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List of America's Dirtiest Cities Revealed — NYC Surprisingly isn't the Worst
A recent study ranked cities to determine the dirtiest places to live. New York City — Years ago family members from the South visited me. Initially, they were stoked about being in the Big Apple. Of course, the second a football-sized rat scuttled across my mother's path on a sidewalk, she nearly fainted.
New Jersey beach opens on a Sunday for first time in 155 years despite Christian court battle
For the first time in generations, beachgoers were out on the sand in a New Jersey shore community on the Sunday morning before Memorial Day as a Christian religious group fights the state over its regular beach closures there during Sunday services.The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group that established a Christian seaside retreat at the Jersey Shore in 1869, said it had closed its beaches on Sunday mornings during religious services in Ocean Grove for more than a century and a half before the state Department of Environmental Protection accused the group of violating state beach access...
Intrepid holds annual Memorial Day ceremony
NEW YORK (PIX11) — On Monday, the Intrepid held its annual Memorial Day commemoration ceremony. They honored men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the United States armed forces and discussed how New York City was particularly impacted. “I think it’s a time to instill hope. And when you see all […]
This summer is the end of outdoor dining in NYC as we know it
Le Dive, a restaurant and wine bar at 37 Canal St., currently enjoys all three forms of outdoor dining: Open Streets seating (foreground), sidewalk seating (background), and a roadway dining shed (back left). New outdoor dining rules will change the economics of running an NYC restaurant, again [ more › ]
‘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...
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