New York City has unveiled plans to patch up the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which ferries some 130,000 vehicles a day and stands as a monument to the urban planning enthusiasms of Robert Moses. We’re promised more community input, fewer e…
After nearly four mayoral terms and fifteen years of benign neglect, Prospect Park’s Terrace Bridge—Calvert Vaux’s 1890 finale—is still awaiting rescue, fenced off and festooned with graffiti while bureaucrats sketch $35m plans for its revival. New York’s Department of Transportation promises either a faithful restoration or a replica, but for now, the city’s grand old bridge mostly hosts saxophonists, turtles, and wistful nostalgia.
We learn that thieves relieved 20 concertgoers of their phones at a Hot Mulligan show in Brooklyn, a microcosm of a niche but global business: swiping pricey devices from distracted fans and fencing them in China, where network blacklists don’t bite. With NYPD stretched thin and phone prices swelling, the odds of getting one’s device—and dignity—back remain about as slim as a punk rocker’s wallet.
Seven New Yorkers spent Thanksgiving Eve sampling the city’s emergency rooms after a four-hour streak of shootings spanned Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Astoria, Queens—police report all survived, though motives and gunmen alike remain at large. With victims ranging from teens to twenty-somethings and not an arrest in sight, we’re reminded that the city’s fabled resilience may outpace its detectives—at least for one long Wednesday night.
As Americans ready mountains of turkey and pie, the Centers for Disease Control reminds us that food safety deserves as much attention as Aunt Edna’s cranberry sauce; each year, roughly 48 million in the United States fall ill from Thanksgiving foes like undercooked poultry. We may joke about dry breast meat, but the stakes—salmonella, anyone?—provide ample incentive to check the oven and, yes, the internal temperature.
Buyers seeking New York charm face a fresh crop of listings from Carnegie Hill, Harlem, and Clinton Hill, as sellers dangle homes from mid-rise brownstones to modern co-ops. Manhattan and Brooklyn’s real estate markets still demand deep pockets—median prices hover near $1 million—but those with means may spy opportunity amid gentle whispers of cooling. As ever, location is non-negotiable; compromise, however, is a city pastime.
The Brooklyn Nets, the NBA’s youngest squad at an average age of 23.4, have leaned heavily on 27-year-old Michael Porter Jr.—a septuagenarian by team standards—since acquiring him (and a 2032 first-round pick) from the Denver Nuggets last July. While Porter piles up points (24.8 per game) and tries to steady a 3-14 Nets ship, off-court podcast remarks add spice to an already challenging rookie-laden season.
