Newyork
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‘No Drama’ Compost? N.Y.C. Is Expanding Food and Yard Waste Pickup
What happens to food scraps in the garbage is both gross (rats, garbage juice) and weighty (methane emissions, climate crisis).…
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Why the Rent Is So High
Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll look at why affordable apartments are in such short supply in New York. We’ll also…
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‘Surprised, I Turned to See an Older Man There on the Sidewalk’
Birthday Bouquets Dear Diary: It was my father-in-law’s birthday, and I had already gotten the strawberry cheesecake. My husband was…
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Seeking Asylum in Texas; Sent to New York to Make a Political Point
The first 3,500 miles of Jose Rodríguez’s journey from Venezuela to New York took nearly two months. The last 2,000…
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How New York City Hopes to Win Its Long, Losing War on Trash
“Did you get that?” It was a steamy July morning on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, and a man in…
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How a Couple Who Started a Food Bank Spend Their Sundays
When the pandemic caused food banks to shut down in March 2020, two soup kitchen volunteers, Mammad Mahmoodi and Sasha…
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City’s Admissions That It Can’t Care for Rikers Detainees May Propel Suits
The security-camera images tell a remarkable story: A man being held on Rikers Island collapses and is carried to a…
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Can a Neighborhood Be Instagrammed to Death?
Two years ago, Prokopis Christou, a scholar of the social and psychological dynamics of tourism, published a paper that sought…
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In a House Race With Big Names, 2 Women With Local Ties Rise
Two months ago, the megawatt contest for a rare open House seat in New York City seemed destined to be…
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A Mother on a Mission: World-Class Music for Everyone
After Don Shirley performed with his trio before an appreciative audience in the Putnam High School auditorium in November 1965,…