New York Today: Celebrating Black History
Photo The Frederick Douglass Memorial at the northwest corner of Central Park. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Updated at 7:30 a.m. Good morning on this gray Monday.When Frederick Douglass reached New York in 1838, after narrowly escaping the clutches of slavery, he wrote in a letter to a friend, “I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.”Today, an eight-foot bronze sculpture of Mr. Douglass stands on the northwest corner of Central..>> view originalDeal Restricts Tourist Helicopter Flights Over New York
Photo Tourists posing for pictures before boarding a helicopter at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6 in Lower Manhattan. An agreement with the city will reduce flights there by 50 percent. Credit Kevin Hagen for The New York Times After decades of complaints about noise and air pollution from the tens of thousands of tourist helicopter flights that circle Manhattan each year, New York City announced a deal on Sunday that would cut their number in half by Janua..>> view originalNew York Vet Gets Purple Heart 70 Years After WWII Battle
A 90-year-old New York man wounded by Japanese fighter planes in World War II has been awarded a Purple Heart— 70 years after rescuing a fellow sailor. Newsday reports ( http://nwsdy.li/1OZGDQH ) that Frederick Stone of Stony Brook accepted the medal Sunday during a ceremony at the Navy Operational Support Center in Farmingdale. The medal honors veterans wounded or killed in the line of duty. Family members say metal plane fragments penetrated Stone's back and chest during the bombing of..>> view originalNew York City has a subway slashing problem
NEW YORK - Police say a man was slashed in the face in the sixth such attack in the New York subway and on streets this year.The 27-year-old victim was assaulted Sunday morning in a Harlem station.CBS New York reports the attack took place inside the Central Park North station at 110th Street and Lenox Avenue.The victim was waiting for a No. 2 train just after 3 a.m. while arguing with a woman on the platform. Police say that after she asked another man for help, the man she asked for help from..>> view originalBenoît Violier, Top French-Swiss Chef, Dies at 44
Photo Benoît Violier in 2012. The French-Swiss chef was found dead on Sunday at his home in Crissier, near Lausanne, Switzerland. Credit Marcel Gillieron/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LONDON — The French-Swiss chef Benoît Violier, who scaled the heights of gastronomy to preside over a small Swiss restaurant that was named the best in the world in December, has died in what appears to have been a suicide, according to the police. He was 44. The Swiss police said..>> view originalReview: Spectacle of 'Grease: Live!' Puts Moments Above Story
Photo Aaron Tveit and Julianne Hough in a scene from “Grease: Live!,” which aired on Fox on Sunday. Credit Michael Becker/Fox When Fox’s “Grease: Live!” reached its celebratory conclusion on Sunday, opinions about it no doubt differed, but one thing was clear: The live-musicals-on-television trend is no longer about trying to capture the magic of being in a Broadway house, if it ever was. The “Grease” that the director Thomas Kail (of Broadway’s “Hamilton”) served up..>> view originalDonald Trump Field Organizer Accuses Campaign of Sex ...
Photo Donald J. Trump at a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa, on Saturday. Mr. Trump said he did not know Elizabeth Mae Davidson, and has denied making the comments to her that she claims. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times DAVENPORT, Iowa — A former paid organizer for Donald J. Trump who was fired this month has accused his presidential campaign of sex discrimination.Elizabeth Mae Davidson, 26, who was the Trump campaign’s field organizer here in Davenport, Iowa..>> view originalUS Broadens Fight Against ISIS With Attacks in Afghanistan
Photo Iraqi pro-government forces clashed with Islamic State fighters on the outskirts of Ramadi on Sunday. Credit Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — The United States has carried out at least a dozen operations — including commando raids and airstrikes — in the past three weeks against militants in Afghanistan aligned with the Islamic State, expanding the Obama administration’s military campaign against the terrorist group beyond Iraq a..>> view originalWhy New York Democrats are rallying for Sanders and Trump
Key New York Democrats, longtime supporters of Hillary Clinton, have begun rooting for both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in the upcoming New York primaries — in hopes that the national races will help them take control of the state Senate. That strange, and temporary, support of Sanders and Trump results from Gov. Cuomo’s decision Saturday to call a special election on April 19 — presidential primary day in the state — for the Nassau County state Senate seat left open by the corruption convi..>> view originalUnpublished Black History
Photo 1969: Young paraders marched along Seventh Avenue for the city’s first Afro-American Day parade. Credit Donal F. Holway/The New York Times Images from black history, drawn from old negatives, have long been buried in the yellowed envelopes and crowded bins of the New York Times archives.None of them were published by The Times – until now.Visit our interactive project, Unpublished Black History, to explore photographs and back stories — of Malcolm X, Lena Horne,..>> view original
Monday, February 1, 2016
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