The Spirit

Thursday, September 10th Summer on the Hudson: Bodyweight Blast: Come to Riverside Park for this high energy bodyweight exercises combining cardio and strength for a full-body workout. Bring your own mat. 6:30 p.m. Pier I, Riverside Park South, West 70th Street, New York, NY (212) 870-3089.

The Archdiocese of New York and the lawyers representing about 1,300 victims of sexual abuse busted through the July 10 deadline without a final agreement in the proposed $800 million out-of-court settlement deal, but both sides are still talking. All survivors in the class action suit have to agree to accept the offer before it goes into effect. “The overwhelming majority of survivors agreed to the proposed settlement.

The Red Caboose, the last of the old-time hobby shops in the city, is closing. With the shop’s demise slated for mid-October, Christmas will be a little different for its legion of loyal customers this year. The sandwich sign in front of the basement shop at 23 West 45th St. announced on August 31 that “Everything Must Go.” The beloved basement shop was closing, after a run of 56 years.

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9-11, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin joined other Council Members to announce a new $1 million initiative to fund free field trips to the 9-11 Memorial & Museum for middle school children. Mayor Zohran Mamdani also signed an executive order calling for a day of remembrance and public service and public service across the city.

Like many Italian-Americans in the city, San Gennaro, has always held a special place in John DeLutro’s heart. In fact, he credits much of his success to the relatively obscure patron saint of Naples, Italy, who is at the center of one of the biggest celebrations of Italian culture in the city, the annual San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy.

Hart Island has served many uses since the 19th Century, including a military training ground for Black Civil War soldiers, a quarantine station, a psychiatric hospital, a reform school, a rehabilitation facility, a missile base, a jail, and now a burial ground. The most northeastern of New York City’s more than 40 islands, though classified as uninhabited, one might say that Hart Island is filled with people — estimates range from 800,000 to 1,000,000 — but none of them pay taxes or vote.

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin joined other Council Members to announce a new $1 million initiative to fund free field trips to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum for middle school children. “As we approach the 25th anniversary of September 11, it is more important than ever that a new generation of New Yorkers understands what happened that day and carries forward the stories of those we lost,” Menin said in a statement.

Food doesn’t talk, but the body and brain do, sometimes in tandem to produce a phenomenon nutrition people call “food noise.” The term’s been around for more than decade but the introduction of appetite moderating meds such as Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro have triggered multiple studies designed to truly define and treat the condition. Food noise is described as persistent unwanted thoughts about food that set off social, mental or physical problems.

When the going gets rough, the “ruff’ get going. After being rescued from an animal shelter, a speckled brown-and-white cocker spaniel named Cassie returned the favor to her owner, lifelong New Yorker and essay writer Ann Gorewitz, whose husband, Steve, was becoming increasingly and chronically ill. Hence, Gorewitz includes Cassie not only in her debut memoir, but in the title.

When the going gets rough, the “ruff’ get going. After being rescued from an animal shelter, a speckled brown-and-white cocker spaniel named Cassie returned the favor to her owner, lifelong New Yorker and essay writer Ann Gorewitz, whose husband, Steve, was becoming increasingly and chronically ill. Hence, Gorewitz includes Cassie not only in her debut memoir, but in the title.