New York
Behind the Entenmann’s Cellophane, a Slice of Long Island Life
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The tasty crumb of a element appeared in information accounts final week in regards to the loss of life of Charles E. Entenmann, whose very surname conjures a white-and-blue field with a cellophane glimpse of some baked deal with that’s each good and unhealthy for you.
It was stated that Mr. Entenmann, who died final month at age 92 in Florida — removed from the South Shore of Lengthy Island, the place he helped his household’s enterprise rise like a baking Bundt cake to turn out to be a nationwide model — didn’t eat Entenmann’s merchandise.
“He simply wasn’t a dessert man,” one among his kids defined, little question inflicting Entenmann’s aficionados in all places to choke on their second secret slice of a Cheese Danish Twist.
As somebody who grew up close to the outdated Entenmann’s manufacturing facility in Bay Shore, my first response to this revelation is: No marvel he lived to 92.
My second response, although, is to say: Overlook it, your royal Entenmann’s eminence. The Barrys of Deer Park, and people like them, ate greater than sufficient to cowl what you didn’t. You at the moment are excused from the Formica-topped kitchen desk of life, with our deep thanks.
Oh, and we promise to not linger too lengthy on the components listed in your packing containers as we eat their processed contents. The components, for instance, for the Entenmann’s commonplace, the All Butter Loaf Cake, which embrace sodium propionate, sorbitan monostearate, polysorbate 60 and different elements that sound like prescription drugs for the odd situations apparently afflicting viewers of daytime tv.
For some self-conscious followers, shopping for an Entenmann’s pastry could name for just a little wink-and-nod: The natural bakery was out of its domestically sourced herb scones, so we thought it’d be enjoyable to have an Entenmann’s, like those our grandmother used to eat out of the field in Massapequa …
However Lengthy Island working-class households like mine believed {that a} field of Entenmann’s conveyed class. It could be on proud show within the kitchen, distinguished on the fridge or displacing plastic flowers because the desk centerpiece.
Generally, a number of packing containers can be on exhibit, however not for causes of ostentation. They merely meant that somebody had made the six-mile journey to the low cost outlet adjoining to the Entenmann’s plant, an industrial behemoth churning via one million eggs every week. The Entenmann cognoscenti would plan their visits like wartime generals, calculating dates of expiration to find out the most effective time to assault — that’s, to buy.
The Entenmann’s on the fridge was greater than a sign of solvent household funds (Sure, Dolores, we will afford the Banana Crunch Cake). It was a blue-and-white invitation to communion, its contents appropriate for weddings and wakes and Communion events and late-morning gossip periods with cups of percolated espresso and a Marlboro Gentle.
As I look again, Entenmann’s appears extra current in my reminiscence than in actuality. In my thoughts’s eye, there can be a Raspberry Danish Twist on Sunday mornings; a slice of Chocolate Chip Crumb Loaf, wrapped in paper towel, for college lunch; a hunk of Blackout Cake for dessert; and a rush to Good Samaritan Hospital earlier than mattress. (Probably not.)
I do know that as a boy, we celebrated my birthday throughout one troublesome 12 months for the household with a Fudge Iced Golden Cake adorned with a flickering votive candle. And that as a younger man, I typically returned late at evening from some bar to search out my father watching a horror film, and collectively we’d drink milk and eat Vanilla-Stuffed Crumb Cake whereas watching the vampirish Christopher Lee drink a younger maiden’s blood.
Nothing stays the identical, after all, as Entenmann’s itself reminds us. The household offered the enterprise in 1978 to a pharmaceutical firm — Ask your physician about Polysorbate 60 — after which it was offered and offered and offered once more, no expiration date in sight. It’s owned in the mean time by Bimbo Bakeries USA.
In 2014, Entenmann’s ended its baking operations on the Bay Shore plant, and the South Shore sighed. Older Lengthy Islanders with finely developed palates will let you know that the style has declined — turn out to be extra “chemical” — for the reason that firm left. Maybe it is because Entenmann’s now not has entry to the clear mountain waters working down from Jayne’s Hill, the very best level on Lengthy Island (elevation: about 400 ft).
