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Social Media Victims Law Center and Belluck & Fox file lawsuit against Meta, ByteDance, Inc., TikTok and Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the one-year anniversary of Zackery Nazario’s death from a “subway surfing” accident

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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While subway surfing has been around since the 1980s, a new generation of teens is drawn in by the rush of seeing the reactions on TikTok and Instagram.

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  • While subway surfing has been around since the 1980s, a new generation of teens is drawn in by the rush of seeing the reactions on TikTok and Instagram.
  • The MTA, which tracks the instances of people riding outside the trains, saw a noticeable spike beginning in 2021.
  • In 2023 alone, five individuals were killed by subway surfing in New York City, including Zackery.
  • This is compared to a total of five subway surfing deaths that occurred over a four-year period between 2018 and 2022.

MOXY WILLIAMSBURG OPENS TODAY, CAPTURING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT OF ITS DYNAMIC BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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NEW YORK, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Moxy Williamsburg debuts today as the brand's first hotel in Brooklyn, featuring interiors by BASILE Studio in collaboration with Lightstone Design Studio and four new dining and drinking venues from Bar Lab Hospitality, the creative force behind Broken Shaker. The heart of New York's creative class, Williamsburg is a fitting location for Lightstone's growing collection of boundary-pushing Moxy Hotels, part of Marriott Bonvoy's portfolio of 30 extraordinary hotel brands.

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  • Moxy Williamsburg is a 216-room boutique hotel located in the heart of Williamsburg on Bedford Avenue, near the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge and easily accessible from Manhattan.
  • "Our ambition with Moxy Williamsburg is to create a hotel that welcomes visitors with an authentic experience—one that Brooklynites themselves will embrace with open arms."
  • Moxy Williamsburg was designed by BASILE Studio, a boutique design firm based in San Diego, in collaboration with Lightstone Design Studio.
  • That's why more and more people are putting it on their must-visit lists — and it's why we've opened Moxy Williamsburg," says Hochberg.

TransPerfect Sponsors Girls on the Run NYC

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Monday, August 8, 2022
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TransPerfects sponsorship funded full-season scholarships, sneakers, and an end-of-season celebration event for a Girls on the Run team of 10 girls.

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  • TransPerfects sponsorship funded full-season scholarships, sneakers, and an end-of-season celebration event for a Girls on the Run team of 10 girls.
  • TransPerfect Vice President of Production Kristyna Marrero and her team joined girls from the 5th grade class of P.S.
  • Girls on the Run NYC is a non-profit organization that designs programming to strengthen third- to eighth-grade girls social, emotional, physical, and behavioral skills to successfully navigate life experiences.
  • Girls on the Run NYC is an independent council that is part of the Girls on the Run network.

TransPerfect Sponsors Girls on the Run NYC

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Monday, August 8, 2022
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TransPerfect's sponsorship funded full-season scholarships, sneakers, and an end-of-season celebration event for a Girls on the Run team of 10girls.

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  • TransPerfect's sponsorship funded full-season scholarships, sneakers, and an end-of-season celebration event for a Girls on the Run team of 10girls.
  • TransPerfect Vice President of Production Kristyna Marrero and her team joined girls from the 5th grade class of P.S.
  • Girls on the Run NYC is a non-profit organization that designs programming to strengthen third- to eighth-grade girls' social, emotional, physical, and behavioral skills to successfully navigate life experiences.
  • Girls on the Run NYC is an independent council that is part of the Girls on the Run network.

Smallhold Opens First Certified Organic Mushroom Farm in Los Angeles County

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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Acclaimed restaurant Kismet, known for celebrating fresh and vegetable-based Mediterranean-inspired dishes, is officially Smallhold's first culinary partner in Los Angeles.

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  • Acclaimed restaurant Kismet, known for celebrating fresh and vegetable-based Mediterranean-inspired dishes, is officially Smallhold's first culinary partner in Los Angeles.
  • In Los Angeles, Smallhold is part of a groundbreaking mycoremediation field study testing locally-adapted and sustainable solutions for brownfield (AKA contaminated site) cleanup in LA County.
  • In Los Angeles County, Smallhold continues its practice of hiring locally, always paying above the living wage and partnering with regional non-profits and groups.
  • We operate New York City and Los Angeles only USDA Certified Organic commercial mushroom farmsbut it doesn't stop there.

National Portrait Gallery Announces Winners of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and Opening of "The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today"

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Friday, April 29, 2022
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WASHINGTON, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has announced artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor as the first-prize winner of the sixth national Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

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  • WASHINGTON, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has announced artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor as the first-prize winner of the sixth national Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
  • Jurors for the 2022 Competition were Kathleen Ash-Milby, Catherine Opie, Ebony G. Patterson, and John Yau, and Portrait Gallery curators Caragol, Urea and Dorothy Moss.
  • The competition and exhibition are made possible by the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment, which was established by Virginia Outwin Boochever, a longtime docent at the National Portrait Gallery.
  • For more information on the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, visit npg.si.edu .

Lightstone Celebrates Topping Out of Two Additional New York City Marriott Moxy Hotels, Moxy Lower East Side and Moxy Williamsburg

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Thursday, September 30, 2021
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Moxy Lower East Side and Moxy Williamsburg, set to open in late 2022, add to Lightstone's growing hospitality portfolio, which includes four open Moxy hotels: Moxy Times Square, Moxy Chelsea, and Moxy East Village in New York, and Moxy South Beach in Miami.

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  • Moxy Lower East Side and Moxy Williamsburg, set to open in late 2022, add to Lightstone's growing hospitality portfolio, which includes four open Moxy hotels: Moxy Times Square, Moxy Chelsea, and Moxy East Village in New York, and Moxy South Beach in Miami.
  • Located at 145 Bowery Street, between Grand Street and Broome Street, Moxy Lower East Side reached its pinnacle at 18 stories.
  • "We are excited to be expanding our New York Moxy Hotel portfolio with these two dynamic properties," said Mitchell Hochberg, President of Lightstone.
  • Lightstone debuted its first Moxy property outside of New York with the opening of Moxy Miami South Beach earlier this year.