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November 14, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Sunrise 6.40 am. Sunset 4.40 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 10 hours & 15 minutes of daylight or four hours and 51 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken recently in a Queens neighborhood. The leaves have turned color, many have fallen and the temperatures have been slowly heading down. Last week we even dipped into the high 30's, overnight. But we're expecting temperature highs in the low 60's next weekend, so while winter may be on its way, it does not appear imminent.
NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different than TV News TriState Weather. The temperature highs will be in the low 50's Friday and Saturday, rising to the high 50's on Sunday. The temperature lows will be in the low 40's Friday and Saturday, rising to the high 40's on Sunday. On Saturday evening between 7 pm and 12 midnight, there's a 70% chance of an 1/8th inch of rain. Otherwise dry and partly cloudy the rest of the weekend. The humidity will range between 45% - 75% on Friday and Saturday, rising to 90% on Sunday, but fall back to 45% during the day. The winds will range from 5 - 15 mph Friday and Sunday, quieting down on Saturday to about 5 mph. Looks like another pretty comfortable Fall Weekend. Enjoy.
Friday Afternoon Edition @ 3.45 pm. Looking good. As you will see below there's more happening than there used to be, this late in the season. We still have to update associated pages, which should be done by the end of the day.
The Weekend News Updates will follow Saturday, so check back in, for some local news, that oftentimes gets passed over on billionaire TV Network News.
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Things To Do This Weekend / Week in Manhattan
Japan Food Fes, a few Outdoor Street Fairs, NY Comedy Fest Continues thru Sunday, Holiday Markets, the Rockettes & Big Apple Circus Return
Saturday, November 15, 2025 from 10 am to 6 pm - Japan Fes - at Astor Place and Lafayette in the East Village in Manhattan. A Japanese food festival, where you can taste a variety of Japanese foods by different vendors. For details see - https://www.japanfes.com
Saturday November 15, 2025 - NYC Tourist Day - along 50th Street from 6th to 7th Avenues.
Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 10 am - 6 pm - Bryant Park Autumn Fair - Along 41st Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue in Midtown.
There's also Chelsea Flea market on 25th Street and the Grand Bazaar on West 77th Street. The details for both of which are included in the street fairs pag or use these urls - https://www.brooklynflea.com / https://grandbazaarnyc.org
Ongoing _ Friday, November 7 - 16, 2024 - NY Comedy Festival - at two dozen different venues primarily in Brooklyn & Manhattan. To view locations see - https://nycomedyfestival.com/venues/. For details and tickets [prices vary by show $25 and up] see - https://nycomedyfestival.com/
Ongoing _ UWS _ Friday, November 7, 2025 to Sunday, January 6, 2026 at various times - Big Apple Circus - at Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center. For $26 tickets and details see - https://bigapplecircus.com
The Rockettes have resumed their holiday performance, for the 100th year, at Radio City Music Hall in Midtown.
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November 2025 _ Purefinder is hosting a couple of tours each week in Manhattan thru late November - see MCAL link above for details and links.
Things To Do This Weekend / Week in Queens
Anti Casino Rally in Flushing, Makers Holiday Market @ Gottscheer Hall, Queens World Film Festival & the Off the Wall Affordable Art Fair Continue
Sunday, November 16, 2025 beginning at 1 pm - Anti Casino Rally - at the Flushing Library at 41-17 Main Street in Flushing. Steve Cohen, whose firm SAC Capital [which he founded], was involved in one of the largest hedge fund insider trading scandals in modern history. He is also the Mets owner and he has applied for a casino license in Flushing. How Cohen made it through the first round of casino license screening, with his history of not appearing to play by the rules [also with the Mets in baseball], is beyond me. Except to say that our democratic institutions appear to be disintegrating before our very eyes, because the electorate has allowed themselves to be distracted, by the sensationalist non-news headlines broadcast by the teleprompter readers on billionaire controlled TV News. Note date / time / location are included above.
