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Weather: Sunny with a high near 85. Showers and thunderstorms are likely tonight. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Sept. 30 (Rosh Hashana). Their cries were loud: “Sea levels are rising and so are we!” On Friday, tens of thousands of young New Yorkers marched from Foley Square to Battery Park in Manhattan, joining millions globally who, in a coordinated day of action, implored leaders to take steps to combat climate change. [Read more on the climate protests: “I feel hopeful seeing the power of all these people here,” one teenager said. ] “We are the ones who are making a difference,” Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, told the crowd in New York. “If no one else will take action, then we will.” Didn’t skip class or work for a rally on Friday? Not a world leader or authorized guest at the United Nation’s Climate Action Summit this week? There are still several events you can attend … [Read more...] about Climate Week in New York Is Just Getting Started

Martin Scorsese’s new drama, “The Irishman,” which opened this year’s New York Film Festival, took 12 years to make and three and a half hours to watch. “This film is of substantial duration,” Mr. Scorsese said before its premiere on Friday night at Lincoln Center. The tented red carpet, which occupied a lane of West 65th street, was a veritable perp walk of mob-film actors: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Al Pacino (in his first Scorsese movie). Other cast members included Anna Paquin, Ray Romano, Jesse Plemons and Bobby Cannavale. Talk among the actors turned to Rao’s, the East Harlem Italian restaurant and former mafia canteen, where reservations are harder to come by than a don’s forgiveness. Bo Dietl, a private investigator who plays a mobster in the film, had a tip for getting a table. “You have to know Bo Dietl,” he said. Daphna Kastner, Mr. Keitel’s wife, had a different idea. “Kill … [Read more...] about ‘The Irishman’ Opens the New York Film Festival

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index New York Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today's Paper Advertisement Supported by New York Today ByJonathan Wolfe Aug. 8, 2018 Good Wednesday morning. It will be mercilessly hot again today. The mercury may reach a mere 89, but with the humidity, it could feel as stifling as 97. (Thunderstorms may roll in, mainly after 2 p.m., but they won’t cool us off.) A heat advisory is in effect until this evening, which means you should turn on your air conditioner or get to a place that has one. During our current heat wave, we noticed that we’ve been drinking tons of iced coffee and haven’t felt as hungry. Curious about the relationship between our guts and the weather, we spoke to a few nutrition experts. Can hot weather affect your appetite? Yes. Extreme weather of any kind can change appetite, said Marion Nestle, a professor emerita of nutrition, food studies … [Read more...] about New York Today: Eating in a Heat Wave

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index New York Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today's Paper Advertisement Supported by Aug. 8, 2018 Representative Chris Collins, a New York Republican who was one of President Trump’s earliest and most vocal supporters, was charged with insider trading on Wednesday. He was accused of having sold his stock in an Australian pharmaceutical company before the results of one of its failed drug tests became public, federal prosecutors said. The charges against Mr. Collins stem from his involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics Limited, a drug maker based in Sydney, Australia whose primary business was the research and development of a medication designed to treat a form of multiple sclerosis, according to an indictment. In June 2017, just minutes after receiving a private email from the company’s chief executive that a test for the drug had failed, Mr. Collins, who sat on the … [Read more...] about New York Congressman Chris Collins Is Charged With Insider Trading

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index New York Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today's Paper Advertisement Supported by New York Today ByJonathan Wolfe Aug. 9, 2018 Good morning on this heated Thursday. It’s the dawn of the dockless bike in New York City. This summer, 900 free-standing bikes have been installed in the Bronx, Staten Island and the Rockaways — with more wheels on the way in the coming weeks. But dockless bicycle fleets present a unique set of challenges: How do you make sure bikes are where they need to be? What do you do with broken bikes? And what’s the best way to get a bike out of a tree? Here in New York, those questions fall to Gil Kazimirov, 26, a general manager for Lime, one of our city’s four dockless bikes operators. We recently spent an afternoon in the Rockaways with Mr. Kazimirov as he made repairs, checked in on bikes and responded to complaints. But … [Read more...] about New York Today: Balancing Bikes