New York Today: New York Today: What Do Restaurant Grades Mean? Wednesday: Understanding those big green letters, basking in the hot weather, and preparing your summer to-do list. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
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Neighborhood Joint: Bartunek Hardware in Queens: Where Handymen Step Back in Time The store’s 1,000-square-foot space in the Astoria neighborhood retains much of the ambience it had 92 years ago. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
De Blasio Quietly Seeks Allies in Battle Over Homeless Shelters The city is scrambling to enlist influential New Yorkers who can help marshal support for an unpopular plan to open 90 community-based homeless shelters. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Amid Eavesdropping Accusations, City Fires Jail Agency Official Days after New York City’s correction commissioner announced he would resign, he quietly fired his Internal Affairs chief. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Thomas A. Bolan, Understated Force in New York Law, Dies at 92 Mr. Bolan was, next to Roy M. Cohn, the quieter half of an odd couple at a potent law firm and a major player in Republican politics in…
Can DNA Evidence Be Too Convincing? An Acquitted Man Thinks So A man arrested and charged with robbery, partly because of DNA evidence, spent a year and a half on Rikers Island before being cleared. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
City Hall Spreads ICE Fears First, Gets Facts Later A Twitter post by the mayor’s press secretary set off a firestorm over what many believed was an ICE action at P.S. 58 — except ICE agents were not involved. {$excerpt:n}…
A Man on Trial in a Drug Shooting in Midtown, and an Actor’s Role Quran Pender, a Queens native and ex-Cornell basketball player who moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting, is set to be the key prosecution witness in…
Restaurant Review: Pork Is Only the Starting Point at Pig Bleecker A Greenwich Village sibling of the Brooklyn restaurant Pig Beach impresses with seafood, sandwiches and, running through it all, smoke. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Boîte: Pinball and Other Games at Fishbowl, a New Midtown Lounge Billed as an upscale game room, the Fishbowl draws 20-somethings to a no-attitude bar under the Dream Midtown hotel. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
M.T.A. Announces Plan to Improve New York’s Subways Officials have announced a new plan to address the root causes of delays: overcrowding, sick passengers and track and signal problems. But will it help? {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
For a Village in Demand, It’s Lights, Camera, Inconvenience Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., has attracted Hollywood attention, bolstering its coffers and, to some extent, its ego. But the increase in filming has not come without headaches. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Ayodele Casel, Tap Storyteller, Lets Her Feet Do the Talking “I really, really, really want people to hear and experience tap dancing in a different way,” said Ms. Casel of the Bronx, who is rehearsing for the world premiere of…
New York Today: New York Today: How to Beat the Hackers Tuesday: Tips for protecting yourself online, a fatal crash at Teterboro, and the first electric stock board. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
De Blasio Raises More Than G.O.P. Challenger for the First Time The mayor’s best-funded Republican rival, Paul Massey Jr., raised less in this disclosure period than the previous one, threatening to undermine the best case for his candidacy. {$excerpt:n} Source:…