The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on July 10 barred undocumented immigrants from accessing federal services, a move consistent with Donald Trump’s administration’s focus on restricting public benefits to citizens and legal residents. …
Target will stop matching rivals’ prices—including Amazon and Walmart—from July 28th, arguing most shoppers compare its tags only to its own. The retailer will still match between Target.com and its physical stores for 14 days, but inter-retailer one-upmanship is evidently off the table. We suspect the “free-to-join” Target Circle loyalty scheme now carries more fine print than actual savings, but it does keep red shirts smiling.
A new StreetLight analysis hands a gold medal to Manhattan, where nearly 60% of trips happen on foot or by bike—a figure far above the American norm. The city’s four most populous boroughs outpace even walking havens like Boston and Hudson County, New Jersey, thanks to self-reinforcing density and public transport. Elsewhere, the car stays king, and most New Yorkers will keep dodging traffic rather than joining it.
The National Weather Service put Brooklyn and Queens under a flood advisory Sunday morning, as excessive rain threatened to turn low-lying areas soggy until at least 10:45 a.m. While warnings were limited to “minor flooding,” city drivers are reminded that just twelve inches of water can send your car downstream—the only aquatic commute New Yorkers truly dread is the kind requiring a phone call to 911.
After Gineth Nelson, a Long Island therapist, allegedly launched an antisemitic rant on Instagram—telling a Jewish woman “the Germans should have ended your kind”—her online presence vanished, with Psychology Today and ZocDoc quickly pruning her listings. While Nelson blames hackers, incensed groups urge New York State to revoke her license. If social media is the new waiting room, it seems some professionals need a refresher on bedside manner.
Police say an unidentified woman with red dreadlocks commandeered a parked N train in Astoria, Queens, at 4:30 a.m., taking it one stop to 36th Street before vanishing—a third such joy ride in the borough within a year. MTA’s promises of tighter security and alarms remain murky, and, as ever, Gotham’s would-be operators seem undeterred by mere doors or protocols—raising some doubts about who’s actually running this town’s trains.
A grim chapter unfolded in College Point, Queens, as José Centeno, 55, allegedly shot Antonio Cantor, 50—new partner of his estranged wife—outside Cantor’s home, before handing himself in to the NYPD. Such episodes are less rare than one might hope: this year, the area’s shootings climbed to four from zero, as domestic violence incidents in New York tick reliably upward—a city that keeps finding ways to test its patience.
David Wright, moved to tears and applause, became the tenth New York Met to have his number retired at Citi Field, a career bookend marked by rain, nostalgia, and the absence of a World Series ring. Spinal stenosis dashed his Hall of Fame prospects but not his local legend status; now immortalised in Queens—if not in Cooperstown—he remains proof that grit ages more gracefully than championship banners.
With the mercury rising, El Diario NY nudges us toward watermelon's charms, touting the fruit’s impressive 92% water content and its generous ration of vitamins and minerals. Mexican nutritionist Marcia Libertad García Gámez churns out three easy, mostly frozen recipes promising hydration with minimal sugar. It seems the only hard part is not polishing off the fruit before it hits the blender—summer self-restraint, as elusive as ever.
