New York officials have told vulnerable people to stay indoors because of sooty air pollution from wildfires in western US states that have drifted across the country. Residents of New York City, 2,000 miles away from the blazes, witnessed a fiery sunrise on Tuesday. The Bootleg fire in Oregon has become so large and hot it is creating its own weather system, causing winds that have further fanned its flames
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New York City hit by extreme weather, flooding subways and streets – video
The US east coast was hit by extreme weather on Thursday as heavy thunderstorms brought flooding and travel disruption to New York City. The city witnessed dramatic scenes as subway stations were inundated by water due to heavy rainstorms ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Elsa
Continue reading...Hail, tornadoes and flooded New York subways as stormy weather hits east coast
Rainstorms drenched New York while Tropical Storm Elsa sparked tornadoes in North Carolina and Virginia
The US east coast was battered by extreme weather on Thursday as heavy thunderstorms brought flooding and travel disruption to the New York City area, while Tropical Storm Elsa dumped heavy rainfall and even sparked tornadoes in North Carolina and Georgia.
Some subway system ya got there. This is the 157th St. 1 line right now. @NYCMayor @BilldeBlasio pic.twitter.com/xyfTAUPPNu
Continue reading...The fight to save one of America’s last lesbian bars: ‘We’re like an endangered species’
There are only 21 lesbian bars remaining in the US – a vertiginous drop from 200 in the 1980s. The much-loved Cubbyhole is one of them
Everyone at the Cubbyhole has an origin story.
Mona Williams was 21, queer, and had been kicked out by their family when they first arrived at the quaint little lesbian bar on a street corner in New York’s West Village. They had Googled “lesbian bars in New York” and found themselves outside the bar a few hours later, alone and not knowing what to expect.
Continue reading...Ex-police captain Eric Adams wins Democratic primary for New York mayor
Adams, who tacked to center in large field of candidates, is expected to win in general election
Eric Adams, a former police captain, has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing.
Adams would be the city’s second Black mayor if elected. He triumphed over a large field in New York’s first major race to use ranked-choice voting.
Continue reading...New York’s patchwork recovery masks vast inequities laid bare by Covid
There are signs of renewal in a city that has weathered crisis after crisis, but what its future looks like remains an open question
For most of the past year, Manhattan’s signature yellow cabs have been a rarity on the avenues and cross-streets. Now, as the city picks up and office workers begin to return, they too are returning – but not yet on a pre-pandemic scale. At the same time, the city is gridlocked by traffic.
A patchwork of indicators suggest the recovery from a pandemic that hit hard and early, caused close to 30,000 deaths out of a 8.4-million population and placed the metropolis in an economic deep-freeze will be similarly uneven.
Continue reading...Trump Organization tax-crime charges: what it all means
The charges against the company and Allen Weisselberg seem small in scope – but experts say this could be just the beginning
After three years of investigations by New York’s top prosecutors against Donald Trump, many people in his circle and the sprawling Trump Organization business empire, it is perhaps no surprise to see charges finally laid in a New York courtroom.
Related: Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads not guilty to tax crimes – live
Continue reading...Trump Organization and senior executive charged with tax crimes
- Charges mark a severe blow to ex-president’s family business
- CFO Allen Weisselberg surrenders to authorities
The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been charged with a “sweeping and audacious illegal payment scheme” of tax-related crimes, marking the first criminal charges against the former president’s company following a years-long investigation by New York prosecutors.
Related: Allen Weisselberg: half of the dynamic duo running Trump’s business empire
Continue reading...Trump gonna Trump: ex-president diverts and deflects as legal woes mount
The former president appeared to mount a typically Trumpian bid to focus attention away from the growing scandal at his company
No one could accuse Donald Trump of lying low when the long arm of the law finally caught up with him.
On Wednesday the former US president visited the Mexico border, highlighting his favourite campaign issue, then held an hour-long televised town hall with Sean Hannity, his favourite Fox News host.
Continue reading...Trump Organization financial chief to be charged by New York prosecutors – report
- Allen Weisselberg failed to report perks, prosecutors allege
- More charges expected amid financial fraud investigation
One of Donald Trump’s key aides is expected to be charged on Thursday with failing to properly report company perks, including rent-free apartments and cars, in the latest stage of an escalating battle between New York prosecutors and the former president.
Related: Trump Organization could face criminal charges in New York next week
Continue reading...New York prosecutors set deadline for Trump on legal action – report
Ex-president’s lawyers have 24 hours Monday to say why the Trump Organization should not face charges, reports claim
New York prosecutors have given lawyers for Donald Trump 24 hours to respond with any last arguments as to why criminal charges should not be filed against his family business, according to a report on Sunday.
The deadline set for Monday was another strong signal that the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, and the New York attorney general, Letitia James, are considering criminal charges against the former president’s company as an entity, according to sources quoted by the Washington Post.
Continue reading...‘Johnson & Johnson helped fuel this fire’ – now it’s out of the opioids business
Whether the pharmaceutical giant jumped or was pushed, its New York deal is a significant sign of the way the wind is blowing
Johnson & Johnson said it had already jumped. New York’s attorney general suggested the pharmaceutical giant was pushed.
