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Hypebeast
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Slizzy Summer Has Started, Thanks to Cash Cobain
Summary You know what time it is: the weather is warm, everyone in New York City is outside, and theCash Cobain-coined term 'Slizzy Summer' is in full effect. The past two weeks have proven to be quite eventful for the Bronx-based talent, ridden with big firsts for the homegrown hip-hop production heavyweight. Cash made his COLORS debut, showing out to the COLORS STUDIO for a live debut of 'Feeeeeeeeel,' which he then gave a proper streaming release at the end of last week. After 'Feeeeeeeeel''s release, Cash then made a cameo onJustin Bieber's surprise new albumSWAG, contributing to the title track 'SWAG' alongside Eddie Benjamin. Just ahead of 'Feeeeeeeeel's' global release, Cash announced his upcomingParty With Slizzyheadlining tour, which kicks off this fall in his hometown of NYC on September 7 at Pier 17. Sep 07 – New York, NY – Pier 17Sep 09 – Washington, D.C. – The Howard TheatreSep 10 – Norfolk, VA – The NorVaSep 11 – Charlotte, NC – The UndergroundSep 12 – Atlanta, GA – Center StageSep 14 – Houston, TX – Warehouse LiveSep 15 – Dallas, TX – The EchoSep 17 – Phoenix, AZ – Walter StudiosSep 18 – Los Angeles, CA – EchoplexSep 19 – San Diego, CA – House of BluesSep 20 – Las Vegas, NV – Area 15Sep 22 – Seattle, WA – The ShowboxSep 24 – San Francisco, CA – The FillmoreSep 25 – Sacramento, CA – Ace of SpadesSep 28 – Denver, CO – Cervantes Masterpiece BallroomSep 30 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity TheaterOct 01 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave IIOct 02 – Chicago, IL – Avondale Music HallOct 04 – Detroit, MI – The Majestic TheatreOct 05 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix Concert TheatreOct 07 – Montreal, QC – Club SodaOct 08 – Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn BowlOct 09 – New Haven, CT – Toad's Place Stream 'Feeeeeeeeel' – which comes packaged in a three-pack along with Cash's other recent singles, 'Sick N Tired' with OnlyHeaven and 'Trippin on a Yachty' with Bay Swag andRob49– out everywhere now.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
UFT backing Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor has members crying foul
Furious city teachers are threatening to pull their cash from the United Federation of Teachers' political activities fund after union leaders blindsided them and endorsed socialist Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned. UFT President Mike Mulgrew and his top allies infuriated rank-and-file members Tuesday by pushing through a resolution to back Mamdani for mayor — approved by 63% of more than 1,000 delegates — with the vast majority of teachers on summer recess and caught off guard. A day after the endorsement, 90 educators vented their anger during a Zoom meeting held by the United Jewish Teachers and NYC Public Schools Alliance, groups battling antisemitism in city schools. 3 Mulgrew dismissed other candidates for mayor during a delegate meeting Tuesday at which the UFT endorsed Zohran Mamdani. Getty Images 'Mamdani's record includes deeply troubling associations with antisemitic and anti-American views,' said Karen Feldman, a middle-school teacher and co-founder of NYCPS Alliance. 'This goes beyond politics — it's about the safety of Jewish staff, the increasing ideological tensions in schools, and the breakdown of faith in a union meant to support, not divide.' Ramming through the Mamdani endorsement, Mulgrew never gave other candidates a real chance, sources at the meeting said. He dismissed incumbent Mayor Adams and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats running as independents, as 'beholden to very rich powerful people,' and ripped Republican Curtis Sliwa for proposing to extend the school year. UFT members can donate as much as they want to union's political action arm, the Committee on Political Education or COPE, but the more than 100,000 who contribute typically give $5 per biweekly paycheck. Some union delegates and school chapter leaders told The Post they're getting peppered with questions from co-workers on how to drop payments to the COPE, and whether it's worth pulling $1,700 a year in union dues, too. 'Why should I pay dues to a union endorsing a guy who is a socialist and whose beliefs I vehemently oppose?' said a Bronx-based school chapter leader and delegate. 