Andy Newman

United States

Reporter at The New York Times

@nytimes reporter. Writing/blogging ~NYC for NYT since ~1995. Likes are bookmarks.

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Articles

Hunting the Wild Mushrooms of New York City

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Andy Newman |Victor J. Blue

There are thousands of species of fungus in the city, with names like American dyeball, dingy twiglet and devil's dipstick. Some even glow in the dark. New York City can be a place of almost incomprehensible abundance. Its eight million residents speak 700 languages. It has 29,000 restaurants and bars.
The Last Flight of Helicopter N216MH

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Michael Wilson |Andy Newman |Maia Coleman |Olivia Bensimon

The aircraft had flown tourists in New York City thousands of times before crashing Thursday with a Spanish family aboard. Passengers who had flown earlier that day are processing the shock. Lionel Carles and his wife and young son arrived from Nice, France, on Wednesday with a list of things to see and do in New York City: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, Top of the Rock, Fifth Avenue. And, an exciting highlight - a helicopter tour of the skyline.
Un helicóptero se estrella en el río Hudson y mueren seis personas

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Andy Newman |Chelsia Rose Marcius

Los testigos describieron como un espectáculo aterrador el momento cuando el helicóptero cayó del cielo gris como una piedra. Mandy Bowlin, quien estaba de visita desde Chattanooga, Tennessee, dijo que se encontraba en un barco turístico de Circle Line cuando oyó un estampido detrás de ella y vio caer en picada al helicóptero. Según señaló, una pala del rotor salió volando y cayó al agua.
Un helicóptero se estrella en el río Hudson y mueren seis personas

1 week ago | infobae.com | Andy Newman |Chelsia Rose Marcius

HelicoptersAviation Accidents, Safety and DisastersHudson RiverNew York CityDos adultos y tres niños españoles, y el piloto del helicóptero murieron en el accidente, dijeron las autoridades. Un helicóptero turístico cayó del aire al río Hudson, frente a Manhattan, el jueves por la tarde. Las seis personas que iban a bordo, entre ellas tres niños, murieron, dijeron las autoridades.
Helicopter Crashes Into Hudson River, Killing Six

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Andy Newman |Chelsia Rose Marcius

"Six innocent souls have lost their lives, and we pray for them and their families," Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said. It was the deadliest helicopter crash in New York City in at least seven years. The helicopter, a Bell 206, was operated by New York Helicopter, which runs sightseeing tours for several hundred dollars a flight. The company's chief executive, Michael Roth, said he did not know what had happened to the aircraft, which he had leased from a company in Louisiana.
Hay 6 muertos tras estrellarse un helic√≥ptero cerca de Manhattan

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Chelsia Rose Marcius |Andy Newman

Seis personas murieron el jueves por la tarde cuando un helicóptero cayó del cielo y se precipitó al río Hudson a la altura de Jersey City, Nueva Jersey, frente al West Village de Manhattan, dijo Kathy Hochul, la gobernadora de Nueva York. "Seis almas inocentes han perdido la vida, y rezamos por ellas y por sus familias", dijo.
Permanent Supportive Housing Spotlights Challenges After Homelessness

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Andy Newman |Thea Traff

Mr. Mercado had been prolific. "I was hanging out with my friends," he said. "We were just sitting around watching TV, so I pulled out my phone and I started just writing songs. I wrote 15 songs in one day." Now he was ready to record. Mr. Mercado had saved bits of his disability income for months, bought $300 worth of recording gear and transformed his apartment into a studio.
Six Things to Know About Permanent Supportive Housing

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Andy Newman

Many conservatives argue that the Housing First approach - offering people low-cost housing without requiring them to accept services or to work - enables drug use and other social woes. Vice President-elect JD Vance is a noted critic. In 2023, while a senator, he said, "If we don't treat the root cause of homelessness, we end up creating cycles of despair." Some lawmakers want to shift federal funding to programs with treatment mandates, a more common approach before the spread of Housing First.
DoorDash to pay $16.8M to workers for pocketing their tips

1 month ago | staradvertiser.com | Andy Newman

In the early days of the food-delivery-app explosion, DoorDash came up with a novel way to process tips that customers gave to workers: It effectively kept the money for itself. The practice, in place for more than two years, eventually led to an outcry. In 2019, DoorDash halted it. But Dashers, as the app’s workers are called, were still out the money that the company had withheld from them.
DoorDash to Pay $16.8 Million to Workers for Pocketing Their Tips

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Andy Newman

The payments, part of a settlement with the New York attorney general's office, will return as much as $14,000 to some workers. For more than two years, DoorDash told customers 100 percent of their tips were going to workers, but the company was actually keeping some of the tips for itself, according to the New York attorney general. Credit...