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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Yahoo
Cops charge suspect, 28, for fatal Queens stabbing
Detectives have arrested a 28-year-old man they say fatally knifed another man during a heated argument on a Queens street corner, police said Friday. Guzman Irvin is facing murder, assault, menacing, and criminal tampering charges for the fatal clash with Jose Reyes, 35, near the corner of Seneca Ave. near Gates Ave. in Ridgewood at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Responding officers to the corner found Reyes with a stab wound to the stomach. EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, where he died a short time later. Reyes lived in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, about eight miles from where he was stabbed, cops said. Irvin lived in Ridgewood, about eight blocks from where the stabbing occurred. He had been arrested twice before, most recently earlier this year on a domestic violence assault charge, cops said. Police learned that the two men were arguing right before the stabbing, but it wasn't immediately disclosed what the they were fighting about, cops said. The stabbing took place on the sidewalk just a few feet from the Tequila Time Bar Cafe, although it was not clear if the bar had been open at the time of the fight. Irvin was found near the scene and taken into custody for questioning. Detectives charged him Thursday afternoon. His arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending Friday.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
NYC's effort to shut down garden that forced members to pledge ‘solidarity' with Palestine hits roadblock
An anti-Israel community garden in Queens that forced incoming members to pledge 'solidarity with the oppressed and marginalized people' of Palestine has been given a reprieve as the city tries to shut it down. Judge Hasa Kingo on Wednesday blocked the city's efforts to revoke the group's license to run a community garden at the site, allowing it to keep operating — for now, court records show. The former Sunset Community Garden's leadership had alienated several Jewish Ridgewood residents with 10 'community agreements' — which included a commitment to interrupt 'violent behavior or rhetoric that expresses all forms of hate' — and a special section of the green space it labeled 'Poppies for Palestine.' The pledge list breached Parks Department guidelines, the city said when revoking the group's license on May 5. Garden leadership had been given until June 6 to vacate the land on Onderdonk and Willoughby avenues in Ridgewood. Ridgewood resident Sara Schraeter-Mowers called Kingo 'ludicrous' for even entertaining the group's request to keep the garden up and running. The garden has since been renamed Jardin de Santa Cecilia, in honor of Latina trans advocate Cecilia Gentili, the group said in a news release calling the judge's decision 'a crucial legal victory' and 'a lifeline for our community.' The group accused the city of trying to 'erase a tribute' it erected last year to Gentili and 'punish our righteous solidarity with Palestinians facing genocide, and all oppressed peoples.' 'Pride is a riot they can't silence and this garden is a home they can't take away from us,' the group said in its statement. The case will be back before a judge next month. 'We hope to see the judge make this ruling permanent, preserving the garden as a sanctuary for queer, transgender, black, indigenous, and people of color communities,' the garden leadership said in a statement. It 'is unfortunate that this garden group continues to disregard the same rules upheld by every GreenThumb community garden, despite our repeated efforts to work with them,' the Parks Department said in a statement. 'Our goal has always been to ensure that GreenThumb community gardens are managed responsibly and remain open and welcoming for everyone, regardless of their background.'
CBS News
05-06-2025
- CBS News
Black bear sightings in Ridgewood, N.J. leave some residents on edge
Black bear sighting has everyone talking in one Bergen County, N.J. town Black bear sighting has everyone talking in one Bergen County, N.J. town Black bear sighting has everyone talking in one Bergen County, N.J. town A black bear spotted over the last two days in one Bergen County, New Jersey, town has everyone talking. It appears folks in Ridgewood are just as curious as the bear is. Hillcrest Road may be bear ground zero Surveillance cameras caught the small bear breaking into a trash bin secured with bungie cords. A neighbor tried to scare it off, but the bear got the goods, anyway. It was the second bear sighting on Hillcrest Road in as many days. In fact, the animal was spotted all over the west side of town, including in Jasmin Kakish's back yard. "It was just basically walking towards the other neighbor's yard," Kakish said. The bear made its way through Tatiana Constantinople's back yard on Wednesday night, before moving on to the next one. "People are always out walking their dogs. Those of us with little kids and little dogs just keep an extra eye out," Constantinople said. Ridgewood police say they've gotten reports of the bear roaming around town. Neighbors said they've been updating each other on the bear's whereabouts via text and Facebook groups, just in case. Sightings are not unheard of in Ridgewood, but, still, one just steps from downtown has some folks on edge. "But at this point, we're more curious than worried, I would say," resident Katie O'Hara said. Sightings in Bergen follow bear shooting in Westchester New Jersey wildlife officials encourage residents to secure garbage cans. Officials say if you encounter a black bear, make a lot of noise, avoid eye contact, do not run, but slowly move away. Officials say black bears now live in all 21 counties in the state, though attacks on humans are extremely rare. Bear sightings are down statewide this year, but make no mistake, the animals are still around. On Monday, police in Westchester County, New York shot and killed a back bear in a residential neighborhood in the suburban hamlet of West Harrison. Located about 22 miles northeast of New York City, it is filled with densely packed, well-kept homes. Residents said they are not accustomed to seeing a black bear parading through their back yards. "I wish there was a better outcome. No one likes seeing this be the final outcome," West Harrison resident Douglas Puff said. "You could tell just by looking at it, anytime anyone got close, the police department, the bear was scared."
