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What's open and closed for Memorial Day around the Tri-State Area
NEW YORK - Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial start of summer. While many folks get to enjoy the holiday weekend, others will be working, taking care of people who might be looking for a sale or other deals, or just to enjoy the day shopping. Here's a look at just a few places around the Tri-State Area and whether they are open and closed on Memorial Day, including banks and post offices. Is Woodbury Common open on Memorial Day? Yes. Woodbury Common is open on Memorial Day from 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Is Burlington...
NYC grocers gripe over fruit vendors so close to their stores: ‘Pick off our customers’
City grocery-store owners are blasting Big Apple officials for allowing licensed fruit and vegetable vendors on the same block as their shops — in some cases fewer than 30 feet away — eating into their profits. In Forest Hills, Queens, a fruit and vegetable stand is located just 25 feet from a Key Food supermarket on the northern side of Queens Boulevard between 71st Avenue and 71st Road. “They know they can pick off our customers,” fumed Nelson Eusebio, political director of the National Supermarket Association, which reps 600 Key Food, C-Town, Associated, Bravo and other grocers in the city. The window alongside...
‘Landmark’ NYC ice cream parlor faces eviction as locals say it’s a sign neighborhood just isn’t the same
An iconic, decades-old Brooklyn ice cream shop is set to be evicted this summer – leaving neighbors and longtime customers distraught over the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. “We have been here since May 1984 – 40 years,” said Anthony “Tony” Fongyit, 74, the owner of Scoops Ice Cream Parlor on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. “A lot of people have been upset. It’s heartbreaking right now to see what’s going on with this lease situation,” he told The Post. Fongyit was ordered to vacate the storefront within four months when his landlord brought him to civil court earlier in May, following about five...
Red Alert: Severe thunderstorms for Memorial Day travel around NYC
NEW YORK -- Thunderstorms and flash flood risks were in the forecast Monday around the Tri-State Area as people made their way home from Memorial Day weekend travel.The CBS New York First Alert Weather team extended its Red Alert due to severe weather risks. Flood advisories were issued for Bergen, Essex, Orange, Passaic and Rockland counties late Monday night. A severe thunderstorm watch for most of the area ended at 9 p.m.Strong storms in Pennsylvania prompted tornado warnings that could've reached New Jersey, but the storm lost some intensity once it reached our area. Stay up to date with the latest forecast and live...
Street closures for NYC Memorial Day 2024 Parades
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – New Yorkers will commemorate fallen military personnel with a number of parades Monday for Memorial Day, meaning many street closures across the city. With parades in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, drivers should be aware of the following closures: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, starting at 11 a.m. Little Neck, Queens, starting […]
Manhattanhenge 2024: When and where to see the sunset in NYC
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) – Manhattanhenge, the two-night celestial event when the sunset aligns perfectly with New York City’s street grid, will take place on the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The popular spectacle will appear on back-to-back nights. On Tuesday, May 28, the half-sun Manhattanhenge will appear on the grid at 8:13 p.m. […]
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