On the very first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Mayor John Lindsay took the bold step of closing New York’s grand boulevard — Fifth Ave. An estimated one million people flocked to the street and The New York Times raved, “Mood is Joyful …Huge light-hearted throngs ambled down auto-less streets …” For one day walkers became the kings and queens of Fifth Ave. We have a chance now, with the city’s planned reconstruction of our grand boulevard, to restore pedestrians to their rightful thrones.

At the Charter Revision Commission’s final meeting yesterday, Chair Rich Buery said that even though it wasn’t on their agenda when the 13-member panel was formed by Mayor Adams in December, open primaries (also known as nonpartisan elections) “was the subject on which we received the most testimony.”

Dear Eric: My daughter has a “live-in boyfriend” who, since he moved in, thinks he is the king of the household. He is very disrespectful to me, her dad and her stepmom. I tolerated the stuff he said about her dad, and I tolerated him skipping paying my daughter his share of the mortgage for […]

The Mets put together a three-run rally with Juan Soto driving in two with a single off right-hander Reid Detmers to tie the game.

Law enforcement is in pursuit of a motorist suspected of being under the influence of drugs and or alcohol Monday night in the San Fernando Valley. It’s unclear what agency initiated the chase, though both the California Highway Patrol and the L.A. Police Department have been engaged in the pursuit. Sky5 is overhead.

In-N-Out Burger heiress and CEO Lynsi Snyder is relocating her family from California to Tennessee, a state where the beloved fast-food chain is embarking on a major expansion that could soon include other states. “There’s a lot of really great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here. Doing business is not […]

Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his role as Theo Huxtable in “The Cosby Show,” has passed away. He was 54 years old. Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said Monday that Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, the Associated Press reported. He was swimming at Playa Grande de Cocles […]

Last week the Charter Revision Commission (CRC) decided not to refer an open primaries measure to the November ballot when they finalize the questions today. Richard Buery, the commission chair, said he was “personally disappointed” and hoped the issue might be revisited in the future.

Two weeks ago in this space, we said the NYC Charter Revision Commission “seemed to have chickened out” in offering the voters of this great city the option to open up the primary elections for local offices, like mayor and City Council, to all registered voters, irrespective of being enrolled in a political party.

Dear Eric: My wife and son got into a heated argument after he told her that he had dated a woman three times, and on the third date, he asked her if she wanted to split the bill. The woman later texted him that she didn’t want to go out with him anymore. My wife […]