Steve Cohen SAC Capital - One of the Largest Hedge Fund Insider Trading Scandals in Modern History
https://www.supersummary.com/black-edge/summary/
https://www.bing.com/search?q=mets+caught+cheating&form=APMCS1&PC=APMC
Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 12 noon to 6 pm - Makers Holiday Market - at Gottscheer Hall at 657 Fairview Avenue in Ridgewood Queens. Fifty local makers / vendors selling Zines, Ceramics, Paintings, Textiles, Food, Art Prints, Stationary, Gifts, Jewelry, Candles, Books and more. For details see - https://tinyartssupply.com/pages/makers-market
Wednesday - Sunday, November 5 - 16, 2025 at various times - Queens World Film Festival - at the Museum of the Moving Image at 36-01 35th Avenue in Astoria. There are 124 films, from 17 nations, some of which will be projected on the big screen each day for 17 days. For details, the schedule and $20 - $25 tickets see - https://queensworldfilmfestival.org/festival-schedule/
Thursday, November 6 to December 14, 2025 weekday evenings & weekend afternoons & evenings - Off the Wall Affordable Art Fair - at Culture Lab LIC at 5-25 46th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. The fair hosts an opening reception from 6 to 9 pm on Thursday 11/6/25. The Gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Last year all art work priced was under $999 and I expect this year the same but I haven't confirmed that with anyone. For details see - https://www.facebook.com/LICArtists | the following are from 2024 - https://www.culturelablic.org OR https://www.licartists.org/off-the-wall-2
The photo above or at right was taken at LaGuardia Airport on a Sunday in early November, before the FAA announced the 10% flight cut backs and air travel began to unravel. The government shutdown ended Wednesday night, after 43 days of uncompromising, egotistical, my-way-or-the-highway governance dysfunctionality. A democracy is a conversation by all of the people, about how they want to conduct themselves, including allocation of resources. This nation was built on compromise, because that's how democracies work. One person or group of people, don't get to tell everyone else how things are going to be, as is done in authoritarian nations.
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Things To Do This Weekend / Week in Brooklyn
Comedy Fest, Artists & Fleas, Brooklyn Flea Dumbo, Brooklyn Museum Pop Up & International African Arts Fest Food Fundraiser
Ongoing _ Brooklyn & Manhattan _ Friday, November 7 - 16, 2024 - NY Comedy Festival - at two dozen different venues primarily in Brooklyn & Manhattan. To view locations see - https://nycomedyfestival.com/venues/. For details and tickets [prices vary by show $25 and up] see - https://nycomedyfestival.com/
RECURRING WEEKLY _ Saturday & Sunday, November 15 & 16, 2025 from 11 am to 6 pm - Artists & Fleas market - at 70 North 7th Street in Williamsburg. It's an outdoor market that stays open weekends until December 21, 2025. For details see - https://www.artistsandfleas.com/williamsburg/
RECURRING WEEKLY _ Saturday & Sunday, November 15 & 16, 2025 from 10 am to 5 pm - Brooklyn Flea market - under the arch of the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo. It's an outdoor market that stays open weekends until December 21, 2025. For details see - https://www.brooklynflea.com
Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 10.30 am - 5.30 pm - Brooklyn Pop Up Market at the Brooklyn Museum - see street fairs page for details.
Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 3 to 7 pm - Brothers Who Burn - in the basement at Restoration Plaza at 1368 Fulton Street. A food fund raiser for the International African Arts Festival. There will be DJs and entertainment and brothers serving it up. Admission $55 Adults and $25 for Children 12 and under. For details see - https://www.iaafestival.org
The photo above / at right was taken at the Textile Art Center in Gowanus a few weeks ago at an art event. The Textile Art Center is a great place to work off some of your creative energy and / or find some locally made artistic creations for your home, office or to give to your loved ones.
Two Plays - Polonsky & Billie Holiday Theater.
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November 11, 2025 from 6 to 8.30 pm - A Legacy of Love: 29 Years of Community and Connection - GRIOT Circle honors LGBTQ+ elders of color at the Loft in Downtown Brooklyn - see MCAL link above for details.
Things To Do This Weekend / Week in the Bronx
Danza Fiesta at Hostos & Next Week Vegan Bazaar at the Andrew Freeman Home & Tree Lighting at Bay Plaza Mall
The photo above or at right was taken in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, looking south along the Grand Concourse, toward Manhattan. The Grand Concourse is lined with many vintage Art Deco buildings which were erected after the IND, or independent subway system, was built, connecting Bronx to Manhattan.
Saturday, November 15, 2025 beginning at 3 pm - Danza Fiesta - in the Main Theater at Hostos College at 450 Grand Concourse in the Bronx. It's the Finale of the 16th Annual South Bronx Folk Festival. Free, but rsvp at - https://hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts/events/Year2025/November/Danza-Fiesta/
Wednesdays, November 19, & December 17, 2025 from 4 to 9 pm there's a Vegan Bazaar - at the Andrew Freeman Home - for details see street fairs page.
Friday, November 21, 2025 beginning at 6.30 pm - 8th Annual Tree Lighting at Bay Plaza Mall - in the Mall Village Courtyard in the Baychester neighborhood. They describe the event as follows, " ...with a live performance from X-Factor Marching Band, stilt walking toy soldier and elf, live juggling, music...". Baychester free holiday events in the East Bronx. For details see - https://mallatbayplaza.com/event/
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025 beginning at 7 pm - Sheriff Anthony Mirdanda - at the Pelham Parkway Neighborhood Association (PPNA) monthly meeting - see MCAL link above for details.
Things To Do This Weekend / Week on Staten Island
Holiday Fair at Messiah Lutheran & Christmas Wonderland Food Truck Fest
Saturday, November 15, 2025 from 9 am to 3 pm - Holiday Fair - at Messiah Lutheran Church - see street fairs page for details.
