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☆ Democrats will face headwinds in final push to confirm Biden judges
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Tierney Sneed | Lauren Fox | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But holding the White House and Senate majority for another few weeks doesn’t guarantee Democrats will have an easy time processing the final batch of Biden appointees. “There is a push across the board from the White House and the Senate for Democrats to show up and do the job they were elected to do,” a senior White House official, asking for anonymity to speak candidly, told CNN. The White House official pointed to how Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Saturday promised “no weekends, no breaks” to confirm Trump’s Cabinet once he took power, and the White House official encouraged Democrats to show that dedication to judges in Biden’s final stretch. “Regardless of party, the American people expect their leaders to prioritize the rule of law and ensuring the criminal justice system can function effectively in every stated,” said White House spokesperson Andrew Bates. There are around nine – depending on what the calendar will allow – other Biden nominees who could still come through committee.

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☆ New York woman who pepper-sprayed Muslim Uber driver charged with hate crime
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Hanna Park | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

(CNN) — A New York woman has been indicted on hate crime charges after allegedly pepper-spraying a Muslim Uber driver while he was praying, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, was indicted on multiple hate crime charges on Monday after allegedly pepper-spraying a 45-year-old Uber driver while he began praying in Arabic, according to a press release from the prosecutor. “As alleged, Jennifer Guilbeault senselessly assaulted a Muslim Uber driver while he was just doing his job. Everyone is welcome to live and work in Manhattan,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The charges against Guilbeault include one count each of Assault in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime, Assault in the Third Degree as a Hate Crime and Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree.

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☆ What the rising popularity of Yemeni coffee shops say about third places
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | Monica Haider | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Times Square will be home to two other chains, MOKAFÉ and Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co. But Yemeni coffee houses have taken up both those trends and boomed. Where did Yemeni coffee shops come from? We own the coffee farms in Yemen, we grew up with the coffee, we loved coffee,” Alhasbani said. “Several Yemeni entrepreneurs are opening coffee houses of their own, each with its own sort of style and atmosphere.”The coffee chains have big ambitions beyond Dearborn.

Persons: Ahmed, Ahmed Moustafa, Bhavishya, ”, Sally Howell, Howell, ” Ibrahim Alhasbani, “, Ibrahim Alhasbani, Carlos Osorio, ” Alhasbani, Alhasbani, “ There’s, Hovig Tchalian, don’t, ” Howell, Haraz, Yemen it’s, ‘, ” Moustafa Organizations: New, New York CNN, Carmine, Times, Yemeni, Co, University of Michigan – Dearborn, Qahwah, CNN, Entrepreneurship, USC Marshall School of Business, New York City Locations: New York, Detroit, SoHo, Manhattan, Qahwah, Ethiopia, Yemen, Dearborn, Yemen's, Mich, Michigan, Dallas, Dearborn , Michigan, United States, Downtown Dearborn, Canada, Qahwah House’s, Soho, Brooklyn, Queens

☆ America’s best foods and the world’s greatest pizza
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. CNN —In travel news this week: how Japan led the world’s high-speed rail revolution, the couple who rode motorcycles round the world with three rescue dogs – plus we put the spotlight on America’s world-class cuisine. America’s greatest dishesFrom Louisiana gumbo to Hawaiian poke to the humble PB&J, the United States is home to many fantastic dishes. Here are CNN Travel’s picks of 20 of the best of them – see if your favorites made it to the table. The Italy-based 50 Top Pizza Awards revealed its 2024 list recently, and the winning restaurant wasn’t in Naples or Rome.

Persons: CNN Travel’s, Jane Satow, that’s, ”, who’ll, Trevi, –, it’s, Hurricane Helene Organizations: CNN, wasn’t, Manhattan’s, Greyhound, Trevi, Tourism Locations: Japan, Louisiana gumbo, United States, Italy, Naples, Rome, Virginia, French, Provence, Europe, Chicago, Australian, Trevi, Alaska

☆ He Took His 68-Year-Old Secret to Court and Finally Confronted His Ghost
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Michael Wilson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The 79-year-old man sat silently in the back of the courtroom on Long Island, 20 miles from his home in Queens. Here the man, Robin Davis, settled in for what promised to be a strange trial in this mostly empty room. His lawsuit centered on the actions of a person long dead. His adversaries were Long Island bureaucrats who had never heard of that person or his reported misdeeds. Mr. Davis had long been widely known for his philanthropy on behalf of one cause: fighting child abuse.

