresting Signs Over the Decades
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 11:04 AMA new book featuring the photographs of Lee Friedlander shows the significance of random public announcements like ‘No Parking’ and ‘Everything Must Go!’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In the High-Flying Hamptons, Real Estate Is in a Rut
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:00 AMWith inventory up and prices down, a persistent buyer can negotiate a great deal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Are Surfer Cafes and Green Markets What a Working-Class Beach Neighborhood Needs?
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:00 AMSleepy Arverne is attracting entrepreneurs from its neighbor to the west, Rockaway Beach. As gentrification there continues, the community adjusts to the spotlight.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In the Hamptons, Modernism Rises (Again)
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:01 AMInstead of classic beach houses with cedar shingles, developers are building more sleek, contemporary homes with flat roofs and lots of glass.
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- Metropolitan Diary: ‘She Asked Where I Was Headed. Just Wandering, I Said.’
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 03:00 AMOutside an East Village thrift shop, spotting the perfect bag on the No. 6 and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 75 Years After D-Day, Planes Fly Off for ‘Never Seen Before’ World War II Commemoration
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 03:14 PMThe historic aircraft are part of the “D-Day Squadron” that left Sunday for a weeklong, trans-Atlantic flight in preparation for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 03:00 AMThousands of immigrants who were chasing the dream of owning a New York taxi were trapped in reckless loans by bankers who made huge profits, The Times found.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Hotbed for Lacrosse? A School in Harlem Makes Its Case
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 09:41 PMFrederick Douglass Academy in Harlem is playing for its third straight New York City boys’ lacrosse title. The team is a sign of progress for a sport seen as elite, suburban and mostly white.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Critic’s notebook: 2 Batsheva-Bred Choreographers, Speaking in Their Own Tongues
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 03:36 PMShamel Pitts and Bobbi Jene Smith, veterans of Ohad Naharin’s company, showed their distinctive dance voices in New York performances.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kirsten Gillibrand Is Struggling. Will Abortion Rights Be Her Rallying Cry?
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 11:32 AMThe New York senator is mired near the bottom of most polls but hopes to jump-start her campaign and fund-raising as she aggressively criticizes anti-abortion laws in Alabama and other states.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Next Chapter for the Wineries on Long Island’s North Fork
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 07:45 AMThe East End’s first vineyards were planted in the 1970s, and some family-owned businesses are now attracting investors from elsewhere.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Who Runs New York When the Mayor Campaigns for President?
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:00 AMNow that Bill de Blasio has announced he’s running for president, what happens when he leaves to campaign?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Exclusive: East Hampton’s Own White House
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:01 AMThe seven-bedroom mansion known for the geraniums in its many window boxes goes on the market for $12.5 million.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New York Today: De Blasio Wants to Be President. Can His Record Sway ‘Everyday People’?
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:03 AMFriday: The mayor, who became the 23rd candidate in the Democratic race, is emphasizing his accomplishments in New York City.
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- Why the New York Public Library Has 7 Floors of Stacks With No Books
Monday - 05/20/2019 - 05:00 AMIn Midtown Manhattan, space is prized. But stacks at the library’s main branch are empty because officials say the space cannot protect irreplaceable books from the elements and theft.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - About New York: Why a Witness to Eric Garner’s Death Is Giving Up on ‘Justice’
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 11:30 AMThe only public hearing into what happened to Mr. Garner — who exclaimed “I can’t breathe” as he died from a police chokehold — takes a microscopic view of a galvanizing event, our columnist writes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What's Selling Now: Homes That Sold for Around $1,500,000
Sunday - 05/19/2019 - 05:00 AMRecent residential sales in New York City and the region.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nxivm Trial: Naked Meetings and Photos for Sex Cult ‘Grandmaster’
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 07:47 PMLauren Salzman, a senior member of the group, described how women would array themselves naked in front of the group’s founder as he sat in a chair and lectured.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nxivm Trial: Naked Meetings and Photos for Sex Cult ‘Grandmaster’
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 06:02 PMLauren Salzman, a senior member of the group, described how women would array themselves naked in front of the group’s founder as he sat in a chair and lectured.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - $461,646 in Pay for One Worker: M.T.A. Overtime Scrutinized by Prosecutors
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 10:50 AMHandwritten bookkeeping is still in use at the Long Island Rail Road. Now the practice is the subject of a federal inquiry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - David Byrne Is Coming to Broadway
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 10:00 AMThe pop artist is retooling his “American Utopia” show for a 15-week run from October to January.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sunday Routine: How the Members of the Band AJR Spend Their Sundays
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:00 AMFrom planning their next tour to going out for sushi, the Met brothers are, for the most part, inseparable.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Big City: Where are the Statues of L.G.B.T.Q. Pioneers? Here Are 11 Worthy New Yorkers
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 05:00 AMVirtually nonexistent among the city’s monuments, L.G.B.T.Q. men and women have made outsize contributions to New York’s identity. It is long past time they were put on a pedestal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - the Tony Awards: 30 Minutes Before Curtain: Hugs, Prayers, Laughter and Noise
Friday - 05/17/2019 - 04:00 AMThings are tense and tingly enough before the curtain rises at any time of the year. What’s it like during prize season?
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