New York Times
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Nonalcoholic Drinks Go Their Own Way
Raul De Lara's Transcendent Takes on Household Things The Mexican-born, Ridgewood, Queens-based sculptor Raul De Lara is aware of the irony of his choice of medium: wood. The most rooted of materials is a contrast to the precarity of his upbringing — he came to Texas at 12 with his parents, and remains here under DACA. A meticulous carver who often uses traditional American and Mexican techniques, De Lara, 33, reimagines banal household items — snow shovels, chairs and spades, as well the Monstera deliciosa plant, a south Mexican native that has become an American houseplant cliché — as commentaries on labor and immigration. His series 'Tired Tools' evokes the exhaustion of invisible workers: A broom slouches against a wall; a pitchfork's shaft hangs on a hook like a discarded garment. For 'Soft Chair' (2022), a live-edge slab of Siberian elm is fashioned into what appears to be a cushy upholstered seat; 'The Wait' (2021) and 'The Wait (Again)' (2022) are round-backed rockers covered with spikes mimicking cactus spines. (In 2023, Hermès commissioned a version of the chairs shaped like a child's rocking horse, outfitting it with one of its lavish saddles for the window of its Aspen, Colo., store.) The artist, who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and has an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, likes to source wood from places in his past: Texas; Chicago; Provincetown, Mass., where he had a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center; and Mexico. Like Martin Puryear and Wendell Castle, whom he counts among his influences, De Lara — whose second solo museum exhibition opens on Sept. 12 at the Contemporary Austin — works with kiln-dried lumber (he prefers oak, walnut and ash) but also sometimes employs green wood, whose internal mysteries reveal themselves only during carving. 'With wood,' he says, 'you can see the passing of time on its skin. No other material shows you time.' — Petala Ironcloud Beverages with Foraged Ingredients For nonalcoholic wine and spirits makers, creating complex flavors has always been the primary challenge. 'You're trying to mimic that alcoholic bite,' says Jens Christophersen, 45, the Brooklyn-based founder of Less Than 0.5%, a nonalcoholic beverage consulting firm and importer. Often, vintners start by removing alcohol from high-proof drinks using vacuum distillation or enzymes and then add water or grape juice to rebalance the taste — a complicated process with mixed results. Now, however, a growing number of makers are employing a different strategy, turning instead to the green, woodsy, often bracing notes of wild ingredients to give their products an edge. The Norwegian company Villbrygg, for example, uses mostly foraged plants in blends like Eng — the name is Norwegian for 'meadow' — which includes vanilla-scented meadowsweet leaves and flowers, as well as tannic, black tea-like fireweed blossoms and foliage. Including multiple parts of a single plant delivers 'different layers of flavor, which creates structure,' says the co-owner Vanessa Krogh, 34. The Minneapolis-based label Dry Wit takes a similar approach with its Pippi blend, steeping white pine needles and branches in water and then blending the infusion with verjus, rice vinegar and salt. 'The needles are bright and citrusy, and the sap [from the twigs] adds depth and nuance,' says Peder Schweigert, 42, one of the brand's co-founders. The Copenhagen-based label Muri also uses evergreens, foraging Douglas fir shoots from woodlands around the city for its Sherbet Daydream. Its top-selling blend, Passing Clouds, features dried woodruff, a ground cover herb that 'provides a slightly marzipany flavor,' according to the founder Murray Paterson, 45. 'I really believe that the future of non-alc isn't copying or making de-alcoholized versions of existing drinks,' he says. 'We've got to create something new.' — Ella Riley-Adams A Ring Inspired by Byzantine Mosaics Mosaic, an early form of decorative art, emerged around the eighth century B.C. in Anatolia in the form of floors set with smooth multicolored stones. Several hundred years later, the Romans realized that mosaics could run up walls in delicate bursts of color made from tiny pieces of glass called tesserae (the term is Latin for 'cubes' or 'dice'). But it was the Byzantines who perfected the use of gold and silver leaf in mosaics starting in the fourth century A.D., adorning almost everything with brilliant mirrored shards. Buccellati, the century-old Milan-based jeweler known for scoring and etching precious metals in a tulle-like web, celebrates the craft in this latest incarnation of its Eternelle ring. In 18-karat yellow and white gold, set with 10 carré-cut rubies, 20 faceted tsavorites and more than 200 round brilliant diamonds, it's a luminescent homage to the wild embellishment of Byzantine style. Buccellati Mosaico Eternelle ring, price on request, — Nancy Hass A Grand Yet Intimate Hotel in Milan One of the grandest new hotels in Milan, the nine-story Maison Senato, designed by the architect Massimiliano Locatelli, offers just a handful of rooms. Opened earlier this month in a postwar building at the northern edge of Milan's fashion boutique-heavy Quadrilatero della Moda, it comprises five 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom full-floor apartments and a two-story, 3,600-square-foot penthouse with a rooftop terrace and a plunge pool. The furnishings are by notable Italian designers: Gabriella Crespi's bamboo armchairs, Gae Aulenti's balloon-shaped lamps and several pieces from Locatelli's own line, including solid cast-aluminum dining chairs, feather-stuffed sofas and wool rugs dyed in soft washes of color meant to evoke 17th-century watercolor paintings. A subterranean floor holds a spa and gym, and just off the lobby is a guests-only cafe, as well as a spacious patio concealed from the neighbors by trellises covered in English ivy and jasmine. 