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| It's Friday. The greenest block in Brooklyn is in Crown Heights, according to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. |
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| Weather: Sunny, with a high in the mid-80s. The weekend will be dry and a little cooler. |
| Alternate-side parking: In effect through Saturday, then suspended Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for Eid al-Adha. |
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| The Times's Corey Kilgannon writes: |
| Newspaper editors often remain behind the scenes. |
| Not Kevin Boyle, 60, the owner and editor in chief of The Rockaway Times, a free weekly in New York City's very own oceanfront town. |
| Mr. Boyle is the Rockaway Peninsula's cycling newsman. He pedals daily, sniffing for stories, chatting up locals and delivering issues. |
| While the newsroom is officially located in a former paddleboard rental business, Mr. Boyle practically runs the paper from his bike — where he is constantly looking for news to call in to his staff (one editor and one part-time reporter), talking with advertisers or taking photos. |
| "It's mostly a way to keep in touch with the community," he said. "On a bike, you can pedal right up and look at stuff, spur of the moment, or just lay back and absorb things." |
| In fact, Mr. Boyle's old bike is the paper's logo: a boardwalk cruiser, the bicycle of choice in the neighborhood for those making short trips to the beach, boardwalk or bar. |
| These days, he has switched to an electric bike, a concession to the strong ocean breeze. |
| On a recent day, he loaded his bike basket with copies of the latest edition, whose cover story — "Marty Has Landed" — described the reaction to Marty, a new mobile robot that scans aisles for spills at a local Stop & Shop. |
| The article quotes a shopper so fed up with the robot's constant calls for cleanups that she tells a store worker: "This is driving me crazy. I can't even imagine how badly you want to kill this robot." |
| The paper is a slice of Rockaway life, as is a bike ride with Mr. Boyle, who rolls along the boardwalk, shouting hello to food concession workers and bantering with residents who pedal or walk by. |
| He pointed out a school of dolphins swimming along the shore, not far past the bathers. |
| Whale sightings are also common here. One of Mr. Boyle's covers featured a reader-submitted photo of a humpback whale splashing out of the water near a boy on a surfboard, as if to say hello. |
| Mr. Boyle creates much of his paper from articles and photos submitted by residents, and as he bikes, he encourages those he meets to provide material. |
| The paper is also online, but Mr. Boyle said readers rely on hard copy. Up to 10,000 copies are printed each week and distributed, some through a delivery service and the rest by Mr. Boyle. |
| Mr. Boyle said he started The Rockaway Times in 2014 after serving as editor of The Wave, a longtime weekly serving the Rockaways. At the time, the area was growing in popularity as a subway-accessible surf spot. |
| Riding down Beach Channel Drive, Mr. Boyle dropped off a stack of the "Marty Has Landed" issue in an insurance office and then replenished a news rack at a ferry dock. |
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| He later checked in with Jerry Rea, a city sanitation worker who runs a used-car lot. At the Rockaway Brewing Company on Beach 72nd Street, he said hello to Sarah Peltier, who operates the Taco Bay food stand there. |
| He pulled up to a parcel on Jamaica Bay and walked through tall reeds to a dock where a local artist, Geoff Rawlings, was working on his boat: a tricked-out vessel resembling Puff the Magic Dragon. |
| Mr. Boyle pedaled farther, past tumbledown houses overlooking the bay behind Kennedy International Airport. |
| "If there's a middle of nowhere in Rockaway, this is it," he said, pulling up to a narrow bungalow where Dora Helwig, 88, has lived for 50 years. She even stayed put in her flooded house during Hurricane Sandy. |
| "We'd love to write you up for the paper," Mr. Boyle said. "It's such a great Rockaway story." |
| She agreed, and Mr. Boyle hopped back on his bike to continue his rounds. |
| Happy birthday, hip-hop |
 Clive Campbell — D.J. Kool Herc — in 2007 outside the Bronx address where it all began.
