To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A 55-year-old Asian woman was filmed being punched in the face so hard she was knocked to the ground in a suspected racist attack. The violent and random assault happened in New York city’s Chinatown on Monday, according to the […]
On the Upper East Side in Manhattan, a well-heeled crowd flashed it to get into a socially distanced dance performance at the Park Avenue Armory. In Chelsea, people showed it to attend a John Mulaney stand-up set at City Winery. And in Troy, N.Y., patrons are using it to enter an intimate, speakeasy-style bar that […]
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For weeks, President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters have made their presence felt with the roar of motorcycles during boisterous rallies meant to show steadfast fealty to an increasingly unpopular leader. Until recently, the president’s opponents had refrained from convening street protests, opting instead to show their exasperation by banging pots and pans […]
A cafe in northern California is charging customers $5 if they wear a mask to the establishment. Fiddleheads Cafe in Mendocino put up a sign announcing the fee for customers who wear face coverings while placing their orders. The owner, Chris Castleman, 34, put the sign up on the window last weekend. ‘I don’t think […]
A woman who unknowingly missed the cutoff to buy a lottery ticket by one minute ended up winning $2million in another drawing. Elizabeth Johnson of Lucama, North Carolina, rushed to buy a Powerball ticket at the end of her busy day on Wednesday for that night’s drawing. Johnson thought she bought her ticket on time […]
GUERNSEY, Wyo. — It was a few days before New Year’s Eve 2019, and Terri VanDam, the chief of Guernsey, Wyo.’s three-person Police Department, had run out of options. For more than a year, Ms. VanDam and her sergeant, Misty Clevenger, had tried and failed to get to the bottom of the drug and alcohol […]
The sea gulls outnumbered the beachgoers waiting to scarf down Nathan’s Famous hot dogs on the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn. The baseball diamonds were damp and silent at Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan as park workers swept away puddles. And the souvenir for visitors at a popular landmark in Queens? A Covid vaccine […]
Up Three Flights Dear Diary: We had just finished moving my daughter into an apartment on DeKalb Avenue when she said that she and her roommate had bought a sofa from a woman in Queens and that we had to pick it up before 5. It was starting to sleet, and I was contemplating how […]
[Race/Related is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.] Anneliese M. Bruner was in her mid-30s when her father presented her with a small red book. It was bound in cloth and worn at the corners. “This is a book your grandmother wrote,” he told her, “and I […]
Nearly 50 years ago, the body of Danny Croteau, a 13-year-old altar boy, was found floating in the Chicopee River in Springfield, Mass. His head had been beaten with a blunt object. Richard R. Lavigne, a Catholic priest who was close to the boy’s family, presided over his funeral Mass at Saint Catherine of Siena […]