On July 1, 1970, one of the first independent abortion clinics in the country opened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. New York State had just reformed its laws, allowing a woman to terminate her pregnancy in the first trimester — or at any point, if her life was at risk. All of a … Read more
There are bodega cats, there are bookstore cats, and then there’s Sabrina the restaurant jaguar. Sabrina is the life-size faux (not taxidermied) feline perched atop a tree branch like the Cheshire Cat at the back of Hellbender restaurant in Ridgewood, Queens. She’s an apt spirit animal for this protean establishment and its chef, Yara Herrera. … Read more
The average ticket price for “Othello” was $303.15 last week — down from previous weeks because of free seats for journalists attending press performances and guests attending opening night. The average price for “Good Night, and Good Luck” was $302.07. But “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which is adapted from the 2005 movie about the … Read more
Two groups representing Columbia University faculty members on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over $400 million in federal funding cuts and demands that the school make dramatic changes to student discipline and admissions policies. The plaintiffs, the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, asked a Manhattan federal court to restore … Read more
During his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing to become the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, Todd Blanche suggested that he had no direct knowledge of the decision to abandon a criminal corruption case against the mayor of New York City. But in a draft letter unsealed on Tuesday, the interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan … Read more
Case 1:24-cr-00556-DEH Document 175-1 Filed 03/25/25 Page 10 of 15 the motion is uncontested, the court should ordinarily presume that the prosecutor is acting in good faith and dismiss the indictment without prejudice”). But Adams’s consent-which was negotiated without my Office’s awareness or participation-would not guarantee a successful motion, given the basic flaws … Read more
Vape makers are especially vulnerable to the tariffs. Nicolas Guarino, co-founder and chief executive of Jaunty, which makes the state’s top-selling brand of cannabis vapes, said that the cost of hardware for a single vape had climbed 22 percent, to $5. The company’s next quarterly hardware order totaled about $240,000, compared with $200,000 without the … Read more
On an early summer day in 1876 near Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, a middle-aged woman carrying three large, putrid mushrooms repulsed fellow travelers riding a horse-drawn trolley car. Even wrapped in paper, the stench of the aptly named stinkhorn mushrooms was overpowering, but the woman stifled a laugh upon overhearing two other passengers gripe … Read more
Road salt is leaching into the reservoirs that hold New York City’s tap water and could make some of it unhealthy to drink by the turn of the century, according to a new study commissioned by city environmental officials. The study, released last week by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, found that while salt … Read more
The sun glistened across the turquoise water. The palm trees shimmered in the warm breeze. For a certain set of high school seniors from New York, spring break on Paradise Island in the Bahamas was underway. Last week, hundreds of teenagers from about a dozen private high schools engaged in what has become an unsanctioned … Read more