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Neighbors covered over the hateful images and words. |
For the third time recently, vandals spray painted racist and profane graffiti on a wall in a Jersey Shore town. |
The latest incident targeted a wall in front of a home along scenic Beach Drive at Rosehill Drive on the bay side of North Cape May overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, said Lower Township Police Sgt. Donald Vanaman. |
Neighbors didn’t want to wait for authorities to clean up the graffiti that included a racist slur, the F-word and male genitalia in multiple colors so they took out white spray paint of their own and painted over the hateful scribbles as a woman and child watched on the sidewalk nearby. |
Police suspect a group of juveniles is responsible for the incident, something Vanaman said appeared to be a random act that didn’t target the homeowner. |
After months of delays, the DeKalb Market Hall is here. |
The subterranean food hall, initially scheduled to open in November, is slated to debut Friday in Downtown Brooklyn at 445 Albee Square West at 11 a.m. When it does, it will be the largest of its kind in the city, with 40 vendors. |
We took a tour of the food hall before its opening day. Scroll down to see photos. |
Founder Anna Castellani, who owns the market Foragers, was inspired by the food halls of Asia and Europe when envisioning the DeKalb Market Hall, which is located in the City Point development that is also home to an Alamo Drafthouse, Target and, soon, Trader Joe’s. |
“When we showed it to almost everyone here it was empty,” Castellani said on Wednesday, two days before the opening, as vendors were busy putting the finishing touches on their stalls and making samples from the kitchens. |
Watch our Facebook Live video of the market's pre-opening party on Thursday to see the stalls for yourself. |
New York City is not lacking in food halls, with the Canal Street Market, Queens Crossing in Flushing and, nearby, Gotham Market at the Ashland among just the recent openings. But Castellani said she hasn’t seen anything quite like hers yet. |
In addition to the vendors, the market has a performance space slated to open in September with a full bar. |
“Once the event space is active I want to do a night market in here,” Castellani said. |
There are also two restaurants opening soon next to the food hall – Han Dynasty and Fortina. |
Here’s a look at a few of the vendors opening in DeKalb Market Hall, from established players to brand-new concepts. |
One of the biggest stalls belongs to Katz's Delicatessen, which is making its first expansion since originally opening on the Lower East Side in 1888. Co-owner Jake Dell said the timing was right to give the New York institution's regulars another place for its pastrami sandwiches. "They were pushing for it," he said. ... |
Jimmy Tu quickly built a following for his Vietnamese street food when Bunker first opened in Ridgewood in 2013. It followed him to Bunker's new, larger Bushwick space, which opened earlier this year. Now he's bringing his banh mi and pho to Downtown Brooklyn. |
The menu is based on Tu's travels and what he ate growing up in Thailand and Elmhurst, Queens. The four banh mi on the menu at the food hall include the Saigon, which features five cuts of pork (pork loaf, roast pork, sweet sausage, head cheese and pate); grass-fed beef steak ("It's kind of like a Philly cheesesteak," ... |
Sides include crab chips and a papaya salad. To drink there's a Vietnamese iced coffee made with a dark roast from Vita Café, shiso limeade with basil seeds and a variety of tropical juices. |
Once the weather cools, Tu looks to add chicken pho to the menu, which is a hit at the restaurant. He also plans to add summer rolls. |
Skateboarding fans will also be able to snag a Bunker-branded board for $48. |
Pain D'Avignon has made its mark on eateries across the city as a wholesale bakery based in Long Island City, but the bread maker has been dipping its toes in retail, too. |
It opened its first retail location at the Essex Street Market, and five years ago expanded to the Plaza Food Hall, selling quiches, scones and croissants. With DeKalb Market Hall, it will be able to sell similar goods, as well as bake bread and pastries on the premises. |
"When we were invited here we asked for more space for that reason," owner Uliks Fehmiu said. "We have one of the larger spaces here." |
The café will sell a variety of its breads, including brioche and baguettes, as well as quiches and sandwiches on croissants, including a bacon, egg and cheese. To drink, there's Stumptown coffee. |
