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New York City’s Famous Waldorf Astoria Just Got a $2 Billion Facelift
Travel Awaits
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July 17, 2025
Hilton’s most famous property might just be NYC’s Waldorf Astoria. Of all New York City’s most iconic hotels, it stands apart—amongst the likes of the St. Regis, The Plaza, and The Hotel Chelsea. Videos by TravelAwaits Originally built back in...
FOLLOW-UP - New York Bolshevik Revolution Gains Steam
Canada Free Press
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Final Word: Remember, if Mamdani wins on his communist platform, the Dems will gleefully join in and go nationwide, but in the name of democracy, of course. Follow-up article on the CODE RED: Soviet Republic of New York to Elect Its Premier. In...
NYC Mayor’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism Holds First Meeting With Reps From Nearly All City Agencies
Jewish Post and News
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July 18, 2025
The bodies of people, some of them elderly, lie on a street after they were killed during a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad In late March 1144, in the...
Highlights from New York’s Upstate Art Weekend 2025
The Art Newspaper
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July 17, 2025
As Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) kicks off its sixth edition (until 21 July), the event is enticing creatively minded New Yorkers to escape the sweltering city heat and explore the idyllic environs of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. This...
New York’s Amelia Home Care Raises Awareness Of New OPWDD Initiatives In 2025
South Africa Today
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July 17, 2025
In the face of significant changes to New York’s OPWDD guidelines in 2025, healthcare providers are investigating ways to keep patients educated and informed. The New York Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) is tasked with...
New York travel essentials announced for JFK New Terminal One
DFNI-Frontier
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July 17, 2025
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New Terminal One (NTO), and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) Airports have announced that three graduates of the Port Authority’s Institute of Concessions (IOC) will join WHSmith North America on a...
More than 80 New York Teams Reclassified Ahead of the 2025 High School Football Season
Sports Illustrated - New York
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July 17, 2025
More than 80 varsity football programs across New York State have reclassified ahead of the 2025 season. According to Steve Grandin of the New York State Sportswriters Association, the list of programs transitioning to a different class is as...
LGBTQ+ Haitians mourn the loss of Hotel Oloffson, an inclusive refuge
Erasing 76 Crimes
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July 18, 2025
Freedom, art, music and human dignity once thrived there in the midst of Port-au-Prince The Oloffson Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before it was destroyed earlier this month (Christopher Miller photos courtesy of The New York TImes) The Oloffson...
New York Student Loan Borrowers Will Pay Up August 1
93.7 WBLK - New York
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July 17, 2025
There's more bad news for student loan borrowers in New York State. The so-called 'Big Beautiful Bill' affects New Yorkers in many different ways, including student loan borrowers. With the bill signed, New Yorkers with outstanding federal student...
The Democratic Candidate for Mayor of NYC Zohran Mamdani, on Prisons and Jails
The Gateway Pundit
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July 19, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, Democratic Candidate for NYC Mayor, Questions the Purpose of Prisons: The Progressive Experiment Endangering Public Safety In yet another example of how far the modern left has gone, Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for Mayor...
4 Days in New York City—How to Have the Perfect Long Weekend, According to Locals
AFAR
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July 17, 2025
Even as it turns 400, New York City is somehow always new. Technically, the anniversary belongs to New Amsterdam, the Dutch settlement founded in 1625, but whatever its exact age, the city rejuvenates itself and its residents daily, welcoming 65...
More than a dozen 'Good Trouble' protests took place in Vermont, Northern New York
NBC5 - Vermont
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July 17, 2025
BRIAN. LIZ. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, JACK, FOR THAT. PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING ACROSS THE COUNTRY TODAY AS PART OF THE MAKE GOOD TROUBLE MOVEMENT IN HONOR OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AND CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, WHO DIED FIVE YEARS AGO. THE LONGTIME GEORGIA...
Facing Growing Outrage and Legal Action, Trump Admin Frees Chunk of Withheld Education Funds
Common Dreams
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July 18, 2025
Following widespread backlash and threats of legal action, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that it will free up part of the $6.8 billion worth of education funding the president has withheld from states. Earlier...
Nessel joins multistate effort opposing cuts to immigrant children's legal aid
Great Lakes Wire - Michigan
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July 18, 2025
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the case of Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, et al. vs. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al. The...
Fletcher Shares 3rd Studio Album Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me? Today
Top40-Charts
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today marks the highly anticipated release of Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?, the third studio album from critically acclaimed Queer singer/songwriter FLETCHER. Out now via Capitol Records, the...
Hauser Releases New Single "Le Vent, Le Cri"
Top40-Charts
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Internationally renowned cellist HAUSER unveils "Le Vent, Le Cri", a haunting and cinematic reimagining of the classic originally composed by Ennio Morricone for the 1981 French film Le Professionnel. The evocative...
Landmark John Coltrane Recordings To Receive Long-awaited Vinyl Reissues: A Love Supreme: Mono Edition Will Be The First-Ever Mono Reissue Of Coltrane's Masterpiece, Out September 26
Top40-Charts
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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Ahead of John Coltrane's Centennial in 2026 and continuing the celebration of this year's 60th anniversary of A Love Supreme, Impulse! Records announces two special vinyl releases. First, Coltrane's magnum opus A Love...
SNP Government spend £33k flying out John Swinney and 11 members of staff to New York
Scottish Daily Express
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July 17, 2025
The cash-strapped Scottish Government splashed out £33k of taxpayer cash flying John Swinney and his large entourage out to New York to Tartan Week. And these costs are expected to rise by at least another £4k as the secretive SNP Executive...
More than a dozen 'Good Trouble' protests took place in Vermont, Northern New York
NBC5 - Vermont
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July 17, 2025
BRIAN. LIZ. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, JACK, FOR THAT. PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING ACROSS THE COUNTRY TODAY AS PART OF THE MAKE GOOD TROUBLE MOVEMENT IN HONOR OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AND CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, WHO DIED FIVE YEARS AGO. THE LONGTIME GEORGIA...
New York’s Met Museum showcases beloved Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck
This is Finland
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July 16, 2025
In the art world, it doesn’t get more prestigious than a solo show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. With Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck (December 5, 2025–April 5, 2026), the Met is staging its first-ever exhibition of a...