3 Teacher Karen Feldman said Mamdani's views have 'deeply troubling associations with antisemitic and anti-American views.' Gregory P. Mango The Jewish teacher group's Power Point presentation at the Zoom meeting cited Mamdani's 'anti-Zionist stance' and criticisms of Israel, which they said could influence curriculum choices and classroom discussions, 'potentially leading to a one-sided or politicized view of complex global conflicts.' The slides also warned of Mamdani's interest in making ex-'Squad' Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a fellow socialist and former Bronx middle school principal, the city's next schools chancellor. 'Stop all COPE payments today!' the group urged, spelling out how to do so. 'We urge all members to pull out of COPE to send a clear message to UFT leadership that our hard-earned money will not be used to support divisive candidates,' said Moshe Spern, president of United Jewish Teachers, a group of more than 250 educators. The group leaders said they didn't recommend members leave the union 'right now,' but Spern predicted an exodus in coming weeks. 'I get why so many are pulling their COPE contributions,' said teacher Daniel Alicea, a member of a rival UFT caucus that tried to boot Mulgrew from his $321,482-a-year post in the union's May election. 3 At a meeting, teachers angry at the UFT's endorsement of Mamdani were urged to stope their donations to the union's political arm. Obtained by the New York Post 'Political contributions are protected free speech, so you are free to express it with your wallet. So many see that their union is acting as an entrenched political patronage partisan machine that doesn't bother to give members a voice in the process.' The UFT — with nearly 200,000 members, including retirees — reports collecting 'dues and agency fees' totaling nearly $174.5 million for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2023, according to its most recent federal financial filings. It spent $4.5 million on 'political activities and lobbying' and another $4.3 million on 'contributions, gifts and grants.' The union's decision to back Mamdani comes after it declined to endorse a mayoral candidate in the June 24 Democratic primary, saying members were torn among Mamdani, Cuomo and former Comptroller Scott Stringer. The UFT would not address the potential loss of COPE payments or member dues, and brushed off criticism that Mulgrew had orchestrated and railroaded the vote for Mamdani. 'Endorsements are the result of a lengthy union review process with the final decision being made by the union's Delegate Assembly, which is made up of UFT members elected from every New York City public school,' spokesperson Alison Gendar said.
New York Post
05-07-2025
- New York Post
Multiple sex offenders — including one who raped 7-yr-old girl — housed in NYC shelter feet from kids park
The city has quietly turned a former hotel into a taxpayer-funded den for child predators and other sex offenders — located less than 250 feet from a playground, The Post has learned. At least five level 2 and level 3 sex offenders — the worst of the worst, including one monster who had sex with a 7-year-old — are living in a homeless shelter at 61 Chrystie St., 243 feet from the Hester Street Playground in Chinatown. 'There's so much wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin,' said resident Brian Chin, the father of a 4-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl who he no longer allows on that playground. 11 The property that was formerly a commercial hotel is now being used to house the homeless, some of whom are sex offenders. Stephen Yang 'Finding out that the city has secretly been putting child predators into an all-expenses paid hotel overlooking the children's park, on the taxpayers dime, it verges on being almost unbelievable,' said the irate dad, a neighborhood activist who researched the hotel and discovered the city was placing sex offenders there. 'The sheer amount of sex offenders concentrated in that one hotel, the fact that they're free to roam around, and that it's literally situated directly across from the kids park and the local high school, it's appalling.' State law prohibits level 2 and 3 sex offenders, who are considered at medium and high risk of reoffending, from living within 1,320 feet — or a quarter mile — of playgrounds, schools, parks and childcare facilities. 