Category: News
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Despite the chilly weather, NYC’s cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom
Never mind the chilly weather — cherry blossoms are beginning to pop off in New York City. While it may seem early for the first blossoms, city horticulturalists say the first floral delights are starting to appear around the same time as in previous years. The first hint of a pink explosion came last week…
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Defining 'Blackness' Through Literature
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher university professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, host of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS and the author of The Black Box: Writing the Race (Penguin Press, 2024), talks about his new book that examines the history of Black self-definition through…
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Extra Extra: A bill in Albany would finally legalize adultery
State lawmakers will have to decide next week whether to approve the commission’s map or draw their own. Because it’s technically banned right now, here are your afternoon links: Pete Davidson’s Staten Island Ferry update, piping in Muzak in subway stations, Long Island spelling bee champ and more. [ more › ] Read the full…
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Stop the schtup: Brooklyn Orthodox women join sex strike to pressure husbands over divorce
It’s a movement to stop the schtup. In a rare display of public protest, women in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community are railing against a traditional practice that makes it hard for married women to get a divorce– by going on a sex strike. The collective action was sparked by the plight of Malky Berkowitz, an…
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Newark University Hospital is trying to save lives with a new mobile mammogram van
New Jersey’s Department of Health says Essex County has one of the highest rates of late-stage breast cancer and cervical cancer diagnoses in the Garden state. And data show the outcomes for Black women are often more deadly compared to other groups, especially in the city of Newark. To try to reverse these alarming trends, Newark…
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NYPD: Suspect connected to Park Slope bodega stabbing surrendered to police
Police said Friday that a Brooklyn man surrendered in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old woman who was atacked in a Park Slope bodega with her twin. Veo Kelly, 20, was arrested after turning himself in to police with his attorney, police said. He’s facing murder, assault and weapons charges after being accused…
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Cheating on your spouse is a crime in New York. That may change.
Only about a dozen people have been charged under New York’s law since 1972, and of those, just five cases have netted convictions, according to Assemblyman Charles Lavine, who sponsored the bill to appeal the ban. The last adultery charge in New York appears to have been filed in 2010 against a woman who was…
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New Jersey's Affordable Housing Fix
Gov. Murphy signed legislation to improve the way New Jersey towns are held accountable for developing affordable housing. Mike Hayes, WNYC/Gothamist reporter covering equity and access to opportunity in New Jersey and the author of The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform (Kingston Imperial, 2023), explains the…
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NJ’s Kim vs. Murphy Senate race is wild. Here are 5 reasons why.
A federal judge could rule any day on the unique New Jersey ballot system that gives candidates who are endorsed by political parties a huge advantage. The debate over New Jersey’s arcane “county line” ballot design has been thrust into the spotlight in an election season full of wild and woolly Democratic Party county conventions,…
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BBC World Service – Newshour, Russia and China block US call for Gaza ceasefire
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events. Show more Russia and China have vetoed a draft resolution put forward by the United States at the UN Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, linked to the release of hostages. Russia’s ambassador called the US move a hypocritical initiative. More than 13,000…