Community News
The skyscrapers of Manhattan may not
reach as high as Everest, but this is where Tsering Norbu Sherpa, a
member of mountaineering's most famous clan, is making a new life.
CHRISTIAN DeBENEDETTI rides shotgun with one of New York's unlikeliest
cabbies.
By Christian DeBenedetti
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Tsering Norbu Sherpa at the wheel in Times Square (Jeff Mermelstein) | |
ON A CLEAR SPRING DAY in New York, Tsering Norbu Sherpa—former Himalayan guide, father, pop-music fan, oenophile, and independent taxi operator #2B35—was hauling ass through the streets of SoHo
NY Times: One Borough, Many Flags
A LOT of foreign tourists — and that includes Europeans, Californians
and Manhattanites — have had occasion to stick their toe into the
borough of Queens. Perhaps it was a trip to the Museum of Modern Art, during its temporary relocation to Long Island City. Maybe a sari and samosa shopping trip to 74th Street in Jackson Heights. Or a pilgrimage to Sripraphai,
the Thai restaurant in the Woodside section with legendary status among
crowds that speak in phrases like “best fried watercress salad in the
city.”
Various Deities Still Sorting Through Victims Of Tragic Queens Bus Accident
NEW YORK—An emergency coalition of deities from several major world religions is still sorting through the wreckage of a tragic bus accident that claimed 67 lives Friday in the culturally diverse Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens.
Queens residents who, but for the grace of gods, could have been in that bus when it crashed.
According to authorities, at approximately 6:45 p.m. the Q45 bus crashed into a power generator at a busy street corner after swerving to avoid a slow-moving group of elderly Chinese pedestrians. Police say that a Korean laundry, an Irish pub, a Senegalese restaurant, and a churro stand were also severely damaged in the resultant smoke and flames.