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June 1, 2023 at 2:35 pm

Sotheby’s buys modernist Breuer building from Whitney Museum, will move NYC galleries there

The auction house Sotheby’s will buy the modernist Marcel Breuer-designed building that housed New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art for nearly 50 years.

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In this June 2014 photo, Faye, a swan, tends to two baby cygnets at the Manlius Swan Pond in Manlius, N.Y. The upstate New York village of Manlius is mourning the loss of Faye, a swan who was stolen from the village pond along with her four cygnets. The cygnets, or baby swans, were recovered on Tuesday, but officials say the mama swan was eaten. (Elizabeth Doran/Syracuse.com via AP) NYSYR101 NYSYR101

May 31, 2023 at 1:11 pm

Beloved New York swan babies rescued after mother was eaten by family, police say

A town in upstate New York is mourning Faye, a swan who was stolen from the village pond over the weekend along with her four...

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May 26, 2023 at 2:49 pm

New York City outlaws discrimination on the basis of weight, height

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed legislation that will ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list...

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May 25, 2023 at 12:44 pm

Art professor arrested after threatening NY Post reporter with machete

A New York City artist and college professor who held a machete to a journalist’s neck and threatened to chop him up has been arrested...

FILE – Pale Male, a red tailed hawk, leaves his nest with a rat he just caught hanging from his beak, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, in New York. Pale Male, who brought a touch of the wild to swanky Manhattan as he nested above Fifth Avenue with a succession of mates for more than 30 years, died late Tuesday, May 16, 2023, after being found ill and grounded in Central Park, wildlife rehabilitator Bobby Horvath posted on Facebook. The hawk was believed to be 33 years old. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) NYJJ101 NYJJ101

May 17, 2023 at 9:37 am

Pale Male, red-tailed hawk who nested above NYC’s Fifth Avenue for 30 years, dies at 33

A red-tailed hawk named Pale Male has died after bringing a touch of the wild to Manhattan for 30 years.

May 16, 2023 at 10:07 am

Olympic gold-medal figure skater Sarah Hughes running for NY congressional seat

Retired figure skater Sarah Hughes has filed to run for Congress in New York.

May 10, 2023 at 11:38 am

NYC Mayor Adams calls fatal subway chokehold ‘tragedy that never should have happened’

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the death of Jordan Neely at the hands of a fellow subway rider was “a tragedy that never...

May 9, 2023 at 11:07 am

Press photographer arrested at protest over chokehold death

A working photojournalist was among about a dozen people arrested at a protest over last week’s chokehold death of New York City subway rider Jordan...

May 8, 2023 at 7:07 am

County officials vow to fight NYC mayor’s migrant bus plan

The Republican leaders of two suburban counties have declared states of emergency in an effort to block a plan by New York City’s Democratic mayor...

May 4, 2023 at 8:35 am

New York, California probing workplace discrimination at NFL

The attorneys general of New York and California are investigating allegations of workplace discrimination at the NFL.

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