Persons: Merrill Lynch, Robin Davis, Long, Davis, Eisenhower Organizations: Bank of America Locations: Queens, New York City

☆ ‘Earthalujah!’: A Rebel Pastor Preaches for the Planet
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The preacher stood wild-eyed before his flock, swaying to a gospel choir. His pompadour stood tall, his voice was thunderous, and his all white suit perfectly matched the heeled white loafers he was wearing on his feet. Behind them hung a 14-foot high photo of Earth, the very reason this preacher, choir and congregants had gathered in a converted storefront in Manhattan’s East Village one Sunday in July. “We’re all aware at some level in our bodies that the Earth is off the charts,” Mr. Talen intoned to the 70 or so people there. “We are living inside of the time right now that they have been warning us about.”

Persons: pompadour, Billy Talen, “, ” Mr, Talen intoned, ” Locations: Manhattan’s

☆ Lewis H. Lapham, Longtime Editor of Harper’s, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lewis H. Lapham, the scholarly patrician who edited Harper’s Magazine for nearly three decades, and who in columns, books and later his own magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, attacked what he regarded as the inequities and hypocrisies of American life, died on Tuesday in Rome. His death was announced by his children. A longtime resident of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, he had been living in Rome with his wife and other family members since January. After a decade as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer, Mr. Lapham was the managing editor of Harper’s from 1971 to 1975 and the editor in chief from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006. He offered a blend of high culture and populism: the fiction of John Updike and George Saunders mixed with reports on abortion fights, global warming and the age of terrorism — generally, but not always, with a progressive eye.

Persons: Lewis H, Lapham, . Mencken, Mark Twain, Harper’s, John Updike, George Saunders Organizations: Lapham’s Quarterly, Texaco, Mr Locations: Rome, Manhattan’s, San Francisco

☆ Summer leather: This surprising and sticky trend is taking over
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

You don’t have to be a horror film starlet to pull off a summer leather look, either. Monroe's full patent sheep leather look from Hervé Leger was a surprising choice for summer in the city. Last week, Kate Hudson was seen in a pair of lace-up leather pants. Gotham/GC Images/Getty ImagesDua Lipa's opening look for her Glastonbury Festival set was a leather mini dress from Chrome Hearts. Wherever the trend has come from, one thing is for certain: A leather jacket is no longer just for Christmas, but all year round.

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☆ Supporters of the High Line Aim to Block Plan to Build a Casino Nearby
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Stefanos Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A plan to build a casino over a sprawling rail yard on Manhattan’s Far West Side has a new, formidable opponent: parkgoers. Friends of the High Line, an influential nonprofit that operates the nearby 1.5-mile rail-line-turned-park, said Wednesday that it will muster supporters to attempt to thwart the development plan. The opponents of the casino proposal said the development would block views of the city from the High Line and create gusty winds and cast long shadows that could hurt local businesses. The proposal, submitted in February, would also create a 1,180-foot apartment tower, a 1,376-foot office building, a public school and day care. The development, in Hudson Yards, is being led by Related Companies, which built the eastern half of the site, and Wynn Resorts, a Las Vegas gambling giant.

Organizations: Related Companies, Wynn Resorts Locations: Hudson Yards, Las Vegas

☆ Two Dead After Being Struck By Pickup Truck in Downtown Manhattan
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | More About Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two people were killed and at least nine others were injured after an apparently impaired driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of people celebrating July 4 in a park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the authorities said. Several of the injured were transported to hospitals, two of them in critical condition, the authorities said at a news conference on Thursday night. A police spokesman confirmed by phone that one person had been taken into custody. Speaking at the news conference, Mayor Eric Adams of New York said that though investigations were preliminary, the incident did not appear to be “terrorist related.” Officers responding to the scene smelled alcohol on the driver, and the police were conducting tests to confirm, officials said. Police said that just before 9 p.m., a Ford F-150 driving eastbound at high speed down Water Street sped through a stop sign, up onto the sidewalk and into Corlears Hook Park, where a crowd of people were celebrating the holiday.

