Fare evaders at certain subway stations will soon encounter new gates designed to stop turnstile hopping. This fall, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will begin testing four modern gates at 20 stations across New York City, featuring elements that make it much harder for commuters to jump over. The gates are part of the agency’s [...]
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Related Companies is more than doubling the number of housing units in its $12 billion Hudson Yards casino proposal ahead of an important City Council vote. After feedback from the community, the developer announced plans to replace a 1,400-foot-tall office tower with two residential buildings, which would increase the projected housing from 1,500 units to [...]
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When we behold corporate executive/real estate investor David Weinreb’s west side trophy penthouse at 551 West 21st Street, a few questions may arise: Why does someone need three elevators? Do we want to walk through the wine closet to get to the living room? Is the West Side Highway a $75 million streetscape? And could [...]
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By New York Post | Brandon Cruz | 4/28/2025 12:42 PM
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The reckless hoodlum who allegedly gunned down beloved Harlem fixture Excenia “Momma Zee” Mette in a tragic stray-bullet shooting has surrendered to authorities, The Post has learned. A 23-year-old man from Bronx was in custody after he turned himself in at Manhattan’s criminal courthouse Monday morning – nearly a week after the fateful gun battle... ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Alex Mitchell | 4/28/2025 12:06 PM
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New York City’s landmarked Lord & Taylor building will be publicly accessible for the first time since the flagship department store closed in 2019. A 35,000-square-foot food hall, dubbed Shaver Hall, will open later this year on the ground floor of the historic Fifth Avenue building. Amazon bought the property in 2020 and converted the [...]
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By New York Post | David Propper | 4/27/2025 9:48 PM
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Mayoral candidate Scott Stringer condemned rival Andrew Cuomo as a phony friend to the Jewish people, accusing the ex-governor Sunday of lying about a campaign he announced to combat antisemitism. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 30, 2025 is:
insouciance \in-SOO-see-unss\ noun
Insouciance is a formal word that refers to a feeling of carefree unconcern. It can also be understood as a word for the relaxed and calm state of a person who is not worried about anything.
// The young actor charmed interviewers with his easy smile and devil-may-care insouciance.
“Gladiator II is OK when Denzel’s off-screen, but sensational when he’s on it. ... What makes the performance great is its insouciance; it’s both precise and feather-light. And it’s what a great actor can do when he’s set free to have fun, to laugh at himself a little bit. ... Denzel’s Macrinus is gravitas and comic relief in one package.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Nov. 2024
Did you know?
If you were alive and of whistling age in the late 1980s or early 1990s, chances are you whistled (and snapped your fingers, and tapped your toes) to a little ditty called “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin, an a cappella reggae-jazz-pop tune that took the charts by surprise and by storm. An ode to cheerful insouciance if ever there was one, its lyrics are entirely concerned with being entirely unconcerned, remaining trouble-free in the face of life’s various stressors and calamities. Such carefree nonchalance is at the heart of insouciance, which arrived in English (along with the adjective insouciant), from French, in the 1800s. The French word comes from a combining of the negative prefix in- with the verb soucier, meaning “to trouble or disturb.” The easiness and breeziness of insouciance isn’t always considered beautiful, however. Insouciance may also be used when someone’s lack of concern for serious matters is seen as more careless than carefree.