The first licensed marijuana store in New York opened on Thursday, more than a year after the state legalized the drug and during delays in setting up the legal market to benefit people previously arrested for marijuana crimes. The dispensary was opened in New York City's East Village by Housing Works, a non-profit organization that fights homelessness and AIDS. The non-profit was among the first 36 groups or individuals that the state awarded with a marijuana retail license last month. A woman scans marijuana products before the opening of the first legal recreational marijuana dispensary located in the East Village in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz "We're prioritizing repairing harm, harm that's been done even by the state...
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Nearly 200 new Waterford crystals were installed on the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square in New York on Tuesday in preparation for Saturday's celebration to welcome in 2023. A workers holds up one of the new Waterford Crystal triangles featuring this year's "Gift of Love" design on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball on the roof of One Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 27, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Since 1999, replacements for the 2,688 crystal panels that make up the ball have been designed and made by hand by Irish craftsmen at Waterford. Each year, a new theme is chosen. This year's theme was the "Gift of Love," incorporating intertwining love hearts, said Waterford master artisan Tom Brennan at the Times Square site. "We need this after the pan...
Read MoreOn the eastern end of Long Island, New York, lies a trove of art venues and a rich cultural scene to explore at leisure. You can find works in lush gardens and meadows, on manicured lawns, around ponds with waterlilies, by marshy creeks, and in historic Hamptons buildings. The list of galleries and arts centers has grown longer just in the last few years. The area, a few hours east of New York City, has drawn artists since the 19th century. It thrives on summer tourism, so the art season kicks off in spring and peaks in late autumn. Indoor and outdoor exhibits change regularly, and some venues are open year-round. Many also include the performing arts, as well as educational programs. Some highlights: Doris Brautigan looks at Marko Remec's "Would That I Wish For, (Tall Tote...
Read MoreThe steel bands and brightly colored costumes of Caribbean Carnival came back to the streets of New York City, with the West Indian American Day Parade taking place in person Monday after a pandemic-induced hiatus. Throngs of people made their way to the streets of Brooklyn, where one of the world’s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture takes place, after two years of virtual events. Participants in costume walk during the West Indian Day Parade, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) Brooklyn is where hundreds of thousands of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have put down roots and turned the Labor Day celebration into a must-do event, with onlookers and participants carrying flags from a slew of countries. The main p...
Read MoreOne skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world’s skinniest, in fact. The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 1-to-23 1/2. FILE PHOTO: Four residential skyscrapers tower over the skyline south of Central Park in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. From left, Central Park Tower, One57, Steinway Tower and the MoMA Expansion Tower. One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) “Any time it’s 1-to-10 or more that’s considered a slender building; 1-to-15 or more is considere...
Read MoreThe international distinction results from SoMAS fieldwork and places the bay in a league with iconic locations like The Galapagos Shinnecock Bay on the south shore of Long Island, New York, is being named a new “Hope Spot” by Mission Blue, an international organization that supports the protection of oceans worldwide. This distinction is the result of a decade of restorative and scientific work co-led by Ellen Pikitch, Ph.D., Christopher Gobler, Ph.D. and Bradley Peterson, Ph.D. in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University. Hope Spots are iconic ocean regions that stand out as some of the most pristine on the globe. This places Shinnecock Bay in a league with internationally-recognized locations such as The Galapagos Islands, the Sargasso Sea, ...
Read MoreWCS Study documents foraging behavior of dolphins that visit waters of the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary each year They click. They whistle. They love seafood. They are New York City’s nearshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that return to feed in local waters from spring to fall each year, and a team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is tracking them. The team deployed underwater listening devices at six locations off Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey, to detect where and when dolphins fed. Dolphins produce a series of rapid clicks called “foraging buzzes” which can reveal feeding activity. They found that feeding was generally highest in late summer into autumn, but it peaked at different months at different sites. Varia...
Read More'Arcadia Earth' is an immersive environmental art exhibit in New York City that uses augmented reality to spread awareness about the impact of climate change, said the museum's founder, Valentino Vettori. A view of an exhibit at Arcadia Earth, the first immersive environmental art exhibit to use Microsoft HoloLens's augmented reality headset to spread awareness about the impacts of climate change, in New York City, U.S., April 28, 2022. Roselle Chen/REUTERS As visitors wander throughout the rooms filled with immersive installations, such as one made of 44,000 plastic bags - the amount used in New York state every minute before the plastic bag ban - they wear an AR headset that brings the installations to life, teaching environmental facts. "The intention is to inspire people to c...
Read MoreNew York will sharply limit the number of people it allows in Times Square for its New Year's Eve celebration, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday, in response to a surge of new coronavirus cases fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant. For a second year in a row, the virus that causes COVID-19 is casting a shadow over the festivities, which typically draws huge crowds to the famed intersection in midtown Manhattan. After hours of live entertainment, the evening culminates with the dropping of a giant crystal ball at midnight, signaling the start of the new year. Millions of others around the world watch on television. FILE PHOTO: The Times Square ball is reflected in a nearby building as it is tested out for the media ahead of the New Year's celebration in Times Square in...
Read MoreThe holiday season promises peak travel cheer in New York, with more visitors on the streets and in stores, but the emergence of the heavily mutated Omicron coronavirus variant threatens to throw a wrench into the tourism industry's recovery. "Just when you think you got the answer, it seems like this virus is constantly changing the question," said Mark Williams, a New York operator at Big Bus Tours, one of the world's largest open-top sightseeing tour bus companies. Travel website Kayak said searches related to international travel to New York have spiked 50% since the COVID-19 travel restrictions for fully vaccinated international visitors were lifted on Nov. 8. "There is definitely a lot of pent-up demand for people wanting to get to New York City," said Kayak CEO Steve H...
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