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Via Google Maps The Mermaid Inn struggles to obtain liquor license ahead of planned East Village reopening Casual seafood stalwart the Mermaid Inn is aiming to reopen in its original East Village location following a seemingly permanent closure last August, according to the New York Post. The popular hangout closed down after 17 years — to the dismay of many longtime customers — as the business owners cited mounting debt and failed rent negotiations with the property’s landlord. Now, th...

NEW YORK (RNS)  —  Umair Saad loved Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting and prayer. The Long Island resident would wait for it all year long, excited to sit down with his family to iftar, the meal that breaks the day’s fast at sundown, and to join the crowd at the local mosque to pray the nightly prayers called tarawih, followed by breakfast before sunrise. But last year, when Ramadan fell during the worst of the pandemic, mosques were closed, crowds were forbidden and restaurants w...

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis Representative for New Yorks 11th Congressional District When Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, 40–one of the unprecedentedly large number of GOP women to enter Congress this year–was a child, she suffered from shyness.   A number of suggestions were made: Her pediatrician said Nicole could overcome her reticence by joining sports teams while others suggested theater.   But Nicole’s politically aware and Cuban born mother, Vera Malliotakis, decided to go a different rou...

  A nursing home resident receives a shot of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a nursing home facility, in Brooklyns Bath Beach neighborhood in New York City, US, Jan 6, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] US nursing homes, once the deadliest COVID-19 sites in the US, have experienced a significant fall in cases and deaths since December in a trend largely attributed to the rollout of millions of vaccine doses, federal government figures sho...

Article by RACHELLE AGARD Richard Anderson Marshall (left) and Kevin Andrew Luke being escorted to Court on Tuesday. (Picture by Shanice King) Social Share Two men were fined for poaching sea eggs during the closed season. Kevin Andrew Luke, a 36-year-old water sports operator, of College Savannah No. 2, St John, and unemployed Richard Anderson Marshall, 43, of Marley Vale, St Philip, both pleaded guilty to having a quantity of sea egg roe during the closed season, without obtaining ...

I escaped WFH in Battersea for Barbados, and Ive never looked back After a Covid redundancy, Juliet Fallowfield joined a tribe of digital nomads on the Caribbean island, where the tax-free living is easy Juliet Fallowfield at Harrisons Point Lighthouse in Barbados For me, 2020 had one huge positive: it afforded me a newfound freedom. Following redundancy in early April, I left 20 years of PAYE behind to start my own PR consultancy, joining the 3.5% year-on-year increase in registrations at Com...

Massive Corruption and Cover-up: Republicans Urge Callous Cuomo to Resign Over Nursing Home Row © AFP 2021 / HANS PENNINK Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202101301081930176-massive-corruption-and-cover-up-republicans-urge-callous-cuomo-to--resign-over-nursing-home-row/ New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday dismissed allegations in the NY Attorney General’s report alleging that his administration had ‘mani...

Latin in Mainstream TV Series and The Newly-Thriving Mass of Ages January 28, 2021 MANHATTAN — Latin is everywhere. It might be in a joke by Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjárn in “Pardon My Icelandic” — his Netflix special released on Dec. 2 — or in the epic series “Barbarians” (Netflix) and “Romulus” (Sky Italy) — both filmed in Latin — which premiered late last year. In recent months, we might have consumed the highest doses of mainstream Latin in ages. And when anyo...

The TV host Larry King, who has died at the age of 87, applied a celebrity interviewing approach to broadcast journalism in a career lasting well over a half-century, with his Brooklyn Jewish roots as a constant element of his public persona. Born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, he attended Lafayette High School in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, where among his near-contemporaries were other Jewish overachievers, including the baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax, singer Fred Hellerman of the folk group ...

Thomas Verdillo, 77, Dies; Restaurateur Went from Red Sauce to Blue Ribbon He put a refined twist on traditional Italian-American cooking at his South Brooklyn restaurant, Tommaso. He died of complications of Covid-19. Thomas Verdillo was the owner, head chef, sommelier and chief tenor at his restaurant, Tommaso, in Brooklyn.Credit...via Verdillo family By Glenn Rifkin Jan. 11, 2021 This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others . To...