Visiting New York’s island of the dead
This flat swath of over 100 acres near City Island in Long Island Sound is the city’s only potter’s field. Prisoners from ...
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What Became of Chicago’s Shuttered Meigs Field? The Answers Offer Lessons for Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport
Meigs Field operated as a single-runway airport from 1948 to 2003, offering easier access to downtown than the city’s two ...
Garden City: Schools, parks, shopping, GC Hotel draw buyers
"These are golfers and country club people, not yacht club people," a local agent said of the village, where median home ...
In New York, a constitutional amendment provides election fodder for the left and the right
Democrats pushed to get a constitutional amendment on New York’s ballot this November because they believed it could energize ...
Column: What are the answers to MacArthur Park crisis, and can Councilmember Hernandez lead the way?
L.A. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez was touring the eastern fringe of MacArthur Park with a medical outreach team when they ...
Garden City designates multiple village-owned properties as parkland
Though many of the properties have been used for recreation for decades, the designation adds a layer of protection under ...
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Hunters Point Parks Conservancy to host annual Halloween Festival on Oct. 26
Hunters Point Parks Conservancy (HPPC) will host a Halloween Festival on Oct. 26, featuring a Halloween March and a special ...
Feel the burn on an invigorating hike at site of an old iron furnace, just across RI border
You can see for miles atop the granite cliffs 200 feet above Furnace Pond in Killingly, Conn., and explore where an iron furnace and forge once stood.
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Long Island Sound report card offers progress and improvement for waterway
She used to come to Rocky Neck State Park ... New York City and New Jersey. There is still a lot of progress to be made in ...
Randall’s Island migrant shelter set to close: City Hall source
The migrant shelter on Randall’s Island will close next year after a drop in the number of asylum seekers entering New York ...
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MS-13 member ‘Little Devil’ lured four men into a Long Island park. They were then hacked to death by gang
The four victims were found dead in Central Islip Park in April 2017 (Getty Images ... MS-13 is categorized as the most violent criminal gang on Long Island, said prosecutors.
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GOP Rep. Nick LaLota gets Trump boost over Democrat John Avlon in battle for Long Island House seat
Long Island’s East End is trending red ... A former speechwriter for New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, John Avlon, 51, is looking to unseat freshman Republican Rep. Nick LaLota, 46, who ...