Early Addition: Make Jackson Heights the new Times Square?

James Ramsay

Published Mar 22, 2023

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a colorfully dressed person at a parade in Jackson Heights

Jorge Quinteros

James Ramsay

Published Mar 22, 2023

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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where we should probably drain and pave the East River. Here's what else is happening:

Queens prosecutors have unsealed indictments against 33 alleged gang members who authorities say were part of a yearslong feud that led to at least two deaths, including the fatal shooting of a teen basketball star at a South Jamaica playground.
"Some of the backlash to the effort to build more housing in the suburbs has evoked euphemistic language that might have brought a smile to a Southern segregationist in the era of 'states’ rights'": New York Times editorial writer Mara Gay goes in on the suburban pushback against Gov. Kathy Hochul's goal of 3% annual increases in housing.
Willis Reed, the former New York Knicks center who led the team to its only two NBA titles, has died at the age of 80.
Several floors of One Vanderbilt, the city's second-tallest office building, started shaking earlier this week after an external elevator "malfunctioned."
A Con-Ed pilot program will install charging stations and secure storage areas for e-bikes at four NYCHA complexes.
Travel writer Sebastian Modak makes the case for Jackson Heights as the neighborhood to visit if you're traveling to New York City.
Eight dolphins died after washing up on a Jersey Shore beach yesterday.
There's apparently a coronal hole on the sun that's 30 times the size of the Earth and it's going to blast "solar winds" towards us, which will ultimately result in a more-intense-than-average aurora borealis on Friday.
Happy New Year, or Nyepi, to the Balinese people, who ring in the year with a day of silence — not working, traveling or making any kind of noise — as part of a tradition meant to keep out bad energy and start things off peacefully.
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And finally, that asphalt looks hot: