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Nov. 25, 2023A regular golf cart has no turn signals, no radio, no protection from the elements other than a thin roof and rain flaps. Press the pedal to the floor and it can maybe — maybe — accelerate to 15 miles per hour. If you are 12, commanding that cart feels like power. “You had that little sense of adventure,” said Caroline Lawson, 17, thinking back a few years to her earliest experiences driving a golf cart. “It’s just that little sense of, ‘Whee!’”

Persons: “, ”, Caroline Lawson, It’s, ‘ Locations: Atlanta, Peachtree City , Ga

☆ The Nets Are Up in Flushing Meadows. But Not for the Sport You Think.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( David Waldstein | Gabriela Bhaskar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The sport has been especially important for the community after the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 ravaged Corona, Elmhurst and other parts of Queens. Many were friends of Teresa Benitez and her family, longtime ecuavoley participants from Corona. “We lost maybe 200 people we knew from here, people who came here to play volleyball with us,” said Benitez, a retail worker. “It’s only a couple of weeks,” Benitez said. Back then, people played their special brand of volleyball close to the Willets Point-Shea Stadium subway station on the No.

Persons: Teresa Benitez, ”, Benitez, “, ” Benitez, Blanca Organizations: Corona, U.S, Shea Locations: Corona, Elmhurst, Queens, “, New York, Cuenca, Back

Benton was at Tiafoe’s match on Monday and has been in contact with him over the summer. “He’s a little —” Benton paused and with his arms imitated someone who was experiencing the inevitable weight of expectations, the biggest of which are those Tiafoe has set for himself. A typical Tiafoe sequence occurred Monday during a tight second set against Tien. With the score knotted at 4-4, Tien rose and twisted and snapped a backhand overhead that looked like a certain winner. Then he did his trademark frozen stare into the crowd, his cue for the fans to get loud.

Persons: Benton, “, ” Benton, Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, Tien, Tiafoe Organizations: Australian, Tien Locations: Houston, Stuttgart, Germany, Wimbledon

☆ The U.S. Open Is King of New York. Could It Do More for Queens?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( David Waldstein | Gabriela Bhaskar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than 888,000 spectators attended the U.S. Open last year, and at least that many are expected this year at an event that is in some ways an annual contrast of culture and class. Many fans will drive there on the crowded parkways and highways adjacent to the stadium. Some will ride the commuter rails from Manhattan, Long Island and New Jersey, and others will squeeze onto the No. “We never lose sight of the fact that we are in a public park,” said Daniel Zausner, the National Tennis Center’s chief operating officer. “We want to be a bigger player in the community, always.”

Persons: “, ”, Daniel Zausner Organizations: U.S, Grand Central, Tennis Center’s Locations: Manhattan, Long, and New Jersey, Corona, Flushing, Jackson

☆ A Year of Upheaval on Abortion’s Front Lines
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Kate Kelly | Marisa Schwartz Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

Erica’s pilots that day were volunteers with Elevated Access, a nonprofit set up last year to help people obtain abortions, often across state lines. In North Carolina, an anti-abortion, church-backed pregnancy center called Mountain Area Pregnancy Services confronted a harassment incident. Before Dobbs, the group’s abortion services operated on a budget of $20,000 per month. But the dearth of pharmacies willing to offer abortion medication meant that Honeybee soon became the main provider of the online-ordered, home-delivered pills. Abortion medication — which now accounts for more than half of abortions in the United States — produces roughly 40 percent of Honeybee’s revenue.

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☆ A Summer Basketball Refuge Thrives in the Bronx’s Largest Housing Complex
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Bernard Mokam | Gabriela Bhaskar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jeremiah Peoples was alone on the fast break with the energy of the crowd fueling him to the rim. It was opening day of Grenada Built to Win, the summer basketball league at Edenwald Houses in the Bronx, and there was little space to move. After painting the asphalt through the night and holding a clinic in the morning, the league’s founder, Rasheem Jenkins, known as “Rah Rah,” announced the games in the afternoon with verve and humor. “In and out like a relationship,” he teased as the ball spun off the rim. The league, which began its 11th season this June, is the realization of a dream he had nourished since he was one of the neighborhood kids.

