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    homing pigeon community in nyc

    is there a homing pigeon community in nyc? i’m a photographer as a hobbyist and love pigeons a lot, would love to get some insight. thanks!

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    Immigrant seeking help to find an apartment

    I'm an immigrant who isn't familiar with the renting situation in NYC (and the US) and will be moving from Seattle in two weeks. My office is in Manhattan. I've been frantically searching for studio/one-bedroom apartments, but they are expensive and very few are available.

    My budget is $3500-$4000. I prefer to live by myself. I want to experience NYC but also be mindful of my budget. Ideally, I want to live in Manhattan due to RTO - 5 days a week. Is the quality of life vastly different in Brooklyn and Manhattan?

    Is Streeteasy the only best option? Do I need to get a broker? I heard brokers have more apartments listed than on Streeteasy. Is this true? I don't trust Facebook groups. Please advise.

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    Airpods Searching for Owner

    Bryant Park Station, 6th ave side, by the teller.

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    Amazon Warehouse water system gushes out onto striking workers’ picket line.

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    The New York Times reports New York has offered New Jersey hundreds of millions of dollars and toll credits to New Jersey drivers to settle its suit against the plan

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    Dept of Parks - why do you use metal to attach tree tags?! You maim the trees you plant

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    Things to Do in NYC: January 2025

    Going outside in NYC in January is occasionally not for the weak. Sometimes there is bitter cold wind that hurts your face, only to be slapped with blasting heat and clanking radiators as soon as you enter a building. God forbid icy subway stairs. Yet millions of tourists brave the city nonetheless, and so the Blankman List continues on with volunteer events, sales events, concerts, comedy, dance, theater, and plenty of (indoors) things to do around New York City.

    The list below features highlights from the Blankman List and was developed with the Reddit community in mind. Here’s December’s post for the remainder of the month.

    Disclaimer: before going anywhere, please confirm the date, time, location, cost, and description using the listed website. Any event is at risk of being rescheduled, relocated, sold out, at capacity, or canceled. Costs are rounded to the nearest dollar and may change. I try to vet quality and describe accurately, but I may misjudge. All views are my own.

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    Musical Theater

    Residents, if you’ve been looking for an excuse to enter Broadway rush and lotteries, your time has come. Tourist season recedes in January and February, and many shows close. Lotteries are a bit easier to win, and the retail price of tickets dips. This month, I call attention to Suffs, a musical on the early twentieth-century women’s suffrage movement that won the Tony Awards for best book and score, which is sadly closing on January 5. Fortunately, theater—both on and off Broadway—keeps marching in the city, with year-round drama and theater-related events.

    • Through Sunday, January 5: Suffs
      • Broadway musical based on the American women’s suffrage movement
      • $99–$347
      • Music Box Theatre
      • 239 W 45th St (Times Square, Manhattan)
    • Thursday, January 9–Sunday, January 26: Show/Boat: A River
      • A reimagining of the seminal musical Show Boat that “reframes the 1927 classic for today’s audience”
      • $60–$120
      • NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
      • 566 LaGuardia Pl (Washington Square Park, Manhattan)
    • Tuesday, January 14: An Evening with Josh Gad
      • Storytelling and a moderated conversation on the memoir by actor and singer Josh Gad; 7:30 pm (6:30 pm doors)
      • $57–$100 (includes signed copy of book)
      • The Town Hall
      • 123 W 43rd St (Times Square, Manhattan)
    • Friday, January 17: The Eras of Miley Cyrus in Concert
      • Cabaret of Miley Cyrus songs by musical theater performers; 9:30 pm (9 pm doors)
      • $29–$73, plus $25 food and drink minimum
      • 54 Below
      • 254 W 54th St, Cellar (Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan)

    Winter Sports

    I’ve blabbered on many times about my admiration for skateboarding and often share related events I hear about, such as the current exhibition on skate videos and artifacts ending this January at the Museum of the Moving Image. Skateboarding is just one of many ways to engage with sports even in the city’s colder months. Basketball season is especially in full swing, for which I call out an unusual January pride night happening at Madison Square Garden.

