Gracie Mansion Barricades Block UES Park, 9 Months After Protests - Upper East Side, NY - Sections of Carl Schurz Park remain blocked by NYPD barricades around Gracie Mansion, annoying neighbors long after protests subsided.
‘We’re on the brink of utter collapse.’ Yellow cabdrivers in New York struggle to stay alive as the pandemic rages on
For Augustine Tang, driving a taxi was a way to carry on his father’s legacy, who died unexpectedly in 2015. But the coronavirus pandemic has turned his taxi into a burden, a sentiment shared by thousands of other cabdrivers in New York.
“It’s a ghost town,” Tang remarks, as he drives through Chinatown.
With ridership down 80 – 90% since March 2020, drivers count themselves lucky if they are able to snag three passengers a shift. The vast majority of Manhattan office workers haven’t returned to the workplace, public school students have been in and out of classrooms, and tourism has slumped. On top of that, ride-sharing platforms such as Uber and Lyft have saturated the streets, capturing the lion’s share of riders even before Covid-19 reached the city.
arrow The vehicle that prompted a bomb scare in Queens on Monday Obtained by Gothamist
A far-right activist who allegedly staged a bizarre bomb hoax using a Tesla with a husky dog trapped inside the car at the Queens Place Mall Monday was charged with making terroristic threats and other felony charges, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Wednesday.
Louis Shenker, 22, of Amherst, Massachusetts was arraigned on charges of placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a sports stadium or arena, mass transportation facility, or enclosed shopping mall and making a terroristic threat, Katz said in a press release Wednesday.
Order Reprints Print Article
Ricardo Barrett, a member of the Alison Cook Beatty Dance company, performs a new work, Central Park Field #4, shot in Central Park. Ellen Maynard Text size
While producers concede that Broadway won’t likely open until next fall, the next best thing thanks to New York’s new “Open Culture” legislation will be here this spring, debuting on a street corner near you.
New “Open Culture” laws passed by the City Council on Dec. 10 will allow for live ticketed performances on streets, plazas, and in city parks, following in the footsteps of the city’s Open Streets and Open Restaurants initiatives, which cordon off sections of roadway for socially distanced pedestrian traffic and restaurant seating.