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New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish NYC's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction. politico.com/news/2026/10/13…
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somebody hang this in the Louvre 🥹
Photographer Elliot McGucken captures insane photo of a full moon perfectly framed within the North Window Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.
(📸: @elliotmcgucken)
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If you grew up in New Jersey, October 30th wasn’t just the night before Halloween - it was Mischief Night.
By the 1920s-40s, the tradition of pranks was established across the Northeast, with NJ becoming especially known for it. TP, eggs, shaving cream, smashed pumpkins and doorbell ditching were all part of the fun.
But it sometimes went too far. On October 30, 1991, Camden saw about 150 fires, with dozens of buildings damaged and 57 people charged.
Unlike most of the country, NJ still calls it Mischief Night - a uniquely Jersey Halloween tradition. – at New Jersey, USA
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BREAKING:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency over a rapidly growing measles outbreak.
New York has confirmed 108 cases this year, including 92 since July 15.
Pennsylvania is dealing with an extraordinary outbreak: 1,004 confirmed cases so far this year.
For comparison, Pennsylvania recorded just 17 measles cases in all of 2019 and averaged only 4.4 cases a year from 2010–2019.
The New York emergency expands access to MMR vaccinations and measles testing.
And it doesn’t matter that HHS under RFK Jr. has said the MMR vaccine is crucial.
He has been the chief driver of anti-vaccine messaging for many years, and now ordinary Americans are dealing with the consequences of his years of spreading misinformation and disinformation.
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🤯 It just dawned on me that hip-hop started because New Yorkers were celebrating a Knicks championship 🤣
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists that will shape what comes next.
I sat down with @Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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'HACKS' (#42) entrou na lista das 100 melhores séries do século XXI do New York Times.
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in the vanity fair interview, zach says that aunt gladys' costuming was inspired by lil/blue rose girl in twin peaks fire walk with me. and that is so fucking important to me
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🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right
This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when he drops the “central casting” routine.
“In New York City, there are certain words that have taken on ideological associations.”
“Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency… has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.”
Mamdani’s argument is that refusing to engage those issues actually helps the Right.
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’”
The harder question is how much of the broader Left is actually prepared to follow the advice.
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More than 100 New Yorkers gathered in Kips Bay to save their local AMC, the chain’s second-largest multiplex in Manhattan, from closing at the end of the year.
AMC Kips Bay was privately purchased by NYU Langone over a year ago. But several city officials at the protest told Variety they didn’t learn about the deal until after it had gone through.
“NYU is a neighbor, and we’ve worked with them in many different capacities, so it was surprising that we had to reach out to them to find out that they were the ones looking to acquire the land behind us,” New York State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez explained after the protest. “It’s not unreasonable to ask NYU to be proactive in engaging with the community.”
Read the full report: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHMwM
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Jean Smart spent four decades in television before she got her first lead actress Emmy nomination. She was 69. She has not lost since.
No performer had ever swept a full series run. Julia Louis-Dreyfus won six straight for Veep, the greatest comedy streak on record, and lost the final season to Fleabag. Bryan Cranston dropped two middle seasons of Breaking Bad to Damian Lewis. In 78 years of Emmys, every streak broke somewhere. Smart went five for five and closed the book last night.
The role makes it better. Deborah Vance is a comedian the industry decided was finished, grinding out Vegas residencies while younger acts took her slots. Smart didn't have to research that. After Designing Women in 1986, she spent 30 years in guest spots and supporting parts, because those are the parts that get written for women past 50.
Then the late run started. Fargo at 64. Watchmen at 68. Mare of Easttown and Hacks premiered within weeks of each other when she was 69, and three writers in their thirties bet an entire show on the premise that a woman in her seventies could carry a comedy.
She now has eight Emmys, tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cloris Leachman for the most any performer has ever won. Five of the eight came after she turned 69.
The show was about a comedian refusing to be finished. The actress playing her spent five years proving the premise.
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The Kips Bay AMC has been part of this neighborhood for decades and we don’t want to lose it.
Join us Sunday, 9/20 at noon as we call on NYU to help keep the theater open and preserve a beloved gathering place for Kips Bay!
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Bob Mackie should be the subject of next year’s Met Gala theme. A Costume Institute exhibition devoted to his extraordinary legacy in costume, celebrity fashion, performance, glamour, and theatricality would be long overdue. His work deserves to be experienced as fashion history, not just nostalgia.