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At a Coney Island park this summer, children in a basketball summer camp wore blue-and-white uniforms bearing the logo of “The Coney,” a proposed casino project in the neighborhood and the camp’s sponsor. A few months earlier on Long Island, where Las Vegas Sands is pitching a casino, children from local soccer teams were invited to a Sands-sponsored training session featuring the superstars David Beckham and Carli Lloyd. In the escalating race to be one of the first to open a casino in the New York City area, developers are rushing to win local support after state regulators said projects needed to be “embraced by the community.” A casino logo emblazoned across youth sports jerseys is just one example of the lengths to which gambling operators have gone to woo those communities and secure a coveted license. But their sponsorship of these recent children’s events has proved to be as divisive as the prospect of the casinos themselves.

Persons: ”, David Beckham, Carli Lloyd Organizations: Las Vegas Sands, New Locations: Coney, Long, Las, New York City, ”

☆ At South Brooklyn’s Beaches, a Battle of the Buoys
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eight years ago, Capri Djatiasmoro watched helplessly as four Jet Skis ran over her friend while he was swimming at Brighton Beach. Decades ago, a line of buoys ran parallel to the shore, marking the boundary between swimmers and boaters. “Some boat and Jet Ski drivers don’t even know there is this law,” said Ms. Djatiasmoro, 72, a retired advertising executive and avid open-water swimmer who lives in Brooklyn. “Some know, but in the open water it’s hard to tell exactly where that mark is.” Jet Skis regularly come very close to the borough’s beaches, she said, especially in the late afternoon, after lifeguards have left for the day. “I love the ocean, I love swimming, and I want to keep people safe while enjoying these things,” she said.

Persons: ”, “, Djatiasmoro, Sandy Hook Organizations: Jet, Brighton Beach, Coney Island Hospital, New York, Yorkers Locations: Coney, New York State, New York City, Brooklyn, N.J, Coney Island, Manhattan Beach

☆ The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Laurel Graeber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Saturday, the festival will host a round-table discussion with Lee’s troupe, the Mettawee River Theater Company. “What I want people to experience while they’re here is that the world is whatever you decide to make it for yourself,” said Matthew Sorensen, who curated the shows of Lee’s work. And everywhere, Lee gave castoffs new life: Piano keys serve as puppet teeth, and can lids as eyes. An open mailbox becomes the head and jaws of a dragon; the ribs of a baby carriage form its body. Many, she added, illustrate Lee’s method of taking “what’s just right there” and “exploring what it can do.”

Persons: Lee, Henry Hudson, Brendan Schweda’s “ Barnacle Bill, ”, “, Ralph Lee’s, Ralph Lee, Matthew Sorensen, Kitamura ”, Casey Compton, Lee’s, “ what’s Organizations: Theater Company

☆ Mourners Pay Tribute to O’Shae Sibley at the Scene of His Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Qween Jean, the founder of the advocacy group Black Trans Liberation, said: “Vogueing is not a crime. So today we will vogue in honor of O’Shae.”In the moments before his death, Mr. Sibley and four friends stopped at the Mobil station on Coney Island Avenue after a day at the beach. One of them pulled a knife and stabbed Mr. Sibley. Vogueing, an exuberant dance style that makes use of fashion models’ runway poses, emerged in the Black and Latino queer underground ballroom scene of the 1980s. Mr. Sibley, a Philadelphia native who moved to New York a few years ago with aspirations of pursuing a dance career, found a community in the city’s contemporary ballroom circuit.

Persons: Qween Jean, Sibley, Mr Organizations: Trans, Mobil, Brooklyn Locations: ”, Coney, Philadelphia, New York

☆ How the Artistic Director at SummerStage Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Alix Strauss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is no surprise that Erika Elliott, the executive artistic director at SummerStage, celebrates New York through music. “There’s this cathartic, exciting and energetic feeling in an all-green public space when the audience and the artist and the stage all come together.”The music festival, run by the City Parks Foundation, started in 1986. This summer there are nearly 80 SummerStage shows in 13 parks across the city. The season, which started on June 3 with a performance by the band Hippo Campus in Central Park, ends Oct. 2 in Coney Island with the Yeshiva Boys Choir. In between are some standout superstars: Grandmaster Flash in Crotona Park; Tanya Tucker in Central Park; and Grand Wizzard Theodore and Monie Love, who are part of the festival’s 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop celebration.

