"It would be better to help those businesses, in my opinion, than necessarily to shame them. But the city's going to do what it's going to do." ... Read full Story
Barnard College is being called out for inviting a United Nations official who has likened lsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and Israel as the Nazi "Third Reich" to speak at the elite Manhattan school this week. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | David Propper | 10/28/2024 11:37 PM
Haul out the holly – before Halloween? The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was revealed on Monday as a sky-scraping Norway spruce from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The tree is 70 years old and stands an incredible 74-feet high, Rockefeller Center said in an announcement. The 11-ton tree is expected to be cut down on Nov.... ... Read full Story
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been accused of two more horrifying rapes in the latest round of lawsuits against him -- including one alleged attack involving a 10-year-old boy. ... Read full Story
By New York Post | Steve Cuozzo | 10/28/2024 7:26 PM
The recovery is boosted by the return of tourists and business travelers to the city -- some 62 million in 2023, nearly as many as in 2019 -- and the total is expected to be higher this year. ... Read full Story
Six Manhattanites were picked Monday to serve on the jury at Daniel Penny’s lightning-rod manslaughter trial over the fatal subway chokehold of homeless man Jordan Neely — including two who said they’ve experienced harassment on the transit system. The panelists chosen so far include a Yorkville insurance attorney who recalled being randomly “rammed” by a... ... Read full Story
“Please don’t ride [atop] the subway. Please think about the pain it will cause your parents," said Adolfo Sanabria, whose teenage son Adolfo Sorzano died subway surfing last week. ... Read full Story
Some caseworkers have sounded the alarm about a new shift in focus they believe is potentially putting vulnerable children at risk. ... Read full Story
The teen was blasted in the chest around 11:45 p.m. Saturday outside a building on Auburn Place within NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, cops said. ... Read full Story
They’re calling on the biggest pinch hitter of them all. New York Yankees faithful prayed inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral for divine intervention as the World Series headed to the Bronx and the Cathedral of Baseball this week. Declan Wholey, 20, a self-avowed Yankees “super fan” from Rhode Island, was among many fans who took a... ... Read full Story
The New York Yankees and Major League Baseball are giving one Bronx middle school $50,000 to go toward a “sensory room” designed for kids on the autism spectrum. It came after students at the One World World Middle School in Edenwald pitched in to help the Bronx Bombers redesign Yankee Stadium’s own space for fans... ... Read full Story
Yankee fans have spent decades leaving mementos at Babe Ruth's grave in Westchester County, and are stepping it up with the Bronx Bombers back in the World Series. ... Read full Story
"The Abrahamic faiths conceive of God as an omniscient creator and generally abjure gambling as a result; one of the first laws passed by the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the possession of cards, dice, or gaming tables." — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sept. 2024
Did you know?
One who is omniscient literally knows all. The word omniscient traces back to two Latin roots: omni-, meaning "all" or "universally," and the noun scientia, meaning "knowledge." You will recognize omni- as the prefix that tells all in such words as omnivorous ("eating all," or in actual use, "eating both plants and animals") and omnipotent ("all-powerful"). Scientia comes from the Latin verb scīre, meaning "to know," which likewise has a number of other knowledge-related descendants in English, including conscience, science, and prescience (meaning "foreknowledge").