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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged Sunday that he abandoned a young dead bear in Central Park after he initially planned to skin the cub for meat. Kennedy described driving north of New York City to go falconing with a group when he saw a woman in a van hit and kill a young bear. "It's going to be a bad story," Kennedy predicted in the video as people laughed. A dead bear cub was found in Central Park in 2014, leading to significant media coverage. The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation referred NBC News' request for comment to the New York Police Department, which did not immediately respond.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, Roseanne Barr, ” Kennedy, Barr, offscreen Organizations: New Yorker, New York City Department of Parks, Recreation, NBC, New York Police Department Locations: Central Park, New York City, Westchester County

☆ Emergency Slide That Fell From Delta Flight Is Recovered From Queens Jetty
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | Isabella Kwai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An emergency slide that fell from a Delta Air Lines flight just minutes after takeoff on Friday was recovered on Sunday along a jetty in a Queens neighborhood about six miles from Kennedy International Airport, officials said. The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation said that Delta Air Lines had recovered “a large piece of debris” from the jetty near Beach 131st Street in Belle Harbor, southwest of the airport. Delta Air Lines said in a statement on Tuesday that it had retrieved the slide from the jetty. It was unclear whether the slide had landed on the jetty, a small rock pier built to break apart waves, or it had washed up there. The crew also noticed a “non-routine” sound from that wing, the airline said.

Organizations: Delta Air Lines, Kennedy International Airport, The New York City Department of Parks, Recreation Locations: Queens, Beach, Belle Harbor, New York, Los Angeles

☆ New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —New York City has unveiled a sculpture paying homage to one of the city’s most enduring myths: Alligators lurking in the sewers. The sculpture shows a life-size gator wrapped around a New York City manhole cover, according to a news release from the Union Square Partnership. Designed by Swedish artist Alexander Klingspor, the bronze statue is on display at Union Square Park in Manhattan. Fittingly, the sculpture is entitled “N.Y.C Legend.” The piece will be on display until June 2024, according to the Union Square Partnership. The artwork was created in partnership with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Union Square Partnership, and funded by Swedish Mollbrinks Gallery, according to the news release.

Persons: Alexander Klingspor, ” Organizations: CNN, New, Union Square, Union Square Partnership, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Square Partnership, Swedish, Big Apple, gator, Bronx Zoo, The New York Times Locations: New York, Swedish, Manhattan, NYC, Harlem

☆ There's a mysterious, abandoned island less than a mile from Manhattan and almost no one is allowed to visit — here's what it's like
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Dave Mosher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

North Brother Island is a 22-acre piece of land in New York City that has been abandoned since 1963. Less than a mile from Manhattan — one of the priciest and most densely populated places in the world — sits North Brother Island, a mysterious island that people abandoned more than half a century ago. New York City owns the 22-acre plot, which pokes out of the East River between the South Bronx's industrial coast and a notorious prison: Rikers Island Correctional Center. It's illegal for the public to set foot on North Brother Island and its smaller companion, South Brother Island, without permission from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. In 2017, producers for the Science Channel obtained the city's permission to visit North Brother Island, and the crew invited Business Insider to tag along.

Organizations: Morning, New York City, Correctional, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Science Channel, North Locations: Brother, New York City, Manhattan, New, North Brother

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