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Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Yahoo
MTA Bridges and Tunnels closures for the TD Five Boro Bike Tour
NEW YORK (PIX11) — On Sunday, thousands of cyclists will venture through New York City for the annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour. Riders will begin in Lower Manhattan and follow a 40-mile route through the boroughs that ends on Staten Island. More Local News New Yorkers are encouraged to use public transportation, as MTA Bridges and Tunnels will temporarily close parts of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel to vehicular traffic. See closures below. Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge There won't be vehicle access to the Staten Island-bound lower level of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from 12:01 a.m. through 7 p.m. The upper level of the bridge will remain open to traffic in both directions. Other closings at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge include: A Brooklyn-bound lane on the lower level from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Bay Street exit from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The 92nd Street entrance ramp to the Staten Island-bound lower level from around 12:01 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Belt Parkway entrance ramp to the Staten Island-bound lower level from around 12:01 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Lily Pond Avenue exit from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Robert F. Kennedy Bridge The exit ramp to the southbound FDR Drive will be closed from around 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Southbound exit must exit the RFK via the 2nd Avenue-East 125th Street ramp. Hugh L. Carey Tunnel The approach from the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel to the westbound Gowanus/BQE will be closed from around 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. All traffic exiting the tunnel in Brooklyn will be diverted to Hamilton Avenue. The Trinity Place exit in Manhattan will be closed from around 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Motorists should expect delays and consider alternate routes. Ben Mitchell is a digital content producer from Vermont who has covered both local and international news since 2021. He joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of his work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Yahoo
Stabbing at City Hall 4, 5, 6 subway station leaves victim critical as attacker flees: NYPD
A man in his 20s was stabbed and badly injured Friday morning in a lower Manhattan subway station near City Hall, police said. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital and is in critical condition. The suspect is being sought. The confrontation happened about 8:35 a.m. on the Brooklyn-bound platform inside the City Hall station for the 4, 5, and 6 trains. It wasn't immediately clear what sparked the stabbing. Southbound 4 and 5 trains are skipping the Brooklyn Bridge stop, while southbound No. 6 trains are turning north at Canal St., the MTA said. The NYPD, Mayor Adams and MTA Chairman Janno Lieber have touted the drop in subway crime. Through Sunday serious crime in the subway system was down 11% although there has been a 9% increase in felony assaults, to 183 from 168 at the same time last year.
New York Post
25-04-2025
- New York Post
Man fighting for his life after stranger stabs him in NYC subway station during rush hour scuffle
A man was stabbed and left fighting for his life after scuffling with a stranger who had stepped on his shoes during their rush hour commute in Manhattan Friday morning, cops and sources said. The victim, who is in his 30s, was riding a Brooklyn-bound No. 5 train when another commuter stepped on his feet around 8:40 a.m., according to authorities and sources. 4 A person was stabbed at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall subway station on April 25, 2025. Michael Nagle Advertisement 4 An NYPD officer on the scene of the stabbing. Michael Nagle The two men then got into a fight ending with the shoe-stepper stabbing the victim once on the train — and then knifing him a second time on the platform when both men got off at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station downtown, according to the sources. The victim was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, sources said. Advertisement 4 The attacker is believed to be in his 30s and last seen wearing all black. NYPD 4 Paramedics respond to a subway stabbing in NYC. Meanwhile, the attacker, also believed to be in his 30s and last seen wearing all black, fled the scene. Sources say he initially got on the train at Grand Central–42nd Street.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Yahoo
Soho bottle-slash attack suspect has history of assaults: sources
