At DubuHaus, a new Korean restaurant on East 32nd Street, tofu is the star of the show. Though the soybean-based staple has long been embraced by American vegetarians, DubuHaus’ owners hope to help omnivorous diners see tofu, called dubu in Korean, in a new light. “Korean people eat dubu almost every day,” said Danny Hahn, […]
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Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images There’s plenty of cause for alarm over the Trump administration’s enforcement of its immigration agenda during its first three-plus months back in power. But the recent arrests of two state-court judges — Hannah Dugan in Wisconsin and Jose Luis Cano in New Mexico — are not part of the problem. Don’t
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Photo: Rebecca Kiger When John Fetterman was released from Walter Reed hospital in March 2023, Adam Jentleson, then his chief of staff, was proud of his boss for seeking help for what the senator’s office and his doctor had said was a case of clinical depression. His six weeks of inpatient care had been the
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This article is adapted from our May 1 edition of RANKED CHOICES, THE CITY’s weekly election newsletter. Click here to sign up. Dear New Yorkers, Lately, readers have been asking us: Is there a way to “game” the ranked-choice voting system? With such a crowded race, are there any tricks to boosting your favorite candidate?
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The spring art party season is in full swing, and earlier this week, the Brooklyn Museum and Dior joined forces to honor the incomparable Darren Walker at the fourteenth annual Brooklyn Artists Ball. This always dazzling event, you may recall, is the museum’s most important fundraiser of the year and a keystone moment on the
A half dozen candidates running for mayor are calling for a rent freeze for over a million rent-stabilized apartments — but Mayor Eric Adams could make that goal difficult to fulfill, not just this year but into any successor’s term. That’s because the mayor appoints members of the Rent Guidelines Board to terms as long
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“Mayor Adams’ Task Force has an opportunity to ease New York City’s perpetual affordable housing crisis and promote permanently affordable housing. The question is, will he choose Wall Street and real estate speculators or New Yorkers?” A rally outside City Hall in 2023, calling to abolish the tax lien sale. (John McCarten NYC Council) On
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Asset management giant KKR suffered its first quarterly loss since the fall of 2022 after a division sold investments at a loss. Global Atlantic, a KKR-owned insurer, took a $1 billion loss from selling bonds in its $190 billion investment portfolio, more than half of which is constituted of corporate debt, commercial mortgages, and real
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Photo: White House/CNP/Getty Images There’s no catchphrase name (Thursday Afternoon Massacre, anybody?) for the abrupt shuffle the Trump administration announced on May 1, but it was something else. First, there were widespread reports that national security adviser Michael Waltz (along with his top deputy) was getting fired, partly because of his mishandling of the Signalgate
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Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images President Trump obviously cares a lot about status and looks. This is a man who declared that his new White House flagpoles will only fly “top of the line” American flags and who once managed to body-shame an aircraft carrier. So it’s particularly irksome to Trump that’s he’s flying in the
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