Exploring Bob Dylan's New York
Macdougal Street“I was there to find singers, the ones I’d heard on record,” Mr. Dylan wrote in Chronicles, but “mostly to find Woody Guthrie,” the folk hero he would model himself after in his early performing days.Robert Zimmerman arrived in January 1961, and would soon find Mr. Guthrie at the Greystone Hospital near Morristown, N.J. (where he was being treated for Huntington’s disease), but not before convincing Fred Neil, who ran the daytime show at Manny Roth’s Cafe Wha?, to let him perfor..>> view originalNew York Today: Indian Summer
Photo Gorgeous weather, in full swing. Credit Alex Wroblewski for The New York Times Updated, 9:06 a.m.Good morning on this brilliant Tuesday.While summerlike weather in autumn is not unusual, today’s warmth certainly is.If the forecast holds and we hit 81 degrees, we would be only one degree shy of the record set in 1928. (For reference, the average for today is 63.)Wednesday could go even higher, to 83 degrees, and even Thursday, with a high near 72, looks toasty.So ..>> view originalNY / Region|Parent Group Seeks More Integration in New York's ...
Photo Queenie Chen, a student teacher at Public School 191, which is mostly comprised of black and Hispanic students. One organization is seeking to integrate white students from another school. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times In the long-running battle over rezoning schools on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the parent group that must ultimately approve a plan went on the offensive on Tuesday.The group challenged the New York City Education Department ..>> view originalThe New York That Could Have Been
CreditCourtesy Metropolis Books If there is a plaque commemorating the location of the entrance to Alfred Ely Beach’s pneumatic railway, built in secret below 265 Broadway, in lower Manhattan, the writer Sam Lubell and I did not find it on a ninety-degree day in August. Once upon a time, the basement of this building across from New York’s City Hall was frescoed and furnished with a piano, a plashing fountain, and goldfish tanks. Admission to the subway, which ran along a two-hundred-and-ni..>> view originalA Complex Case Tests New York State's Expanded Definition of ...
They broke up in December 2009, and Ms. Hamilton decided to move forward with the adoption alone, she testified. Despite the breakup, the women remained close. When Ms. Hamilton went to Ethiopia to get Abush, Ms. Gunn met her and the boy in London to fly together to Manhattan. When Ms. Hamilton, a freelance photographer, returned to her tiny apartment in the West Village, she said she was overwhelmed by the challenges of parenting. Ms. Gunn, who ran a successful design company, stepped in, baby..>> view originalFood and Drink Will Go to the Movies at Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse
Photo The interior of an Alamo Drafthouse theater. Credit Greg Epstein/Alamo Drafthouse Four years after first trying to enter the New York City market, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the Austin, Tex.-based chain known for dine-in theaters with creative programming and a strict policy of no talking or texting, will open its first multiplex in the city this month.The company, which also has a film distribution arm, announced on Tuesday that a seven-theater complex in Downt..>> view originalIt Was A Nice Day In New York Today
GIF Earlier today, local news station NY1 stumbled upon a “mysterious” statue of a mostly naked Hillary Clinton “depicted with horse hooves, and standing on what appeared to be printouts of emails. The statue also featured a Wall Street banker pressed against her left breast.” So of course, some shit went down. It was a lovely day in the city.One woman apparently decided that destroying the statue was the best way to protect Hillary Clinton’s dignity, much to the di..>> view originalCity Hall's new push to feed Hollywood's smug elites
Hollywood, a k a the film and TV industry, is rich, liberal and drenched in moral superiority. Bad enough that New York state subsidizes it — but now City Hall is looking to feed the smug. The mayor’s office on Tuesday launched “NYC Film Green,” a so-called sustainability initiative aiming to get productions to use less energy and create less trash. TV shows and movies that play along get one or another green label to impress their friends. Which is just what’s needed for an industry whose star..>> view originalMichael Moore's October Surprise: 'TrumpLand' Documentary
Photo Michael Moore, whose surprise film will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles for one week. Credit Andy Kropa/Invision, via Associated Press While surprise albums are becoming more common, surprise movies from well-known directors are rare.Enter Michael Moore. The documentarian behind “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 9/11” has just announced a new movie, “Michael Moore in TrumpLand,” which will be released in theaters on Wednesday.The film is a one-man s..>> view original66-Year-Old Woman Shot, Killed by Police in Bronx Home: NYPD
What to KnowA 66-year-old woman was shot and killed by a uniformed sergeant in her Bronx apartment Tuesday evening, police sayThe NYPD had been responding to a 911 call complaining about the woman, who was described as emotionally disturbedPolice are conducting an investigation into the incident, including why a stun gun wasn't deployedA police sergeant fatally shot a 66-year-old woman when she charged at him with a baseball bat in her Bronx apartment Tuesday evening, the NYPD says. Officers res..>> view original
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