Officer Accused of Excessive Force in Arrest of James Blake Spurns Plea Deal Officer James Frascatore decided on Thursday to proceed with a public disciplinary trial on charges stemming from the 2015 arrest in Midtown Manhattan of the retired tennis…
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Party Coverage: Scene City: Benefits by the Shore Fund-raisers were held last week for the Parrish Art Museum, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Dancers Responding to AIDS and Lambda Legal.
Danny Meyer’s Empire Goes Roman With an Indoor Piazza The restaurateur will open a Rome-style coffee bar and a wine bar alongside Marta, his pizzeria in a NoMad hotel.
Theater: He Spent His Life in Theater. Here’s What He Left Behind. James Houghton died last summer. Now his daughter is sharing his collection of theatrical treasures.
Part of Hudson Yards Tunnels Is Nearly Done. Now It Sits, Unused. The two box tunnels tubes are the first section of the multibillion-dollar Gateway project to almost reach completion.
Hungry City: A Jackson Heights Oasis for Japanese Snacks: 969 NYC Coffee Rice balls with sashes of nori and other treats at a cafe on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.
A Diva Who Is Not Above Walking 3,100 Miles Yolanda Holder, 59, is known as the Walking Diva for the snazzy outfits she wears while walking long-distance races.
Cheap Date Alert: Met Operas, Screened for Free The Met will set out 3,000 chairs for screenings of Ingmar Bergman’s film of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” followed by 10 nights of starry performances.
Meet My Dog, Barnaby, Aspiring Instagram ‘Pup-fluencer’ Since our Pet City columnist’s basset-beagle mix is elderly, cranky and willfully incontinent, the theme would be uncompromising realism.
New York Today: New York Today: Your Guide to ‘Cloudgazing’ Thursday: A lesson on our sky, a heat advisory and a Moon Day anniversary.
A Spy Novel Whose Clues Are Found on New York Landmarks A new digital book about Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl sends readers across the city to solve its riddles.
New York Schools Faulted Again for Failing to Keep Track of Computers In a follow-up to a 2014 audit, the comptroller’s office rebuked the city’s Education Department for its “ineptitude” in its record-keeping.
Raymond Sackler, Psychopharmacology Pioneer and Philanthropist, Dies at 97 Purdue Pharma, a company led by Dr. Sackler and his brothers, made the painkiller OxyContin. His donations put his name on schools, museum galleries and a planet.
Metropolitan Diary: A Lesson in Conducting A curious observation at symphony rehearsal.
A Museum Show Asks: How Modern Are Your Spanx? The Museum of Modern Art has issued a list of items to be included in the October show “Is Fashion Modern?,” its first on the subject since 1944.