![]() The city’s “sexiest” hourly rate hotel: The Liberty Inn, the last hourly rate hotel in the meatpacking district, is for sale. Now, at salons like Aminata African Hair Braiding in Harlem, a majority of customers are going knotless. The rise of knotless braids: As recently as three years ago, knotless braids were not very common, according to hair stylists who specialize in braids for Black women. Rock climbing at the office: The famous Seagram Building will unveil its new “Playground,” a sports and conference center with a climbing wall. School budget cuts: More than $200 million in cuts to the New York City public school budget are back in effect, at least temporarily, after a state appeals court put a hold on a lower court’s ruling requiring the city to redo the budget.Ĭhipotle’s $20 million settlement: New York City reached a settlement potentially worth more than $20 million with Chipotle Mexican Grill over violations of worker protection laws, the largest settlement of its kind in the city’s history.Ī Clinton endorsement: Former President Bill Clinton, who lives in the district that Representative Sean Patrick Maloney is running in, is backing Maloney over a challenger from the left, State Senator Alessandra Biaggi.Ī stockpile of weapons at a hospital: A New Jersey hospital employee was arrested on Sunday after investigators found a cache of weapons in an unlocked closet at his workplace. The seeded oysters in the River Project’s gabions and reef balls came from the Billion Oyster Project, a nonprofit that wants the oyster population to be in the 10 figures by 2035. That meant that one step in the restoration of the harbor was the restoration of oysters. The oyster was so closely identified with the city that, as the author Mark Kurlansky noted in his book, “The Big Oyster,” New York had a different nickname before it became known as the Big Apple.īut pollution in the 20th century decimated the oyster beds. Henry Hudson said the natives “brought great store of very good oysters aboard” his little ship. It was one of the world’s oyster capitals before it was a capital of much else. “I am continually surprised that when I tell them I’m studying fish, they say, ‘There’s fish there?’ All these people are living here who are completely disconnected from the river.” “There are lots of people in New York who don’t know there are fish in the water here,” he said. The sun glinted off the new buildings beyond the piers of Lower Manhattan as Grothues talked about the Hudson in the old days - the forests and salt marsh that used to line the shore - and the fish that are slowly making a comeback. Whatever was caught in the traps was quickly released, but not before Miranda Rosen and Kiernan Bates of the Rutgers Marine Field Station took measurements as the skiff idled near a buoy. Rutgers is helping the River Project monitor fish that also benefit from the new habitat. That meant it was time to lift minnow traps also lying in the gooey mud at the bottom of the river - the “black mayonnaise,” Thomas Grothues, a research associate professor at the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, called it. Now it was time to see how the youngsters were coming along.
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