By New York Post | David Propper | 2/13/2025 2:39 AM
The New York City Bar wants the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) -- which operates the famous zoo -- to either voluntarily give up the two elephants, Happy and Patty, or request city agencies to seize the animals that have called the Bronx home for around 50 years. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Shane Galvin | 2/13/2025 12:57 AM
A teacher at Monsignor Farrell High School in Staten Island went on an unhinged anti-Trump tirade during a class that ended in him screaming insults like "punk a--" at a student. ... Read full Story
“I do understand why they did it that way because it’s probably inexpensive for them,” a rider said. “It’s just adding a small piece instead of changing the entire design.” ... Read full Story
By New York Post | David Propper | 2/12/2025 10:09 PM
“We’re not supposed to do it, but where else am I gonna park,” the unidentified driver whined, according to ABC 7. “You can’t double park in these streets, these streets are small.” ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Shane Galvin | 2/12/2025 8:32 PM
Outraged upstate New York parents took over a school board meeting this week — demanding to know why their elementary school children were exposed to an “LGBTQIA+” book that included depictions of naked people and bondage enthusiasts. A large and animated crowd of parents gathered in a Monroe County auditorium on Tuesday and voiced their... ... Read full Story
Border czar Tom Homan is “not happy” about the Big Apple’s lack of action to help President Trump’s immigration crackdown, sources said Wednesday — setting up what could be a contentious second meeting with Mayor Eric Adams. Homan will make the newly Trump-indebted Adams come to him at New York City’s ICE headquarters at 26... ... Read full Story
The Trump administration is being urged to shut down two controversial, NYC-government approved "safe injection sites" -- where drug addicts can use illegal drugs like meth, heroin and cocaine under supervision. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Amanda Woods | 2/12/2025 6:30 PM
The cops were conducting a "transit inspection" on the southbound A/C/E platform at the West 4th Street station in Greenwich Village around 2:45 p.m. when they spotted someone acting erratically on the northbound side, police said. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Vaughn Golden | 2/12/2025 6:25 PM
As part of her executive budget proposal, Hochul wants to send $300 checks to single New Yorkers making under $150,000 a year and families making under $300,000. ... Read full Story
Mayor Eric Adams' lawyer took a victory lap Wednesday — hailing the Department of Justice for ordering Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop Hizzoner's historic corruption case -- and claiming New York City would be "better off." ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Vaughn Golden | 2/12/2025 5:07 PM
New York state is chipping in millions to help Suffolk County’s expansion and rehabilitation efforts at MacArthur Airport, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. ... Read full Story
A flurry of phony text messages are trying to get metro area motorists to pay off overdue EZPass fees tied to the Big Apple's new congestion pricing plan, transportation officials said. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 13, 2025 is:
gallant \GAL-unt\ adjective
Someone or something described as gallant is very courageous and brave. Gallant is also sometimes used to mean “large and impressive” (as in “a gallant ship”), or to describe someone who has or shows politeness and respect for women.
// Though they failed to reach the summit, the mountaineering team made a gallant attempt.
“He turned to go, and was promptly whacked across the backside by Miss Chokfi. ‘Ouch?’ he said. ‘What was that for?’ She was standing up very straight and gallant, though it still left her a foot and a half shorter than him, with the office stapler ready by her hand. ‘That was for not stopping him,’ she said. ‘Was there anything else you need?’ ‘Not a thing,’ said Barrow, and tipped his hat to her.” — Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz: A Novel, 2024
Did you know?
If you’re familiar with the long-running comic strip “Goofus and Gallant,” created by Garry Cleveland Myers and published in the monthly children’s magazine Highlights, you likely have a particularly good sense of the meaning of the adjective gallant. In the comic, the character of Goofus demonstrates to young readers all sorts of bad habits and behaviors, while Gallant provides examples of proper conduct and comportment when in circumstances similar to those of his ill-mannered counterpart. The characters’ names were, of course, chosen with purpose. We record several different senses of gallant and all are compliments. Someone described as gallant may be smartly dressed, courteous and chivalrous, or valiant and brave. Goofus, bless his heart, is none of these things (while we do not define the adjective goofus, the Oxford English Dictionary does: “stupid, foolish”). Perhaps ironically, gallant comes from the Middle French verb galer, meaning “to squander in pleasures”; such squandering is something Goofus is likely to do, and Gallant never would.