New York Changes How It Tests for Lead in Schools’ Water, and Finds More Metal In new tests after experts raised concerns, New York has found many more water outlets with significant levels of the metal than it did last…
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Critic's Notebook: Men’s Runways Are Threaded With Dissent At New York Fashion Week: Men’s, John Varvatos, Raf Simons and Willy Chavarria make the case for internationalism during a fraught political moment. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
F.Y.I.: The Story of Sweet Marie and an Earlier Women’s Protest The woman, whose real name was Marie Ganz, was perhaps the most colorful figure in the Food Riots of 1917, which broke out in Brooklyn. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Big Ticket: Top Sales Include Billy Bush’s Chelsea Townhouse The sale of the former ‘Today’ host Billy Bush’s Chelsea townhouse was one of the notable closings in the city in January. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
10 Things to Do in NYC Now It’s a big city, with plenty to do, see, hear and watch. Here’s a sampling of cultural highlights this weekend and over the week ahead. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Renters: A Move to the West Village for a Good School Seeking good public schools, a family leaves their Brooklyn townhouse for a two-bedroom in the West Village. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
New York Today: New York Today: Our Football Hall of Fame Friday: Talking points for your Super Bowl party, weekend events, and the Beatles’ first trip to our town. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Shaken and Stirred: A ‘Pounder’ of a Cocktail at the Reinvented Chumley’s A Greenwich Village bar is back in business a decade after that unfortunate wall collapse. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Sunday Routine: How the Model Andreja Pejic Spends Her Sundays: Yoga and a ‘Pig Out’ Brunch Ms. Pejic, the first transgender model profiled in Vogue, also says she likes to step outside her “personal bubble” and catch up on current…
360 View: Write an Essay, Win This House A couple hope to free themselves of a Catskills vacation home by running an essay contest with an entry fee, and bestowing the house on the winner. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Works in Progress: For Nicholas K, Fashion Week Is the Finish Line A day at Nicholas K, as its designers, models and stylists are at work preparing for New York Fashion Week. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Big City: Kirsten Gillibrand and the Anti-Trump Left: 2020 Foresight? She got an A from the N.R.A. and defended the tobacco industry, but in opposing President Trump, Kirsten Gillibrand is becoming a heroine of the left. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Lions of New York: Harry Belafonte Knows a Thing or Two About New York The city native, about to turn 90, looks back at a glorious past and wonders what his next act will be. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Pet City: Dogs on Marijuana: Not Cool New York veterinarians are treating more and more of the animals sickened by ingesting someone’s marijuana. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
New York Today: New York Today: A Groundhog Has Her Day Thursday: A meet-and-greet with Staten Island Chuck, bodegas shut in protest, and Prairie Dog Day. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times