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At the Architecture Biennale, the U.S. Says ‘Come Sit by Me’
The U.S. Pavilion itself at the Venice Biennale — a columned, Palladian-style structure, designed in 1930 by the architects ...
BPL receives major donation of Yousuf Karsh photographs
Karsh took iconic portraits of Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill. All of those ...
NYC Council passes bill requiring 1,000 more public bathrooms
The New York City Council has passed a bill requiring the mayor to add roughly 1,000 public bathrooms across the city by 2035 ...
NYC council to vote on establishing citywide public bathroom network
New York is a city on the go, but sometimes it can be tough to find a place to go. As a result, the city council is ...
A Poem for CUNY, the School ‘That Runs Its City’
Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...
Long Island library’s secret fascinating past could land it on National Register
The century-old Lynbrook Public Library on Long Island has been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places thanks ...
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Bay Area events to take you through Tax Day
The Wizard of Oz: A world-premiere adaptation by Caitlyn DeRouin written specifically for PYT’s “Stories on Stage” program. 9 ...
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A Walk Through the Renovated Frick Collection in NYC
For nearly five long years, the Frick closed for a $330 million renovation, its grounds torn up, its buildings covered in ...
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New York
Police are investigating the accident involving a Honda motorcycle and a Ford Focus near New York. The Trump administration has been clamping down on students who have attended pro-Palestinian ...
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A timeline on the closure of Rikers Island
Under then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch, the public began calling for the island to be closed. Those calls have only amplified in recent years as violence, dangerous conditions, understaffing and ...
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For over a century, a U.S.-Canada cross-border library used a single entrance. Now, the U.S. says Canadians must build their own.
On Monday, a century-old tradition that allowed Canadians and Americans to freely access the front ... new border directives. There haven't been any custom or trafficking incidents involving ...
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Why the Boston Celtics’ new ownership could be a bad omen for all sports fans
Everybody knows Jerry Jones owns the Dallas Cowboys and Robert Kraft owns the New England Patriots. As for the Celtics, outgoing owner Wyc Grousbeck sat in front of cameras himself to announce he ...