Persons: Erika Elliott, “, ”, Elliott, Grandmaster Flash, Tanya Tucker, Theodore, Monie Love, Estarlin Trejo, Ethan, Ellie Organizations: SummerStage, City Parks Foundation, Yeshiva Boys, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Locations: New York, California, Central Park, Coney Island, Crotona, Mott Haven, Bronx

CNN —Police are searching for a 17-year-old they believe is responsible for the stabbing death of a Brooklyn man, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. The 28-year-old man was fatally stabbed at a Brooklyn gas station Saturday night in what police are investigating as a possible anti-gay hate crime, an NYPD spokesperson told CNN. Pena, who witnessed the incident, said the argument escalated and one man stabbed Sibley. Police said Sibley was stabbed in the torso. “The Ailey organization mourns the tragic death of O’Shae Sibley, following an attack outside of a Brooklyn gas station on Saturday night,” the dance studio of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation, Ailey Extension, said in a statement Monday.

Persons: O’Shae Sibley, Otis Pena, Pena, Sibley, Alvin Ailey, “ O’Shae, ” Brad Hoylman, ”, homophobes Organizations: CNN — Police, CNN, Facebook, NYPD, Police, Maimonides Medical, New York, Lincoln Center, Performing Arts, Ailey, Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation Locations: Brooklyn, New, New York

O’Shae Sibley was at a Brooklyn gas station with friends late Saturday night, filling up a car and blasting music by Beyoncé when a group of men approached and told them to stop dancing, according to friends. The men began using slurs and Mr. Sibley, 28, a gay man who was a professional dancer and choreographer, confronted them, according to his friends and a video of the altercation. The argument escalated and one man stabbed Mr. Sibley, according to the police. Otis Pena, one of Mr. Sibley’s best friends, pressed on his wound to stop the bleeding before he was taken to Maimonides Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. “They murdered him because he’s gay, because he stood up for his friends,” Mr. Pena said in a Facebook video that he posted hours after the killing on Coney Island Avenue in Midwood.

Persons: O’Shae Sibley, Sibley, Mr, Otis Pena, Sibley’s, “, ” Mr, Pena, ” Organizations: Maimonides Medical Locations: Brooklyn, Coney, Midwood

☆ They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Jill Cowan | More About Jill Cowan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Conservative groups nationwide have pushed to ban books that discuss L.G.B.T.Q. issues from libraries and schools, saying that parents should be able to control what their children are being taught. The group has promoted a “Hide the Pride” campaign that encourages supporters to check out or move books that depict L.G.B.T.Q. Organizers have described such material as pornographic and obscene and said it should not be available to young library patrons. Both were checked out by the protesters in San Diego.

Persons: Amy M, Vance, Martha Martin, ”, Brian Burch, “ Morris Micklewhite Organizations: Rancho Peñasquitos Library, Catholic Locations: San Diego, Indiana, Coney

☆ Authorities swoop on Chinese restaurant that challenged customers to eat 108 dumplings
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hong Kong CNN —A restaurant in China that challenged its customers to eat more than 100 dumplings in return for a free meal has fallen foul of authorities, who are investigating whether it has violated the country’s anti-food waste law. The challenge reportedly involved patrons competing to eat 108 chaoshous, or spicy wonton dumplings, as quickly as possible to win a free meal and additional prizes. The Cover said the restaurant, which it did not name, was one of several being probed by the authorities over similar competitions. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has in the past called food waste “shocking and distressing” and in March this year said agricultural supplies were like the foundation of national security. Will the food not consumed there actually go to the poor?” wrote one user on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

Persons: Joey Chestnut, Xi Jinping, ” Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, State Administration, Market, ” Radio, overreaching, Weibo, Twitter Locations: Hong Kong, China, Yibin, Sichuan swooped, Coney Island

☆ Nathan's hot dog eating contest crowns Joey Chestnut men's champion and Miki Sudo women's champion
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

It’s the 4th of July, I got to eat some hot dogs and get a win.”“I feel great,” he added. People take shelter from the rain Tuesday at the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. A spectacle of gluttonyMayoi Ebihara and Miki Sudo compete in the Nathan's hot dog eating contest on Tuesday. Amr Alfiky/ReutersChestnut was the heavy favorite on the men’s side and has now won 16 of the last 17 Independence Day contests, including 63 hot dogs last year. Sudo won last year’s title with 40 hot dogs and holds the women’s world record for eating 48.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Persons: Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Chestnut, ” Chestnut, I’m, ”, “ I’ve, I’ll, ” Geoffrey Esper, Australia’s James Webb, Amr Alfiky, Ebihara, “, “ It’s, Mayoi Ebihara, Michelle Lesco, Sudo, Nathan’s Organizations: CNN, National Weather Service, FDNY, Lutheran Medical Center, Nathan’s, Professional League, WABC Locations: Coney Island , New York, Coney, Brooklyn, Coney Island, Sudo, Surf, New York City

