An owl at the Central Park Zoo has flown from its cage where it was being kept on display after someone smashed it through the stainless steel mesh, zoo officials said Friday. The Eurasian eagle owl, named Flaco, disappeared at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and was still on the loose Friday, according to Max Pulsinelli, a … Read more
One by one, dozens of neighbors and New Yorkers from all corners of the city came to this corner of the East Village to express their sorrow for the unjustified attack on the owner of Ray’s Candy Store, a neighborhood icon inseparable from the man behind the counter, injured with a belt attached to a … Read more
Healthy teeth, happy smiles! And that’s how Give Kids A Smile, a completely free dental prevention program for students, offered oral hygiene in schools in the East Harlem district. “They checked my teeth,” says Martin Andrade, a student at PS 146. Andrade and more than 200 students from PS146 and P169 were visited by various … Read more
The New York police ended up evicting a group of immigrants from a Midtown street who resisted being transferred to a new shelter arranged by the municipal government in Red Hook, Brooklyn. On this and other issues such as the affordable housing crisis in the city, Juan Manuel Benítez, presenter of Pura Política, spoke with … Read more
The Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina included the United States in his “Against all odds” tour with two concerts, in New York and Miami, as part of the tour that begins this February in Latin America with the best-known hits of the Andalusian musician. Joaquín Sabina (Úbeda, Jaén, 1949) announced this Thursday that his world tour, … Read more
The city evicted the migrants camped out in front of the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen on Wednesday night, the mayor’s office said. On Wednesday night, city workers played over loudspeakers a message in Spanish encouraging immigrants to leave, according to a video provided to NY1 by Ariadna Phillips, founder of the South Bronx Mutual … Read more
During the State of the City address, Mayor Eric Adams announced that curbside composting will be extended to all five boroughs by the end of 2024. In addition, he indicated that the electric vehicles of Uber and Lyft is another of the proposals that Adams presented this Thursday. On these two current issues, Juan Manuel … Read more
Construction contractors report a drastic increase in lawsuits against them for suspicious injuries. They claim they are losing millions and that, by law, there is nothing that can be done to stop it. The alleged accidents occur at low altitudes, without witnesses and with workers who have only been working for a couple of days. … Read more
Efforts to improve the deteriorated image of the city’s train system suffered a new setback this Saturday, when a shooting occurred inside a train on the N line in lower Manhattan. According to the police, at approximately one in the morning two individuals got into an argument and one of them pulled out a gun, … Read more
What to Know Jurors have reached a verdict in the federal death penalty case of a 34-year-old man who killed eight people in a Manhattan bike lane five years ago in an attempt, prosecutors say, to impress a group terrorist. Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek national living in New Jersey at the time of the 2017 … Read more