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Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Residents against construction of nearly 300-foot jail in Chinatown
The Brief A nearly 300-foot-tall jail facility is being built in Chinatown, and residents are not enthused. Neighbors United Below Canal held a rally in Chinatown today to unveil an "alternative plan" to New York City's borough-based jail system. A New York City Council spokesperson said that "the contract to build the Manhattan-based borough jail at this site has already been signed and the work has already begun." CHINATOWN - Neighbors United Below Canal (NUBC) held a rally to publicly unveil their proposal for the city to relocate a nearly 300-foot-tall jail being built in Chinatown. What we know In 2017, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city would work to create a borough-based jail system – this jail system would take the place of Rikers Island, which was voted to shut down by the New York City Council in 2019. Click to open this PDF in a new window. Major construction of the borough-based jails began in June 2021. The four jail sites in the network are located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The Manhattan Borough-Based Jail Facility will be located at 124 to 125 White Street, on the site of the former Manhattan Detention Complex; the complex was demolished over a 12-month period. The project to build the Manhattan facility is currently slated for completion in 2032, five years after Rikers Island is scheduled to be closed. A video released by construction company Tutor Perini revealed the facility will be nearly 300 feet tall and will cost nearly $3.8 billion to construct. The other side Many residents in Chinatown, the neighborhood where the Manhattan jail will be built, are against the construction of the facility. NUBC filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court in 2020, saying that the city "underestimates the impacts of the Manhattan jail" on residential traffic, noise pollution, socioeconomic impacts and open space resources, among other areas. Click to open this PDF in a new window. The group won their suit, but the city filed an appeal, which it won in 2021. Another group, Welcome to Chinatown, joined NUBC's fight against the construction of the jail that same year. Together, both groups have created an "Alternative Plan," which primarily proposes relocating the Manhattan jail to the currently empty Metropolitan Correction Center, which closed in 2021. The plan also includes building new affordable housing and green space at 125 White Street in place of the facility. This proposal was revealed at a rally held in Chinatown earlier today, June 2 – Assemblymember Grace Lee and Councilmember Christopher Marte were both in attendance. This plan would require approval from both the city and federal government, but NUBC told FOX 5 NY's Morgan McKay that it has reached out to New York Senator Chuck Schumer's office regarding the issue. New York Mayor Eric Adams's office emphasized that the decision to build the Manhattan jail in Chinatown was a decision made under the de Blasio administration, and that any decision to move the location of the jail would have to go through the city council. "We continue to engage with community members on the project and implement other public safety improvements within our control," a spokesperson for Adams said. A City Council spokesperson said that "the contract to build the Manhattan-based borough jail at this site has already been signed and the work has already begun." The Source This article includes reporting from FOX 5 NY's Morgan McKay and statements made spokespeople for New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Council, as well as information provided by New York City's government website and Neighbors United Below Canal.
Cosmopolitan
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
What TikTok's Date With Me Trend Really Says About Modern Dating
It has come to my attention that there's a new TikTok dating trend afoot. It has also come to my attention that everybody hates it. Just kidding—considering the platform's 'Date With Me' trend currently boasts millions of views, it's tough to say it's anything but popular. But while it may have inspired countless daters to broadcast the ups and downs of their dating lives before the internet, elsewhere, the response to the trend has been what we might call skeptical. Explainers from Well + Good and Essence question the ethics of dating for content vs. dating for love, inviting experts to weigh in on whether dating with a virtual audience in mind is the best way to foster meaningful connections with the real-life people you're actually on a date with. Taking a less subtle approach, a recent Dear Media headline simply insists that the Date With Me trend 'Needs to Go. Immediately.' It's not exactly shocking that people have grievances to air re: something they saw online—that's what the internet is for. But what is it about this genre of TikTok dating content, specifically, that seems to be rubbing people the wrong way? Here's what the experts have to say. Like 'Get Ready With Me' videos or any other 'Come With Me' content that invites viewers to follow along as a creator, well, does a thing, Date With Me videos feature TikTokers taking their followers along with them on a date. These posts may include pre-date GRWM-style prep, actual clips from the date itself, mid-date bathroom updates, and post-date debriefs. While less common, some creators even livestream their dates in real time. Not unlike the 'Loud Breakup' trend that has creators hard-launching heartbreak and giving viewers a first-person POV into their post-breakup grief and recovery, 'Date With Me' is meant to provide an intimate look into the ups and downs of someone else's love life—but instead of the end of a relationship, this trend chronicles the (potential) beginning of one. For both viewers and creators of 'Date With Me' content, a big part of the appeal seems to be in feeling less alone, says dating coach Grace Lee, founder of A Good First Date. 