☆ Hot dog-eater Joey Chestnut wins July Fourth title with 62 franks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Amr AlfikyJuly 4 (Reuters) - Reigning champion of the annual U.S. Fourth of July hot dog eating contest Joey Chestnut defended his title on Tuesday, clinching his 16th career win by scarfing down 62 franks in 10 minutes. The second place men's finisher, Geoff Esper of Oxford, Massachusetts, was far behind with 49 hot dogs consumed. Chestnut fell short of besting his world record - 76 hot dogs - which he achieved in 2021. She set the women's world record in 2020 with 48.5 hot dogs. Chestnut, by comparison, typically eats nine hot dogs in less than a minute.

Persons: Joey Chestnut, Amr Alfiky, scarfing, franks, Geoff Esper, Miki Sudo, Chestnut, Gabriella Borter, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, ESPN, York City, Thomson Locations: Coney, New York City, U.S, New York, Indiana, Oxford , Massachusetts, York

☆ Nathan’s July 4 Contest: Miki Sudo Narrowly Defends Women’s Title
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Liam Stack | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For most of America, the Fourth of July evokes thoughts of fireworks, family and cookouts. But hours before any of those things begin in earnest, many Americans will turn their attention to a curious spectacle that has become another holiday tradition: the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. The definition of humanly possible has one meaning for most of the meat-eating world; it has quite another for most of the contestants. That is especially true for the defending champions, Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo, who were back to defend their titles and possibly expand the notion of what is humanly possible. Chestnut holds the men’s world record of 76 hot dogs and buns eaten in 10 minutes in 2021, while Ms. Sudo holds the women’s world record of 48.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Persons: Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, Chestnut, Sudo Organizations: Independence Locations: America, Coney, Brooklyn

☆ No Sparklers for These Folks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some Americans, especially younger people, are rethinking whether they want to celebrate Independence Day. A survey by YouGov found that 56 percent of American adults planned to join in the festivities this year. Demi Lovato, Post Malone and Sheryl Crow are among many artists performing in CNN’s Fourth of July Special. Ja Rule is playing live at Coney Island as part of an Independence Day celebration. She was going to the Hamptons, she said, on the most packed Long Island Rail Road train she have ever been on.

Persons: ”, “, YouGov, Demi Lovato, Post Malone, Sheryl Crow, Marissa Vivori Organizations: Independence, Hamptons Locations: Navajo, Arizona, CNN’s, Coney, Manhattan

☆ Mayor Adams Improvises His Way Through an Impossible Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Last weekend, several Brooklyn principals were told that their schools would immediately be sheltering hundreds of asylum seekers, by way of mayoral fiat. The schools themselves were not in affluent neighborhoods but rather served working-class families of color, who were now livid. Parents, many immigrants themselves, were concerned about safety and felt cheated that their children would be denied gym in schools that were hardly abundant with amenities. They began lining up as early as 3 in the morning on Tuesday in protest; some brought their children, others refused to send them to school at all. By the next day, after frantic meetings between administrators and parents, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to have reversed course, removing asylum seekers from a school gym in Coney Island and sending them to a vacant office in Midtown.

☆ New York City Plans to House Migrant Families in Public School Gymnasium
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As New York City officials scramble to find housing for an expected influx of migrants, the city is planning to house them in a stand-alone school gym in Coney Island, officials said Friday. The city alerted the principal of P.S. 188 that the school’s gymnasium would be used as a sheltering site, said Ari Kagan, a Brooklyn councilman who represents the neighborhoods of Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Gravesend and Sea Gate. “People are really concerned,” Mr. Kagan said Friday night. Who knows?” He said that the city’s Office of Emergency Management would decide when people would be placed there.

☆ A Hurricane-Resistant Hospital Is Coming to Coney Island
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Sharon Otterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

New York City is about to cut the ribbon on a new $923 million public hospital building, not far from the beach in Coney Island, that is designed to be practically flood-proof and that promises to elevate the level of health care for hundreds of thousands of people in South Brooklyn. The new Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital building, which opens Tuesday, was born out of a crisis. During Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Coney Island Hospital, the former name of the campus where the new building is, flooded. When it came time to restore the facility, city hospital leaders convinced the Federal Emergency Management Agency that constructing a new building would cost the same as repairing and retrofitting the old one. With nearly $1 billion from the agency, the city’s public hospital system was able to construct a fortress, designed to withstand even a once-in-a-century flood.