Saturday & Sunday, November 15 & 16, 2025 beginning at 10 am and ending at 7 pm Saturday and at 5 pm Sunday - Christmas Wonderland & Food Truck Festival - see street fairs page for details.
The photo at right was taken at the bar & cafe located in the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. As you can see from the photo it has an excellent view of the Manhattan skyline.
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Sunrise 6.33 am. Sunset 4.45 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 10 hours & 11 minutes of daylight or four hours and 55 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken at the Green Room in Crown Heights in Brooklyn. It's been open about a year and a half and it's a great neighborhood dining and gathering place.
NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different than TV News TriState Weather. There's a 60% - 80% chance of a 1/4 inch of rain forecast for between 10 pm tonight and 7 am Saturday morning. On Sunday there's the threat of less than a 1/4 inch of rain all day [so how likely is that?]. Because of the extreme dryness in our climate in recent years, we've noticed water weather systems tend to be over-forecast, as by the time they get here, they have dried out. While this may make for nicer weekends, it's a huge warning sign that the planet is drying up, which is going to wreak havoc on human and other life. Ignorance is bliss. The temperature highs will be between 60 and 65, and the temperature lows will be 55 - 60 all weekend. The humidity has been tending to peak around 7 - 8 am and dip in the late afternoon. Friday and Saturday the highs will be 80% and 95% respectively, while the lows will be 35% and 50% respectively. On Sunday it's going to be about 90% humidity all day. The winds will range from 10 - 15 mph on Friday and Sunday and from 5 - 10 mph on Saturday. Some wind, possibly a bit of rain, with moderate temperatures - all in all not a bad November weekend.
Friday Afternoon Edition @ 5.15 pm. Mostly done, but with some work to do on related pages. Should be done later this evening.
Our Weekly News Updates will follow later this weekend, so check back in for some local news that either gets passed over on billionaire TV Network News, or isn't covered well.
New. Note the Changes Below. In late September we started adding a weekly new segment with multiple stories with links to deeper reports. Scroll down the page for some enhanced local news coverage and check out our local news section using the drop down button, on the main tool bar in the upper left corner under the header. This will continue evolving over time. Stay tuned and thanks for clicking in.
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November 7, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Sunrise 6.33 am. Sunset 4.45 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 10 hours & 11 minutes of daylight or four hours and 55 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken at the Green Room in Crown Heights in Brooklyn. It's been open about a year and a half and it's a great neighborhood dining and gathering place.
NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different than TV News TriState Weather. There's a 60% - 80% chance of a 1/4 inch of rain forecast for between 10 pm tonight and 7 am Saturday morning. On Sunday there's the threat of less than a 1/4 inch of rain all day [so how likely is that?]. Because of the extreme dryness in our climate in recent years, we've noticed water weather systems tend to be over-forecast, as by the time they get here, they have dried out. While this may make for nicer weekends, it's a huge warning sign that the planet is drying up, which is going to wreak havoc on human and other life. Ignorance is bliss. The temperature highs will be between 60 and 65, and the temperature lows will be 55 - 60 all weekend. The humidity has been tending to peak around 7 - 8 am and dip in the late afternoon. Friday and Saturday the highs will be 80% and 95% respectively, while the lows will be 35% and 50% respectively. On Sunday it's going to be about 90% humidity all day. The winds will range from 10 - 15 mph on Friday and Sunday and from 5 - 10 mph on Saturday. Some wind, possibly a bit of rain, with moderate temperatures - all in all not a bad November weekend.
Friday Afternoon Edition @ 5.15 pm. Mostly done, but with some work to do on related pages. Should be done later this evening.
Our Weekly News Updates will follow later this weekend, so check back in for some local news that either gets passed over on billionaire TV Network News, or isn't covered well.
New. Note the Changes Below. In late September we started adding a weekly new segment with multiple stories with links to deeper reports. Scroll down the page for some enhanced local news coverage and check out our local news section using the drop down button, on the main tool bar in the upper left corner under the header. This will continue evolving over time. Stay tuned and thanks for clicking in.
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October 31, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
Sunrise 7.25 am. Sunset 5.53 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 10 hours & 27 minutes of daylight or four hours and 39 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken at the NYC Halloween Parade in a prior year. The parade returns tonite. See details below.
NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different than TV News TriState Weather. Cloudy, but no rain all weekend, continuing an extremely dry Fall, and year in NYC & NYS, due to climate change. The temperature highs will be in the high 50's all weekend and the temperature lows will be in the mid 50's Friday, low 50's Saturday and the high 40's on Sunday. The humidity will range from about 50% to 90% on Friday, 50% 65% on Saturday and 50% to 80% on Sunday. The humidity highs peak each morning around 8 or 9 am and the humidity lows bottom out mid to late afternoon between 2 and 4 pm. The winds will range from 10 - 20 mph Friday, 10 - 15 mph on Saturday and from 5 - 10 mph on Sunday. Looks like another dry and comfortable Fall Weekend. Enjoy.