"We love coffee," Fehmiu said. "In the last 10 years, you have this third wave of coffee in America and a bunch of cool coffee shops, but the food is not always on the same level, and vice versa. We like to believe the quality of our bread equals the quality of our coffee, and vice versa." |
Throughout the market, you may also come across Pain D'Avignon's bread - Belle Cheese, Foragers, Bunker and Fulton Landing Seafood all use it. |
Andrew Zurica has not one but two concepts at the food hall, right across from each other: Andrew's Classic Roadside Hamburgers, and Andrew's Classic Brooklyn Bagels. |
The latter is a brand new venture for the Mill Basin native, who's gained a following for his no-frills roadside burgers. He's sourcing bagels from Mill Basin Bagel Café. |
"I grew up having their bagels," Zurica said. "We're doing real-deal kettle-boiled bagels. It's real, old-world flavor and texture." |
Along with bagels, the stand will sell homemade salads, like chicken and tuna, rolling out over the next few weeks. "We're making everything ourselves; we're not buying anything premade," he said. |
Zurica has a hand in every aspect of his company's brand Hard Times Sundaes -- he built out his original luncheonette, his food truck and even the signage for his stalls at DeKalb Market Hall. So naturally he is also learning the craft of bagel making himself from the Mill Basin shop. He plans to ultimately open a comm... |
"That's the next thing," he said. |
Polish natives Krzysztof Poluchowicz and Andrzej Kinczyk couldn't find any pierogis worth recommending in New York City, so they'd invite their friends over to their Ridgewood apartment and host pierogi parties. |
Now, the public can get in on the pierogi love with their new stall, which specializes in traditional dumplings. Offerings include potato and cheese with fried onions and bacon; sauerkraut and mushrooms with a mushroom gravy; and a meat pierogi with braised pork and beef. |
They also plan to add a borscht -- cold for the summer, hot for the winter -- to the menu. "We want to have one soup because it's so good," Poluchowicz said. |
Both have restaurant experience (Kinczyk manages a Foragers in DUMBO), but this is their first venture on their own. |
"Everyone has been really nice sharing advice," Poluchowicz said of the other food hall vendors. "We are like sponges taking advice." |
One tidbit they learned: offer two different sizes of dumpling plates, since visitors will likely be sampling from a few different vendors. |
The Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea vendor is opening its first daily venture at the DeKalb Market Hall. |
While other jianbing purveyors in the city, like Mr. Bing, specialize in the Beijing style of the popular Chinese street food, founders Reuben Shorser and Tadesh Inagaki do Shanghai style. That means a thin pancake "that's dry to the touch," as opposed to oily, Shorser said. They also serve their jianbing with a homema... |
Protein fillings include chicken, beef, tofu and their 13-spice pork. The stall also serves ji dan bing. "That's more like a taco made out of a scallion pancake," Shorser said. |
Agatha Khishchenko, a practicing attorney who lives just a couple blocks away from the DeKalb Market Hall, is sharing her love of cheese with this shop. "This is a big passion project for me," she said. |
Belle Cheese will sell between 60 to 80 cheeses, both domestic and international, along with crackers, chutneys, honeys and more, with a focus on small producers and brands. Eventually the shop will also sell sandwiches. |
Many of the offerings are inspired by Khishchenko's travels, with a heavy focus on British, French and Spanish cheeses, as well as Germany and Bulgaria. |
"The mission of my shop is travel through taste," she said. "Someone might not be able to go to the Alps or Basque Country. I want this shop to be a fun experience." |
A current favorite of Khishchenko's is an Alp Blossom from Austria, which is covered in wild edible flowers. "That is a new discovery for me," she said. |
Two Coast Guard Academy cadets receive orders to Coast Guard Cyber Command during Billet Night, March 2, 2017. The two ensigns will report this summer to Coast Guard Cyber Command – a first for the service – to stand a watch on the Network Operations Security Center watch floor. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer ... |
Coast Guard personnel are no stranger to transformation. It’s the very reason we’re the multi-mission service we are today. By pooling together mission sets and resources, the Coast Guard is able to more effectively and efficiently meet the challenges we face. |
One of those challenges is the ever-present threat to our nation’s cyber security. From malware overwhelming offshore drilling rigs to spear-phishing campaigns against major shipping companies, the Coast Guard must face head on these growing threats to the nation’s Maritime Transportation System as well as threats that... |
