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It's Monday in New York City, where the parks department has a nearly $10 million plan to upgrade and expand the mini-pool in Tompkins Square Park.
As part of that renovation, officials are considering replacing the nearby pull-up bars, which are chipped and worn anyway.
But a motley crew of calisthenics enthusiasts who frequent the jungle gym — and now 2,000 petition signatories — are trying to save it.
" A lot of the gang, we love these bars," said 79-year-old Dennis Parlato. " Why are they so insistent on repairing things that are in great shape in a city where every penny could be used for so many other needy things?"
Officials said New York City has weathered its second-most severe smoke event in the modern record, but warned that warned that as long as wildfires continue burning in Canada, there’s a chance heavy smoke could return.
Fans of the Spanish soccer team — but also everyone else — appeared to enjoy the cleaner air quality during yesterday's World Cup Final.
A third person has died in connection with the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak the Upper East Side, where at least 74 people have been sickened, health officials said yesterday.
Con Edison should have done more to secure the area around a Midtown manhole that a woman fell into, causing her death, her family said in a lawsuit.
The quill on a 7-foot-tall plaster statue of Thomas Jefferson broke while it was being transported to a new exhibition on democracy at the New York Historical. Is there a deeper meaning to the ordeal?
Mayor Zohran Mamdani told the New York Times he's having "an active conversation" with the city's Law Department about whether he has the authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes if he comes for the U.N. General Assembly in September.
A block in the Bronx has been renamed for Didarul Islam, the NYPD officer who was killed by a mass shooter while working a shift as a private security guard at an office tower in Midtown.
The Italian artist who made a life-size sculpture of Charlie Kirk, which he intends to display in Times Square, said he can't find anyone who wants to buy it.
The EPA advises keeping windows and doors closed when the air is smoky. Using the AC instead is generally a good idea, but an air purifier is needed to actually eliminate smoke that's already in your home.
