Underworld Turns

NYCHA demolition in Chelsea must stop

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Last April, on two warm evenings, more than a hundred Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea residents filled public hearings to deliver an unequivocal message, through grief, questions, and defiance, that they opposed NYCHA’s demolition plan, with only two voices offering lukewarm support. Yet NYCHA marches ahead.
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Champion charioteers

Champion charioteers

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I have become increasingly interested in Roman chariot racing, from the charioteers’ point of view. I explored the spectators in the Circus Maximus when I wrote my Roman emperor book. There’s a lot to know about them, from the many deaths caused, more than once, when part of the structure collapsed, to the ways in […]

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L.A. police in pursuit of man with firearm

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Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department pursued a driver who was believed to be in possession of a gun. The chase began around 9:30 p.m. Sparks flew from the vehicle’s bare rims, its front tires shredded and glowing red against the asphalt. From overhead, the driver was seen holding something in one hand, possibly […]
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