No Longer ‘Yahoos in the Street’: Brooklyn Race Draws Top Cyclists The Red Hook Crit began as an informal fixed-gear race in 2008. Now hundreds compete — including some Olympians. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
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Party Coverage: Scene City: Inside the 2017 Met Gala Rei Kawakubo, Kendall Jenner, Solange Knowles, Serena Williams and others mingled at the Met Gala on Monday. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
New York Today: New York Today: Feedback on the Ferry Tuesday: A boat ride to work, 280 miles of scaffolding, and the opening of the Empire State Building. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Neighborhood Joint: Custom Motorcycles, Made Indian Larry’s Way The Brooklyn shop sells about eight built-from-scratch bikes a year and counts Ewan McGregor and Brad Pitt among its clientele. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Front Burner: Vintage Cast Iron, Fully Restored and on Sale Best Made in TriBeCa plans a sale of hundreds of Griswold cast-iron skillets, irons and ovens. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Front Burner: The PopWich, an Ice Cream Sandwich on a Stick Gelato and sorbet pops get a makeover at Popbar. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
New York City Transit Reporter in Wonderland: Riding the London Tube “It was like being dropped into an alternate universe where people actually like their subway.” {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Michael Moore to Take Aim at Trump, on Broadway A (mostly) one-man show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” will run eight times a week for 12 weeks, starting in July, at the Belasco Theater. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Housing Advocates Vow Sustained Protest of de Blasio Aide Activists accuse Alicia K. Glen of bringing a Goldman Sachs model of development to City Hall, which they say doesn’t do enough to help the poorest New Yorkers. {$excerpt:n} Source: New…
New York Today: New York Today: Our City’s New Ferry Monday: The NYC Ferry launch, the Met Gala, and the PEN America World Voices Festival. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
To Rockaways Residents, New Ferry Service Is a Promise Kept Mayor Bill de Blasio received a hero’s welcome in Queens a day before the start of an hourlong route from the peninsula to Brooklyn and Manhattan. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Modern Signals New York’s subway is struggling with old infrastructure and overcrowding. The M.T.A.’s failure to modernize its signal system is a crucial example. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Nationals 23, Mets 5: An Injury for Noah Syndergaard, and an Indignity for the Mets After Syndergaard, the Mets’ ace, left in the second inning with what the team called a “possible lat strain,” the Mets absorbed one of their…
City Pays for Mets Moment, Guided by Firm With Troubled Ties to de Blasio A producer’s idea to recreate a World Series celebration for TV became reality with the help of a lobbying firm whose ties to Mayor Bill de…
On the Runway: Everything to Know About the Met Gala The inside scoop on “the party of the year,” from how much it costs to who gets to go and why you should care. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times