Happy National Maritime Day in New York City, where it’s just about beach season!
New York’s free public beaches will officially open for swimming tomorrow, ushering in a blissful 106-day season of sand-caked towels, marauding seagull bandits and packing into sweaty Q-trains.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature has other plans for Memorial Day Weekend. The National Weather Service is predicting unseasonably low temperatures and two straight days of downpours, with highs in the mid-50s and up to 2.5 inches of rain.
Monday may bring warmer temperatures, but expect the waters to remain frigid for a bit longer. Luckily, next week will see a return to summer weather, with three consecutive days of temps in the 70s and 80s — just in time for everyone to go back to work.
We’ll be off Monday for Memorial Day. If you want me, I’ll be lying in a warm bath with my trunks and shades on, pretending I’m soaking in the rays on Coney.
Community Board 10 voted against rezoning for a proposed 11-story building at the site of a former Staples store on Fifth Ave.
The MTA and LIRR brought back the Cannonball train, an express train to the Hamptons on most Thursdays and Fridays throughout the summer.
New York State will receive $185 million in Environmental Protection Agency funding to protect the state’s drinking water from exposure to lead and help upgrade public water infrastructure.
The city recovered more than $9 million in accrued tickets from Amazon over idling violations earned by its delivery partners.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that 1,000 tickets to the FIFA World Cup will be available to New York City residents for $50 each. They will be distributed via a lottery.
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CHINA — Special moves for visitors to the Silk Road: A tourist, left, tries to mimic the Kung Fu moves of a performer dressed as a Ming dynasty soldier at Jiayu Pass, a strategic point of the Great Wall of China along the ancient "Silk Road," near the city of Jiayuguan in China's northwestern Gansu province on Friday, May 22, 2026.
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For Broadway actress Lauren Patten, Brooklyn is a creative haven
Lauren Patten and Alden Ehrenreich play Suzanna and Max, two close friends-turned-lovers-turned … something else in “Becky Shaw.” Photo: Marc J. Franklin
Some people move to New York City with dreams of someday making it to Broadway. For Lauren Patten, it was the other way around; making it on Broadway moved her to New York City.
Now, Patten plays Suzanna, a grieving, impulsive 30-something, in “Becky Shaw,” a black comedy loosely about a blind date gone bad. “Becky Shaw” runs through June 14.
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Mermaid On: Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso presented Coney Island USA with a $20,000 check that officially gave the nonprofit organization the money needed to host the 44th annual Mermaid Day Parade next month. Learn more.
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On this day in 1910, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The proposed increase of 95 cents a month in the Long Island Railroad’s commutation rates to cover the extra haul through the tunnel to the new Pennsylvania Railroad’s depot amounts to only 2 cents, counting the twenty-five trips each way which the commuter averages per month. To go the same distance now the commuter pays 8 cents.”
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