Saturday Morning Edition @ 6 am. Done.
Weekly News Updates will follow this on late Friday or early Saturday, so check back in for some local news that too often gets passed over on billionaire TV Network News. And while we will only partially update the Halloween page [also see below for parades and related events], the Halloween page contains the events from last year, which provides clues as to what might be planned this year. We include the urls so you can easily see what's in the works this year.
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*** What Follows was posted Mid Week Ending 11.13.25
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New Ferry Service Route Opens December 8th Connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn
Beginning December 8, 2025 the NYC Ferry will beging operating a number of new interborough routes in NYC Harbor and along the East River and Hudson River. The new routes to and from Staten Island include one that lands in Sunset Park and another that lands at Battery Park City. For details see 1) the NYEDC announcement and 2) the NYC Ferry website.
New NYC Ferry Service to Staten Island to and from Brooklyn
https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-announces-ferry-route-changes-system-growth-future-vision
NYC Ferry Service Service New Routes December 2025
https://www.ferry.nyc
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November 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Brooklyn Transit / Brooklyn News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Brooklyn BLVD NYC.
New Ferry Service Route Opens December 8th Connecting Staten Island to Brooklyn
Beginning December 8, 2025 the NYC Ferry will beging operating a number of new interborough routes in NYC Harbor and along the East River and Hudson River. The new routes to and from Staten Island include one that lands in Sunset Park and another that lands at Battery Park City. For details see 1) the NYEDC announcement and 2) the NYC Ferry website.
New NYC Ferry Service to Staten Island to and from Brooklyn
https://edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc-announces-ferry-route-changes-system-growth-future-vision
NYC Ferry Service Service New Routes December 2025
https://www.ferry.nyc
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November 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Bronx Transit / Bronx News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Bronx Buzz NYC.
New NYC Ferry Service Between Bronx and Rockaways Queens Starts December 8th
This week the NYC Ferry Service announced a few new routes, amongst which is a route from Throgs Neck and Soundview in the Bronx, making multiple stops along the East River in Manhattan, one at Sunset Park in Brooklyn, before terminating in the Rockaways in Queens. The changes go into effect on December 8, 2025.
New NYC Ferry Service Between Bronx and Queens Rockaways
https://gothamist.com/news/new-nyc-ferry-routes-bring-direct-boat-ride-between-brooklyn-and-staten-island
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November 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Queens Real Estate & Business / Queens News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Queens Buzz NYC.
New York City Council Approves the One LIC Neighborhood Real Estate Development Plan
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 the New York City Council approved the One LIC Neighborhood Real Estate Development Plan. The plan will rezone 54 blocks in the neighborhood, to facilitate real estate developers efforts to erect new luxury housing, and 4,350 'affordable housing' units. In the past 'affordable housing' units in this neighborhood, were generally 'affordable' to folks making between $100,000 and $250,000. For details see -
NYC Council Approves One LIC Neighborhood Real Estate Development Plan
https://council.nyc.gov/press/2025/11/12/3008/
Manhattan News - Weekly Updates
November 13, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Manhattan Politics / Manhattan News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Manhattan Buzz NYC.
Kennedy Schlossberg to Run for Nadler's UWS Congressional Seat
The grandson of President John F. Kennedy announced his intention to run for the congressional seat of Jerry Nadler, who announced he would be retiring from congress at the end of 2026. Members of the first generation of Kennedys in American politics, were impressive. But since then, far less so.
That said, I generally try to keep an open mind, until such time as I have enough information, to begin to make a fair assessment resulting in the formulation of an opinion and point of view.
Kennedy Schlossberg to Run for Nadler's UWS Congressional Seat
https://people.com/caroline-kennedy-reveals-what-she-really-thinks-about-jack-schlossberg-offensive-social-media-posts-11847987
Jack Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg Makes Run for Nadler's Seat on UWS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Schlossberg
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U.S. Shutdown Ends - Billionaire TV News Ignores the Corruption Story
Senate Majority Leader Thune Allows Provision Enabling Possible Multi-Million Dollar Payouts by the U.S. Taxpayer to Ten Sitting Republican Senators
Speaker Johnson Holds Modern Day Record for House Paid Days Off
On Wednesday, November 12, 2025 House Speaker, Mike Johson, reconvened the U.S. House of Representatives after one of the longest periods of the House being out of session in modern American history. To many, the Speaker's decision to keep the House out of session was seen as a shirking of duty, and an abdication of the power of the branch of government that is most repesentational of the people, to the Executive branch of government.
