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Caleb Carr, Author of Dark Histories, Dies at 68
  + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Penelope Green | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Caleb Carr, a military historian and author whose experience of childhood abuse drove him to explore the roots of violence — most famously in his 1994 best seller, “The Alienist,” a period thriller about the hunt for a serial killer in 19th-century Manhattan — died on Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, N.Y. The cause was cancer, his brother Ethan Carr said. Mr. Carr had first pitched the book as nonfiction; it wasn’t, but it read that way because of the exhaustive research he did into the period. And he peopled his novel with historical figures like Theodore Roosevelt, who was New York’s reforming police commissioner before his years in the White House. Up to that point, Mr. Carr had been writing, with modest success, on military matters.
Persons: Caleb Carr, , Ethan Carr, Carr, Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob Riis, James Chace Organizations: Quarterly Locations: , Cherry Plains, N.Y, American, Chinese
The NYC park where Marjorie Taylor Greene is hosting a Trump rally used to be an open sewer. Collect Pond Park was then a blossoming new neighborhood, and later the center of a gang-filled slum. It took six years for the city to fill the hole that was once Collect Pond, according to the parks department. The area finally became a park in 1960Luciano Garbati's statue 'Medusa With The Head of Perseus' at Collect Pond Park on October 13, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidIt wasn't until 1960 that NYC's Board of Estimate gave the area Parks jurisdiction.
LGBTQ beach sanctum faces demolition in New York
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
A person sits in the surf during an event called "Ralph's Neon Oasis Beach Party" at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, N.Y., September 17, 2022. The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which owns the site, has met with neighbors and LGBTQ...moreA person sits in the surf during an event called "Ralph's Neon Oasis Beach Party" at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, N.Y., September 17, 2022. The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which owns the site, has met with neighbors and LGBTQ community members to discuss their concerns. "We will continue to engage these communities to learn how we can accommodate their concerns while ensuring public safety," Stephanie Buhle, deputy press secretary for the agency, said in an email. The public hospitals agency has not announced specific plans for the site, and Buhle has not responded to requests for more details.
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