Felisa Geddis got her first look at Dondre Richardson as police officers led him, handcuffed, from the 88th precinct house in Brooklyn on a Wednesday night in January 2020. Her 55-year-old cousin, L. Antonio Litman, had been stabbed to death nine days earlier, and the officers had arrested Richardson for the crime. She remembered her […]
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Charlie Brooker’s beloved Black Mirror returns this week, boasting six new episodes packed with fantastical technological advances (and their inevitable drawbacks). Compared to Season 6, this round of episodes hews more closely to the show’s sci-fi roots, even offering the series’ first-ever direct sequel. As a result, this installment of the anthology is perhaps not
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It’s a sure sign spring has sprung when cultural, creative and philanthropic luminaries from New York and beyond descend upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur to raise funds for the annual YoungArts gala. This year’s emcee was actress Katerina McCrimmon, widely lauded for her turn as Fanny Brice in the national tour
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Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook.” width=”970″ height=”642″ data-caption=’Apple CEO Tim Cook previously managed to secure tariff exemptions in 2018. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Justin Sullivan/Getty Images</span>’> Despite a constant churn of new products and software updates, one thing has stayed the same at Apple since 2017: the $999 price tag of its flagship iPhone. That ever-reliable number,
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images As Donald Trump’s administration settles into a global trade war — at least momentarily obscuring its war on the federal government and on the limitation of executive power, which continues on many fronts — it’s a good time for a reality check on the political capital he carries into
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Sharp Trump administration cuts to Federal Emergency Management Agency spending on climate resiliency are threatening projects meant to protect against flooding from rainfall and coastal storms across all five boroughs. FEMA on Friday cancelled the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, jeopardizing about $882 million in grant funding for efforts across the country meant to
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The compensation data below highlights the highest-paid employees at a tax-exempt organization that filed a Form 990 for 2022. See the top earners at other New York health systems here. Notes: “Cash compensation” includes base compensation, bonus and incentive compensation, and other reportable compensation from the health system and related organizations. “Other compensation” includes nonreportable
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Three months ago Delta Air Lines was confident 2025 would be its best year ever. Today, the airline changed course. “Growth has largely stalled,” CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday as withdrew the company’s earnings forecast and declared his priority is “focusing on what we can control” and “actively managing” costs. Delta accounts for about 40%
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“My vision for the city is to put the city back on track again. We are so tired of the trauma, we are so tired of the drama, we are tired of the scandal,” said City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Adrienne Adams. https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?adrienneadams “As the first woman mayor of the City of New York
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Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images During the 2024 campaign, the “late great Hannibal Lecter” was one of Donald Trump’s favorite rally rants despite the fact that it was wrong in just about every conceivable way. Trump loved his error-ridden Silence of the Lambs bit so much that he even included it in his nomination acceptance speech
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