Of course, this demanding work can’t be accomplished in a vacuum; instead, it will take a cyber workforce that will integrate both operations and mission support into the tactical execution of this mission, whether it’s faced on land, at sea, or in the air. |
To that end, the Coast Guard is developing a Cyberspace Workforce Human Capital Plan to prioritize and implement a cyberspace workforce transformation that aligns with Department of Defense standards and both the Coast Guard’s Cyber Strategy and Human Capital Strategy. |
Two Coast Guard Academy cadets received orders to Coast Guard Cyber Command during Billet Night, March 2, 2017. The two ensigns will report this summer to Coast Guard Cyber Command – a first for the service – to stand a watch on the Network Operations Security Center watch floor. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer... |
The newly-created Office of Cyberspace Forces (CG-791) will lead the endeavor and provide programmatic oversight, training, equipping and operational policy for the men and women who will make up this new workforce. |
Lt. Cmdr. Mark Patton, a lead on the Office of Cyberspace Forces implementation team, said that the workforce plan will examine competencies for operations and mission support in cyberspace, including specialties and subspecialties for officers, cyber security proficiency, training and qualification for enlisted person... |
To learn more about the Coast Guard Cyber Program and opportunities to be part of the cyberspace workforce, please visit the portal page (only accessible on a Coast Guard workstation): https://cg.portal.uscg.mil/communities/cyber-cio-c4it-transformation/SitePages/Home.aspx. |
Europe|What Is the Irish Backstop, and Why Is It Holding Up Brexit? |
What Is the Irish Backstop, and Why Is It Holding Up Brexit? |
The future of the Irish border has been a contentious issue during Britain’s Brexit negotiations. We went to Northern Ireland, where residents worry that the free flow of goods and people could end once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. |
LONDON — The Irish backstop … convenient shorthand for a devilishly complex subject. It sounds almost like a fence, but the issue is about not having a fence at all — an apt paradox for a problem that may not have a solution. |
And it has become one of the overriding sticking points in Brexit, Britain’s halting, seemingly interminable effort to leave the European Union, even as the March 29 deadline approaches and Parliament again rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for a withdrawal. |
Government officials debate it daily, in London and on the Continent, and ordinary Britons and Irish people are discussing it, too, if only to say that they don’t understand what it means. |
Why is a backstop needed? |
In short, it is a way to avoid building a physical border, with checkpoints for goods, on the boundary between Ireland, a European Union member country, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. |
Simple, right? In fact, achieving that goal when Britain leaves the bloc, and doing it in a way that satisfies both the British Parliament and European negotiators, turns out to be a bit like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle while blindfolded. |
Don’t European countries check imports? |
However, the European Union has done away with all of that inside the bloc, eliminating barriers — both physical and like the examples above — that might impede trade between its 28 member countries. |
Instead, the member nations have a customs union, meaning that they do not charge tariffs on one another’s products. And they have a single market, sharing a single set of product standards. |
In addition, the 1998 Good Friday agreement that helped end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland is widely seen as being incompatible with a hard border between that part of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Officials in Ireland, in Northern Ireland and in the rest of the European Union all insist that ... |
What changes when Britain exits the E.U.? |
Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union on March 29, but under the agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May has negotiated with Brussels, there would be no immediate change in trade. Britain would remain in both the customs union and the single market until at least the end of 2020, during which Brussels and ... |
At that point, if no deal has been reached, either the transition period could be extended until 2022 or the Irish backstop could come into effect. The backstop could also come into play if an agreement has still not been found by 2022. |