The homeless man who police say attacked two women in Soho with a glass bottle, viciously slashing one in the throat, has a history of arrests for assault and two felony convictions. Tuesday afternoon, Muslim Brunson, 46, was awaiting arraignment for the Monday attacks on Megan Berg, a 25-year-old costume designer whose trachea was damaged, and the 29-year-old woman he struck over the head with the bottle near Broome St. and Wooster St. around 3 p.m. Brunson has five prior arrests dating back to 2019, four of them for assault, police said. In September 2019, he pushed a 13-year-old male passenger out of a train car and onto the platform at the Van Siclen Ave. subway station in Brownsville, Brooklyn, after snatching the teen's cell phone, sources said. Bail was set in that case, but Brunson was later released without bail, and the case was slated to move to mental health court. After his release, Brunson missed at least one court date and so a bench warrant was issued. He was arrested after the warrant and was jailed from Feb. 2 to July 22, 2021, sources said. On July 22, 2021, he was convicted of robbery after pleading in mental health court and released pending sentencing. While awaiting sentencing, Brunson committed a felony assault, slamming a woman's head into a subway pole aboard a Brooklyn-bound No. 4 train near the Fulton St. station on July 4, 2022, fracturing the victim's cheekbone and an orbital bone, sources said. Upon his arrest on July 6, 2022, he assaulted a cop, the sources added. Brunson was again jailed until Dec. 7, 2022, when he pleaded guilty to attempted assault and was convicted of the 4 train attack, receiving a 364-day sentence, to run concurrently with the one-to-three-year sentence he received for the robbery case. In late December 2022, Brunson was moved to the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, according to state records, and paroled in August 2023. A public lewdness arrest followed in January 2024, but that case is sealed, sources said. Brunson, who police sources say is mentally ill, completed probation in February 2024. Berg, an Arizona native, was scouting out boutiques in Soho to buy clothing and fabrics for an upcoming theater project when Brunson allegedly attacked her. Moments earlier, Brunson had assaulted a 29-year-old woman at the same corner, smashing the glass bottle over her head before stabbing Berg, police said. Berg's husband and mother flew to New York to be with the Off-Broadway costumer at Bellevue Hospital after she underwent surgery. 'We're all in shock,' Berg's mother told the Daily News Tuesday. 'She loved [New York City]. It was her dream to be a costume designer and she was working in the field she loved.' 'He hit her in the trachea,' she added. 'We don't know [the extent of the damage].' A security guard who works at a sunglasses store near the scene of the incident heard Berg screaming and ran to her aid. 'I applied pressure on her neck,' the security guard said. 'Girls came to help with a tissue. A guy pulled over [and] he had tissues. We tried to apply as much pressure as we can.'
New York Times
17-03-2025
- General
- New York Times
Ming Fay, Who Made Magical Sculptures of the Natural World, Dies at 82
Anyone who enters the New York City subway at Delancey Street is bound to notice the striking mosaic portraits of fish heads inlaid in the station's white-tile walls. Bordered in gold, with shades of pink, purple and blue, they give their iridescent subjects all the majesty of a king or queen on an ancient coin, but with a air of whimsy. Commuters who continue downstairs to board the F train will discover a mosaic of three enormous shad covering one wall and a gracious, spreading cherry orchard on the wall across the tracks. Finished in 2004, these mosaics are probably the most visible public artwork of the sculptor Ming Fay, who died on Feb. 23 at home in Manhattan. He was 82. His son, Parker Fay, who confirmed the death, said the cause was a cardiac event. Mr. Fay's public art took its inspiration from a location's history and natural surroundings. His first installation, at Public School 7Q in Elmhurst, Queens, in 1995, included an enormous bronze gate shaped like an elm leaf. For the Whitehall ferry terminal in downtown Manhattan, he designed canoe-shaped granite benches to pay tribute to the Native Americans who once crossed from Staten Island to Manhattan by boat. The Delancey Street shad were a nod to an indigenous fish whose populations were dwindling and to Brooklyn-bound subway riders soon to be passing underwater themselves. Mr. Fay didn't generally work in mosaic — these, his first, were assembled by a team of specialists. Otherwise, the shad were typical of his practice: an easily overlooked feature of the natural world that he made both magical and unmissable by enlarging it to human scale. For more than 50 years — in a series of studios in Chinatown, in Manhattan; in Dumbo, Brooklyn; in Jersey City, N.J.; and in his home, which was high above the Strand bookstore near Union Square in Manhattan, until he moved farther