In the bill, which reopens the federal government, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, reportedly allowed a provision in the bill to enable senators, who had their electronic communications devices inspected and / or monitored, to sue the federal government for $500,000 - per each device - for the inconvenience. The measure allows for retroactive lawsuits, dating back to the January 6th Insurrection - even if the government was acting with a court order.
One of the problems with the bill is that given it is retroactive, it essentially guarantees million to multi-million dollar payouts to the ten sitting senators probed during the January 6th Insurrection. They are: Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee; Josh Hawley of Missouri; Lindsey Graham of South Carolina; Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming; Dan Sullivan of Alaska; Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; Ron Johnson of Wisconsin; Ted Cruz of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida.
Republican Senators Vote Themselves [Multi] Million Dollar Payouts by U.S. Taxpayers
https://rollcall.com/2025/11/12/senate-payouts-unnerve-some-in-house-gop-ahead-of-shutdown-vote/
This ends the local news feed _ 11.13.25
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Sunrise 7.17 am. Sunset 6.02 pm. Daylight Savings Time. We're getting 10 hours & 44 minutes of daylight or four hours and 22 minutes less of sunlight than we were getting the weekend of the Summer Solstice, on June 20, 2025. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of this year, providing 15 hours and 6 minutes of sunlight in NYC.
The photo above or at right, was taken Wednesday at the Spectrum News NY1 NYC Mayoral Debate at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, in Queens. From left to right are Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa. The debate was suprisingly spirited and interesting. We'll provide details over the weekend, or early next week.
NYC Specific Weather - This can be very Different than TV News TriState Weather. No rain all weekend, continuing an extremely dry Fall, and year in NYC & NYS, due to climate change. The temperature highs will be in the 60's all weekend and the temperature lows will be around 50 all weekend. The humidity will range from about 50% to 80% all weekend with the humidity highs peaking each morning around 8 or 9 am and the humidity lows bottoming out mid to late afternoon between 2 and 4 pm. The winds will range from 5 - 10 mph all weekend. Looks like a very nice Fall Weekend. Enjoy.
Saturday Early Morning Edition @ 3 am. Done with the Front Page Weekend Post of events and attendant pages. Weekly News Updates coming later in the weekend, so stay tuned.
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Manhattan Halloween Parties, Parades & Events NYC
Manhattan Halloween Parties in Midtown, UES, Upper East Side, East Village, West Village Halloween Parade Manhattan NYC, UWS, Upper West Side, SoHo, Harlem, LES, Lower East Side, Downtown NYC Seaport, Inwood & Washington Heights Manhattan Halloween Events NYC
October 31, 2025 / Manhattan Neighborhoods / Manhattan Restaurants / Manhattan Buzz NYC.
Halloween occurs on a Friday this year. The NYC Halloween party celebrations will start during the week and run through the entire Halloween weekend. But the big day is Halloween day itself.
The following is a round up of some of the Halloween parties planned in Manhattan that are open to the public.
The weather around Halloween is usually about 65 during the day time and around 50 degrees at night. It's too early to tell what the precipitation will be the preceding weekend as well as on Halloween, but we provide weather updates each Friday.
The 52nd Annual Village Halloween Parade Manhattan NYC starts at 7 pm at Canal Street and 6th Avenue and marches north to 15th Street on Friday, October 31st. It runs through the West Village neighborhood for three to four hours with the official end time at 10.30 pm. We've heard that there are over 35 bands and an innumerable showing of creative costumes.
The following is a short list of Manhattan Halloween parties at local bars, restaurants and arts and public venues will be added over time. In most cases we suggest that you call ahead and rsvp a spot to be sure you get in.
Click here to view our report on Manhattan Halloween Parties & Events Manhattan NYC.
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September 21, 2025 / NYC Mayors Race / Manhattan Politics / Manhattan News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Manhattan Buzz NYC.
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Billionaires are Rapidly Changing TV News & Not in a Good Way
Billionaires are Amassing a Huge Concentration of Mass Media Assets, in What Appears to be the Privately Owned Propaganda Press
September 18, 2025 / New York City News / NYC Billionaire Press Billionaire TV News & Free Speech in America / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz.
All six TV Networks are controlled by billionaires [or folks whose wealth rounds up to billionaires or are members of billionaire families]. Increasingly they appear to be turning the TV networks into privately controlled propaganda machines. Too often they appear to resemble Rupert Murdoch's mistreatment of the truth in the news. This means they seem to omit key facts and even entire stories from view, while amplifying falsehoods and outright lies spoken by politicians and their teleprompter readers alike, which go uncorrected, leaving those who still trust Network TV News, ignorant and in the dark as to what's really going on in this country.
Network TV News Corps Appear to be Trading Journalistic Integrity for Media Market Share so they can Price More Aggressively. America Beware, as they will have Even More Influence over what you / we Americans see, hear & think.
