Neighborhood Joint: In Sheepshead Bay, a Taste of the Turkish Coast Liman, a large Mediterranean seafood restaurant near the water, has a casual, festive atmosphere where both big groups and couples feel welcome.
Posts published in “New York City”
New York Today: New York Today: Times Square Characters, a Year Later Thursday: Checking in with the costumed characters, a slain police officer is remembered as a “warrior,” and a call for blackout memories.
Save the Kosciuszko! A Cri de Coeur for an Unloved Bridge A modest proposal to halt the demolition and turn the old Newtown Creek crossing into a High Line for the people.
The Hunt: A Dress Designer Picks Borough Park Hazel Teo did not like the “net effective rent” lure, and stood her ground, choosing a studio that charged the same amount each month.
Up Next: Angela Dimayuga: Chef Behind the Wok at Mission Chinese Ms. Dimayuga is the 31-year-old executive chef at the New York outpost of the Sichuan cuisine temple.
Ex-Prisoner Finally Found Stability Before Killing Police Officer Alexander Bonds, after years of crime and mental problems, had a job, an apartment and a girlfriend, before he snapped and shot Miosotis Familia in the Bronx.
Metropolitan Diary: Lucky Break on a Rough Morning A timely act of kindness by a New York cabby.
Hobby Lobby Agrees to Forfeit 5,500 Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq Under a deal with federal prosecutors, the seller of art supplies agreed to return the items, pay the government $3 million and improve the way it collects antiquities.
Friends of Robert Durst Are Ordered to Testify in Murder Case A subpoena requires testimony from two confidants of the real estate scion, who is accused of killing a close friend in 2000.
A Constitutional Convention for New York? This May Be the Year The election of President Trump has persuaded some that the state needs to chart its own course, and a ballot question in November offers that chance.
How Uber’s Tax Calculation May Have Cost Drivers Hundreds of Millions Drivers’ trip receipts contain signs that the ride-hailing service deducted hundreds of millions of dollars from drivers’ earnings in New York to pay state taxes.
Party Coverage: Scene City: Brooklyn Mirage, a Mammoth Club, Finally Opens in East Williamsburg After a year of false starts, the nightclub opened last weekend as part of Avant Gardner, a cavernous event space in industrial Brooklyn.
Living In: Purchase, N.Y.: A Celebrity Sanctum With Wide-Open Spaces This hamlet in the town of Harrison has both college and corporate campuses.
Phone Booths Are Back in Times Square. No Quarters Required. “Once Upon a Place,” an installation in which immigrants’ oral histories can be listened to by phone, touches on themes like belonging and displacement.
Artists Protest Lincoln Center Play Backed by Israel More than 60 artists, including the Pulitzer winner Annie Baker and the actress Greta Gerwig, asked that the play “To the End of the Land” be canceled.