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While I know people who summer in the Hamptons, I haven’t actually visited. The place has never felt accessible to me, and high-profile modes of transport seem to reinforce the notion that I’m not a fit: Some wealthy folks hire private jets for a few hundred thousand dollars a year. So when Blade, the helicopter…

“That gap was just time where we could have been learning more, but we’re back,” Como said. The city Department of Environmental Protection hired the USGS to collect scientific data on the depth of the water table as a first step to understanding the landscape and how factors like rain, sea-level rise and projects to…

Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in a nest built at the top of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, officials said. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bridges and Tunnels said Friday that the chicks hatched in a nesting box set up by the agency atop a 693-foot-tall (211-meter-tall) tower on the bridge, which connects Brooklyn and…

Depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues are the most common complications during and after pregnancy, yet 75 percent of postpartum problems go untreated. The consequences can be devastating. Suicide and overdoses are leading causes of maternal death in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever pill specifically aimed at…

Transportation advocates say 2024 is one of the deadliest years for Queens streets in the Vision Zero era after five people were killed by cars over the weekend. Traffic deaths are 43% higher than average in Queens this year and on track to tie as the deadliest year in the borough, according to data collected…

BUSHWICK INLET PARK — North Brooklyn Parks Alliance began the first of a series of spring garden initiatives in the key open spaces of Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick last weekend. The Garden Club initiative at Bushwick Inlet Park gathered volunteers and horticulturists from the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance to revive the diverse waterfront space on…

David Remnick talks with Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired magazine, about the TikTok ban that just passed with bipartisan support in Washington. The app will be removed from distribution in U.S. app stores unless ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, sells it to an approved buyer. TikTok is suing to block…

Bella McFadden made headlines early in the pandemic as the first person to hit £1 million in sales on Depop, the London-based tech platform that has become Gen Z’s go-to shopping platform for used and vintage apparel. On Saturday, she’s opening her first brick-and-mortar space: iGirl, a tiny, 210-square-foot storefront on Third Street near Avenue…

NYCEDC President Andrew Kimball. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle NYCEDC President & CEO Andrew Kimball called Abolitionist Place “the next great space in New York City,” and gave a shoutout to a long list of the many groups and individuals who made it happen, including the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Community Board 2, City Hall, past…

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, what the Biden administration’s expansion of health care privacy means for people seeking abortions. Then, as American troops leave Chad and Niger, concerns rise about security and stability in Africa. Plus, how one Ukrainian family is rebuilding their life in the U.S. after losing everything in the Russian invasion. Read…