Colbert was cancelled by CBS and numerous seasoned journalists departed for journalistic integrity reasons. CBS appeared to be compromising their integrity, as Colbert is the top rated show in the time period. But Trump doesn't like Colbert, and CBS had a merger deal that needed to be approved by the Trump Justice Department and FCC, so poof, Colbert cancelled. CBS denies this reasoning, saying they have other [unannounced] plans.
Disney / ABC paid off Trump in a lawsuit many attorneys were sure they could have easily won. And this week Disney / ABC took the Jimmy Kimmel Show off the air for making an opinionated comment of which Trump didn't approve, on the Kirk assassination shooter. Kimmel had joked that the shooter was a MAGA Republican which he does not appear to be, although reportedly the rest of his family is.
The alleged shooter was reportedly in a relationship with someone working through gender identity issues, which is just one of the many important issues of our day, that billionaire TV News repeatedly fails to fully inform upon. This link will take you to the Metropolitan Museum website, of a past photo exhibit, wherein in the mid 1800's a French photographer documented a hermaphrodite, which is someone with both male and female genitalia. That's a fact, that I have NEVER seen raised nor discussed by the flunkies on TV News, who don't seem to be knowledgeable about the world around them, and definitely far too often, just simply do not do their basic homework on important issues.
And the sad thing is that this translates to an increasingly ignorant American public, as up until this year TV was the dominant news source. This year news on the web FINALLY passed TV News, and I am hoping that that trend will accelerate as more Americans start paying attention to how badly TV News fails them, daily.
If you decide to click this link you'll encounter what is likely a shocker to most folks [was to me the first time I saw it at the Metropolitan Museum exhibit in the late 1990's]. But the idea isn't to shock, but rather to instruct - Metropolitan Museum photo exhibit by Nadar of hermaphrodite.
- CLICK to view the rest of this report about how the NYC billionaire press is taking over free speech in America. GB.
Local & National [Primarily Web] News Sources we Currently Trust
7.7.25 Update / Opinion / Work in Progress
We've entered The Disinformation Age. Much of the mass media is controlled by billionaires, especially TV assets. They changed the FCC laws so they are no longer required to behave ethically, accurately and so the billionaire press does what it does best, pursues profits regardless of community collateral damage. They're only sharing information that they want you to know. They omit key facts they don't want you to know or even entirely ignore important stories that may embarass their billionaire friends. They try to manipulate viewers' perceptions in order to get them to vote for candidates representing the billionaires' interests, and provide open mics to the candidates their choice - not fact checked - even when these pols are making numerous false or misleading statements.
Trusted Web News Sources - Gotham Buzz
6.20.25 _ Currently Recommended News Sources to Help You Wean Yourself from Servile Dependence on Billioniare TV News. We currently favor The City, Politico, Axios, Vox, Wikipedia, the Gotham Gazette, Gothamist, City & State, Mother Jones, Wired, the browser Firefox curates a fair news offering, finance.yahoo.com is good for business news, and moderated social media outlets like BSky.app hace an intelligent audience that does a fair job of identifying key news reports, and use the search engines to look things up. Collectively these news sources should enable you to effectively do your civic duty to inform yourself about people and issues before voting. The NON-Billionaire TV News that we currently find reliable, includes left-leaning Democracy Now [on FNX & CUNY TV], PBS News Hour, and PBS Documentaries are also very informative. The Washington Post and New York Times are still fairly reliable, but not as implicitly so as in the past. Both the NYT and Wapo have undergone ownership / top management changes within the past six years. And the new management teams' values appear to differ from their predecessors, so pay attention to editorial changes / impacts. I no longer find any of the Network TV News outlets to be sufficiently informative. I doubt they ever were, but back in the day they used the newspaper reporting to help keep them informed, which today no longer cuts it. But that said, you can still pick up a few leads from TV News, which you can then use to more fully inform yourself, by doing further research on the internet. Also Vox & Axios. 6.20.25 Murdoch Iran War Monger.
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Buglisi Dance Theatre Company at Lincoln Center 911
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Reposted September 11, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / Things to do NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
This is a video of one of the rehearsals for the Table of Silence performance this morning at Lincoln Center, commemorating the 19th anniversary of 911. They return to perform the Table of Silence at Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center on Thursday 9/11 at 8.10 am. Free. Or catch the live stream - https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/table-of-silence-project-911-259
- Heartfelt wishes to all. May you have a harmonious day and success working toward having a harmonious life.
