When it isn’t a game day, the Mets-Willets Point subway station on the 7 Subway Line sees few passengers, and the owners of the Queens baseball team have dreams of a casino, or at least an entertainment complex on the massive parking lot next to Citi Field. Among the advertisements on the platform wall is for The Amazing Alan Malakov: Magician, Mentalist, Hypnotist. While a casino at Willets Point is only an illusion for now, this Bukharian magician has experience in casinos, among other venues.

This year’s Yeshiva University Open Houses were a huge success as high school juniors and seniors, accompanied by their parents, got a feel for the dynamic undergraduate experience that the flagship Jewish university has to offer. Students got the opportunity to meet professors and future classmates and learned about the various market-ready majors and degree programs that will be open to them as undergraduates at YU.