Persons: Eric Adams Organizations: Police, Ford Locations: New York, Hook

☆ Where to Watch July 4 Fireworks Around New York City
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Alyce Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the public can watch free of charge from spots along Hudson River and areas of New Jersey. Other fireworks shows will take place on Staten Island, in Coney Island, in Westchester County and at Jones Beach on Long Island. The Macy’s fireworks will be launched from barges positioned on the river between West 14th and West 34th Streets. The best spots to watch from will be in Manhattan along the West Side Highway between those streets, or across the river near the New Jersey waterfront in Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City. There are five places where the public can enter the West Side Highway to watch the show.

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☆ The 84-Year-Old Visionary With One Answer for Two Real Estate Crises
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( William Falk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Liberty Tower went up for sale in Manhattan’s financial district in 1978, there was only one bidder for the 33-story skyscraper. The building was dated and dilapidated, and even though rent had plunged to $5 a square foot, it was two-thirds vacant. New York City itself had tumbled into a downward spiral after a severe fiscal crisis and a deep recession. “The financial district was failing. Liberty Tower was the first major residential conversion of an office building in New York’s financial district.

Persons: Joseph Pell Lombardi, ” Mr, Lombardi, Nobody Organizations: Liberty, New, Sinclair Oil, New York Stock Exchange, World Trade Center Locations: New York City, New York, Liberty, New

☆ Opinion: Anti-Israel protests encourage Jews to turn toward Zionism
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Opinion Mijal Bitton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Editor’s Note: Mijal Bitton, PhD, is the spiritual leader of the Downtown Minyan in New York City and a sociologist of American Jews. I have heard from many young Jews around America newly awakened to their Judaism. These young Jews have different backgrounds and political views, but they share the life-altering experience of deep disillusionment with previous professional or social homes. Young American Jews today are realizing that they, too, can be made to feel unwanted in their own homes. But for most of us American Jews, Zionism is the belief that Jews have a right to self-determination in their historical homeland.

Persons: Bitton, CNN —, Israel, Mijal, Nir Arieli, “, Magen Davids, dogtags, don’t, —, I’ve, “ Hitler, ”, it’s Organizations: Downtown, CNN, Nova, White, New York University, Young, Jewish, Hamas, UC Santa Barbara Jewish, UCLA, Columbia, Twitter, Facebook Locations: New York City, United States, France, Israel, Lower Manhattan, Washington, New York, America, Europe, israel, Poland

☆ Fatal Shooting Robs a Neighborhood of a Longtime Friendly Face
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Shayla Colon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He worked his shift at Pizza Palace in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood late Sunday. But the man, Alejandro Ramirez, never got to the stop. He made it only a few blocks before he was fatally shot in the chest. Mr. Ramirez, 45, was one of two people killed in a shooting at West 207th Street and 10th Avenue around 11:40 p.m. on Father’s Day; another Bronx man, Michael James, 44, was fatally shot, in the face and torso. The number of shootings across New York City has dropped compared with last year, but that was little consolation for a neighborhood shaken by the Father’s Day shooting, and for a city girding for summer’s traditional increase in gun violence.

Persons: Alejandro Ramirez, Ramirez, Michael James Organizations: West 207th Street Locations: Manhattan’s Inwood, Bronx, New York City

☆ New ‘Apprentice’ Book Paints Trump as Wounded, Forgetful and Hung Up on Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was May 2021, and Donald J. Trump was wounded. He told Mr. Trump he wanted to write a book, not about the unpleasantness of the previous four years, but about that prelapsarian period before Mr. Trump entered politics. Mr. Trump was sold. “He was at his lowest then,” Mr. Setoodeh, 42, said over lunch in Manhattan’s West Village on Friday. “You’ll sell 10,000 books at one rally,” he told Mr. Setoodeh.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, he’d, Ramin Setoodeh, “, ”, Setoodeh, ” Mr, ’, Mr Organizations: Capitol, Trump, Mr, NBC Locations: Washington, Manhattan’s

