In a place as diverse as New York City, finding the best authentic food can be a difficult task when there are over 24,000 dining establishments to choose from. Four students of The King’s College chose their favorite place to eat among the thousands of restaurants and verified that these locations reminded them of the food they ate back home.
Read MoreOfficers and reporters took a break from their duties following the mayhem caused by a man detonating a pipe bomb in the Port Authority Bus Terminal this morning. Police Commissioner James O'Neill has declared it to be a "terror-related incident."
Read MoreChristmas has returned to New York City! If there is one holiday shopping event that is worth braving the cold for, it's New York City’s Christmas markets. Bryant Park Winter Village and Union Square Holiday Market are here to get the city in the holiday mood. Even with busy scheduling and holiday budgets, visiting one of these markets should certainly be on the Christmas checklist.
Read MoreThe issue of immigration comes from a personal place for Ai Weiwei; he himself is a political refugee. He experienced exile growing up in China and as an immigrant student in New York. In 2011, he was abducted and tortured by his home country after vocalizing his oppositions to their human rights reforms.
Read MoreKusama’s artistic endeavours have spanned some of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century including Minimalism and Pop art. At 89 years old, Kusama continues to impress audiences of all age-ranges. As an avant-garde artist, Kusama’s work is diverse and unique, containing sensory, utopian, hallucinatory, and obsessive themes.
Read MoreAfter a summer managing a seasonal bar he owns on the Jersey Shore, Donald returned to the city looking for something to keep himself occupied. He heard of a man in a Trump mask accepting five dollars cash to be punched in the face and 100 dollars to be “pissed” on, Donald got the idea to put on a Trump mask and see what would happen.
Read MoreThe set was used to advertise Google’s new phone—the Pixel 2—and its exclusive augmented reality stickers. These can be applied to the camera, and contain animations of varying designs to make the photographing process more interesting. In the exhibit, stickers included leaping Demogorgons and Eleven eating waffles.
Read MoreA recently discovered Leonardo da Vinci painting was showcased in New York City at Christie’s auction house. "Salvator Mundi," a portrait of Christ, has an eerie resemblance to the famed "Mona Lisa." The painting was sold at auction for $450 million on Nov. 15, making it the most expensive painting ever sold.
Read MoreRather than gathering an awe-inspiring collection of the most expensive and striking Rodin sculptures, it feels as if the curators made a scrapbook of his life. I found myself smiling at the paintings as I learned about who Rodin was, how he worked, and what his friends thought of him.
Read MoreThe first visible piece is a cast-iron sculpture of a man suspended in the air, his silver body horizontal to the ground. He is clearly in motion, contorted like an eel, swimming unconventionally through some invisible body of water. Behind him are more statues, also made of cast iron and aluminum.
Read MoreEach morning the habitation form of the structure is disassembled and over the course of the day, reassembled in order to become a bridge to the next day’s supplies before turning back into a shelter against the cold November nights. Their route is marked along the plaza by a series of poles atop small caches of supplies for the next day, and their progress is shown by a string of lights along the top of the poles.
Read MoreOn Nov. 9, The New York Times hosted a TimesTalks panel discussion on exposing the male abuse of power, featuring three of those women: Megan Twohey, co-author of the Harvey Weinstein investigative piece, Emily Steel, co-author of the piece that led to Bill O'Reilly being fired from Fox News, and Katie Benner, who reported on Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment culture.
Read MoreAcclaimed panelists came together on Nov. 6 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage to discuss how the Islamization of Europe and the rise of new secularism is resurrecting anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe today. According to Glendon’s observations, religious indifference is a factor that causes Europeans to disregard religious freedom as an important right. She even mentioned that she struggled to convince people that religious freedom was a right worth protecting.
Read MoreAccording to early police and media reports, eight people are dead, and 11 people are injured. The police have identified Sayfullo Saipov, 29, as the man who drove a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River and West Side Highway in Battery Park City.
Read MoreBusiness is where intention meets action. According to the Migration Policy Institute, “Nearly 2 million immigrants with college degrees are unemployed or stuck in low-skilled jobs [in America].” When refugees flee their homes and jobs, they often can only find low-skill work.
Read MoreIt is hard not to notice the flood of Facebook shares and Twitter retweets that have recently swirled around campus: Chick-fil-A is coming to the Financial District. The excitement is not only based on the fact that it will to be the third location in New York City, or Chick-Fil-A’s largest proposed restaurant, but that the address is 144 Fulton Street, just a few minutes’ walk from school.
Read MoreWith a cast on one hand and a bucket of tennis supplies in the other, Michael McCasland is as unassuming as a founder and president of a large nonprofit could be. The first one on the scene, McCasland makes trips back and forth from his U-haul to the newly refurbished tennis courts in the Sumner Housing Project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Read MoreIt’s a Saturday morning in Brooklyn Heights, and the 2/3 train isn’t running from Clark St. Instead of settling for some toast in your apartment, try out one of these delicious, classic brunch spots found in the heart of Brooklyn Heights.
Read MoreWeekend mornings in New York mean two things: sleeping in and going to brunch. The famous New York ritual of brunch is a “must” for New York City dwellers to try, from the chic crowds of brunch-goers to the myriad of ways one can whip up an egg.
Read MoreWhen students leave campus this May, The King’s College aims to rent its vacant apartments. According to King’s IRS 990 forms, doing so can bring somewhere between $770,000 to $1.5 million in annual revenue.
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