When Sharice Coleman decided to celebrate her 33rd birthday with a group of friends at the 9 a.m. Banger, she knew they’d have to thoroughly prepare for the event. While most people were hitting snooze on their alarms on Saturday, April 5, Coleman and the girls were pre-gaming with iced lattes, buttered toast, pancakes, and […]
9 a.m. Banger Might Be the Best Party in NYC. Here’s Why. Read More »
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. The view from Dean Street near Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn. (City Limits/Adi Talwar) Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings,
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On March 25, OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT feature that allows users to turn text prompts into images in a number of familiar cartoon styles. Options included The Simpsons, Rick and Morty and Pixar, among others. But as soon as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman changed his X profile picture to a Studio Ghibli-inspired image of
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Ella Kruglyanskaya loves lemons. They appear in several of her new paintings on display at the Thomas Dane Gallery in London, but most memorably in Lemondrama (After Manet), in which the foreground is occupied with a sliced and whole lemon next to a knife. The crudely painted dead body lies secondary in the background. Lemon
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Ken Ishii/Getty Images President Trump may have paused his tariffs against American allies last week, but he only escalated hostilities against China, raising tariffs on imports from the country to 145 percent. Given America’s dependence on Chinese goods, such restrictions will hurt conglomerates and small businesses alike. And tensions between the rival superpowers
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Three of the 10 projects in the running for a New York City-area casino could be prematurely disqualified due to the state’s sluggish progress in starting time-consuming environmental reviews, those projects’ developers say. The hangup, which has not previously been reported, affects three Manhattan bids — SL Green’s in Times Square, Silverstein Properties’ near Hudson
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A long term bid to establish a “master administrator” to oversee federally-funded programs run through the city Health Department is now coinciding with deep cuts from the Trump administration. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is considering vendors for a $15 million three-year contract to manage subcontracts with providers funded by the federal government,
State health officials spent hundreds of millions to stock up on ventilators and x-ray machines at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic – most of which were never used, a new audit found. The Department of Health purchased $450 million worth of medical equipment that has now sat in storage without proper maintenance for years,
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STAFFING CUTS: VNS Health, a health and social service provider, is laying off 34 employees at its E. 42nd St. office, according to a filing with the state Department of Labor. The cuts will impact phone operators, not clinicians providing care in the home, according to a VNS Executive Vice President and Chief Provider of
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Mount Sinai is undertaking a $15 million renovation of the pediatric intensive care unit at its flagship Upper East Side hospital. The project is the latest in a trend among hospitals to shift to a private patient room model. The plan, which was submitted to the state Department of Health, would relocate half the current
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