Persons: Jeremiah Peoples, Rasheem Jenkins, ” Organizations: verve Locations: Grenada, Bronx

☆ One Year, 61 Clinics: How Dobbs Changed the Abortion Landscape
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Allison Mccann | Amy Schoenfeld Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +18 min

One Year, 61 Clinics: How Dobbs Changed the Abortion LandscapeIn the year since Roe fell, 20 states enacted laws banning or restricting abortion, forcing a rapid shift in the country’s patchwork of abortion access. Hawaii A map showing the locations of abortion providers that have closed, stopped offering abortion services or opened a new location. Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times Emily Kask for The New York Times A year ago, the Jackson clinic was the last one standing in Mississippi. Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times Terreisha Rancher, 26, recently sat in an exam room at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, pregnant and uninsured. No abortions Austin, Texas Closed Houston No abortions Madison, Wis. No abortions Memphis A grid of photos of abortion clinics in nine locations.

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☆ Blue Wigs and Bad Words: Knicks Fans Are Ready for the Playoffs.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Kris Rhim | Gabriela Bhaskar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A group of Knicks fans spotted another Knicks fan and started cursing. Other people turned their heads, cautiously moving away from the group; a fight seemed to be brewing. But as the fans walked toward each other, locked arms and began jumping around, it became clear that this was not about to be a brawl. At the center was Darryl Thompson, in a blue custom-made Knicks shirt with a four-letter word in orange and the name of the Heat’s best player: Jimmy Butler. That was just the fans, uh, reading the shirt’s message out loud.

☆ That Style, Again? How Shopping Got So Boring
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Suzanne Kapner | Photographs Gabriela Bhaskar For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The maker of Tonka trucks and Lite-Brite normally introduces four new toys a year. Last year, Basic Fun Inc. introduced one. Manufacturers and retailers of everything from computers to dresses hit pause in the past few years when it came to innovation, the result of pandemic-related upheavals in the design, manufacture and distribution of goods, industry executives said. Shifting consumer demand and the expectation of an economic slowdown also played a role, the executives said.

☆ Most Abortion Bans Include Exceptions. In Practice, Few Are Granted.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Amy Schoenfeld Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

But abortion-rights advocates say legal exceptions do nothing but make abortion bans appear more reasonable than they really are. One shows states with abortion bans with exceptions for rape or incest and the other shows states without those exceptions. One shows states with abortion bans with exceptions for fatal birth defects and the other shows states without those exceptions. One shows states with abortion bans with exceptions for patients with severe health risks and the other shows states without those exceptions. One shows states with abortion bans with exceptions for the life of the patient and the other shows states without those exceptions.

☆ New York City Wants More EVs but Needs to Find Space for Chargers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Jennifer Hiller | Photographs Gabriela Bhaskar For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Big Apple wants to go green. First it needs to figure out where to put thousands of chargers needed for electric vehicles as the state phases out the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and trucks by 2035. Drivers in New York largely rely on street parking and lack homes with driveways or garages where they could install private chargers. As a result, it will need thousands of additional public charging locations to spur wider EV adoption. So far, fewer than 1% of vehicles registered in the city are electric, according to state data.

☆ The Year in Pictures 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Erin Schaff/The New York Times “When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.” Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26.

☆ Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Liz Young | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

Israel-based robotics startup Get Fabric Ltd., which has placed so-called microfulfillment centers in New York City and Dallas, is focusing on selling its warehouse automation platform rather than building more specialized small distribution sites. Some companies leased vacant retail spaces for use as “dark stores” for fulfillment and delivery, while others opened smaller warehouses near population centers. The shift makes the niche logistics business the latest to see a business strategy that gained traction during the Covid-19 pandemic lose its momentum as consumers have resumed prepandemic buying habits. That has some retailers rethinking their heavy investments in online fulfillment. Takeoff Technologies Inc., a microfulfillment system provider, expanded its business in the past year, said co-founder and Chief Executive Max Pedró.

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