Thursday, October 19, 2017

New York City's hotel industry links Airbnb to terror in harsh ad and other top stories.

  • New York City's hotel industry links Airbnb to terror in harsh ad

    New York City's hotel industry links Airbnb to terror in harsh ad
    ALBANY — New York City's hotel industry is set to deliver its harshest attack yet on Airbnb. An ad set to begin airing Monday raises security concerns about the ...
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  • Food From Around the World, Homegrown in New York

    Food From Around the World, Homegrown in New York
    This summer, the Parks Department’s GreenThumb program — the nation’s largest community garden program — has grown to 553 gardens, up from 501 in 2009. Most of the gardens sit on city-owned or other public property, and are maintained by community groups and a dedicated corps of 20,000 volunteer gardeners. Photo A pepper plant at the United We Stand Community Garden. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times In many neighborhoods, community gardens have fiercely loyal ..
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  • New York Today: The Greenest Block in Brooklyn

    New York Today: The Greenest Block in Brooklyn
    “It boils down to people more than plants,” Ms. Browne said. “It’s where you get that tangible sense of love. Which block really felt the most unified? Where is that sense of community really most palpable? That’s urban resilience right there.”There are three rounds of judging over the summer conducted by horticulturists, volunteers, and trustees and leaders of the botanic garden, who begin by giving each block a score to determine the finalists. After roughly 150 blocks were carefully reviewed..
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  • Venezuela Vote Marred by Violence, Including Candidate's Death

    Venezuela Vote Marred by Violence, Including Candidate's Death
    “If these other countries don’t recognize Venezuela as a democracy, it will be hard for them to look like a legitimate power,” said David Smilde, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group. Mr. Smilde mentioned a list of consequences that such isolation could entail, from access to bank loans to straining diplomatic ties with its largest neighbors.One candidate for the constituent assembly, José Félix Pineda, a 39-year-old lawyer, was killed in his home ..
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  • Authorities Capture Alligator Roaming Around Upstate NY Town

    Authorities Capture Alligator Roaming Around Upstate NY Town
    WHITNEY POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities in upstate New York have captured an alligator that got loose. According to Animal Adventure Park, New York state Department of Environmental Conservation crews captured the renegade reptile Saturday behind the fairgrounds in rural Whitney Point. Sightings of the alligator were first reported July 22. Officials say the alligator is 3 feet, 3 inches long. They believe it's someone's pet. The alligator will be quarantined and then permanently place..
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  • New York Man Dies Swimming at Massachusetts Waterfall

    New York Man Dies Swimming at Massachusetts Waterfall
    MOUNT WASHINGTON, Mass. (AP) — The body of a New York man who went missing after slipping off a rock at a picturesque Massachusetts waterfall has been located, but authorities are unable to recover it. Authorities say the body of 21-year-old Aiden Campion-Pratt was located Sunday afternoon at Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington. The Ghent, New York man went missing while swimming at the state park Friday evening. Berkshire District Attorney David Capeless says the body was located wit..
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  • Why 'The Big Sick' resonates in the Big Apple

    Why 'The Big Sick' resonates in the Big Apple
    He’s a struggling stand-up comic, Pakistani-American, Muslim. She’s a graduate student, a white American from the South. They meet in Chicago and fall in love. That’s the plot of “The Big Sick,” a hit movie this summer, a theme as old as Romeo and Juliet and as contemporary as “My Big, Fat Greek Wedding.” The film raises the question: How realistic is such cross-cultural love? In New York — where the film’s plot eventually takes the characters — very. In the film, Kumail Nanjiani (who plays him..
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  • Putin's Bet on a Trump Presidency Backfires Spectacularly

    Putin's Bet on a Trump Presidency Backfires Spectacularly
    But it is unclear how much the announcement will affect day-to-day relations. While the Russian news media said 755 diplomats would be barred from working, and presumably expelled, there do not appear to be anything close to 755 American diplomats working in Russia.That figure almost certainly includes Russian nationals working at the embassy, usually in nonsensitive jobs. (A 2013 State Department inspector general’s report, the last concrete numbers publicly available, said there were 934 “loc..
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  • SEE IT: Kevin Hart is reaching for the moon — and running the New ...

    SEE IT: Kevin Hart is reaching for the moon — and running the New ...
    The actor and comedian announced over the weekend that he'll be running the New York City Marathon in November. “I want to talk about moonshots. What is ...
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  • MTV Mines the Past for Its Future: 'Total Request Live'

    MTV Mines the Past for Its Future: 'Total Request Live'
    “If we’re going to come back and reinvent MTV, the studio is a given,” he said. “It is the centerpiece.”It is also the centerpiece in what Mr. McCarthy believes is the beginning of MTV’s comeback. Though many observers say that is a long shot, there have been encouraging signs in recent weeks.Ratings for MTV’s core audience — 18- to 34-year-olds — went up in June and July, the first time the network has experienced back-to-back months of ratings growth in four years.So far, those gains have com..
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