By New York Post | David Propper | 9/5/2024 12:07 AM
“She suffers from ailments and has been prescribed the methamphetamine properly by a doctor and she was not under influence of any alcohol or any non-prescription drug that she was not prescribed," her lawyer said. ... Read full Story
Con Ed says the delivery charge is up for all its customers and fluctuates based on investments the company makes throughout the region. ... Read full Story
The 33-year-old special education teacher was grazed on his palm after the bullet went through the window from outside the building, police said. ... Read full Story
School safety agents and cops seized 278 weapons during the 2023-24 school year, including guns, brass, knuckles and knives, law-enforcement sources said. ... Read full Story
A federal judge, in a hard-hitting ruling, ordered Schools Chancellor David Banks to reinstate parent activist Maud Maron back to her education post -- saying he likely violated her free rights by ousting her. ... Read full Story
“We’re not hidden in a 3,000-pound cage,” says Gersh Kuntzman. He’s an avid biker and the editor-in-chief of Streetsblog, a website “devoted to making the city’s streets and neighborhoods far more walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly.” He touts the benefits of biking in New York City, including the community accessibility that driving in a car (or [...]
The post 8 best bike rides in NYC first appeared on 6sqft. ... Read full Story
Jewish students from CUNY's City College of New York were berated and told to "go back to Brooklyn" by a group of anti-Israel protesters outside a kosher deli in Midtown South. ... Read full Story
A top Chinese consular official who featured prominently in shocking spy accusations against former Empire State governor’s aide Linda Sun is no longer with the New York diplomatic mission, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday. Huang Ping, the now-former consul general in New York, was spotted by The Post scurrying from the consulate Wednesday morning — just hours... ... Read full Story
A maniac on a Bronx subway slashed a teen boy — as terrifying surveillance footage captured him stalking the platform while holding a giant blade after the random attack. ... Read full Story
“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.