    • Monday, January 6: New York Knicks vs. Orlando Magic
      • LGBTQIA+ pride night at a regular season NBA [National Basketball Association] game; 7:30 pm (6:30 pm doors)
      • $139–$600+
      • Madison Square Garden
      • 4 Pennsylvania Plaza (Midtown, Manhattan)
    • Monday, January 20: Columbia University Women’s Basketball vs. Princeton
      • Women’s college basketball game between Columbia University and Princeton University; 7 pm
      • $13–$20
      • Columbia University, Levien Gymnasium
      • 3030 Broadway (Morningside Heights, Manhattan)
    • Through Sunday, January 26: Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos
      • Exhibition of videos and objects from skateboarding culture’s formative years in the late 1980s and 1990s; 12–6 pm; through Jan 26
      • $20 general / $12 student/senior
      • Museum of the Moving Image
      • 36-01 35th Ave (Astoria, Queens)
    • Starting Friday, January 31: Monster Jam
      • Motorsports event with stunts, racing, and trucks competing in competitions of speed and skill; 7 pm; Jan 31–Feb 2
      • $36–$126+
      • Barclays Center
      • 620 Atlantic Ave (Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)

    Post-Holiday Music

    There’s something—authentic, shall I say?—about NYC music in January. The tourists are as gone as they’re gonna be, and residents don’t really want to leave their apartments. The result is perhaps among the realest music that NYC has to offer, from the patriotic pianism of Lara Downes to the surrealist blues poetry of Aja Monet.

    • Saturday, January 4: Ukulele Club
      • Ukulele playing group for all skill levels, including beginning learners; 2–3:30 pm
      • Free (bring your own instrument, or ukulele provided)
      • Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
      • 40 W 20th St #1 (Flatiron District, Manhattan)
    • Thursday, January 9: Aja Monet, Sophye Soliveau, Fay Victor
      • Opening night of Winter Jazzfest, headlined by “surrealist blues poet” Aja Monet; 7:30 pm (6:30 pm doors)
      • $35–$45 advance / $55 day of
      • Le Poisson Rouge
      • 158 Bleecker St (Noho, Manhattan)
    • Wednesday, January 15: Lara Downes: This Land Album Launch
      • Wide range of American music performed by pianist Lara Downes, with special musical guests and a public conversation with linguist and cultural commentator John McWhorter; 9 pm
      • $42 (entry only) / $60 (includes CD), plus 2 drink or 1 food item minimum
      • Joe’s Pub
      • 425 Lafayette St (Noho, Manhattan)
    • Friday, January 17: Hoi Leong (Zach) Cheong, Piano
      • Juilliard student piano recital (2023 video); 5:30 pm
      • Free
      • The Juilliard School, Paul Hall
      • 155 W 65th St (Lincoln Square, Manhattan)

    Dance

    Whether you like to dance yourself or see others practice the art form, movement can be a great way to thaw from the icy outdoors. It certainly doesn’t stop in the city, anyway, with everything from experimentally choreographed performances to all-night EDM parties. In particular, I call out the Joyce Theater’s mid-month restaging of Ronald K. Brown’s seminal dance works Serving Nia (2001) and Grace (1999) by the Brooklyn-based EVIDENCE dance company.

    • Thursday, January 9: Salsa Party
      • Salsa dancing class, followed by social dancing, live music, and dance performances; 6–9:30 pm
      • Free
      • Brooklyn Museum, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Lobby
      • 200 Eastern Pkwy (Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)
    • Friday, January 10: Loving the Alien: Bowie Tribute Dance Party
      • Fifth annual dance party of DJ Steve Reynolds playing David Bowie hits and deep cuts; 10:30 pm–2 am (10 pm doors)
      • $7 advance / $12 at door
      • Littlefield
      • 635 Sackett St (Gowanus, Brooklyn)
    • Tuesday, January 14–Sunday, January 19: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
      • Performances by the EVIDENCE dance company of landmark African-influenced contemporary dance works Grace (1999) and Serving Nia (2001) by choreographer Ronald K. Brown
      • $52–$72
      • The Joyce Theater
      • 175 8th Ave (Chelsea, Manhattan)
    • Saturday, January 18: Black Spectrum Theatre Co. Presents Dance Concert
      • Performance by the Maimouna Keita African Dance Company and others celebrating African heritage; part of MLK Jr. weekend celebration; 7 pm
      • $32
      • Black Spectrum Theatre Co.
      • 177-01 Baisley Blvd (Jamaica, Queens)

    Listen Up

    Traveling to hear a talk about timber-based architecture or Earth’s geochemistry might be about as non-touristy as you can get. The city’s many museums and cultural centers (and—though not featured below—universities) mean that there are fascinating conversations and lectures happening year-round in the city.