A long-term trade deal with the European Union could mean leaving both the customs union and the single market, which is what Mrs. May proposes and what the hard-line pro-Brexit faction wants. Britain would be able to strike trade deals with other parts of the world, and to opt out of European standards. |
Under current rules, that would mean checking goods flowing across the Irish border. And with today’s technology, that would require physical barriers and border checks. |
So, as it stands, Mrs. May’s pact with the European Union provides that if Britain and the European Union cannot agree on a long-term trade arrangement that deals with the Irish border question, then either at the end of 2020 or at the end of 2022, the backstop would kick in. |
So what is the backstop? |
The backstop provision says that as long as there is no long-term trade pact, Britain would remain in the European customs union, and Northern Ireland would also be bound by many rules of the single market. |
European leaders not only demanded the backstop, but they also insisted that it have no expiration date. |
Britain could therefore be outside the European Union, with no voice in shaping its rules, but remain closely tied to the bloc indefinitely. To Mrs. May’s hard-line, pro-Brexit colleagues, that is a nightmare scenario that could leave Britain permanently powerless to determine its own trade destiny. |
The prime minister could ignore the pro-Brexit factions in her party and cut a deal with the Labour Party for a “soft” Brexit that would, at minimum, leave Britain in the customs union. But that would risk alienating those who voted in the referendum to leave, and it would risk tearing the Conservatives apart, an outco... |
European officials have suggested that Britain could largely avoid the single market standards by having only Northern Ireland abide by those listed in the backstop, while a different set of rules could be adopted for the rest of the country. British lawmakers have rejected that out of hand because they say that it wou... |
Mrs. May argues that the backstop might never go into effect, and that, even if it did, it would not be in place for long. Her government envisions a future system that would allow customs and standards checks without actually stopping and inspecting trucks or people at the Irish border — technology that does not yet e... |
The first time Parliament was asked to vote on Mrs. May’s agreement, it rejected the proposal by a crushing margin, 432 to 202. Primarily because of the backstop, 118 of the 317 lawmakers from her Conservative Party voted against it, as did all 10 of the Democratic Unionists of Northern Ireland, whose support Mrs. May ... |
Parliament later voted to direct the prime minister to return to European negotiators and demand an expiration date to the backstop, or a clause that would allow Britain to withdraw from it without the bloc’s approval. |
But Brussels has insisted that it will not budge, and while it offered some pledges in an effort to assuage British lawmakers, that was not enough to win over British lawmakers. On March 12, Parliament again rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to quit the European Union. The vote: 391 to 242. |
Theresa May Wants the E.U. to Renegotiate Brexit. Will It? |
Rayna, the musical name of 21-year-old Nashville “dark pop” musician Claudia Christensen, is searching for community with the songs she puts out to the world. |
With an assist from New Jersey rapper Indy, “Sinking” is filled with a feeling of unease as it tracks the cognitive dissonance of being in love a partner whose love is perpetually conditional. “With every lie I take, maybe I know that I’m sinking,” she sings over a woozy, hollowed-out production from Sean Rogers. |
Directed by Slater Goodson, the video matches the emotional tone of the song — a series of too-close vignettes finding couples, queer and straight, walking on eggshells as abusive partners break the boundaries of trust, only to impose affection on their partner again. It’s interspersed with images of Rayna, awash in sh... |
Art has never looked so delicious. |
This is Adam Hillman, an Instagram artist and "object arranger." |
1. He creates these sweet, beautiful images. |
2. You see, when Adam was told not to play with his food, he didn't listen. |
3. Instead, he made art. |
4. And now, thanks to him, the world seems just a bit more beautiful. |
5. Don't you feel at peace? |
6. Plates are his canvas and cereal his paint. |
7. And the cereal can be quite hypnotizing. |
8. If all of our videos loaded like this, we would be more patient people. |
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