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Mayor Bill de Blasio gave an upadate on the Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak in the South Bronx. Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Basset is to his right and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is on his left. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeff Mays MANHATTAN — Top officials at a Manhattan nonprofit gave themselves hundreds of thousand dollars…
Every morning before his shift, Edwin Raymond, a 30-year-old officer in the New York Police Department, ties up his long dreadlocks so they won’t brush against his collar, as the job requires. On Dec. 7, he carefully pinned them up in a nautilus pattern, buttoned the brass buttons of his regulation dress coat and pulled…
It can be difficult to keep up with all the fads and trends in New York City dining, what with the green juices and the bone marrow and the tiny, tiny cupcakes. But the latest hot cosmopolitan trend is simple: It’s bowls, baby! “Hot, Skinny People Are Ditching Salads for ‘Power Bowls’,” the New York…
Ice-cream bandits are flipping their stolen desserts to bodegas, according to 13th Precinct commanding officer Deputy Inspector Brendan Timoney. View Full Caption Shutterstock/Keith Homan MANHATTAN — Your bodega ice cream may be hot. A string of ice cream thefts at Manhattan drug stores was motivated not by a love of dessert — although…
(Scott Lynch / Gothamist) You walk out of the cold into a tiny, steaming, jewelbox of a restaurant in the city, where there’s no room for a coat check and limited space for hooks, and once you get a seat, you naturally begin to de-layer. Off comes the hat, the scarf, the gloves, the…
Losing your wallet typically means spending a couple hours re-tracing your steps, canceling credit cards and accepting the fact that you’ll never get the wallet or its contents back. That was only partially the case for New Yorker Reilly Flaherty, who lost his wallet at a Wilco concert at Brooklyn’s Kings Theater last week, USA…
A rendering of the streetcar in action (Mayor’s Office) Mayor de Blasio’s $2.5 billion Brooklyn-Queens streetcar isn’t the worst transportation project in New York City (we have a $4 billion subway station), but it may be the most transparently unfair. As an allocation of municipal resources, it would have made perfect fodder for de Blasio’s…
NEW YORK New York City will issue bonds via the creation of a non-profit agency to fund a $2.5 billion light rail system between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, officials from the mayor’s office said in a statement on Tuesday. Officials said that when the 16-mile system is “fully built-out, it could serve…
Photo: Karen Novak / Courtesy of Elizabeth Yuko. First, I had to tell the story of my sexual assault to the police officer at the reception desk, in front of what appeared to be the rest of the precinct. After a few minutes of awkwardly waiting, and trying not to make eye contact with…
Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. Photo by Mary Hautman It’s no secret that Williamsburg’s storefront rents are some of the priciest in the borough, but a new report now reveals they are also some of the priciest in the country. The ever-changing commercial strip of Bedford Avenue is, along with Fulton Mall and Court Street in…