A top Legal Aid Society lawyer who’s expected to fight Mayor Adams’ proposed right-to-shelter rollback in court said Thursday that the mayor’s plan contains a “bizarre” contradiction that could draw scrutiny from a judge providing a preview of how arguments in the high-stakes legal case could play out.
A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving Kristol’s saying, is a liberal who has been mugged by reality especially by a reality that is plain to the vast bulk of ordinary people but remains inexplicably invisible to liberal intellectuals and politicians.
Baseball legend Lawrence “Yogi” Berra (1925-2015) had a genius for phrasemaking, which had a nagging tendency to outshine his considerable baseball skills.
New York City Opera will present a season of four free, live performances this summer as part of their Park Series in Bryant Park Picnic Performances presented by Bank of America. Each performance features City Opera's brightest stars as well as members of the City Opera orchestra and will begin at 7pm on the Bryant Park Stage.