down Broadway in 2013 — Mr. Fay made giant, unnervingly realistic fruits, vegetables, seashells, wishbones and semi-imagined 'hybrid' objects with a signature technique of painted papier-mâché over steel armature. In his work, Western techniques and influences met Chinese symbolism and an urbanite's somewhat romantic view of the natural world. Many of the pieces were inspired by a vast collection of seeds, nuts and other natural objects that he was given or had picked up over the years. Writing for The New York Times in 1991, Michael Brenson described Mr. Fay's papier-mâché wishbones, walnuts and conchs as 'distant relatives of the giant fruits of Claes Oldenburg, the giant shells of Tony Cragg and the organic figural abstractions of Robert Therrien.' But they weren't only that. In a 1998 exhibition brochure, the poet and critic John Yau proposed that there was something revolutionary in the cross-cultural combination of ingredients. 'Instead of collapsing the barrier between art and culture, as Flavin, Warhol and others have done,' Mr. Yau wrote, 'Fay, through his construction of large-scale sculptures of fruits, seed pods and vegetables, reminds us that nature, rather than culture, is what we all finally inhabit.' Ming Gi Fay was born on Feb. 2, 1943, in Shanghai, to Ting Gi Ying and Rex Fay, both of whom were artists. After relocating to Hong Kong in 1952, his father worked as a set designer and his mother taught painting. She also taught her son to make paper lanterns and kites. In addition to his son, who manages his studio, Mr. Fay is survived by his sister, Mun Fay, a toy designer, and his partner, Bian Hong, an artist. His marriage to Pui Lee Chang ended in divorce. Speaking to WP, the magazine of William Paterson University, where he was a tenured professor of sculpture, Mr. Fay recalled that his interest in art was awakened while he was confined to bed as a child, during a yearlong recovery from appendicitis. 'The only things I had to look at were picture books,' he said. 'I read everything from master painting books to comic books during that time. That was my spiritual healing.' When he was 18, Mr. Fay was offered a full scholarship to Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio, where he was one of the first Asian students. He had chosen design, at his father's urging, as a more practical path than fine art, and later credited that training with some of his success in landing public commissions. But before he finished his degree, he fell in love with sculpture and transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute, where he made large, geometric works in steel and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1967. He followed this with a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1970. In 1972, Mr. Fay moved to New York, landing first in a Canal Street loft near Chinatown markets full of interesting produce. It was then that he switched from geometric steel to figurative papier-mâché, partly for practical reasons. 'In my early New York days when I was living and working in a loft with very limited resources for sculpture materials,' he later recalled, 'a pile of Sunday New York Times inspired me to try to make papier-mâché sculptures.' The first one he made was a giant pear, a traditional Chinese symbol of prosperity. Over the years, he also worked with spray foam, wax and ceramics, and painted. Later, he moved from making individual objects to creating entire garden- or junglelike environments. Finding community in New York was a struggle, and opportunities for Asian artists were few. Eventually, Mr. Fay became friends with other artists — among them, Tehching Hsieh, Chakaia Booker and David Diao — and began holding raucous dinner parties. In 1982, he and half a dozen other artists of Chinese descent formed the Epoxy Art Group, which made multipart research-based political work, including 'Thirty-Six Tactics' (1987) and 'The Decolonization of Hong Kong' (1992), using news clippings and Xerox machines. In addition to teaching at William Paterson, Mr. Fay was a visiting professor at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He also took a semester-long break from his own M.F.A. program to teach at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work was collected by the Brooklyn Museum and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, among other institutions, and was shown in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, and around the United States. In New York, he was represented by Alisan Fine Arts. Speaking to The Times in 2012, Mr. Fay described his unusual artistic path as a response to his environment and as a way of healing himself and others. 'I am an urban person, a city boy,' he said. 'In the Midwest, there had been an abundance of nature. In New York, I felt the isolation and divide from nature. At the time I was looking for new work to do.' He added: 'I found nature as an interesting place to go into. It became a kind of calling.'
