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Photo Houseboats are dwarfed by the steep banks of Lake Don Pedro in La Grange, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday to deal with the drought. Credit Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Video close media-action-overlay California’s Extreme Drought, Explained The state is experiencing the worst drought in its history. Find out just how…
In San Francisco’s “culture war,” both sides espouse oddly similar-sounding values. Credit Illustration by Christian Gralingen In the spiritual geography of San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall—a glass-and-concrete half rotunda much resembling R2-D2’s neckline—sits between hills steep with layered mansions and the urban basin where the city’s gritty elements now rest. John Adams’s “Harmonielehre” premièred here;…
Three women were arrested last week for selling churros in the station without a license, NYPD said. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland, Shutterstock/Glen Price UNION SQUARE — Police arrested three women in the Union Square subway station last week for peddling churros without a license, the NYPD said. The women were all arrested on the L…
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A driver of a vehicle tried to ram a gate at the National Security Agency building in Fort Meade Monday morning, resulting in a shooting, authorities say. Chad Jones, a spokesman at Fort Meade, told The Associated Press that two people are being treated for injuries and emergency responders are on the scene. Jones told…
The much-cherished fry shop was destroyed during yesterday’s terrible East Village fire. Don’t you want these right now? Photo: Shanna Ravindra In the immediate wake of yesterday’s terrible fire in the East Village, a lot of people quickly recognized that the affected buildings included the one housing Pommes Frites, the tiny, much-loved Belgian-fry spot that…
Incoming NYU students can expect to shell out roughly $71,000 for tuition and expenses next year. An awful lot of that money is going to pay for administrators, President John Sexton’s Fire Island beach house, and the pricey Manhattan real estate the university is sucking up like a satanic vacuum. So where will they find…
Photo A mural by Max Spivak at the base of the 5 Bryant Park office tower in Manhattan includes shapes that appear abstract at first, but closer inspection reveals them to be textile makers’ tools, like a T-square, above the entrance. Credit Michael Appleton for The New York Times The shadows of West 40th Street…
Photo Fire officials said a blast occurred on Second Avenue on Thursday afternoon; calls began streaming in at 3:17. Credit Joseph Burgess/The New York Times Firefighters were on the scene of an apparent explosion on Thursday afternoon in the East Village, and a building at the location appeared to have been partially destroyed while another…
fe474.global.media.bf1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Thu Mar 26 19:48:41 UTC 2015 NEW YORK (Reuters) – A building collapsed on Thursday in New York City’s East Village neighborhood, police said. There was no immediate information on possible injuries, said a spokesman for the New York Police Department. (Reporting by Laila Kearney, Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst) Content preferences Done Building…