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The 109th Precinct’s Deputy Inspector Thomas Conforti stands with elected officials in Flushing Monday to announce a new enforcement for pedestrians following the death of a woman last week. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan FLUSHING — NYPD officers plan to increase ticketing against jaywalkers — a move supported by local politicians who say pedestrians who…
Back in June of 2014, YIMBY reported on new building applications filed by JDS Development for a tower coming to 340 Flatbush Avenue Ext., on the southeastern edge of Downtown Brooklyn. Now, we have the first rendering and actual details for the SHoP-designed tower, which will rise 1,000 feet tall, claiming the title of New York…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen [UPDATE BELOW] One man was killed and two others were injured during a shooting in Midtown Manhattan this morning. According to the NYPD, the shooting took place around around 6:14 a.m., at 8th Avenue and 35th Street. A 43-year-old man was pronounced dead at the…
The record high for today is 74 degrees set in 1948. As of 11 a.m. it was 71 in Central Park. Whether we warm four more degrees to set a new record it entirely up to the clouds at this point. A few breaks of sun would do the trick but the latest forecasts have…
The mayor joined elected and city officials and the developers for a ceremonial dirt toss at the Beach Channel Senior Apartments site. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan FAR ROCKAWAY — More than two thirds of the new affordable housing planned for Queens will be built on the Rockaway peninsula, a flood zone still…
The Four Horsemen of Gentrification. Then I saw when the Landlord broke one of the rent-controlled seals. I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Gentrify.” I looked, and behold, a green horse, and he who sat on it had a mason jar; and a fedora was his…
The Driggs, a luxury apartment building in Brooklyn, received a $631,000 tax break this year. (Cezary Podkul/ProPublica) As gleaming new housing towers spring up around New York City, thousands of new rent-stabilized apartments are coming onto the market. And in return for following rent limits, developers get a share of $1 billion in property…
November 7th, 2015 at the Brooklyn Commons, 7pm Join us for a screening of Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner followed by a panel discussion in conjunction with our upcoming course Replaceable Parts: Becoming Cyborg in America. Panelists will discuss the film through the lens of contemporary technology studies, cybernetics, and cyborg theory while paying particular attention to questions of media, mediation,…
New Yorkers were out in their best zombie Mets uniforms, Swedish Chef costumes, and Pizza Rat outfits last night all across NYC, with the Halloween Parade alone a cornucopia of audacious and colorful get-ups. But there was no question what the best costume in NYC was last night, and you couldn’t see it anywhere in…
Just in time for Halloween, here’s another vermin-eats-food-themed costume to take the wind out of pizza rat’s sails. Redditor connierubirosa has snapped what they deem the “most New York Photo” they’ve ever taken, words likely uttered by other notable urban life photographers. Hey look—it’s a pigeon with a bagel around its shoulders! The story of…