Saturday, May 21, 2016

Art & Design|Your Last Chance to See One of New York's Great ... and other top stories.

  • Art & Design|Your Last Chance to See One of New York's Great ...

    Photo A view of “Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay,” the last show being held at the Greene Street location of Artists Space. Credit Benjamin Norman for The New York Times The 35-year survey of the work of Lukas Duwenhögger at Artists Space provides a full, mesmerizing view of a German artist, now 60 and based in Istanbul, who is barely known in this country. Mr. Duwenhögger is a sly, seductive stylist and storyteller, adept at figurative painting as well as film, sculpture a..
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  • 10 Things to Do Now in NYC

    10 Things to Do Now in NYC
    Prospect Park in Brooklyn has just acquired some extraordinary weed-killing machines. They’re energy-efficient, quiet and ecologically sound (no harmful chemicals).Some might even call them cute. You can judge for yourself on Sunday at “Fun on the Farm,” where they will be up and running: eight goats of different breeds, including the pygmy, Alpine, Oberhasli and LaMancha.The event, presented by the Lefferts Historic House Museum, will feature activities like making goat’s milk ice cream and a ..
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  • Ex-New York Officer Spared Prison Time for Misusing Restricted ...

    Ex-New York Officer Spared Prison Time for Misusing Restricted ...
    Photo Joseph P. Dwyer, a retired New York police officer, outside federal court in January. The government said he had acted with “a desire to enrich himself.” Credit Bryan R. Smith for The New York Times To many defense lawyers, Joseph P. Dwyer, a retired New York police officer who became a private eye, was guided by justice — a highly sought investigator who uncovered key information to help their clients.But that came at a price: Mr. Dwyer had been paying a police s..
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  • At Laid-Back Pimlico, No Crown Weighs Heavy Yet

    At Laid-Back Pimlico, No Crown Weighs Heavy Yet
    Photo The Preakness Stakes entrant Fellowship training at Pimlico Race Course, where Kentucky Derby winners often win again. Credit Patrick Smith/Getty Images BALTIMORE — The Preakness Stakes is the easy leg of the Triple Crown, the one that 10 of the last 19 Kentucky Derby winners have rolled through triumphant to earn a ticket to New York and a date with destiny. Their owners and trainers treat this scuffed-up old track like a summer home — feasting on crab cakes and ..
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  • New York Today: Our Cinematic City

    New York Today: Our Cinematic City
    Like Tim Gallin, a stuntman and stunt coordinator who has worked on “Birdman,” “The Bourne Ultimatum” and other locally shot films.Working on a New York set is thrilling, he said: “There’s a frenetic energy here, and it overtakes you.”For a man who has thrown himself into the East River, jumped out of a four-story window in Chelsea, and once lit himself on fire nine times in one day in Greenwich Village, that’s saying something.Here’s what else is happening:Weather There is simply no wrong..
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  • How to Save New York's Overwhelmed

    How to Save New York's Overwhelmed
    The agency would also be assured of the money needed to finish the second phase of the Second Avenue subway line up to 125th Street. The first section, 63rd to 96th Street, is expected to open by the end of this year. At some point in the future, the line is supposed to run all the way down to Hanover Square near Wall Street. But even before then, it will go a long way toward alleviating delays and congestion on the nearby Lexington Avenue line, the most crowded in the city.Move NY would also g..
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  • Secret Service Shoots Man Near White House

    Secret Service Shoots Man Near White House
    Video White House Locked Down After Shooting The White House and Treasury Department were on lockdown while the police investigated a shooting nearby. The president was away at the time. A man was shot by a Secret Service officer, the agency said on Twitter. By CBS, VIA REUTERS on Publish Date May 20, 2016. Photo by Andrew Harn..
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  • Police Investigating After Officer Points Gun, Slugs NYC Man

    Police Investigating After Officer Points Gun, Slugs NYC Man
    A police officer cuffing a man in New York pointed his gun at bystanders filming him, then later punched one of them in the face, according to witnesses and video of the scene. "My man didn’t do nothing, just sat there recording because what they were doing is wrong," Eric Worrell, the 17-year-old who recorded the blow said. "The fact that he pulled the gun out on us was wrong too." Harlem Officer Points GunVideo appears to show an NYPD officer point a gun while making arrest in Harlem on Frida..
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  • Liberals love science — unless it proves them wrong

    Liberals love science — unless it proves them wrong
    Why do liberals hate science? The left has long claimed that it has something of a monopoly on scientific expertise. For instance, once there were “scientific socialists.” “Social engineer” is now rightly seen as a term of scorn and derision, but it was once a label that progressive eggheads eagerly accepted. Masking opinions in a white smock is a brilliant, albeit infuriating and shabby, rhetorical tactic. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but ..
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  • Middle East|Data Points to Rapid Loss of Control Aboard EgyptAir Jet

    Middle East|Data Points to Rapid Loss of Control Aboard EgyptAir Jet
    At 2:27 a.m., when the plane was passing from Greek to Egyptian-supervised airspace, the controllers in Athens tried and failed repeatedly to reach the pilots by radio. Even attempts on an emergency frequency failed.At the same time, technical data was being transmitted from the plane automatically through its Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, or Acars, which modern jetliners use to provide status updates to maintenance and operational centers on the ground.Representative..
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