Posts published in “New York City”

Neighborhood Joint: Rio Market in Queens Offers a Brazilian Cure for Longing A 4,000-square-foot space in the Astoria neighborhood is where homesick (and feijoada-craving) expats go. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Data Crunchers Ask New Yorkers: How Are the Police Doing? CompStat will send New Yorkers questions on their smartphones to see if they feel safe, if they trust the police and if they are confident in the department. {$excerpt:n} Source:…

Edwin Sherin, Theater and ‘Law & Order’ Director, Dies at 87 Mr. Sherin directed James Earl Jones on Broadway in “The Great White Hope” and enjoyed a successful career in television. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Internal Investigator Is Removed Over Rikers Spying Claim New York City officials ordered that the head of internal affairs at the city’s Correction Department be placed on modified duty. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Front Burner: Same Speedy Omakase Chef, Now on the West Side The sushi chef David Bouhadana has taken his 12-pieces-for-$50 model from the Bowery to the Gansevoort Market. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

New York Today: New York Today: Treasures Left, Not Lost, on the Subway Monday: Books on the Subway, a sanctuary Hindu temple, and a request to reinvent public spaces. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

‘Dead Rivers, Closed Beaches’: A Water Crisis on Long Island Suffolk County is looking for money from the $2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act to help upgrade septic systems and pay for a new sewage line. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…

Arts Groups on Edge as New York City Re-Evaluates Cultural Funding Smaller arts organizations in disadvantaged neighborhoods hope to end up with a bigger piece of the pie. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Editorial Observer: Take the A Train, as in Audubon A “Birding by Subway” map lets riders look up at something other than buildings. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Rikers Tumult Rises: Prison Official Accused of Spying on Investigator New York City’s Department of Investigation said the jail system’s chief watchdog had listened in on inmate calls with an investigator, people with knowledge of the matter said. {$excerpt:n} Source:…

Metropolitan Diary: Strangers, and Cookies, on a Train Sharing some macarons liberated from a corporate party with fellow subway passengers. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Trump Visit Barely Rustles the Hedgerows of Bedminster Eateries saw an uptick in activity and pro- and anti-Trump protesters turned out in modest numbers as the president stopped by his “Camp David North.” {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Grace Notes: The Coda to a Career: Barbara Cook Has Retired At 89, after a lifetime of soaring high notes and a few low ones, it was time for her to leave the stage, her son says. {$excerpt:n} Source: New…

Latest Problem for New Jersey Transit: Collecting Fares The agency may have lost more than $5 million in revenue because fares were not collected on crowded and understaffed trains, the conductors union says. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times