Weeklong Search Continues for a Boy With Autism
In that time there have been false hopes, police sweeps and increasingly frantic pleas from the boy’s family. Still, as of Thursday afternoon, he remained missing. The search has been complicated by the fact that Avonte has a severe form of autism, unable to verbally communicate and unable to care for himself. Whatever Avonte was […]
City Council to Decide Fate of Mecca for Graffiti Artists
The longtime owner of the warehouses, the Wolkoff family, is seeking to demolish the buildings to make way for two towers with a combined 1,000 apartments on a three-acre parcel near Citigroup Tower in Long Island City. Last week, the Wolkoffs agreed to set aside additional space for affordable housing and artists’ studios with the […]