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A nail salon opened around the corner from my house on Monday. Normally, this fact would barely register. Nail salons open every few minutes in New York City, and there were already three within two blocks. Barnaby greeting a passer-by at Baltic Street ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Wallabout Journal: A Museum of Stuff, but Also of a Mission to Still the Wrecking Ball

The museum in the private house near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway announces itself in blue letters spelled out in painter’s masking tape. “Don’t let Pirate Mike steal our heritage,” reads the sign, above a row of illustrations of gorgeous ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  2 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Clinton Hill,  Briggs & Stratton,  US Marine Corps

Police Seeking Missing Yale Student Find Body

The six-day search for a missing Yale graduate student ended on Sunday with the discovery a body in the wall of a university laboratory building where she had last been seen, New Haven police said. Jeffrey LeFrancois of Yale security was outside the ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  13 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Long Island Rail Road,  Annie M. Le

July 3 Snapshots: The City Empties Out

In the city, desolation is a relative concept. SOUNDVIEW PARK, THE BRONX Juan Fortuna prepared balloons for a birthday party for Gabriel, his son who was turning 4. 42ND STREET A mounted police officer headed toward an unusually sleepy Times Square. ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  3 Jul 2009
Related Topics: General Motors

State's Highest Court Will Hear Atlantic Yards Suit

From concept to construction, David W. Dunlap reports on the developments at the World Trade Center site. Chang W. Lee, a photographer for The New York Times, is exploring transformations in people's lives. Barry Moreno, the New York historian and ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  30 Jun 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Sonia Sotomayor

Amid Clash of Cultures, a Brooklyn Principal Faces Assault Charges

On Monday morning, the fifth graders of Public School 20 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, formed a sea of gold and maroon caps and gowns in the sanctuary of a nearby church. They sang a Miley Cyrus song, heard a speech from their 11-year-old valedictorian, ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Miley Cyrus

City Cancels Gifted Program at Brooklyn School

The new citywide gifted-and-talented program at Public School 20 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which was supposed to open in September, has been canceled due to lack of parental interest, the Department of Education said Tuesday night. Insideschools.org ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, NYT: City Room,  17 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Department for Education and Skills,  New York Times Company,  Sonia Sotomayor

After an Officer’s Shooting: ‘The Facts Will Come Out’

As the city prepared a funeral with full honors for a police officer who was fatally shot by another in East Harlem on Thursday night, elected and civic leaders and the officer’s grieving relatives called on Saturday for circumspection and an ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, The New York Times,  30 May 2009
Related Topics: Raymond W. Kelly,  Al Sharpton,  Patrick J. Lynch,  David A Paterson

In a City Shelter, Now Fighting City Hall

Andy Newman/The New York Times Martha Gonzalez, who is homeless, spoke on the steps of City Hall, flanked by, from left, Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright; Joshua Goldfein, a Legal Aid lawyer; Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., Public Advocate Betsy ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, NYT: City Room,  14 May 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Andy Newman,  Betsy Gotbaum

From Navy Blue to Green in Brooklyn

Andy Newman Big green fan: Mayor Bloomberg sings the praises of renewable energy atop a new building at the Navy Yard as, left to right, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, a wind turbine, and Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber look on. With a bank of ...

From ANDY NEWMAN, NYT: City Room,  9 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Andy Newman,  Marty Markowitz

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