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The Black Widow Looks Back
Jeanette Lee, the subject of a new documentary, talks about her childhood in Crown Heights, and how she became the Black Widow of billiards.
Mondays Are for Workers Getting the Goods
A strike ends, capping a momentous year of labor action in NYC, and other links to start your day.
SantaCon: Why?
On Long Branch! On Great Neck! On, Islip’s young stars! On Hoboken, Teaneck, and other points far!
‘My Water Smells and Tastes Like Poop’: Tenants of NYCHA’s Riis Houses Reveal Ongoing Squalid Conditions
Riis residents have been living with discolored water, leaks, gas outages, mold, and vermin for months.
Rev. Billy on the ‘Soul Death of Shopping’ and Finding the ‘Wilderness Area in Ourselves’
The protest stalwart talks about being "being intimate with this apocalypse," ahead of the Stop Shopping Choir's show at Joe's Pub this weekend.
EXCLUSIVE: Is There Hair Sex in the New ‘Avatar’ Movie?
We answer the one question on everyone’s minds about “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
$20 Dinner: Soup Queen Inception in Bushwick
It's always soup and sandwich weather at Gunther's.
This Friday, New Yorkers Are Pushing Back Against City Hall’s Involuntary Hospitalization Plan
A rally on the steps of City Hall as a legal challenge to the new policy is filed, and other links to start your day.
Students Occupy the New School After Administration Cuts Off Pay and Health Coverage for Striking Faculty
A surprise escalation by students adds heat to a labor action that is already the longest adjunct faculty strike in U.S. history.
It’s Thursday and Real New Yorkers Don’t Cross a Picket Line to Read the NY Times
A NYT staffer talks about the historic walkout, and some scab-free links to start your day.
