Park
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World
This Summer, There Will Be Shakespeare in Lots of Parks
With the Delacorte Theater in Central Park closed for renovations, the Public Theater is taking “The Comedy of Errors” to parks and plazas in all five boroughs.
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World
Logging in Canada’s Most Famous National Park to Save It From Wildfires
The loggers’ work was unmistakable. Flanked by dense forests, the mile-long, 81-acre expanse of land on the mountainside had been stripped nearly clean. Only scattered trees still stood, while some skinny felled trunks had been left behind. A path ...
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World
America’s Trails Are a Wonder, and They Need Our Help
As dawn broke on a fall day in 2020 over the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, a crew of young men and women labored to fix a precarious footbridge below Wapama Falls — at 1,400 feet, one of the tallest waterfalls in the park. Several ...
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World
Police Tackle and Arrest Anti-Trump Protester Outside Courthouse
Several police officers forcibly arrested an anti-Trump demonstrator on Tuesday in a park outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where Donald J. Trump is on trial. The encounter happened after the demonstrator, Payne Daniel, 70, had chanted into a ...
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Travel
What to Know Before Booking a National Park Trip This Summer
Additional routes in popular parks now require reservations, the annual pass gets a big change, Juneteenth is now a new free entrance day and more changes for 2024.
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World
Getting Dressed for the ‘Muslim Met Gala’
Hasan Minhaj and Ramy Youssef joined hundreds of Muslims dressed to the nines at a morning prayer gathering for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
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Real Estate
Fixing Central Park’s Bumpy Sidewalks
The sidewalks surrounding Central Park were designed to help you escape. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the landscape architects behind the landmark, proposed in their 1858 planning document to plant a plush line of trees to separate the ...
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Arts
This Novel Is So Bonkers, It Needs Three Narrators
“Same Bed Different Dreams,” Ed Park’s second novel, is a heady mix of true history and high-flying fiction.
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Arts
Shakespeare to Hit the Road While Central Park Theater Is Closed
The Delacorte is being renovated, so this summer will instead bring a mobile production and then a filmed play to outdoor sites in the city’s five boroughs.
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World
A Slushy, Snowy, Icy Mix
A nor’easter disrupted daily life across the Northeast on Tuesday, upending school and work commutes, as rain turned to a slushy mix and then to snow in many regions. Some parts of New England were braced for more snow than they were likely to get as ...