Tom McCarthy, the Battalion Chief of the 13th Battalion in Washington Heights, opened up publicly for the first time about his personal experiences on 9/11, as well as his frustrations with the politicization of the day.
"Upstate" has almost as many definitions as it does references in state laws, which left many of us wondering: where the hell IS upstate anyway? What divides downstate and upstate? And what is the cultural significance of the designation?
It's not easy commuting every day with the knowledge that every train ride could trap you in a system-wide meltdown, which is why we should all do our part to NOT make it even worse by being rude and gross space invaders.
The NY Times has a weakness for self-parodying trend-baiting, masochistic Millennial obsessing, and the perverse lifestyles of the filthy rich. If a reporter with the Real Estate, Style or Weekend sections approaches you about a story, just smile gently and run in the opposite direction. No one is forcing you to become representative of everything that everyone hates about New Yorkers.
The question that has stuck with me recently: what New Yorker would vote for Trump? And knowing what the atmosphere is like here, would they even tell anyone about it? Is there a silent orange majority secretly lurking in the margins of the avenues?
So you're ready to get off the rental unit superhighway and take the first exit ramp onto ownership boulevard. You could buy a small plot of land in upstate NY, but why not dream really big? Like, isolated-paradise-island-in-the-middle-of-the-Mediterranean big?
It's a familiar narrative that still gets traction: people conflating criticism of Israeli government policies with anti-Semitism. What Peyser is picking up on here is something that has become a major subtext in the Sanders campaign of late: people—more often than not fellow Jews—monitoring, judging, and ultimately policing him for his Jewish identity and his unwillingness to exploit it.
Some safe streets advocates are growing impatient with the pace of Vision Zero initiatives—and for the families of the 134 pedestrians killed in traffic crashes last year, the city is already moving far too slowly.
As with most things involving the NY Post, the reality for Andersen, like the thousands of other homeless people struggling to survive in NYC, is more nuanced than they'd have you believe.
It's somehow fluffy and also doughy, airy but not floppy, flavorful but not soaked in grease. It puffs up like a soufflé but it's much more solid than you would expect.
Founders Ja Rule and Billy McFarland charged thousands of dollars to the exclusive event, promising "the best in food, art, music and adventure." And by all accounts, it truly has been an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime experience for all who went.
This perhaps feels like a symbolic loss as much as an actual loss of any kind. Having the one last space in the city in which we could be (we had to be) untethered from our digital strings become yet another giant hotspot is, most of all, a bummer.
Devin Shomaker, 29, was enrolled in Finger Lakes Community College in a viticulture and wine technology program last year when he got the idea to start the first vineyard in the borough.
This isn't just a matter of being gullible, though I'm sure it was that for some victims. It's a scam that's been perfected over a decade or more, one that plays on basic human decency (as well as basic human greed).