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Live Interview with Key Representatives / Activists about FEC Chelsea NYCHA
9.10.25 _ Queens News / News Analysis & Opinion _ Click here to learn a bit more through an interview by Erroll Louis on Spectrum TV on August 28, 2025, who interviewed an author / community activist and the President of the FEC Tenants Against Demolition about what's going on there - NYC Oligarchy - Stephen Ross, Related Companies, Essence, Eric Adams transferring huge amount of public wealth & NYC billionaire TV doesn't much report it. Also on the front page scroll down to the Landlord Tenant Harassment button to become familiar with the bigger picture. And click into the drop down OpEd section from the front page tool bar to learn more about the FEC Chelsea NYCHA land grab by Stephen Ross and Related Companies. Ross and Related Companies have been the beneficiaries of the transfer of acres upon acres of prime public NYC land all over NYC for what seem like fire sale / corruption prices.
In the meantime, see front page, government and politics, neighborhoods and things to do sections.
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Please be advised that this series will be evolving slowly starting sometime in Q4 2025 and continuing thereafter. Thus far we've posted some of our historical coverage, but by far and away, the best is yet to come.
NYC Oligarchy _ Massive Mayoral Transfers of Public Wealth & Land to Private Control Continue to go Under Reported
Is a Housing Shortage Really the Reason for 'Unaffordability'?
Is a Housing “Shortage” Really the Cause of Unaffordability?
May 15, 2024 / NYC Government & Politics / NYC Real Estate & Business / City of Yes Zoning Changes NYC Special Report Series / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC. Published with permission from Andrew Berman, Executive Director of Village Preservation in NYC.
With the recent conditional repeal of the state’s cap on the allowable density of new residential construction in New York City, and the Mayor’s “City of Yes” proposal making its way through the public approval process, it’s an opportune time to look at the arguments behind this ever-growing push to increase the permitted size and amount of new residential development in New York City. Undergirding all of these is the contention that housing prices are up in New York City because we’re not building enough market-rate housing, and that certain parts of the city, like most of Manhattan south of Harlem, aren’t doing their fair share to address New York City’s housing needs. Let’s look at how well these claims line up with the facts.
Some data points often cited include the large increase in New York City’s population, which according to the census rose from 8.175 million in 2010 to 8.804 million in 2020, or a 7.7% increase. Figures from this same period say housing prices in New York City also rose dramatically, and the recent NYC housing vacancy survey shows record low housing vacancy rates in the city. Taken alone, this would seem to present a compelling argument that housing construction in New York City is not keeping up with population growth, leading to insufficient supply and rising prices.
But the complete picture tells a very different story.
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Thursday - Sunday, September 11 - 21, 2025 event times vary - The 99th Annual Feast of San Gennaro Festival & Parade. This is an 11 day Italian festival that runs through Sunday, September 21st in Little Italy in Manhattan. There are events every afternoon / evening of the festival. It begins at 6 pm on Thursday 9/11/25 with the Blessing of the Stands. On Saturday, 9/13 from 2 to 5 pm there's a parade / procession through Little Italy. And on Friday, 9/19 at 6 pm there's a church service followed by a procession through the streets of Little Italy, departing from the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood at 113 Baxter Street. For details of other events at the San Gennaro Festival and a bit of history of San Gennaro and Little Italy Manhattan see our story about the Feast of San Gennaro Parade & Festival in Little Italy NYC - or visit their website for details of all events - https://sangennaronyc.org/
The photo above or at right was taken at the FEC Chelsea NYCHA Demolition Protest, the notice of which we posted above. See photo caption above for further details about what seems like a corrupt 7 acre Chelsea public land grab. The price of democracy is eternal vigilance and a People who think they can remain ignorant and free believes in something that never was and never will be.
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Elizabeth Street Garden in Manhattan
Updated April 5, 2025 vs 4.4.2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
The photo above or at right was taken a couple of weeks ago in the Elizabeth Street Garden in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. They are trying to get the city to preserve the area as a permanent community green space, and to build the proposed 'affordable housing' elsewhere. The city has been threatening to close the garden any day now, but given it's an election year, Adams may wait until after he loses it. We'll have an update of Eric Adams' latest shenanigans later today or over the weekend.
* No Foolin' - Elizabeth Street Garden Event - Tuesday, April 1, 2025
3.31.28 Manhattan _ Just in today, an event tomorrow at 4 pm, to commemorate the garden and its artistic inspirations. This is how they described the event, " ... We are calling on everyone to gather in the Garden tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4 PM to celebrate this special space. We’ll be there for a while, but please try to arrive at 4 PM if you can. We are still in federal court and doing everything we can. At this point, we're taking it day by day. If you're a painter, photographer, poet, or artist who has created something inspired by the Garden, please bring your work. We only ask that it be related to the Garden. We want to show everyone how much Elizabeth Street Garden means to our community and to New York City ...". See related story in the weekend post of 3.28.25 below, next to the E St Garden / Ramones photos. The short story also includes their website url.
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Thanksgiving - America's Communal Holiday
The Pilgrims Legacy: Love, Sharing & Community Empowerment
November 27, 2024 / NYC Neighborhoods / Thanksgiving Holidays in NYC / Gotham Buzz NYC.
