Sep 1, 2019
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Will Gem Spa go the way of CBGB, Dojo and Kim's Video? Another East Village locale is under threat. https://t.co/HBudRxp92n
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) August 29, 2019
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Source: http://twitter.com/NYTMetro/status/1167090544742457344
Will Gem Spa go the way of CBGB, Dojo and Kim's Video? Another East Village locale is under threat. https://t.co/HBudRxp92n
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) August 29, 2019
Source: http://twitter.com/NYTMetro/status/1026204727283986433
It's not just an eye-catching art installation that floats: A former New York City fireboat has been repainted with a nod to dazzle painting, a technique developed during World War I to help Allied ships fool German U-boats. https://t.co/3HzEtXGxAX pic.twitter.com/DzzQiuWwHc
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) August 5, 2018
Don’t miss @PublicArtFund’s new project #FlowSeparation, which reimagines a decommissioned #FDNY fireboat as a WWI dazzle ship. As artist Tauba Auerbach notes, the piece reminds us that cleverness can be an antidote to brute force. https://t.co/fFhfLHFLcU
— David Jacobs (@jacobsfdavid) August 5, 2018
Source: http://twitter.com/NYTMetro/status/989921135851696129
This week's F.Y.I. explores the 1788 Doctors' Riots, which were really about New Yorkers rioting against medical students who had been visiting graveyards at night to dig up cadavers for their studies. https://t.co/1Xkgmb7pvB
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) April 27, 2018
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The World’s Fair may be a thing of the past, but there are ways to relive it in New York today. https://t.co/VBDavFinJm
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) April 24, 2018
"But even more, at a time when hopping a flight across oceans wasn’t as easy and when national quotas restricted immigration, foreigners could broadcast their best wares and fairgoers could catch a glimpse into their far-off cultures."
“People of all different races and nationalities were enjoying themselves with their families, eating food from countries they hadn’t been to, seeing artwork from places they didn’t know, and being amazed by things other people were dreaming up,” said Joseph Tirella, the author of “Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World’s Fair and the Transformation of America.”"
Chinatown's civic groups have held back gentrification in an area surrounded by development. The future of one of Manhattan’s few working-class neighborhoods is at stake. https://t.co/278be5UNDr
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) Apr 23, 2022
The South Asian community in New York has been shaken by a string of hate crimes against Sikh men; three were attacked within 10 days on the same block. They were beaten and their turbans were ripped off. Two men have been arrested. https://t.co/xKoATUrVg9
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) Apr 17, 2022
Every day, more than 2.4 million packages are delivered just in New York City, an online-buying mecca in a region of 20.1 million people. An e-commerce boom turbocharged by the pandemic is turning the region into a national warehouse capital. https://t.co/QlU5SOZ8DF
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) Mar 19, 2022
To report about the disappearing bilingual street signs in Manhattan’s Chinatown, it would take six Freedom of Information Act requests, countless emails, hand-drawn maps and 12 miles of walking. https://t.co/pR5sUOCwuU
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) Mar 12, 2022