Feature: The Compost King of New York What happens to food scraps after the city takes them? Soon a large fraction will wind up on Long Island, where Charles Vigliotti hopes to turn them into profit. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
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Crime Scene: Where Etan Patz Vanished, a Sense of Things Left Incomplete A guilty verdict may have closed the books in the 1979 murder, but emptiness lingered on the blocks of SoHo where the 6-year-old took his last steps. {$excerpt:n}…
Skating, and Scoring, for God’s Glory Out of Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish college in Upper Manhattan, comes an unlikely squad of religious roller hockey players. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
All-Jewish Hockey Team Dominates Yeshiva University is now a top team in Division II of the Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association, after winning the Division IV championships last year. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Op-Ed Contributors: Sanctuary Cities in Name Only “Zero tolerance” policing simply furthers Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Editorial: A Housing Solution: Lawyers for Tenants New York City is planning a wise investment by increasing funding for legal services to help tenants facing eviction. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Rare Rat-Related Disease Kills a Bronx Victim, the City Says Three people in the Grand Concourse area were infected with leptospirosis, making it the first reported cluster of the disease in New York, health officials said. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Mets’ David Wright Exercising Caution About Returning to Throwing Wright, a third baseman who had season-ending disk surgery in June and continues to deal with spinal stenosis, has been in training camp for weeks but has not thrown a baseball…
Album: What Cats Think of the Dog Show Cats at Westminster? While some fur may have been ruffled and human hackles raised, the felines don’t seem to care. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Pedro Hernandez Found Guilty of Kidnapping and Killing Etan Patz in 1979 The verdict is a long-awaited step in solving the mystery that bedeviled investigators and forever changed the way parents watched over their children. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Saved From Holocaust: ‘He Loved Me and He Wanted to Keep Me’ A Brooklyn couple in their 90s recounts how their love helped them survive the Holocaust. “He’s not very romantic,” she says, but he saved her life. {$excerpt:n} Source:…
Restaurant Review: Culinary Clashes End in Harmony at Chinese Tuxedo A stylish new restaurant melds Asian cuisines in a cavernous former Chinatown theater where a gang massacre once occurred. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
New York Today: New York Today: They Met on the Subway, and Married Tuesday: Subway love stories, a special election, and the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Charles Oakley Has Issues With a New York Team Owner. He’s Not the First. The city has had its share of dust-ups between the men who own sports teams and those employed by the franchises. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Pace University Names Head of Oberlin Its Next President Marvin Krislov, often a lightning rod over identity and free speech issues, is a former Rhodes Scholar with three degrees from Yale. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times