A couple of years ago, I happened upon a childhood book of fables and fairytales that I had saved since I was a first grader. I was young enough to still like fairytales and old enough to be learning and loving to read.
The book, A Gateway to Storyland, by Platt & Munk Co, was given to me around the holidays, and the book still gives me a warm, loved feeling when I periodically open it to browse through the fairytales and fables containing little nuggets of age old wisdom about how to conduct onesself [see photo at right / the book is still in print]. I read it numerous times immediately upon receiving it, as the illustrations fed my imagination, and lessons embedded in the words resonated with timeless sagacity.
Unselfish Parental Love Manifested by Empowering Progeny
Love comes in many forms, but the purest form is unselfish love. The love of truly giving something with no thought of anything in return. That love is oftentimes given intergenerationally - from grandparents to parents to children.
Perhaps the greatest gifts are those that cost us nothing but our time. Like the gift of teaching someone something that they will be able to put to good use throughout their lives. Parents do this all the time, when they help their children develop skills, and impart some knowledge and learning ... just as my parents did many years ago, by giving me a well illustrated fairytale book to encourage my interest in reading, while sharing the time tested insights of the ages, handed down through storytelling.
I. A Brief Thanksgiving History
The Pilgrims Shared Communal Resources to Actualize a Dream
At Thanksgiving time we commemorate one of America's first settlements, founded by the risk-taking, resource-pooling, hardworking, spiritual community of Pilgrims.
The Pilgrims were early English settlers who arrived on American shores in the early 17th century [1600's]. They came here because they wanted a measure of freedom and self-determination that they were forbidden in Europe or what was called the 'old country'. The Pilgrims wanted to practice their faith, unencumbered, in a way that differed from the established Church of England. They pooled their money to obtain a ship, the Mayflower, to cross the Atlantic in mid September of 1620, landing on America's shores at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts on November 9, 1620. Think of it. It took about a month and a half to travel a distance we can now traverse in about five hours.
The Pilgrims Receive Help from the Native People of a Strange Land
Per Wikipedia, the Piligrims survived a hard winter in 1621 with the help of the Wampanoag, an American Indian tribe. The Pilgrims were the immigrants, and the first Americans, the Indian natives, welcomed them. The Wampanaog taught the Pilgrims how to catch eels, and how to grow and harvest corn. Thus the Pilgrims ended 1621 with a good harvest which they celebrated and shared with their new friends, expressing their gratitude to a higher power, aka God, for the success of their endeavors.
Thus it was that the first Thanksgiving celebration happened in America ... or did it?
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New Years Resolutions 2025: The Road Ahead
A Few Axioms To Keep In Mind Throughout The New Year
January 1, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Holidays / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.
For all of us, today starts the beginning of a new year. It's an opportunity to start anew. And even if we don't fulfill our highest expectations, moving the needle in the right direction, is always a good thing.
The rest of this report is about some of the things you can do personally to make 2025 a better year for you.
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The LIC Summit 2024
The Changing Cultural and Real Estate Landscape in Long Island City
October 8, 2024 / LIC Neighborhood / Queens Real Estate & Business / Queens Buzz.
A. Prelude to Attending the LIC Summit 2024
It was a beautiful, sunny, dry day as I walked over to the Museum of the Moving Image in LIC / Astoria. I arrived around 11 am to attend part of the second half of the LIC Summit, which is a real estate and business conference which examines in depth, an LIC centric world, but also mindful of the surrounding environment.
After I made my way through a flawless check-in, I found my way into the theater and sat down to listen in on the panel providing a Long Island City real estate update. These panels are structured such that the moderator serves up a number of questions to the panelists for comment, which is then followed by audience questions, which sometimes are the best, because they are asked by people like you and me, who have lived and worked in the area for a long while and witnessed and have adjusted to the huge changes that have occurred in Long Island City over the past couple of decades.
I. First Panel - LIC Residential Real Estate Update
This panel included Patricia Dunphy of SVP of Rockrose Development, Eric Benaim CEO / Founder of Modern Space, Dan Mogolesko SVP of the Durst Organization, Peter Papamichael Principal of the VOREA Group and Crystal Xu Director of Business Development United Construction & Development Group.
As I came in at the end of the panel presentation, I only caught the Q&A portion of the program, which follows.
A performance theater / school owner pondered aloud whether the developers were still interested in involving and supporting the arts and culture scene in Long Island City. At the turn of the century LIC was well known as a thriving artists community, as it offered very competitive rents and good access to mass transit. In the near quarter century since then many - if not most - of the artists have moved out of the area as they can no longer afford the rents, which have skyrocketed from under $1,000 / month to over $4,000 per month.
One of the panelists said they are interested in supporting the arts and he mentioned Culture Lab LIC as one of the arts institutions that has survived the changes. But that was pretty much the full extent of the conversation surrounding the arts community. So I reckon the short answer would be no.
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