Then there may be the discontinuance of varied Entenmann’s merchandise over time, quite a lot of of which had been staples within the Barry home. The Almond Danish Ring that might make a wake nearly bearable. The Vanilla-Stuffed Crumb Cake that went so nicely with late-night horror films. The Stuffed Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake, a private favourite of my brother, Brian.
Oh Banana Crunch Cake, we hardly knew ye.
Nonetheless there are Entenmann’s treats that I get pleasure from, carefully; an Entenmann’s field sits on my fridge as I write. I’ve realized {that a} glass of milk washes away any chemical aftertaste, actual or imagined, and {that a} processed baked good can style just like the sweetest madeleine.
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New York
We Counted 22,252 Cars to See How Much Congestion Pricing Might Have Made This Morning
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Today would have been the first Monday of New York City’s congestion pricing plan. Before it was halted by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the plan was designed to rein in some of the nation’s worst traffic while raising a billion dollars for the subway every year, one toll at a time.
A year’s worth of tolls is hard to picture. But what about a day’s worth? What about an hour’s?
To understand how the plan could have worked, we went to the edges of the tolling zone during the first rush hour that the fees would have kicked in.
Here’s what we saw:
Video by Noah Throop/The New York Times; animation by Ruru Kuo/The New York Times
You probably wouldn’t have seen every one of those cars if the program had been allowed to proceed. That’s because officials said the fees would have discouraged some drivers from crossing into the tolled zone, leading to an estimated 17 percent reduction in traffic. (It’s also Monday on a holiday week.)
The above video was just at one crossing point, on Lexington Avenue. We sent 27 people to count vehicles manually at four bridges, four tunnels and nine streets where cars entered the business district. In total, we counted 22,252 cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Monday.
We wanted to see how the dense flow of traffic into the central business district would have generated money in real time.
Though we can’t know that dollar amount precisely, we can hazard a guess. Congestion pricing was commonly referred to as a $15-per-car toll, but it wasn’t so simple. There were going to be smaller fees for taxi trips, credits for the tunnels, heftier charges for trucks and buses, and a number of exemptions.
To try to account for all that fee variance, we used estimates from the firm Replica, which models traffic data, on who enters the business district, as well as records from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and city agencies. We also made a few assumptions where data wasn’t available. We then came up with a ballpark figure for how much the city might have generated in an hour at those toll points.
The total? About $200,000 in tolls for that hour.
Note: The Trinity Place exit from the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, which would have been tolled, is closed at this hour.
It’s far from a perfect guess. Our vehicle total is definitely an undercount: We counted only the major entrances — bridges, tunnels and 60th Street — which means we missed all the cars that entered the zone by exiting the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive or the West Side Highway.
And our translation into a dollar number is rough. Among many other choices we had to make, we assumed all drivers had E-ZPass — saving them a big surcharge — and we couldn’t distinguish between transit buses and charter buses, so we gave all buses an exemption.
But it does give you a rough sense of scale: It’s a lot of cars, and a lot of money. Over the course of a typical day, hundreds of thousands of vehicles stream into the Manhattan central business district through various crossings.
Trips into tolling district, per Replica estimates Note: Data counts estimated entrances on a weekday in spring 2023. Source: Replica.
Queens-Midtown Tunnel
50,600
Lincoln Tunnel
49,200
Williamsburg Bridge
27,900
Manhattan Bridge
24,000
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
23,100
Queensboro Bridge
21,700
Brooklyn Bridge
17,100
Holland Tunnel
15,400
All other entrances
118,000
Total
347,000
The tolling infrastructure that was installed for the program cost roughly half a billion dollars.
The M.T.A. had planned to use the congestion pricing revenue estimates to secure $15 billion in financing for subway upgrades. Many of those improvement plans have now been suspended.
Methodology We stationed as many as five counters at some bridges and tunnels to ensure that we counted only cars that directly entered the tolling zone, not those that would have continued onto non-tolled routes.