11 The shelter is located less than 250 feet away from the Hester Street Playground at Hester and Chrystie Streets. Stephen Yang 'We don't even know how many level 1 sex offenders are living there because they're not listed [in the state sex-offender registry],' Chin said of the lowest level predators. The shelter was once a boutique hotel called Hotel MB and before that a Comfort Inn. It was converted into a homeless facility in the summer of 2021, according to reports online. It is not clear when the city began moving in the sex offenders or how many of them live at the site. The Post has reached out to city officials. The shelter is run by a Bronx-based non-profit called the Neighborhood Association for Inter-Cultural Affairs Inc. (NAICA), which has pocketed nearly $1.3 billion in city contracts the past decade, records show. 11 Dad Brian Chin no longer takes his kids to the neighborhood playground because of the nearby sex offenders. Stephen Yang NAICA's Chrystie Street location was part of a four-year $160.5 million contract with DHS to provide 467 beds for single adults there and at two other locations in the Bronx and Queens, according to the city Comptroller's office. That deal expired June 30, but DHS ironed out a one-year, $42.2 million extension, according to a legal notice on the city's website. The new contract has yet to be registered with the Comptroller's office. 11 The playground is located in Sarah D. Roosevelt Park. Stephen Yang The sex offenders living there, according to the state's Sex Offender Registry, include: Darren Jackson, 63: Level-3 offender convicted in 2010 for raping a 7-year-old girl multiple times and sentenced to three years in prison. Lemar Jackson, 57: Level 3 offender convicted in 2008 for deviate sexual intercourse for using threats and physically overpowering 12- and 9-year-old girls and sentenced to two to four years in state prison. Elvin Vega, 57: Level 3 offender convicted in 1998 for using a blunt object to force a female of unknown age to have intercourse, and sentenced to 18 months to three years in state prison. Legrand Jones, 63: Level 2 sexually violent offender convicted of sexual abuse in 2003 for overpowering a 21-year-old woman and forcing her to have sex. Sentenced to two to four years in prison. Terrence Brown, 59: Level 2 offender convicted of forcible touching another person's intimate parts in 2009 and sentenced to six months. 11 Darren Jackson is a level 3 sex offender and lives at the shelter, according to state records. NY Sex Offender Registry 11 Lemar Jackson is a Level 3 sex offender, records show. NY Sex Offender Registry 11 Elvin Vega is a level 3 sex offender who lives at the shelter, records show. NY Sex Offender Registry Some area activists became aware the hotel was being used as a shelter for parolees back in 2021 and raised their concerns — but nothing changed, according to Jacky Wong, managing director of the greater Chinatown Civic Coalition. 'Both DHS [Department of Homeless Services] and the hotel owner had previously assured us that this parolee shelter would close in June 2022,' Wong said. 'But they lied. It's still operating. This shelter, along with other nearby facilities for single men, has directly and indirectly contributed to increased crime and safety concerns in and around Sara D. Roosevelt Park.' 11 Daiya Williams, 22, of Brooklyn, said she wouldn't bring her kids to the park because of the sex offenders who live nearby. Stephen Yang Murder, rape, robbery and assault are all up so far this year over last in the 5th Precinct, which encapsulates most of Chinatown. There have been two murders in the precinct this year so far as compared to none in the same period last year, according to NYPD data. Robbery is up 29%, to 76 incidents so far this year from 59 last year. Felony assault has increased 3.9% to 106 so far this year, compared to 102 in the same span of last year. Rape is up 80% to nine so far this year compared to five in the same period of 2024, the data show. Wong pointed to the assault and attempted rape of an 80-year-old woman in November near the corner of Grand Street and Chrystie Street. 11 John Quinones, 42, was horrified to learn the sex offenders were being housed next to the city playground. Stephen Yang 'There is no accountability from these shelter operators, and DHS continues to target low-income communities of color like ours for these placements,' he said. 'This is discriminatory and unacceptable.' Sex offenders aren't supposed to be housed in shelters in residential neighborhoods, said Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. 'This is part of the shelter problem,' Sliwa said. 'It's become a cottage industry where there are contracts and then obviously, the people who get the contracts, subcontract out, all the ancillary services to friends and relatives and associates, but the one thing that they should be doing is vetting who it is that actually is in a shelter and they don't.' The city Department of Social Services released a statement saying that not everyone required to register in the sex offender database has residency restrictions. 