'The idea was to create the feeling that you're stepping into a space that's been here for a long time,' says Locatelli, 58, 'like a local Milanese has opened their own space to you.' From about $4,200 a night; — Laura May Todd A Surreal Cabinet, Straight From a Designer's Subconscious Casey McCafferty's life has followed a picaresque trajectory, so it's unsurprising that the 35-year-old's furniture and objects are wildly imaginative. Despite developing an early interest in sculpture — he started out making peculiar car speaker enclosures out of fiberglass — the Staten Island native studied finance in college. In his mid-20s, having grown tired of the banker's life, he quit to do custom woodworking for architects in Los Angeles, experimenting on the side with the anthropomorphic pieces that are now his signature. These days, he works and lives in Fair Lawn, N.J., letting his subconscious guide him as he carves. On this chest, abstract facial features and geometric shapes seem to dreamily emerge from the undulating cherry surface. 'I let it take me places,' he says of the piece. 'For me, that's always been the best way to go about things.' Gaeta Cabinet Low, $24,000, — Nancy Hass Belted Bags on the Runway Spring-Ready Watches With Bright Faces and Bands
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ridgewood Winery on Daffodil Hill Farm breaks ground on expansion in Berks
Ridgewood Winery has broken ground on a project to expand winemaking operations and add an event center to its location in Colebrookdale Township. The multiphase project will convert a barn on the property into an event center, add a parking lot, and outfit a shed for wine manufacturing, according to project engineers DESCCO Design & Construction, Richmond Township. Owners Bill and Tracy Smith opened the location, Ridgewood Winery's second, on the 26-acre Daffodil Hill Farm, 215 Township Line Road, in 2019. 'This expansion represents the next chapter in Ridgewood Winery's growth story,' Bill Smith said in a press release. 'Since establishing our first location in 2013 in Birdsboro, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, we've been committed to creating award winning wines.' Ridgewood Winery owners Tracy and Bill Smith celebrate the groundbreaking of a project to expand Ridgewood Winery on Daffodil Hill Farm. (Courtesy of DESCCO Design and Construction) Operating out of a historic farmhouse, the location offers wine tastings and Ridgewood's wine for sale on weekends. The goal is to eventually allow Ridgewood at Daffodil Hill to grow its vines onsite, said Tim Heffner, vice president and senior project manager at DESCCO. Phase one will involve building the 100-space parking lot, modifying a shed for winemaking and converting part of the barn into a storage space. The second phase will convert the barn's upper floor into a three seasons event space and turn part of the barn's lower level into a wine tasting area. The event space will have a capacity of about 150 people, with the smaller wine tasting space holding around 20, Heffner said. Owners and DESCCO representatives broke ground on phase one during a ceremony last week. 'We're excited to enhance our Bechtelsville location while maintaining the historic integrity of the property which makes Ridgewood Winery unique,' Tracy Smith said in a press release. 'This expansion will allow us to better serve our growing community and customer base of wine enthusiasts all while preserving the rich heritage of these historic properties.' Heffner noted plans to renovate the farmhouse, which was originally built in 1822, have been in the works since about 2021. He said it was his company's first time modifying a winery, and he is looking forward to seeing the project's finished product. The first phase of the project will likely wrap up in April, Heffner said. Ridgewood Winery's other location is at 2039 Philadelphia Ave. in Cumru Township. The Smiths opened that site in 2013. Ridgewood also operates a seasonal location at Colebrookdale Railroad. Ridgewood at Daffodill Hill is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. The Cumru location is open Thursday and Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. For more information, visit From left, Ava Maddocks, media specialist with DESCCO Design and Construction, Inc., Tracy and Bill Smith, Ridgewood Winery owners, and Tim Heffner, vice president and senior project manager at DESCCO celebrate the groundbreaking of a project to expand Ridgewood Winery on Daffodil Hill Farm. (Courtesy of DESCCO Design and Construction)