Our count also excluded certain exempt vehicles like emergency vehicles.
We used estimates of the traffic into the district to make a best guess at how many of each kind of vehicle entered the zone. Most of our estimates came from the traffic data firm Replica, which uses a variety of data sources, including phone location, credit card and census data, to model transportation patterns. Replica estimated that around 58 percent of trips into the central business district on a weekday in spring 2023 were made by private vehicles, 35 percent by taxis or other for-hire vehicles (Uber and Lyft) and the remainder by commercial vehicles.
We also used data on trucks, buses, for-hire vehicles and motorcycles from the M.T.A., the Taxi and Limousine Commission and the Department of Transportation.
For simplicity, we assumed all vehicles would be equally likely to enter the zone from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. as they would be in any other hour. We could not account for the other trips that a for-hire vehicle might make once within the tolled zone, only the initial crossing. And we did not include the discount to drivers who make under $50,000, because it would kick in only after 10 trips in a calendar month.
New York
Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 30, 2024
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Jury Deliberation Re-charge
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK CRIMINAL TERM
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PART: 59
Χ
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
-against-
DONALD J. TRUMP,
DEFENDANT.
BEFORE:
Indict. No.
71543-2023
CHARGE
4909
FALSIFYING BUSINESS
RECORDS 1ST DEGREE
JURY TRIAL
100 Centre Street
New York, New York 10013
May 30, 2024
HONORABLE JUAN M. MERCHAN
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE PEOPLE:
ALVIN BRAGG, JR., ESQ.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK COUNTY
One Hogan Place
New York, New York 10013
BY:
JOSHUA STEINGLASS, ESQ.
MATTHEW COLANGELO,
ESQ.
SUSAN HOFFINGER, ESQ.
CHRISTOPHER CONROY, ESQ.
BECKY MANGOLD, ESQ.
KATHERINE ELLIS, ESQ.
Assistant District Attorneys
BLANCHE LAW
BY:
TODD BLANCHE, ESQ.
EMIL BOVE, ESQ.
KENDRA WHARTON, ESQ.
NECHELES LAW, LLP
BY: SUSAN NECHELES, ESQ.
GEDALIA STERN, ESQ.
Attorneys for the Defendant
SUSAN PEARCE-BATES, RPR, CSR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
LAURIE EISENBERG, RPR, CSR
LISA KRAMSKY
THERESA MAGNICCARI
Senior Court Reporters
Susan Pearce-Bates, RPR, CCR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
New York
Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, May 29, 2024
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK CRIMINAL TERM
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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
PART: 59
Indict. No.
71543-2023
CHARGE
-against-
DONALD J. TRUMP,
DEFENDANT.
BEFORE:
4815
FALSIFYING BUSINESS
RECORDS 1ST DEGREE
JURY TRIAL
X
100 Centre Street
New York, New York 10013
May 29, 2024
HONORABLE JUAN M. MERCHAN
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE
PEOPLE:
ALVIN BRAGG, JR.,
ESQ.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK COUNTY
One Hogan Place
New York, New York 10013
BY:
JOSHUA STEINGLASS, ESQ.
MATTHEW COLANGELO,
ESQ.
SUSAN HOFFINGER, ESQ.
CHRISTOPHER CONROY, ESQ.
BECKY MANGOLD, ESQ.
KATHERINE ELLIS, ESQ.
Assistant District Attorneys
BLANCHE LAW
BY:
TODD BLANCHE, ESQ.
EMIL BOVE, ESQ.
KENDRA WHARTON, ESQ.
NECHELES LAW, LLP
BY: SUSAN NECHELES, ESQ.
Attorneys for the Defendant
SUSAN PEARCE-BATES, RPR, CSR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
LAURIE EISENBERG, RPR, CSR
LISA KRAMSKY
THERESA MAGNICCARI
Senior Court Reporters
Susan Pearce-Bates,
RPR, CCR, RSA
Principal Court Reporter
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