Education

New York City has 1,843 schools, including 227 charter schools, within The New York City Department of Education as of September 2017. The New York City school system is the largest school district in the United States with a reported 1,135,334 students. 40.5% of the students are Hispanic, 26% are Black, 16.1% are Asian and 15% are White. 36% of New York City individuals aged 25 years old and above has earned a bachelor’s degree according to the latest 2017 American Community Survey data. The top three degrees are Business (18%), Social Sciences (12%), and Visual and Performing Arts (10%).

5 Stars Movers

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A New Food Hall Is Heading to Garment District

A new food hall headed to Garment District A food hall with nine vendors from “rising chefs” called Fête New York will open next spring at 231 West 39th Street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. The more than 12,000-square-foot Art Deco space is the brainchild of Doris Huang, a former Godiva exec. It will also have a bar, primarily serving beer and spirits from New York, and will be designed by Carpenter and Mason, a company that’s also done projects like Van Leeuwen locations, Egg Shop, and Tender Greens. LA-born pizza chain 800 Degrees Woodfired Kitchen plans first NYC location Wood-fired cooking chain 800 Degrees Woodfired Kitchen is opening its first New York location in Midtown this fall. The restaurant comes from Estiatorio Milos alum Mario Zeniou, and recently, basketball star Dwyane Wade signed on as a “global partner.” It is counter-service during the day, and besides a customizable pizza option, the restaurant will serve rotisserie smoked meats, salads, and something called a “power bowl.” It opens at 1 East 33rd Street in September. Kopitiam wins over the New Yorker critic for expanding idea of breakfast New Yorker’s Hannah Goldfield files a dispatch from the new location of Kopitiam, the Malaysian cafe hit now in a bigger space on LES. She’s particularly taken by the options for breakfast, which are far different from the traditional options in Western dining. Nasi lemak, coconut rice with cucumbers and dried anchovies, is “both comfortingly simple and thrillingly electric, a transitional wake-up call for the palate,” she writes. Malaysian white coffee, chef Kyo Pang’s version of french toast, and duck tongues are also favorites. Read more here

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY

Discover art pieces aged more than 5,000 years that came from all around the globe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. “The Met” is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the most-visited museums in the world. In 2016 alone, it has welcomed 7.06 million visitors. It is divided into three iconic sites in New York City to make way to a collection of over 2 million artworks. The museum houses artifacts from all ages and sizes, from a 16th-century Egyptian carpet to an Iranian storage jar dating back to 3800 to 3700 BCE. It also has familiar paintings and sculptures by artists like Van Gogh and Edgar Degas.