The New York Transit Museum is celebrating the 120th anniversary of the city’s subway system with a new exhibit and vintage train rides. Debuting September 26, “The Subway Is…” explores how New York City’s subway system has shaped its cultural identity and will showcase images and artifacts from the museum’s collections. To coincide with the [...]
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Two retired New York City Fire Department fire chiefs were arrested by the feds early Monday for allegedly accepting more than $190,000 in bribes to allegedly help fast-track safety inspections and reviews, officials said. Anthony Saccavino and Brian Cordasco, who worked in the FDNY’s Bureau of Fire Prevention, were nabbed on bribery, corruption and false statements offenses as part... ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Isabel Keane | 9/16/2024 9:06 AM
A Long Island man convicted of two killings in the early 1990s is seeking a review of his case after alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann was charged in an "eerily similar" homicide during the same period, according to a report. ... Read full Story
Hundreds of padlocked pot shops found guilty of breaking the law in the Big Apple have avoided paying millions of dollars in fines, a City Council analysis shows. ... Read full Story
Bereaved families, local and national dignitaries and first responders gathered in NYC to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but Hizzoner's son had different plans. ... Read full Story
The radical Cornell University professor who lauded the Hamas terror attack on Israel “exhilarating” and “energizing” has been allowed to return to the classroom at the upstate Ivy League school after avoiding any punishment, infuriating critics. ... Read full Story
Violent crime is spiking in the Big Apple's busiest tourist hub -- even as Mayor Eric Adams is set to deliver a State of the City speech raving about how much safer the five boroughs are. ... Read full Story
Saturday night's stunning resignation by Lisa Zornberg left observers more concerned than ever about Adam's faltering administration, which is reeling from a slew of recent federal raids targeting top aides. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Isabel Keane | 9/15/2024 3:59 PM
A Brooklyn bash featuring rapper and birthday boy Playboi Carti was shut down Saturday night when swarms of fans flocked to the venue, leading to clashes with cops. ... Read full Story
An NYPD cop was shot and wounded during a wild subway shooting in Brooklyn Sunday afternoon that also left three others injured -- all seemingly hit by police bullets, authorities said. ... Read full Story
The mother of a 13-year-old high-school basketball player who drowned in the East River while watching an after-school soccer game is suing the city, claiming it failed to supervise her son. Laquana Badger Godfrey, the mom of tragic Kavion Brown Godfrey, says her son’s drowning in October was a result of “gross negligence” by the... ... Read full Story
While the Arverne and Edgemere neighborhoods in Far Rockaway are a stone’s throw from the ocean, residents say the planned indoor and outdoor pool at the forthcoming Arverne East Aquatic Center will provide a clean, safe environment for children without being subject to unpredictable beach weather. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Isabel Keane | 9/15/2024 8:55 AM
The girl and her mother had argued about using an iPad earlier that day, then her mom left for a doctor's appointment, according to reports. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Susan Edelman | 9/15/2024 6:00 AM
Six Department of Education employees used "forged permission slips” to take their own kids and grandchildren to Disney World and on other city-funded trips meant for homeless students, investigators alleged. ... Read full Story
Lisa Zornberg, New York City Hall's chief counsel, is leaving her post in Eric Adams' administration — just days after NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban resigned as the city's top cop, she announced late Saturday. ... Read full Story
A fiend apparently sexually assaulted someone in a John Jay College of Criminal Justice restroom earlier this month, the school informed students in an email alert Friday. ... Read full Story
"Like clouds, the shapes of our galaxy’s glittery nebulae are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. They can look like all sorts of animals: tarantulas, crabs, a running chicken, and now, a cosmic koi swimming through space." — Laura Baisas, PopSci.com, 13 June 2024
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The history of nebula belongs not to the mists of time but to the mists of Latin: in that language nebula means "mist" or "cloud." In its earliest English uses in the 1600s, nebula was chiefly a medical term that could refer either to a cloudy formation in urine or to a cloudy speck or film on the eye. Nebula was first applied to great interstellar clouds of gas and dust in the early 1700s. The adjective nebulous comes from the same Latin root as nebula, and it is considerably older, being first used as a synonym of cloudy or foggy as early as the 1300s. Like nebula, this adjective was not used in an astronomical sense until centuries later.