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‘One Property at a Time’: A City Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying
By Tracey Tully NEWARK — Construction workers in the South Ward of Newark, one of New Jersey’s most distressed areas, are busy converting a long-abandoned bank into an apartment building and poets cafe. A decrepit mansion in the Central Ward built by a Newark beer baron before the turn […]
The coal company helped the city survive winter
Stuart Davis was a New York artist of the 20th century best known for his playful Modernist paintings filled with bright colors and geometric shapes. But early in his career, he was influenced by the Ashcan School—and he stuck with the social realist style with this 1912 piece, Consumer […]
CDC Panel Says Frontline Workers and People Over 74 Should Get Vaccine Next
By Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman Striking a compromise between two high-risk population groups, a panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Sunday to recommend that people age 75 and older be next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the United States, […]
Little Italy in 1920 in six painterly postcards
While looking through the website of the Museum of the City of New York last week, my eyes fixated on what I thought must be a painting: a colorful, somber scene in Little Italy in 1920—the men mostly standing against a brick storefront while women and children […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: Another Coronavirus Shutdown Is Imminent
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said a second shutdown of non-essential businesses “right after Christmas” is all but imminent. More than 6,000 residents are currently sitting in hospitals across the city infected with the coronavirus, a number the state hasn’t seen since May. […]
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