☆ ‘The Apprentice:’ Why You May Never See the New Trump Movie - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This week I finally got to see “The Apprentice,” an absorbing, disturbing movie about the relationship between the red-baiting mob lawyer Roy Cohn and a young Donald Trump. The “Succession” star Jeremy Strong captures both Cohn’s reptilian menace and, eventually, his pathos, as he’s wasted by AIDS but, closeted to the end, refuses to admit it. Just as impressive is Sebastian Stan, who makes Trump legible as a human being rather than the grotesque hyperobject we all know today. It’s not a sympathetic portrayal, exactly; this is, after all, a movie that depicts Trump raping his first wife, Ivana. I wish you could see it.

Persons: Roy Cohn, Donald Trump, Trump, Jeremy Strong, Sebastian Stan, Ivana, Ivana Trump, “, ”, Cohn, Joseph McCarthy — Organizations: Cannes, Trump, Manhattan’s Locations: Midtown

☆ Why the Biggest City in America Can’t Get Big Things Done
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Dana Rubinstein | Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With New York on the verge of becoming the first city in the nation to adopt congestion pricing, a sudden, familiar chill fell over the city last week, as another ambitious project was shelved. This time, it was Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. In the adjoining garbage bin lies other big development projects like a football stadium on Manhattan’s West Side and smaller initiatives with potentially outsize impact, like all-door bus boarding. For a place where change is the rule and unbridled ambition the guiding light, New York can be a remarkably hard place to get things done.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, Chris Christie Organizations: York, La Guardia Airport, Port Authority, Queens, Gov Locations: Staten Island, La, Brooklyn, Hudson, New Jersey, New York

☆ Climate and Kathy Hochul’s Pause on New York Congestion Pricing - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who announced her unilateral decision about the suspension last week: perhaps slightly better chances for New York Democrats in a couple of fall congressional races. Tax coffers have rebounded, too, to the extent that the city canceled a raft of planned budget cuts. The one obvious measure by which the city has not mounted a full pandemic comeback is subway ridership — a measure that congestion pricing would have helped and pausing it is likely to hurt. In announcing the pause, she also expressed concern for the financial burden the $15 surcharge would impose on working New Yorkers, though the city’s working class was functionally exempted from the toll by a rebate system for those with an annual income of $60,000 or less. But each of them was within spitting distance of Grand Central, where an overwhelming share of foot traffic — and commercial value — comes from commuters using mass transit.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, Hakeem Jeffries, Hochul, she’d Organizations: New, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Democrat, New York Democrats, New York Republicans, Grand Central Locations: York, New York State, Manhattan, New York City, Grand

☆ New York’s governor said congestion pricing would hurt the economy. Businesses disagree
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —New York was just a few weeks away from becoming the first American city to adopt congestion pricing, a system designed to alleviate traffic, reduce air pollution and fund public transit. Then, at the last minute, the governor lost her nerve, citing the dubious claim that it would hurt the working class. Many of the businesses that employ the workers Hochul claims to be protecting are disappointed with the decision. The price was supposed to be high enough to discourage drivers, but not so high that businesses would suffer. As the New York Times notes, congestion pricing has been wildly unpopular “in suburban areas of the Hudson Valley and Long Island where Democrats are desperate to make gains” in this election cycle.

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☆ NY Gov Hochul delays controversial NYC congestion pricing plan ‘indefinitely’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Gloria Pazmino | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A source familiar with the Governor’s plan said Hochul pushed for the delay due to concerns about affordability and the potential impact to the city’s post-pandemic economic recovery. New York’s congestion pricing would have been the first of its kind in the United States. “As a longtime champion of Congestion Pricing and the Congressional Representative of a significant portion of the Central Business District (CBD), I am disappointed by reports that Governor Hochul will not implement Congestion Pricing on June 30, as previously planned,” Nadler said in a statement. “For years, Leader Hakeem Jeffries has maintained neutrality with respect to the congestion pricing policy debate. Congestion pricing is a $15 billion lifeline for the MTA – critical funding that will be lost if the program is stalled,” the group said in a statement.