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| Forty-six years ago this Sunday, Clive Campbell hosted a party in the Bronx. He stood behind a pair of turntables, and when the best part of a song was about to finish, he pulled the record back and played it again. And again. |
| That was how Mr. Campbell, known as D.J. Kool Herc, created hip-hop. |
| "That was the first time a hip-hop D.J. spun records," said Renee Foster, a member of the advisory board for the Universal Hip Hop Museum, which lacks a permanent home despite the genre's popularity. |
| "If everyone who ever loved the culture or bobbed their head" donated, Ms. Foster said, "we could build the museum entirely." |
| A temporary exhibit is slated to open this fall in the Bronx, in space provided by the Related Companies. (Related's chairman, Stephen Ross, is facing a backlash for planning a fund-raiser for President Trump today on Long Island.) |
| From The Times |
 Uli Seit for The New York Times |
| A man stabbed his wife to death at the nail salon in Queens where she worked. He then hugged her body and sobbed. |
| How the police used Antifa to investigate the Proud Boys, a far-right group. |
| "Comrade de Blasio" entered the Fox News den to spar with Sean Hannity. |
| Dean & DeLuca and Barneys made shopping feel like art. Now they are both in financial free-fall. |
| [Want more news from New York and around the region? Check out our full coverage.] |
| The Mini Crossword: Here is today's puzzle. |
| What we're reading |
| The Police Department will open its first stand-alone community center in East New York, Brooklyn. [WNYC] |
| A subway worker jumped onto a track to stop a train from hitting a woman. [New York Post] |
| The Van Wyck Expressway seems to be the dividing line in Queens separating vulnerable Democratic lawmakers from incumbents the party's establishment can protect. [Politico New York] |
| Coming up this weekend |
| Friday: |
| Hear the David Zheng Jazz Quartet at the Red Room at KGB bar in Manhattan. 8 p.m. [Two-drink minimum] |
| Head to the Target Community Garden in Brooklyn for a screening of the documentary "Decade of Fire." 7 p.m. [Free] |
| Saturday: |
| Summer Streets clears nearly seven miles of roads for walking, running, biking and playing in Manhattan. 7 a.m.-1 p.m. [Free] |
| Spend an afternoon dancing at the Queensboro Dance Festival in Queens. 2 p.m. [Free] |
| Sunday: |
| Jessica Henderson, a stand-up comedian, performs at the Pit in Manhattan. 8:30 p.m. [$12] |
| — Derek Norman |
| Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times's culture pages. |
| And finally: Women-directed films of the 1980s |
![]() "Desperately Seeking Susan" starred Rosanna Arquette, left, and Madonna.
Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| The Times's Rebecca Liebson writes: |
| When Susan Seidelman graduated from New York University's film school in 1977, she had no clue how hard it would be to work as a director. |
| "Part of the joy of working back then, especially in New York, is I was so naïve," said Ms. Seidelman, who is perhaps best known for her 1985 film "Desperately Seeking Susan." |
| "I was just a girl who was bored of living in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia," she added. "I wanted to be in a city that I thought was vibrant and a mecca for all different kinds of people with artistic aspirations." |
| Thirty-four years later, "Desperately Seeking Susan" is returning to the big screen. Tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. it is part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's film series "Punks, Poets & Valley Girls: Women Filmmakers in 1980s America." Earlier in the evening, the event will show Ms. Seidelman's 1982 debut, "Smithereens." |
| Both movies reflect her own experiences: They follow female protagonists who escape their cookie-cutter lives for Lower Manhattan's grimy post-punk scene. |
| The neighborhoods Ms. Seidelman fell in love with have since been scrubbed clean by gentrification. She said she hoped her films would give younger viewers a glimpse of what New York was really like in the 1980s. |
| "That cheapness and that grittiness was part of the style of that time," she said. "I didn't want to make a phony, totally art-directed version of that." |
| It's Friday — fall in love with a neighborhood. |
| Metropolitan Diary: On the Williamsburg Bridge |
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| Dear Diary: |
| I saw him about halfway across the pedestrian pathway on the Williamsburg Bridge. He seemed to be loitering as I approached. It was late, and there was no one around except him and me. |
| I knew I was about to be mugged. Steeling myself, I gripped my keys between my fingers and prepared to fight back. |
| "You've got to see this," he called out to me as I got closer. "It's beautiful!" |
| He was gesturing toward Manhattan. He was right. It was gorgeous. Clouds seemed to ring the skyline, and the buildings were aglow in the moonlight. |
| "It's beautiful," he said again. |
| I put my keys back in my pocket. |
| — Yonah Lempert Luecken |
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