'On the surface, dating may seem fun and lighthearted, but for many people it's scary. Sharing these experiences, especially the bad ones, can soften the blow.' Essentially, dating is hard, and creating and consuming this kind of content 'can provide a level of connection and solidarity around how difficult it can be to navigate the dating playing field,' says psychologist and relationship coach Sarah Hensley, PhD, founder of The Love Doc. Not to mention, going on a date with content creation in mind can make even bad dates feel worth one's while. Sure, maybe you're not leaving with a boyfriend or even a second date, but at least you're leaving with new material. And in the age of dating burnout, it certainly doesn't hurt to have some extra incentive to not bail on that Tinder date. Of course, that's where much of the skepticism this trend has aroused stems from—the idea that people are taking an intimate, personal, vulnerable experience and exploiting it for content. As dating coach Blaine Anderson, founder of Dating By Blaine notes, 'when a date becomes content, it risks shifting the focus from chemistry to clicks, and when views are a top priority, what we're seeing no longer depicts a genuine, organic experience.' This dynamic can also 'create a power imbalance' if your date isn't a content creator themselves and 'doesn't want to be treated as content currency,' Anderson adds. I think it's fair to say it's pretty obvious that creating content from a date—particularly while on said date—is probably not going to yield the most intimate of romantic connections in most cases. I think it's also fair to suggest that Date With Me's detractors are less concerned with the trend's efficacy as a successful relationship-forging strategy than they are irked by the ways in which it reflects and reinforces some of the top-line ills thought to be plaguing the state of modern dating. In an age of dating app burnout and loneliness epidemics, the idea that people are craving authentic, real-life connections—particularly in their love lives—has become an increasingly common refrain. It's only natural that trends like Date With Me, which take a real, in-person experience and put it back behind a screen, would be met with frustration at a time when unfiltered, unedited, actually lived experiences may feel harder to come by. This frustration is only further compounded by the somewhat paradoxical nature of this content, in which creators offer a supposedly vulnerable, authentic look inside their dating lives that is, ultimately and inevitably, still a performance they are putting on for their followers. 'It's vulnerability meeting performance, authentic connection meeting curated content,' says Anderson. 'This trend makes dating feel both more exposed and more performative than ever, and it shows how blurred the lines have become between our personal lives and public personas.' Of course, this is nothing artists of all mediums haven't grappled with for centuries—the inability to ever capture the essential truth of a lived experience in a creative representation of it, the question of what it means to live authentically when one is creating from that life, the possibility that art may always involve some degree of artifice. With TikTok, the veil between the lived and the represented has simply become thinner and the time it takes to turn reality into content continues to rapidly condense. And the fear, I suppose—one that ultimately has relatively little to do with dating—is that eventually there will cease to be a difference between them at all. For now though, there is still a real world we are free to experience and date in without the filter of the internet. So if you want to have an authentic experience with another human being in real life, you can do that! And if you don't want to see other people who are doing the opposite of that, all you have to do is not look at TikTok. Easy, right? (JK—that's obviously impossible.)
Korea Herald
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Docu film 'Forever We Are Young' explores global impact of BTS, Army
The film premiered at the 2025 SXSW film festival A documentary film offering an in-depth analysis of Army, the dedicated fandom of BTS, has been released. The documentary 'Forever We Are Young' had its world premiere at the 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in Paramount Theater, Austin, Texas, Tuesday, according to Big Hit Music. Filmed over three years across diverse locations including Seoul, Los Angeles, Texas and Mexico City, the documentary was selected for screening in the "24 Beats Per Second" category. Rather than simply portraying Army as a fan community, the film delves into how they have become a positive social force and an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. In a press statement released by Big Hit Music, co-director Patty Ahn, a professor of Communication at UC San Diego, highlighted that Army has cultivated a new fandom culture rooted in care, unity, humor and joy, under the BTS's powerful message of loving yourself, valuing friendship and speaking truth. Grace Lee, a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and the documentary's other director, explained that the film sheds light on the global impact of Army. "People from diverse backgrounds come together under the name 'Army,' covering BTS' dances, communicating and supporting one another. The film captures their diversity, values and the power of their collective unity," Lee explained.
CBS News
28-01-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Grace Lee of M&T Bank honored with Pinnacle Award for leadership
BOSTON - Whether it's in her role as a mother, a colleague, or a leader, Grace Lee's goal is to have the greatest reach and positive impact with the resources she has. As Massachusetts Regional President, Executive Vice President at M&T Bank, she points to her team as a source of inspiration and says she is motivated to seek opportunities for growth. "Especially as you gain more influence throughout your career," she explains, "it becomes more urgent for you to actually continue to grow. Because it's those lessons and opportunities that you'll be able to cascade out." Grace has received a lot of good advice over the years. Her late father told her, in whatever setting you're in, "Add value." She also received a piece of advice as a young prosecutor that stuck with her. "Maximize your influence and temper how you use it." Challenges are opportunities Using her influence and experience are Grace's strengths as a leader. Challenges, she says, are opportunities to re-examine our strategies and collaborate on problem-solving. "During a crisis, people automatically galvanize, and they gather," Lee said. "They eliminate the obstacles we create for ourselves every day. 'This is how we do it. We do it because that's how we've always done it.' So when a challenge presents itself, it's an opportunity for us to look at ourselves differently, the situation differently, and reset." Her perspective on the benefits of resetting is well earned. Before joining M & T Bank, Grace served as a prosecutor, General Counsel and First Deputy Treasurer at the Massachusetts State Treasurer's Office and played a pivotal role in legislation that helped create the Asian American Commission. M & T bank is co-presenting sponsor of the Pan-Mass Challenge. Grace participates in the fundraising ride and in the indoor PMC Winter Cycle. One of the many joys of the job. "This position has been the culmination of my lived experiences-my family's passion and commitment to entrepreneurialism, my legal background, my social justice background... I have been able to bring all of that together." And then, smiling, she adds, "I've been able to bake a cake!" Grace Lee will accept the 2025 Pinnacle Award for Achievement in Management-Private on January 31, 2025.
