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Broadway is facing financial challenges as costs have risen and audience numbers have decreased. Despite this, new shows continue to open, but many are struggling to fill seats and may not survive the summer. The drop in demand has lasted longer than previous downturns, and audiences are buying tickets closer to showtime. The Tony nominations have been announced, but winning a Tony no longer guarantees financial success. The business model of Broadway needs to change, with a focus on controlling costs and finding ways to boost revenue. The Great Gatsby musical is seen as a potential savior for Broadway. [Extracted from the article]

"Neighborhood News: The Cannabis Crackdown Begins" is an article published in the New York journal on May 20, 2024. The article discusses the start of "Operation Padlock to Protect," an initiative led by the Adams administration in New York City to crack down on illegal cannabis shops. Since the legalization of recreational marijuana in 2021, the city has seen an influx of both legal and illegal weed shops. The first raids targeted shops near schools and houses of worship, those selling to underage buyers, and those accused of selling harmful products. The goal of the operation is to close as many illegal businesses as possible within 30 days. The article includes a photograph of a raid at the New City Smoke Shop, where the owner was handcuffed and arrested. [Extracted from the article]

Dubrow's, a cafeteria chain in Brooklyn, was known as the "Cafeteria of Refinement" despite being located under the BMT subway. The chain, which operated from 1929 to 1985, had a notable location at Kings Highway and East 16th Street. The restaurant featured Italian-inspired murals, a tile water fountain, and served food with a slight Jewish influence such as coffee cake, blintzes, and chopped liver. Dubrow's was open 24 hours and was particularly busy on weekends after services at Temple Ahavath Sholom, making it a popular spot for mingling and courting voters. In 1960, John F. Kennedy visited Dubrow's during his campaign and ordered a steak and a Heineken, ultimately winning Brooklyn by a large margin. Photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin documented the patrons of the Kings Highway Dubrow's from 1975 to 1978. [Extracted from the article]

Those impersonal formulations--Sorkin and Zukin's "bromide", Huxtable's"pressure"--imply that the project'scramped horizons were baked into theprocess. The war onterror and the World Trade Center havethis in common: They are profoundly contradictoryworks-in-progress, confoundingattempts to distinguish betweenachievement and surrender. The WorldTrade Center campus was supposed to becomean acropolis devoted to America'shighest aspirations, a representation ofresilience, creativity, and life as an answerto fanatical nihilism. "Everywhere thebromide is retailed that to rebuild somethingbigger, taller, and better than ever isthe only way to respond to the terrorists."(Sorkin suggested that the destruction ofthe financial hub should lead to a more"polycentric" city, with commercial nodesscattered throughout the boroughs.) In distributing blame so widely yet specifically,Sorkin and Zukin strongly suggestedthat nameable individuals had madeidentifiable mistakes, ceding vision in thename of short-term goals. [Extracted from the article]

Between San Francisco and Washington, the powershifts by the day * Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorseydidn't kick Trump off Facebook andTwitter, respectively; Stacey Abramsdid. It'shard to imagine any media company focusedon politics won't register a declinein viewership and revenues after Trump.* But his own brand is trashed. IfI were CEO of the Trump Organization,I would change the brand name, bring ina progressive to manage the company,and institute a strict policy against nepotism. [Extracted from the article]