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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, they’re back in action — or will be, as soon as they can secure a liquor license. The New York Po...

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 were shuttered. Saad spent it mostly at home. He led the daily prayers while his son led tarawih. He ...

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis Representative for New York's 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 route. “I put her in politics,” Vera told the New York Times. “I picked it because I wanted her ...

  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 Brooklyn's 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 show. The weekly rate of COVID-19 cases at nursing homes fell 89 percent between early December and th...

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 written permission from the Chief Fisheries Officer. Both men also admitted to breaching COVID-19 Di...