Get set to celebrate the Lunar New Year in New York State! The Lunar, or Chinese, New Year is celebrated for 15 days, from New Year’s Eve on January 28 to the Lantern Festival on February 12. 2025 marks the Year of the Snake, specifically the wood snake, which is associated with traits of wisdom, […]
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Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. A recent rewatch of Raging Bull (1980) pushed it into my top three for Martin Scorsese. Though shot in black and white—either because it
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It’s a new year, which can mean only one thing: time to listen to better music so you can impress your friends with your next Spotify Wrapped! Do you really want people to see you listened to that much Taylor Swift? To help you out, we’ve included a number of great live music shows this
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Federal agents on Thursday searched the home of Jeffrey Maddrey, the former top uniformed NYPD officer who stepped down from his position last month following sexual abuse allegations, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Tisch, in a social media post, said Maddrey has now been suspended from the department “as law enforcement agents executed search warrants
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Dining at all of the restaurants in Paris would take years to tick off a bucket list, from the fine dining classics near the Champs-Élysées to the new wave of openings in Belleville. But not all Paris restaurants are created alike. Some of the top-end spots in the City of Light aren’t known as being
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When Donald Trump and the Republicans swept control of Washington, the markets took it as a clear signal that 2017’s steep tax cuts will be extended before they sunset at the end of 2025. That would be an unbridled boon for wealthy New Yorkers who likely would have faced higher tax bills in a Harris
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LENOX HILL EXPANSION: Northwell Health has filed a land-use application for a multi billion expansion of Lenox Hill Hospital. The health system unveiled plans in 2019 to expand Lenox Hill and build a new 30-story hospital building, growing from roughly 740,000 to 1.3 billion square feet. But the plan, which requires years of construction and
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Photo-Illustration: Illustration by Joe Darrow/Photos: Getty Images, Reuters, AP Photo, Alamy The race to be the next mayor of New York City kicked off on a Saturday morning in the South Bronx. It was late October, ten days before a presidential election that was by universal claim one with apocalyptic stakes, but that didn’t stop
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Credit: @roydotschneider on Instagram Taking a winter train trip from New York City can showcase the very best of the Empire State’s picturesque scenery from inside the window of your cozy railcar. During wintertime, Metro North, Long Island Railroad, and Amtrak all have routes that chug along different parts of New York State, with station
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Photo: Wade Vandervort/AFP via Getty Images On the morning of New Year’s Day in Las Vegas, a Tesla Cybertruck blew up while parked in front of the Trump International Hotel. Police say the truck’s bed was loaded with gas canisters and fireworks and that the driver died and seven people were injured. The driver’s motive
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