On Christmas Eve this Sunday, thousands of New Yorkers were at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the annual midnight mass. This celebration is a Christmas tradition that dates back to 1879. Cardinal Timothy Dolan was in charge of delivering the sermon, making it his fifteenth midnight mass as archbishop of New York. Dolan prayed not only … Read more
The Adams administration is moving to open a 403-bed migrant shelter inside a long-contaminated Brooklyn building, to be run by a group that recently entered the shelter business. According to a publication on The City news portal, the Adams administration will be opening a new shelter in Brooklyn, with about 400 beds in a building … Read more
The Adams administration is moving to open a 403-bed migrant shelter inside a long-contaminated Brooklyn building, to be run by a group that recently entered the shelter business. According to a publication on The City news portal, the Adams administration will be opening a new shelter in Brooklyn, with about 400 beds in a building … Read more
 "The Secularization of Christmas in New York: How Religious and Cultural Diversity is Redefining the Holiday Season")
Christmas in New York, as in the rest of the great metropolises of the world, has almost completely lost its original religious meaning and is reduced to little more than a pine tree decorated with inconsequential figures and lights, as well as plant wreaths, although In this city, political correctness reaches somewhat peculiar extremes. This … Read more
More low-income New Yorkers will be able to get 50 percent discounts on bus and train fares through the program Fair Fares or “Fair Fares”as announced by Mayor Eric Adams this Friday. “Fair Fares is a vital program for our working families and I am proud to announce that we are making it even more … Read more
“No one died and everyone is fine, but the building is completely destroyed,†said Nabeel Fakhruddin, a friend of an affected resident. In less than a week, another large-scale fire broke out in New York, this time affecting a residential area in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. What started as a three-alarm emergency soon escalated … Read more
%20es%20Mn%20Food%20and%20Faith%20Mexican%20Traditions%20with%20Chef%20Barbara%20Sibley%20La%20Palapa%20CG_128377278_124 "Mexican Gastronomy at UNESCO World Heritage Site: End of Year Festivities and Traditional Dishes")
A World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO, this is how Mexican gastronomy is described and it dresses up during the end of year festivities with dishes prepared over several days that bring together the indigenous heritage of mestizo Mexico with European influences. . “A mix between Spanish cuisine and traditional cuisine and a very typical … Read more
A bull loose in New Jersey’s largest city made its way onto railroad tracks, disrupting rail traffic Thursday before being captured, authorities said. The reddish-brown bull with long, dark-tipped horns stood on the tracks at Newark’s Penn Station, prompting a police response and halting train traffic between New Jersey and New York’s Penn Station for … Read more
After the success of its sales in 2021 and 2022, New York City Transit will once again have a pop-up store of souvenirs and collectibles on December 13, 14 and 15. New York City Transit notes that you can purchase perfectly imperfect items (in good condition but with some damage) – subway signs, handholds, and … Read more
As has been customary in recent years, this holiday season the city’s Transit Museum continues the annual tradition of Holiday Nostalgia Rides on R1/9 train cars from the 1930s. The train will depart the 2nd Avenue station on the F line in lower Manhattan beginning this Saturday, December 2. The so-called “Holiday Nostalgia Train” will … Read more