Three parrots at a ritzy Manhattan apartment drove their neighbors crazy, so the coop board tried to evict them and their owner. That set off a bitter legal fight, and the parrots won: the government announced a historic settlement against the building. nytimes.com/2024/08/22/nyr…

“I know,” said [comedian] Rachel Dratch, interviewed outside the building on Wednesday, “it’s a funny headline.” New York, New York.

I’m not exactly sure what this is selling (tacos? boats? neither? both?) but nevertheless it is the best ad I have ever seen

“None of them were family by blood, but all of them were family by love.”

My colleagues amaze me. Daily. Congrats to Todd Heisler for somehow capturing this much longing and history in one frame.

NEW: a Long Island man was arrested and charged with wearing a face mask in public, a milestone in the debate over whether to ban masks in New York. The push to ban masks began after some pro-Palestine demonstrators covered their faces during protests. nytimes.com/2024/08/27/nyr…

RFK Jr’s daughter told a magazine that her father chain-sawed the head off a dead whale on a beach in Hyannis Port, bungee-corded it to their car roof, and drove it five hours to their family home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/…

sad to see another legacy news organization disappear: WCBS 880 radio in NYC. Thanks to Tom Jones Poynter for sharing anchor Wayne Cabot's final words: "With each closing newspaper, radio newsroom, TV newsroom, magazine, now even digital news operations, the country we love is

a lovely look at the transformed piers of New York City — one per borough — and the ways people enjoy them, by Liam Stack nytimes.com/2024/08/31/nyr…

Today, I returned to #Gaza and witnessed firsthand the catastrophic impact of the hostilities. The scale of destruction is immense, the humanitarian needs are colossal and soaring, and civilians continue to bear the brunt of this conflict. Read my full statement 👇🏼

We are celebrating Labor Day by announcing that a supermajority of our over-600 person union signed a pledge of support for a strike. We have scheduled a strike authorization vote 🗳️ 🪧

is it EVERY DAY with this topic

An American woman was killed Friday at a protest against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials. Three witnesses said she was shot by Israeli soldiers. Israel said it was looking into the reports. nytimes.com/live/2024/09/0…