Museum exhibit focuses on 100 songs about NYC from Sinatra to Lil’ Kim, and everything in between
The Museum of the City of New York’s “Songs of New York: 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music” opens Friday, ...
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Unionizing the “Cultural Apparatus”
Today some of the most fertile grounds for union organizing are among the workers in the “cultural apparatus,” a phrase first ...
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Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed?
A new book charts the rise and fall of a short-lived haven for working-class immigrants and their soon-to-be upwardly mobile ...
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See cool vintage train posters at the Transit Museum's new exhibit
A new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, titled " Shining a light on The Subway Sun: The art of Fred G.
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Live in the treetops with private gardens below in this $12.5M Brooklyn Heights townhouse
Even on a postcard-perfect block amid the homes of historic Brooklyn Heights, the six-story Federal-style townhouse at 12 ...
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Best Internet Providers in the Bronx, New York
Finance and more. CNET's choice for the best internet service provider in the Bronx is Verizon Fios, thanks to its symmetric upload and download speeds, no data cap and four-year price guarantees ...
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NYC’s congestion pricing means more traffic—and pollution—in the South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods
The city has begun charging drivers to enter a central business district—but not all areas are reaping the benefits. On a frigid, gray morning this month, a half-dozen community advocates ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...
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After a Catastrophic Fire in The Bronx, Nearly $400,000 in Donations Remains Unspent
Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news. This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a ...
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Subway surfing teen survives fall in the Bronx
A teenager who was subway-surfing Tuesday evening fell from the train and onto the tracks in the Bronx, miraculously surviving the treacherous trick, police said. The 15-year-old male tumbled from ...
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CC Sabathia says he'll wear Yankees hat on Baseball Hall of Fame plaque: 'I found a home in the Bronx'
CC Sabathia will go into the Baseball Hall of Fame with a New York Yankees hat on his plaque. Sabathia learned of his election on Tuesday and soon after confirmed his intentions to go into ...