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Leaving London for New York City felt like the only option. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementTwo years ago, my partner and I were still living in a one-and-a-half-bedroom basement in London. AdvertisementLeaving London for New York felt like the only optionAfter that, I had to admit, grudgingly, that going to New York seemed like the best option. The poverty in New York City is reported to have increased in recent years, bringing the total number of New Yorkers living in poverty to 2 million, according to a report from Robin Hood, an anti-poverty philanthropy.
Persons: Hannah Crown, , we've, we'd, Peter, We've, I've, Robin Hood, It's Organizations: Service, Apple, Radio City, London Locations: British, England, London, New York City, New York, New Jersey, Brooklyn, Macy's, Radio, Dyker Heights, Long
"When I thought of a film director, I pictured, you know, Spielberg. At 28, she finally enrolled in film school at New York University with the support of her family and her partner at the time. "Those three years of film school were the best years of my life," she says. While she was in school, Terruso "said yes to everything." She worked on films for as little as $100 a day doing whatever they needed, wanting to soak up as much experience as she could.
Persons: Laura Terruso, she'd, , Spielberg, Robert De Niro, Sebastian Maniscalco, Terruso Organizations: CNBC, Getty, New York University Locations: Dyker, Brooklyn
Driver in Brooklyn U-Haul Attack Charged With Murder
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A 62-year-old man was charged with murder Tuesday after he was accused of striking multiple pedestrians with a U-Haul truck in Brooklyn during what police called a mental-health episode that left one person dead. Weng Sor, of Las Vegas, was charged with second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder, police said. One person died and seven others were injured Monday after Mr. Sor allegedly drove the truck onto sidewalks and around the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Sunset Park and Dyker Heights, officials said.
Decorated homes in the Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 8. Dyker Heights' seasonal lights took off in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 and stayed on even at the height of the pandemic in 2020, residents said. The light show has become a pit stop for tour buses along with the likes of Rockefeller Center and Times Square.
Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderManhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, on the western edge of Midtown, got its name from its crowded tenements. On March, 13, 2019, Gambino family crime boss Frankie Cali was shot dead in the driveway outside his Todt Hill home. Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderThe service road to the Belt Parkway runs through the northern edge of the Brighton Beach neighborhood. John Gotti's Family Home, Howard Beach, QueensThe home where John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family. It's here that John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family and thus the 'Godfather' of the American mafia, lived and raised his family.
În ciuda pandemiei, coronavirusul nu a reuşit să le fure americanilor spiritul sărbătorilor de iarnă. Celebrul cartier newyorkez Brooklyn şi-a decorat casele în mii de ornamente şi luminiţe colorate. Feeria de Crăciun pare să fi luat naştere aici, căci, oriunde ai privi, totul pare desprins din poveste. Tradiția din Dyker Heights a început la mijlocul anilor 1980. Anual locul este vizitat de mii de turişti din toată lumea curioşi să vadă vestitele case americane îmbrăcate în lumini.
Persons: Crăciun, . Locations: Brooklyn, Crăciunului, Heights, New York, Dyker Heights
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