Randa Jaafar regales her more than 70,000 social media followers with posts about her jet setting ways, including trips to Paris, Dubai and the Hamptons. ... Read full Story
A former American Airlines aircraft mechanic was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison after being convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine hidden beneath the cockpit of a flight to New York from Jamaica. ... Read full Story
An Upper West Side mom with a severe sesame allergy went into anaphylactic shock when she ate a chocolate-chip cookie -- made with tahini -- at a local coffee shop, a new lawsuit says. ... Read full Story
Mayor Eric Adams made it clear Friday that he's standing by Edward Caban -- even as local politicians have called for the NYPD commissioner's ouster since his home was raided by federal agents earlier this week. ... Read full Story
Police Commissioner Edward Caban’s twin brother -- a former cop with a checkered past -- is being eyed by the feds over his alleged work as a “fixer” for swanky restaurants and nightclubs in Manhattan. ... Read full Story
A new city council study on public toilets at Big Apple parks found that many of the 102 toilets examined were dirty or lacked required amenities. ... Read full Story
Local politicians called for Police Commissioner Edward Caban's ouster Friday after the feds shockingly raided his home earlier this week. ... Read full Story
A wanted man posing as a for-hire driver with three women in his cab nearly mowed down cops during a rush-hour chase through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. ... Read full Story
It hasn't exactly always been a smooth ride for Pegula, the oldest U.S. woman in the Open era, to reach her first major singles final. ... Read full Story
Johannah King-Slutzky, a Columbia University doctoral student, is set to instruct an “Contemporary Western Civilization” class at the Upper Manhattan campus this semester. ... Read full Story
Explore the vibrant history of jazz in Queens with a new interactive digital map. Flushing Town Hall on Thursday released the Digital Queens Jazz Trail Map, putting 125 jazz legends who once called Queens home on the map. The digital map is the first phase of a larger database that will include more figures, locations, [...]
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It’s hard to avoid the word “classic” when describing this pretty pre-war co-op at 41 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood. In an elegant residence known as Copley Plaza, the (currently) two-bedroom flat has the enviable bones befitting its Deco-era origins, with a floor plan that offers the flexibility of adding a third bedroom. [...]
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“The eagerness to vilify ‘the other side’—usually on social media—complicates the less reactionary work that defines our mission.” — Jerry Brewer, The Washington Post, 11 June 2024
Did you know?
It seems reasonable to assume that the words vilify and villain come from the same source; after all, to vilify someone is—in some ways—to make them out to be a villain. Such is not the case, however. Although the origin stories of both vilify and villain involve Latin, their roots are quite different. Vilify came to English (via Middle English and Late Latin) from the Latin adjective vilis, meaning “cheap” or “vile.” Someone who has been vilified, accordingly, has had their reputation tarnished or cheapened in such a way that they’re viewed as morally reprehensible. Villain on the other hand, comes from the Medieval Latin word villanus, meaning “villager,” and ultimately from the Latin noun villa, meaning “house.” The Middle English descendent of villanus developed the meaning of “a person of uncouth mind and manners” due to the vilifying influence of the aristocracy of the time, and the connotations worsened from there until villain came to refer to (among other things), a deliberate scoundrel.