'DSS provides shelter to anyone in need in accordance with New York City's right to shelter law while also ensuring compliance with all necessary local laws and regulations which includes being mindful of any residency restrictions and specific criteria laid out in state law,' the statement said. The agency didn't respond to a follow up question about why level 2 and 3 offenders were permitted to live so close to a playground. Many people who were in the park with their children Wednesday were upset to learn of the shelter sickos. 'I'm super pissed off, I'm talking to my husband right now on the phone and he's extremely mad as well,' said a 29-year-old mom who takes her two kids to the playground at least twice a week. 'They shouldn't be anywhere near the park.' Brooklyn choreographer John Quinones, a 42-year-old grandfather, was 'horrified.' 11 The playground is located 243 feet from the hotel that's been converted into a shelter. Stephen Yang 'I'm the type of person that would want to take actions into my own hands and probably get in trouble,' he said. Resident Daiya Williams was adamant that the city should have at least notified parents. 'Given it's New York City anything can happen, and I don't want to take the chance,' she said. 'It's not safe.' Chin plans to keep calling attention to the problem. 11 Brian Chin, a father-of-two, said someone should be 'held accountable' for placing the perverts next to the playground. Stephen Yang 'Placing violent child sex predators across from our children's park, the city and the officials who approved this need to be held accountable,' the dad said. 'I think I can confidently speak for all of us when I say that enough is enough.' NAICA did not return requests for comment. Additional reporting by Samantha Olander
New York Post
03-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
What do last-minute Subway Series tickets cost? See Yankees-Mets at Citi Field
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. This Independence Day weekend, the New York Mets and Yankees are both hoping to be freed from their respective slumps. From July 4-6, the reeling Flushing and Bronx-based teams meet in their second Subway Series matchup of the 2025 season at the Amazins' Citi Field. The last time the Big Apple rivals met was in mid-May. At the time, Carlos Mendoza and Aaron Boone's ball clubs were on fire and leading their respective divisions. In fact, in our story about the game, The Post was so high on both teams we wrote 'This just might be a preview of the 2025 World Series.' Advertisement Less than two months later, Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto's streaky squad sits two games behind the Phillies in the NL East after having gone 3-7 and dealing with a depleted pitching staff in their last ten games. A few boroughs over, Aaron Judge, Max Fried and co. have fared a little — but not much — better. As of now, the Bronx Bombers are tied for first in the AL East sporting a 48-38 record following their 4-6 slide in the past two weeks. Clearly, both teams could use a pick-me-up heading into All-Star Game weekend (where Judge and Lindor are starting). That's where you come in. If you want to cheer (or jeer) for your beloved Mets or Yankees, last-minute tickets are available for all three Citi Field Subway Series showdowns. Advertisement At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets was $105 including fees on Vivid Seats. Other games in the Series have seats starting anywhere from $113 to $118 including fees. 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Advertisement Here are just five of our favorites you won't want to miss in the very near future. • Wu-Tang Clan (July 16-17) • Zach Bryan with Kings of Leon (July 18-20) • My Chemical Romance (Aug. 9) Advertisement • System of a Down with Korn (Aug. 27-28) • Oasis with Cage The Elephant (Aug. 31 through Sept. 1) Who else is on the road? Take a look at our list of all the biggest 2025 concert tours to find the show that's just right for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
Hindustan Times
23-06-2025
- Hindustan Times
Nuclear bomb found at a Bronx university? Here's the truth about NYC reports
Jun 23, 2025 07:16 AM IST Several New York City locals and social media users were alarmed on Sunday after a report of a nuclear bomb being found at a Bronx-based university surfaced. However, after going through X posts and reports, we found that the claims are false. No 'nuclear bomb' was found in NYC. Claims about a nuclear bomb in Bronx surfaced on Sunday(Unsplash) The 'nuclear bomb' claims started after local alerts application Citizen posted about a device found at a university on Sunday. 'NUCLEAR BOMB FOUND AT UNIVERSITY,' the alert read. However, Citizen quickly changed the alert to a fire update.
