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Federal prosecutors are expected to announce criminal charges against New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos imminently in connection with a corruption probe.
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The community is preparing for a new Cornell campus while trying to spark some life on Main Street.
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Alex Rodriguez hit his 660th home run Friday night against Red Sox in Boston, tying Willie Mays for 4th on the all-time home run list and sparking the question of whether he will receive a $6 million bonus from the Yankees for the milestone.
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The indictments in the George Washington Bridge scandal didn’t implicate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in what likely would have been a death knell to his uphill 2016 presidential bid.
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If indeed ‘America is Hard to See,’ as the titular show at the new Whitney Museum of American Art suggests, the art inside was anything but during the museum’s public debut on Friday.
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The Montclair Film Festival opens its latest edition this weekend with a conversation between Richard Gere and Stephen Colbert and a beefier lineup of new, mostly independent films.
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In this week’s On Photography: Photos from the Matthew R. Bergey Collection on view in Queens, ‘The Modern Eye’ and photos by Mario Algaze.
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A new exhibit at New York’s Cooper Hewitt surveys posters through the decades.
Judge in GW Bridge Lane Case Appointed By President George W. Bush
NEWARK-The judge set to hear an initial plea related to the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal was described by those who have known her as moderate, thoughtful and independent.
New Whitney Museum Makes Waves on Social Media
Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Smith and others attending the opening day of the new Whitney Museum of American Art shared their experiences on social media.
French Bank Settlement to Fund NYC Criminal Justice Initiatives
New York City will spend part of $447 million it will receive from a court settlement involving French bank BNP Paribas SA on initiatives for its criminal justice system, including establishing a database designed to help speed up court cases and reduce incarceration rates, officials said.
Big Names and Acclaimed Movies Are on the Slate for the Montclair Film Festival
The Montclair Film Festival, a combination of community event for its hometown of Montclair, N.J., and regional film showcase, is expanding from a week to 10 days for its 2015 edition, which opens Friday.
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This modern Westbrook, Conn., property was built with the sea in mind. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide panoramic water views throughout the home, and a marina sits just about 100 yards from the property.
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The higher the income in a neighborhood, the more trees it has, a new study found. Anne Kadet tours one neighborhood with the Parks Department’s director of street tree planting.
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Janelle Monáe performs at the spring fling for the Friends of Hudson River Park, the first private event at the new Winter Garden at Brookfield Place.
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Washington state wines aren’t easily found in New York restaurants or wine shops. Perhaps that was why some Washington producers were wary when New York wine distributor Welkin Vines approached them about selling their wines.
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If Ralph Gardner Jr. could ask Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour one question, it wouldn’t be, ‘What are you wearing?’ But, ‘What gives with jeans?’ and their increasingly distressed condition.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music honored its outgoing president, Karen Brooks Hopkins, with dinner, performances and the promise of a new building named the BAM Karen.
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The public lined up outside the Whitney Museum of Art Opens at 99 Gansevoort St. on Friday for a look at the new building and its galleries.
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Charles Street house and its former stable was once home to photographer Diane Arbus
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Demonstrations sprang up in New York’s Union Square in solidarity with Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal injury in police custody.
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Designer Bob Crowley is a Tony award nominee for both his set design and costume design work on various Broadway productions.
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Advanced Grow Labs is one of four state-licensed producers in Connecticut’s nascent medical-marijuana industry.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art brought in Bark Frameworks, a fine-art framer regarded for its historical research, to reframe its most important works, including those by Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper and Jasper Johns.
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Sculptor Thomas Houseago’s latest project invites viewers at Rockefeller Plaza to survey Midtown through his monumental artworks’ eyes.
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On Earth Day, environmental activist Christopher Swain plunges into the contaminated waters of the highly polluted New York City waterway.
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The law that created the Landmarks Preservation Commission was signed on April 19, 1965. About 33,000 properties have been saved by landmark designation.
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These New York City high-school students turned lessons on violence into songs and raps, and they will showcase their work in a final talent show.
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Hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Tuesday, bringing rush-hour traffic to a standstill as they demonstrated against police violence. At least 22 people were arrested, and one police officer was injured.
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Sunshine Laundromat & Cleaners, known for its pinball machines and other whimsies, hopes to add a bar to its Greenpoint location.
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