Posts published in “New York City”

Mayor Backs Plan to Close Rikers and Open Jails Elsewhere A commission’s recommendation to close Rikers Island, and move prisoners to smaller jails in New York City, has won the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…

Album: Ephemeral New York The photographer Devin Yalkin creates images of a dreamlike city. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

A Piano Man of Many Faces, and Some Stranger Stories Chicken Delicious is a campy, mask-wearing 74-year-old fixture at a bar in Manhattan. How he got there is even weirder. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Hungry City: Bangladeshi Flavors Alongside Burgers and Chicken at Neerob A restaurant reopens in the Bronx, serving South Asian dishes inside another with a resolutely American menu. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Works in Progress: After Slave Revelations, She Has a New Mission Onita Estes-Hicks, 80, learned that Jesuits who once ran Georgetown University sold some of her ancestors. She is now enrolled in a social justice program aimed at helping her…

New York Today: New York Today: Police and Teens, Connecting Thursday: Operation Conversation, a notable New Yorker, and a blog for bikers. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

I Was Misinformed: Loving Robo Cat Needs Home Those mechanical cats that bring joy to those in nursing homes? Not everybody is fooled. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Brand New Colossus: A Statue of Liberty Revival Amid Immigration Woes In a shifting civic landscape, the statue is re-emerging as resonant symbol amid a polarizing debate about immigration. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Feature: The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life Young adults who decide to abandon their cloistered Jewish communities have only one another — and a single organization — to help them navigate the alternate reality of modern-day New York. {$excerpt:n}…

Editorial: A Grand Bronx Plan Requires Local Input The state must hear how residents want to transform the blight of the Sheridan Expressway. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Sex Abuse Trial of Foster Father Paints His Home as ‘a Prison’ Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, a Long Island foster father who took in 106 boys, is charged with sexually abusing six and endangering the welfare of two more. {$excerpt:n} Source: New…

De Blasio Stymied in Attempt to Pay Legal Fees With Donations A city agency capped donations to the mayor’s planned legal defense fund to cover legal bills he incurred during inquiries into his fund-raising practices. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times

Christie Ally Is Sentenced to 2 Years in George Washington Bridge Scandal ‘I was wrong and I am truly sorry,’ Bill Baroni, a former Port Authority official, says of closing lanes in Fort Lee, N.J., in 2013. {$excerpt:n} Source: New…

No Deal Between Kushners and Chinese Company Over Fifth Avenue Skyscraper A $4-billion deal to invest in a Manhattan building owned by the family of Trump’s son-in-law has fallen apart. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times