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☆ Hochul Pushes for Congestion Pricing Delay in Last-Minute Reversal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Dana Rubinstein | Grace Ashford | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kathy Hochul is quietly maneuvering to delay a plan to toll drivers entering Manhattan’s central business district, just weeks before it is slated to go into effect, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The first-in-the-nation congestion pricing plan, which has been decades in the making, is slated to start June 30. Drivers using E-ZPass will pay as much as $15 to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street. But even as Ms. Hochul believes that congestion pricing is good environmental policy, she has concerns that the timing was less than ideal, according to a person familiar with her thinking. The governor feared that it might deter commuters from returning to the central business district, which has yet to fully recover from the pandemic.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, Hochul Locations: Manhattan, New York City

☆ Opinion | Gov. Hochul’s Unwarranted Retreat on Congestion Pricing
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Americans didn’t need a reason to feel more cynical about politics. But New York Gov. She said she had become concerned that the program could hurt Manhattan’s economic recovery from the pandemic. But Hochul is the one who has been issuing glowing news releases about how New York State has already achieved “full economic recovery,” including Manhattan, and any economic effects of the pricing plan are nothing new, having been hashed out for years. The more likely reason, as Politico reported, is that Democratic officials, including the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, are worried that starting the program now could hurt Democratic chances in competitive House races this November.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, Hakeem Jeffries Organizations: New, New York Gov, New York State, Politico, Democratic Locations: New York, Manhattan

☆ A ‘House of the Dragon’ Party Without a Silvery Wig in Sight
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Nancy Coleman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Where does the story pick up this season on HBO’s fantasy epic “House of the Dragon”? “So,” the actor Tom Glynn-Carney told a reporter on Monday night at the Season 2 premiere at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom, everything “hits the fan.”His character in the “Game of Thrones” prequel, the newly crowned King Aegon II Targaryen, holds a grip on the throne that is tenuous at best. His brother has just killed their nephew in what could best be described as death by dragon chomp. And his sister Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen is on the brink of going nuclear — as Targaryens tend to do — likely with more dragon chomping. Even as Mr. Glynn-Carney, Matt Smith and other “Dragon” actors laid out the violence in store for the new season — which returns June 16 — the show’s impending civil war stood in stark contrast to the evening’s cocktails and joviality, with not a single silvery wig in sight.

Persons: Tom Glynn, Carney, Manhattan’s, Rhaenyra Targaryen, Glynn, Matt Smith Organizations: King Aegon

☆ The 7 Grueling Months to Reclaim the Bookstore Dream a Fire Stole
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Jordyn Holman | Hiroko Masuike | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lucy Yu wasn’t sure if she had smoke in her lungs or was having an anxiety attack. Five days earlier, on the Fourth of July, she had raced out of her bookstore in Manhattan’s Chinatown as it filled with smoke. She had assembled a team of friends to pack up the books that weren’t damaged beyond repair and put them in storage. She walked outside and sat down on a stoop next door, as her friends comforted her and brought her water. Her once-vibrant store, Yu & Me Books, needed a gut renovation to remove mold and smoke residue.

Persons: Lucy Yu wasn’t, Yu Locations: Chinatown

☆ A Match Made in Church Sparks a Journey of Self-Discovery
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Valeriya Safronova | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At that time, almost no one knew that Mr. Stewart was romantically interested in men. Mr. Stewart knew Mr. Lagasca from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan, where Mr. Lagasca, a classical singer, performed periodically, and where Mr. Stewart headed the board that oversaw the church’s Bach Vespers series. He and Mr. Lagasca saw each other around and were Facebook friends, but had never spent time alone — until that day. “It was like, I have to impress him,” Mr. Lagasca said. Mr. Lagasca, 38, grew up in Manila and moved to Orlando, Fla., in 2006.

Persons: Jonathan Runge Stewart, Enrico Lagasca, Stewart, Lagasca, “, ” Mr Organizations: Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Facebook, Mannes School of Music, New School, Carnegie Hall, Portland Baroque Orchestra Locations: Manhattan’s West, Manhattan, Manila, Orlando, Fla, United States, Canada, Germany

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