Either way, the American drug maker is the first to formally agree to get out of the multibillion-dollar business of selling the powerful narcotic painkillers that drove the US opioid epidemic.
Continue reading...Photographer Donavon Smallwood: ‘What’s it like to be a black person in nature?’
The self-taught 27-year-old discusses Languor, a prize-winning series of portraits shot in Central Park over the past year
Since he was seven years old, Donavon Smallwood had lived in the same apartment in Harlem close to the northern tip of Central Park. As a teenager, he hung out there with his friends and, later, as he became interested in photography, he would often wander through the park with his camera looking for hidden places where the clamour of the city seemed a world away. “So many urban communities don’t have any nature spaces,” he says, “so I was lucky to have one close by.”
In 2019, he had “a vague idea for a project about walking and looking”, a flaneur’s take on the park as a place in which to lose oneself. Throughout the spring and summer of 2020, while New York was in lockdown, he photographed in and around the wooded north-western corner of the park, where ravines, glades and manmade waterfalls give the impression of a natural wilderness. Often, on his way there and back, he encountered the same people, locals mainly, for whom the park was a place to escape the constrictions of the Covid pandemic.
Continue reading...New Yorkers fled to the Hamptons in 2020 – and sparked a major sewage crisis
A water quality crisis has been hiding in the ritzy Hamptons, but the pandemic pushed it over the edge. Will clean-up efforts be too little too late?
Growing up in Southampton, Bryan McGowin spent his summers swimming in a beautiful local pond. Now in his 40s, McGowin won’t let his kids into the water.
“If you drink that now, you will get sick,” said McGowin. Across the New York coastal community better known as the Hamptons, residents face perilously declining water quality, which has shut down recreation in many freshwater ponds.
Continue reading...Rudy Giuliani barred from practicing law in New York over election lies
• Court: Trump lawyer made ‘false and misleading’ statements
• License suspended pending possible disciplinary action
Rudy Giuliani is suspended from practicing law in New York state following disciplinary proceedings over his misleading statements to courts and the public following the 2020 US presidential election.
The New York supreme court issued its decision on Thursday, saying that it had found “uncontroverted evidence” that Giuliani made “demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large”, on behalf of his client, then-president Donald Trump, and created a “narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client”.
Continue reading...Ex-police captain Eric Adams takes early lead in New York mayoral primary
- Centrist Democrat claims most first-choice ballots
- Ranked-choice voting means primary winner due on 12 July
Brooklyn’s borough president, Eric Adams, appeared to take a fragile lead in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, but it could be weeks before it becomes clear who is on top in the first citywide election to use ranked choice voting.
As ballot counting began, more Democrats ranked Adams as their first choice in the race than any other candidate.
Continue reading...New York City’s tumultuous mayor’s race closes as voters struggle to choose
Just 1% of the city’s registered voters have turned out so far in a primary filled with allegations and accusations
New York City will effectively choose its next mayor in the coming days, drawing to a close a tumultuous election race marred by allegations of sexual misconduct, by the staff of one campaign launching a protest against their own candidate, and by accusations that at least one of the mayoral hopefuls doesn’t actually live in the city.
The winner in Tuesday’s Democratic primary will, given the leftward political leanings of the city, almost certainly win the election proper in November, and immediately be tasked with leading New York through its darkest period in several decades.
Continue reading...David Miliband charity pushes ‘white supremacy culture’, workers allege
International Rescue Committee hires law firm to review internal policies as leadership accused of ‘belittling and gaslighting’ staff
The International Rescue Committee reinforces “white supremacy culture”, staff have alleged, with the aid organization subsequently hiring a law firm to review its policies relating to discrimination, harassment and retaliation, the Guardian can reveal.
Headed by former UK foreign secretary David Miliband, the IRC is a major NGO with 20,000 staff and volunteers and a budget of $800m. It delivers aid in more than 40 countries, primarily in Africa, and helps resettle refugees across the US, with operations mainly directed out of New York.
Continue reading...Woman allegedly raped at New York Airbnb received secret $7m settlement – report
Airbnb taskforce that ‘cleans up only after disaster strikes’ intervened after alleged attack, reports Bloomberg Businessweek
An Australian woman who was allegedly raped at knifepoint in an Airbnb apartment in New York received a secret settlement of $7m which included restrictions on what she could say about the incident, according to a media investigation into the vacation listings giant’s “guest safety” policies .
The 29-year-old was attacked in a property near the tourist magnet and central Manhattan crossroads of Times Square early on New Year’s Day in 2016, Bloomberg Businessweek reported, prompting the swift intervention of a dedicated Airbnb crisis management “taskforce”.
Continue reading...Harvey Weinstein to be extradited to California for sexual assault charges
Judge said there was no reason to delay transfer any longer and denied lawyer’s request to keep him at a state prison in New York
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will be extradited to California after a New York judge’s approval, where he faces additional sexual assault charges.
The extradition order ends a legal fight, prolonged by the pandemic, the defense’s concerns about Weinstein’s failing health, and a squabble over paperwork.
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