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The Staten Island Advance
Check your tickets: Staten Island and Queens Powerball lottery players take home $50,000 each
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One lucky lottery player purchased a Powerball ticket worth $50,000 on Staten Island. Announced Saturday night, the lottery player bought their third-place prize ticket at the Mannix Family Market at 2656 Hylan Blvd. in New Dorp. It is not immediately clear who the lucky winner...
Vice
The Alligators-in-the-Sewer Myth Is Real, and Florida Has the Video to Prove It
New York has the legend. Florida has the actual alligator. A public works crew in Oviedo, Florida, sent a camera-equipped robot into a stormwater pipe to figure out why a stretch of road kept developing sinkholes. What they found, staring back at the camera, was a 5-foot-long American alligator. The...
happywhisker.com
NY Man Notices Unusual Visitor Pawing At His Window During Snowstorm, Then Realizes Who It Is
Imagine you’re cozy inside while snow is falling heavily outside, and out of nowhere, a random cat shows up at your window. It just stands there, looking in at you like it made a very specific choice to be there. What would you do? Turn it away… or open...
familydestinationsguide.com
Locals Swear This Small-Town Restaurant Serves The Best Pizza You’ll Ever Eat In New York
When the people who live somewhere start making bold claims about their local pizza joint, you should probably pay attention, and O’Scugnizzo Pizzeria in Utica has locals swearing it’s the best pizza in the entire state. These aren’t tourists looking for something to post about; these are people...
New York Post
GOP’s Bruce Blakeman pushes NYC venue to cancel singer for rant against Israel, Jews: ‘Vile person’
GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman said a Brooklyn theater should cancel a scheduled performance of an Uzbek singer over a reported anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rant. Blakeman, the Republican Party’s pick to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul in November, called it an outrage that 62-year-old singer Yulduz Usmonova would be allowed to perform at the Oceana Theater in Brighton Beach on May 9. “There is no place for hate speech or hate singing, for that matter, here in Brooklyn or anywhere in New York State or America,” Blakeman said outside the venue at a press conference with local state lawmakers. Uzbek singer Yulduz Usmonova is scheduled to perform at Brooklyn’s Oceana Theater on May 9. Yulduz Usmonova / Instagram “This woman is singing and she is performing, but she is a vile person,” said Blakeman, who is currently serving as Nassau County executive. “She is a person filled with hate. She is riddled with antisemitism. There is no place for her to perform here in Brooklyn.” Usmonova first sparked outrage in a social media post on May 13, 2021, when she went on a rant attacking the Jewish State and pledging support for Palestine. Illegal immigrant to admit to Colorado firebombing attack
5townscentral.com
Port Authority To Add Airport Vehicle Trackers After Fatal LaGuardia Crash
Queens, NY (April 29, 2026) The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will install new tracking transponders on emergency vehicles at LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International, and Newark Liberty International airports following last month’s fatal runway collision at LaGuardia. The move comes after federal investigators found that...
takingthekids.com
The Beef Brisket At This Rustic Smokehouse In New York Is Worth The Drive From Anywhere In The State
You smell it before you see it, and that’s all the convincing you need. Smoke hangs in the air, steady and unmistakable, pulling you in without a second thought. This New York smokehouse turns out brisket so good it makes the drive feel like part of the experience, not the effort.