    • Wednesday, January 8: Earth’s Timekeepers
      • Talk by geochemist Lucien Nana Yobo on climate change and the deep-time record of Earth’s history; 7 pm; part of SciCafe
      • Free
      • American Museum of Natural History, Cullman Hall of the Universe
      • 200 Central Park W (Enter at 81st St; Upper West Side, Manhattan)
    • Wednesday, January 8: More Mass Timber
      • Moderated discussion with architects designing timber-based public-facing conceptual projects; 6 pm; final program in the Tall Timber series
      • Free
      • Skidmore, Owings & Merrill [SOM] Architecture offices
      • 7 World Trade Center (Financial District, Manhattan)
    • Tuesday, January 14: David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan Discuss City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island
      • Moderated conversation with two authors who served sentences at Rikers and discuss the life and challenges of being incarcerated there; 6:30–8 pm
      • Free
      • Center for Brooklyn History
      • 128 Pierrepont St (Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn)
    • Wednesday, January 15: And One to Grow On: Lessons from the Birthday Problem
      • Presentation by mathematician Larry Lesser on the history and applications of the famous “birthday problem” paradox; 4 & 7 pm; part of Math Encounters
      • Free
      • National Museum of Mathematics
      • 225 5th Ave (Madison Square Park, Manhattan)

    Watch a Movie

    There’s something so cozy about getting situated in a movie theater when it’s freezing cold outside. You know you’re in for a warm, (usually) passive couple of hours. There are plenty of blockbuster films playing across every borough that aren’t particularly hard to look up. So here, I feature a few screenings, like Andrei Tarkovsky’s final 1986 film, that might fly a bit under the radar.

    • Tuesday, January 7–Friday, January 10: Girl America
      • Screening of director Viktor Tauš’s 2024 avant-garde Czech fantasy film about a girl abandoned in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, followed by a Q&A with its creators
      • Free
      • Bohemian National Hall
      • 321 E 73rd St (Upper East Side, Manhattan)
    • Sunday, January 12: The Shining
      • Screening of director Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 psychological horror film based on Stephen King’s novel; 3:15 pm
      • $18 general / $12 student/senior
      • Museum of the Moving Image, Redstone Theater
      • 36-01 35th Ave (Astoria, Queens)
    • Wednesday, January 22: The Sacrifice
      • Screening of director Andrei Tarkovsky’s final 1986 film centered on a man who attempts to bargain with God to stop a nuclear holocaust; 6 pm
      • $21
      • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Brooklyn
      • 445 Albee Square W (Downtown Brooklyn)
    • Thursday, January 16–Thursday, January 23: I’m Still Here
      • Screening of director Walter Salles’ latest film focused on the real-life story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) and her terrifying and transformational experiences during Brazil’s military dictatorship
      • $21 general / $20 senior
      • Angelika New York
      • 18 W Houston St (Soho, Manhattan)
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    Keys found in Inwood (W204 & Seaman Ave)

    Keys found in Inwood, Manhattan. Various keys with a bottle opener and other key chains. If you lost your keys in that area just reach out and we’ll get them back to you!

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    2024/12/21
    15:45 UTC

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    Douglaston Development’s UES Plan A Huge Waste of NYC Tax Breaks

    NBC News uncovers a scheme by a developer to seek affordability tax breaks for new “affordable” apartments that were already rent stabilized

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    2024/12/20
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    Mayor Eric Adams explains why he participated in Luigi Magione’s perp walk

    What a joke- Wasting time and resources to put on a bunch of theatrics for a suspect of a crime that has not yet been found guilty.

    475 Comments
    2024/12/20
    15:22 UTC

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