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You can swim for free at these New York pools this summer
If you're a frequenter of the city's and state's many public swimming pools, you're by now familiar with the $2 entry fee that most of them ask for. That's, however, changing this summer: Governor Kathy Hochul just announced that the state is completely waiving entry fees at 14 state parks for the rest of the season. The list includes two public pools located in New York City: Roberto Clemente State Park Pool in the Bronx and the Riverbank State Park Pools in Manhattan.
Storms postpone Paramus fireworks, food truck fest. Here's the new schedule
The Paramus food truck and fireworks event was postponed due to Sunday night's stormy weather, but dates for the borough’s other Fourth of July activities remain unchanged. The free food truck festival, hosted by the Paramus Volunteer Fire Department, will now be held on Sunday, July 7 at the west lot of Garden State Plaza and the Cliff Gennarelli Sports Complex, starting at 3 p.m. Admission is $5 per person or $10 for a family of two or more, with all proceeds benefiting the fire department.
5 Best All-You-Can-Eat: Buffets in New Jersey
- For those who enjoy a lavish buffet meal, there are many places to choose from in New Jersey. Some top choices are the Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffet in Jersey City, the Flaming Grill and Buffet in Linden, the Fortune Buffet in Toms River, and the Harvest Buffet in Waretown. However, there are several other options worth exploring.
PETA Announces Decision On Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
The 2024 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest is set to take place on Thursday, live from Coney Island. While Joey Chestnut won't be in attendance due to a branding conflict, PETA will be. PETA announced on Wednesday that they are planning a protest of the ...
Delta flight diverted: spoiled meals.
Delta flight to Amsterdam makes emergency landing in NYC after spoiled meals served. A Delta Air Lines flight [https://www.delta.com/en_us] heading to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing in New York City on Wednesday morning due to spoiled in-flight meals. The flight diverted to John F. Kennedy International Airport [https://www.jfklga.org/] after reports of spoiled food emerged, and medical experts recommended the diversion as a precaution.
N.J.’s Renauld White, barrier-breaking model and ‘Guiding Light’ actor, dead at 80
Renauld White, a model and actor from New Jersey and trailblazer in the world of fashion, has died. White, 80, was the first African American male model to cover GQ magazine in 1979. The Newark native worked with designers including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Jeffrey Banks, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna...
Doris Duke – Wealthiest Woman In The World
From 1925 through 1967 the legendary San Remo Tavern was open day and night for business on the northwest corner of MacDougal and Bleecker Streets in the Village – across the street on the southeast corner was another Café, the Figaro, which – after being closed for several decades and gaining a certain kind of legend status itself (Sam Shepard and Sally Kirkland were waiters there in the 60s) – is open again. From the middle of Prohibition through the Great Depression and WWII, and on into the 50s and 60s the San Remo thrived, attracting a crowd of poets, painters, playwrights, musicians and actors. Some of these luminaries were Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, William S.Burroughs, Miles Davis, Frank O’Hara, Jackson Pollock, Judith Malina and Julian Beck and so many others. One night the actor Warren Finnerty (The Connection) slipped a magic mushroom (psilocybin cubensis) in a glass of apricot nectar and insisted I drink it – but that’s another story. Another night, the Saturday night after the mid-week opening and the unanimous rave reviews had come in for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the crowd at the bar included several of the above as well as Simone Signoret and Leonard Bernstein there to see the new wunderkind of the American theater, Edward Albee, who wandered in fashionably late in a white cable knit turtleneck sweater, an outfit vaguely reminiscent of Eugene O’Neill. Which is also another story. The story here however, and one I have never told before, is the amazing adventure I had with some pals which started out at the San Remo and ended up at the largest private estate on the east coast where we all spent the night under the same roof with Doris Duke, who when she was young was called the world’s richest girl, then the world’s wealthiest woman – and then in an unauthorized biography written by her accountants, “…shall we say the world’s richest person?”
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