☆ Deadly NYC parking garage collapse leads to safety sweep and closure of 4 garages in the city
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

NYC building officials have inspected 78 buildings so far since the collapse of a three-story parking garage in April. Officials closed four NYC parking structures over safety concerns, AP reported. City building officials said they closed down four parking garages in a safety sweep of about 78 structures, the Associated Press reported. "During our sweep of 78 parking structures, we found four locations where structural concerns necessitated areas of the buildings to be immediately vacated," he added. A 2022 mandate required parking structures to be inspected by owners at least every six years, the AP reported.

☆ 4 Parking Garages Ordered Evacuated After Deadly Collapse in Manhattan
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Patrick Mcgeehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the wake of a deadly collapse of a parking garage in Lower Manhattan last week, New York City officials found structural problems at four other garages so dangerous they ordered the buildings at least partially vacated. At those four garages — two in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn — the city’s Buildings Department found that the structures had “deteriorated to the point where they were now posing an immediate threat to public safety,” said Andrew Rudansky, a spokesman for the department. The discoveries, he said, came during inspections of garages conducted after the April 18 collapse of a garage on Ann Street in the Financial District in Manhattan that left its manager dead in the rubble and five others injured. Engineers found that a two-story garage at 2781 Stillwell Avenue in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn was in “severe disrepair,” Mr. Rudansky said. The department issued a “full vacate order” for the entire building and ordered its owners to close for business and immediately retain a professional engineer to compile a structural report, he said.

Dinnall, 51, is a train conductor for the New York City subway system — the heartbeat that keeps the city running. Natasha Dinnall, 51, is a NYC subway conductor and earns $86,000 per year. Here's how Dinnall earns $86,000 a year as a subway conductor in NYC. She took her first job with the agency as a property protection agent and later became a station agent, conductor, train operator, and finally a conductor again. Mickey Todiwala | CNBC Make ItEmployees must go through "extensive training" to become a conductor, Dinnall says.

☆ Where New York’s Asian Neighborhoods Shifted to the Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Jason Kao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

In last year’s governor’s election, voters in Asian neighborhoods across New York City sharply increased their support for Republicans. And predominantly Asian areas — precincts with a majority of eligible Asian voters — have undergone a pivotal shift. Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Note: The precinct in Kensington is mostly Indian and Bangladeshi. Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Flushing, 2022 Murray Hill Bayside Flushing Northern Blvd. Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area Detail area state senate race Bensonhurst Sunset Park McDonald Ave. 65th St. New Utrecht Ave. 8th Ave.

☆ Man who threatened to shoot 2 women killed by officers on Coney Island, police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A man was killed by New York City police officers in the famed Coney Island area after he allegedly threatened to shoot two women, police said. Three units responded to the corner of West 36th Street and Neptune Avenue, including one police marked vehicle with two uniformed officers and two unmarked vehicles manned by public safety officers, Maddrey said. As soon as the units arrived to the corner, officers saw a male with a gun. When officers exited their vehicles to approach him, he “immediately starts shooting at the officers,” Maddrey said. The suspect eventually got down on the ground, but continued to shoot at the officers.

☆ I'm a professional pumpkin carver whose creations resemble celebrities, famous artwork, and characters like Paddington. They take up to 20 hours to make and can costs thousands.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Marc Evan started Maniac Pumpkin Carvers with his childhood friend after graduating from college. I run Maniac Pumpkin Carvers, which I started in 2008 with my childhood friend Chris Soria after graduating from college. We were really taking a nostalgic pastime like pumpkin carving that we did at home as kids and elevating it into an art form. Courtesy of Maniac Pumpkin CarversWord about us got out after Wired did an article on us in 2009. Courtesy of Maniac Pumpkin CarversThe farmers market Union Square Greenmarket in downtown Manhattan was home base for us for a very long time.

☆ I work at Kleinfeld and help brides on 'Say Yes to the Dress.' I'm truly not acting on the show — here's what my job is actually like.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Lisa Fuhrman has worked at Kleinfeld for 14 years and is a regular on "Say Yes to the Dress." I've been working at Kleinfeld for the past 14 years, and I've been a cast member on the "Say Yes to the Dress" television series for 10 years. I was watching TV one day and came across "Say Yes to the Dress." We've just completed 20 seasons of "Say Yes to the Dress." Being part of 'Say Yes to the Dress' is so much funFuhrman with a happy bride.

☆ Made Men: A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history – and what they look like now
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-23 | by ( Andrew Lichtenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

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.

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