Mamdani announces $2.3M ‘renew crews’ to refurbish NYC parks and playgrounds with new paint jobs and maintanance repairs

Mamdani announces .3M ‘renew crews’ to refurbish NYC parks and playgrounds with new paint jobs and maintanance repairs

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced a 24-person “renew crew” will be embarking on a series of blitzes to refurbish city playgrounds, recreation center and basketball courts. The team of plumbers, painters and other skilled workers will tackle up to 30 projects in stints of about three weeks each between April and October annually, with…

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Trump moves toward levying new tariff on China for flooding market with cheap goods, AP sources say

Trump moves toward levying new tariff on China for flooding market with cheap goods, AP sources say

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving toward levying a new tariff on China that would penalize the world’s second-largest economy for flooding the global market with underpriced goods, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations still being finalized,…

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Why Hannah Berner Is Actually Happy About Her Botox Mishap

Why Hannah Berner Is Actually Happy About Her Botox Mishap

Hannah Berner has found a way to smile through the pain—well, at least on the inside. After the comedian said she had a bad reaction to botox injections—which she receives to treat temporomandibular joint disorder (commonly referred to as TMJ)—she has found the bright side of the accident that made “smiling felt like weightlifting.” “I’m…

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Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay

Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay

Steven Seidenberg, Untitled, from his series The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South. Courtesy of the artist Too often, photographers play with images of ruin aesthetics with the aim of triggering a sense of lament, but Steven Seidenberg takes a different approach—his camera has captured the change of time in structures as…

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