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Officer Peter Liang was found guilty of manslaughter and official misconduct in the fatal shooting of unarmed Brooklyn father Akai Gurley on Feb. 11. View Full Caption Pool/Mary Altaffer DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang is guilty of manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project in…
Gantry LIC, a gastropub that will offer a 1920s vibe, will open on Vernon Boulevard Friday night, according to co-owner Brian Porter. The bar/restaurant, located at 47-02 Vernon Blvd., has been a year in the works but will finally be open to the public at 9 p.m. tomorrow night. There will be a friends and family…
Airbnb’s efforts to become an “open and transparent” company might not quite line up with traditional definitions of transparency. A report released Wednesday suggests that Airbnb manipulated listing data in New York City prior to publicly releasing that data to regulators in December, in an effort to quell concerns that the platform was enabling professional…
As a coffee snob not typically interested in dropping $4 on a mediocre cappuccino, I tend to consider Starbucks a phone-charging station first and coffeeshop second. That said, I’m also a compulsively early person, which means I’ve spent my fair share of time walking around aimlessly to while away 20 minutes—or, when it’s cold or…
“Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York has become the go-to hub for those who lament New York’s loss of character.” –Crain’s “Jeremiah Moss does an excellent job of cataloging all that’s constantly being sacrificed to the god of rising rents.” –Hugo Lindgren, New York Times Magazine “No one takes stock of New York’s changes with the same…
A 38-year-old man who had just stepped out of his parked car was killed and four others injured when a construction crane toppled over and smashed into a busy Tribeca street Friday morning, officials said. The crane crashed into a row of parked cars when it capsized onto Worth St. near Church St. about…
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Credit ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN MALTA Barrier Status: ‘none’ TO: Park Slope Parents Listserv FROM: JennFletcher14@rocketmail.com SUBJECT: Re: Rules of Park Slope Parents’ Fight Club Just sending a friendly reminder to all parents after SOMEONE left a roll of medical gauze in the rec center last Thursday! FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB: You MUST be a…
Chris Hughes, the soon-to-be-former owner of The New Republic, recently purchased a West Village townhouse for $23.5 million (after unloading his old Soho loft for $8.5 million). According to the New York Post, Hughes’ new lair on West 12th Street boasts, among other amenities, a functional underground tunnel between its main building and a “carriage…
Developer Steven Witkoff is holding off on converting Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel into luxury condominiums — for now. The owners are contemplating a renovation of the 46-story hotel at the foot of Central Park, Witkoff said in an interview. He led a group that acquired the property from the estate of Leona Helmsley for $660…