A Lonely Stand: Hindu Temple in Queens Joins Sanctuary Movement The leaders of the Shaanti Bhavan Mandir hoped to enlist other temples in the effort to protect immigrants facing deportation. But fear is keeping more from coming forward, they said.…
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What's Selling Now: Homes That Sold for Around 0,000 Recent residential sales in New York City and the region. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Mourners Celebrate the Lives of 4 Victims of a Queens Fire More than 800 people showed up Saturday for a funeral for four family members under age 21 who were killed in a house fire in late April. {$excerpt:n} Source:…
Richard Basciano, Times Square Pornography Magnate, Dies at 91 One of Mr. Basciano’s businesses gave way to Times Square redevelopment and rising property values, but one, Show World, still functions. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
When That Feisty Neighbor Becomes the President As a businessman, Donald J. Trump peppered local officials in Florida with requests, and governments pushed back. Now, some approvals come more easily. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Chelsea Bombing Suspect Wants Hospital Interviews Suppressed Lawyers for Ahmad Khan Rahimi told a judge his statements were not voluntary and had been made “under severe medical distress.” {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
The Met Files a Formal Proposal to Charge Admission to Out-of-State Visitors The Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals in a court hearing that it has asked New York City to approve a mandatory admissions fee to non-New Yorkers. {$excerpt:n} Source:…
Flooding in New York Shuts Down Roads and Strands Drivers The area received close to its typical monthly rain total in just a few hours on Friday. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
A Rural Shrine to New York’s Angels and Gargoyles A collection of stone fragments that once adorned city buildings, salvaged by a self-styled “rubble rouser,” is displayed at the Anonymous Arts Museum in upstate New York. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
On the Market: Homes for Sale in Connecticut and New York This week’s properties are in Fairfield, Conn. and Garden City, N.Y. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
The U.S. Case vs. El Chapo: 10,000 Pages and Recordings Federal prosecutors said Friday that Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s trial could last three months and include 1,500 audio recordings and 10,000 pages of documents. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
360 View: LeFrak Goes Upscale With Its Latest Tower in Jersey City Here’s the next chapter for the LeFrak family, which started rebuilding the waterfront in Jersey City more than 30 years ago. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Long Island City Grows Ever Skyward The area around Court Square in this Queens neighborhood, where the Citigroup office building has been a lonely tower for decades, is seeing a surge in residential construction. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
A Principal Is Accused of Being a Communist, Rattling a Brooklyn School The principal at Park Slope Collegiate, Jill Bloomberg, says allegations of Communist organizing are retaliation for her outspokenness about race and segregation in New York City schools. {$excerpt:n}…
A Kaleidoscopic John Giorno Retrospective, Sprinkled Around New York The poet, artist and activist is the subject of “Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno,” which will open at locations across Manhattan in June. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times