For this week’s People query, I asked three Staten Islanders what their favorite spots — restaurant or otherwise — were on Staten Island. This is the first installment of a four-part series to promote all the fabulous things our borough has to offer.
Category: New York, NY
The Bunnies are back in town: Playboy Club reopening in NYC
The tightly corseted Playboy Bunnies, with rabbit tails and ears, will soon be back in business in New York City. Three decades after the original Playboy Club closed in Manhattan, an apparent victim of changing American tastes and views on women, a new one will debut later this year in a hotel a few blocks from Times Square.
The Invention of the Downtown Art Scene
In 1964, Petula Clark had a hit with “Downtown.” But the songwriter Tony Hatch has said he was inspired by Times Square-a solecism forgivable from a Brit.
Subway shutdown is chance to try new transportation strategies
New York has always been congested, but lately, worsening transit delays and gridlock on streets have left New Yorkers fed up. Transportation has gotten so unreliable that when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently installed Wi-Fi in subway stations, instead of being excited, riders took the opportunity to complain about the trains.
Judges Block Parts of Trump’s Order on Muslim Nation Immigration
Demonstrators protest outside of John F. Kennedy International Airport against U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking visitors from seven predominantly Muslim nations in New York, U.S., on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017.
No more dropped calls: NYC subway to get cell service, WiFi
People peek out the train doors at the 86th Street station as one of the first trains pauses at the platform on the newly opened Second Ave. Subway line in New York on New Year’s Day. Almost all stations are now equipped with WiFi and cellular service.
Trailblazing Hasidic woman judge: ‘It’s the American dream’
In this Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, photo, Rachel Freier looks up from her phone while posing for pictures at her law office in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, N.Y. In some ways, Freier has an ordinary background for a newly elected civil court judge: She’s a real estate and commercial lawyer who volunteers in family court and in her community, where she even serves as a paramedic. But then there’s all the extraordinary about Freier, who starts work in a Brooklyn courthouse Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, as apparently the first woman from Judaism’s ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community to be elected as a judge in the United States.