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Climate Week in New York Is Just Getting Started
Monday: Every day this week, people are gathering throughout the city to discuss climate change and what they can do about it.
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Apple Fifth Avenue: The cube is back
Apple today previewed the new Apple Fifth Avenue, an entirely reimagined space beneath one of New York City’s most recognized landmarks.
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Awww! Video of toddler pals hugging on NYC street becomes instant internet hit
These kids just took adorbs to the next level. Two sweet little boys named Finnegan and Maxwell warmed the internet’s collective heart when a video of their running embrace hit social media earlier this week, sending thousands of online observers swooning over their cuteness.
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See Apple’s wild new iridescent store, two years in the making
Apple’s newly renovated Fifth Avenue store had better be stunning—fans have been waiting long enough for it. But a first glimpse of the long-awaited renovation project, which began in 2017, suggests they won’t be disappointed. While the building remains a construction zone, Apple has unveiled the exterior of the store. The existing, 32-square-foot glass cube that tops the largely underground retail space looks the same—except now, the glass is covered in an iridescent coating that reflects all colors of the rainbow, filling the busy street with color and light.
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Get Vaccinated or Leave School: 26,000 N.Y. Children Face a Choice
Jacquelynn Vance-Pauls, a real-estate lawyer in upstate New York, has a 14-year-old son with autism who was recently kicked out of his private special needs school. Her 9-year-old twins and her high-school senior are also on the verge of being expelled from their public schools.
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Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Arrives in NYC to Fight “Biggest Crisis Humanity Has Ever Faced”
Following weeks of anticipation, Swedish climate justice activist Greta Thunberg arrived on the shores of Lower Manhattan Wednesday afternoon after a 15-day voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in an emissions-free yacht. She was welcomed on land by hundreds of supporters at the North Cove Marina.
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Instead of arresting a woman accused of shoplifting, these NYPD officers paid for her meal
When New York City Police officers saw a woman accused of shoplifting at a Manhattan Whole Foods store on Thursday, they didn't arrest her; instead, they paid for her meal. A store security guard asked three officers on a break from patrol Thursday to confront a woman who was suspected of shoplifting.
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Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades
Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.
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Opinion | Keep Your Augmented Reality. Give Me a Secret Garden.
My friends and I found hidden spaces where we could be teenagers again. We must be allowed to keep them.
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Schumer calls on FCC to review New York’s ‘horrible’ internet speeds
Sen. Chuck Schumer on Sunday called on the Federal Communications Commission to review whether internet providers are providing the broadband speed they’re advertising and not ripping off their customers. “When there’s slow internet, it drives you crazy. You just sit and wait and wait and wait. It’s horrible. Well, there’s a new report out that says our internet here in New York may be moving more like molasses than like lightning,” Schumer said during a news conference in his Manhattan office.
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NYC subway riders will be able to swipe in with Apple Pay starting Friday
If you frequent the New York City subway’s 4, 5, 6 line, you’ve probably seen the new terminals at a variety of stations like Union Square and Grand Central. Located between turnstiles, they’ve all been sporting a curious “Test Phase/Coming Soon” screen. That finally changes this week.
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New York City to Phase Out Processed Meat by 2030 in Push for Green New Deal - Sentient Media
New laws and actions will help NYC reach 30% emissions reduction by 2030—more than any other U.S. city—and unlike many big-oil-focussed climate initiatives, the Green New Deal is also targeting animal agriculture.
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NYC leaders join calls for ban on Monsanto herbicide
Two New York City council members introduced legislation today that would ban city agencies from spraying glyphosate-based herbicides and other toxic pesticides in parks and other public spaces. The move is the latest in a groundswell of concern over pesticide use, particularly exposures to weed killing products developed by Monsanto, which is now a unit of Bayer AG. Cities, school districts and suppliers across the U.S. are increasingly halting use of the pesticides.
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Cops bust suspect seen kicking elderly woman in the head on subway
Cops busted the monster caught on video beating up an elderly woman on a Bronx subway train “The subject wanted for the brutal subway attack of an elderly woman IS IN CUSTODY. The victim was …
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11 Exterior Wall Cladding Designs
Exterior wall cladding design has evolved quite a lot over the past decade. In this article, we explore 11 exterior wall cladding design ideas.
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Forces Schools to Adopt 'Meatless Monday' School Lunches to Combat Climate Change
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday that public schools would be participating in “meatless Mondays” in an attempt to combat climate change. De Blasio announced that schools would be barred from serving meat as part of the school lunch on Mondays throughout the school year. The New York City mayor hoped it would help “the future of [the] planet and [the New York Public School] students.”
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NYPD commander being investigated for threatening rapper 50 Cent's life — police sources
He wanted his cops to “Get the strap” — and take out 50 Cent. A Brooklyn precinct commander is being investigated by the NYPD for allegedly threatening the celebrity’s life — telling his officers at a roll call to “shoot him on sight,” the Daily News has learned. Deputy Inspector Emanuel Gonzalez, the commanding officer of the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park, allegedly made the threat last June 7, when the actor and “In Da Club” rapper was expected to attend an NYPD sanctioned boxing match in the Bronx.
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Uber sues to overturn New York City’s cap on new ride-hail drivers
Uber filed a lawsuit on Friday to overturn New York City’s first-in-the-nation law capping the number of ride-hail drivers that operate on its streets. The law, which went into effect last August, paused the issuance of new licenses to drivers for 12 months. But Uber wants the law overturned for fear that the city will ultimately make the cap permanent.
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NYPD officer speaks out on his widely praised use of nonlethal force: "Life is precious."
The New York police officer hailed for using nonlethal force to fend off a gang of men in a confrontation shown on a viral video said Thursday that pulling a gun should not always be an officer's first option. "Life is precious, and going to that weapon is not necessarily the first thing we should be thinking about," Officer Syed Ali said to reporters Thursday about his management of a tense confrontation Sunday night.
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At This Staten Island Restaurant, a Kitchen Run by Grandmas
Just inside the entrance to an Italian restaurant on a recent afternoon in the historic St. George neighborhood on Staten Island, the smell of soy and ponzu masked that of onions and garlic. The source? A Japanese woman had taken over the kitchen to make gyoza and shrimp dumpling soup. “The dumplings are good!” said a customer at a table of seven, sounding surprised.
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