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He was commissioned to design an architectural extravagance at ground zero. He succeeded, an accomplishment that threatens to destroy his reputation. Photo: Jacqueline Roberts HTML COMPONENT MARKUP BEGIN Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design an architectural extravagance at ground zero. He succeeded, an accomplishment that threatens to destroy his reputation. HTML COMPONENT MARKUP END Santiago…
Employees of Amtrak, the publically-funded railroad service, earned themselves a round of bonuses because their agency only lost $214 million last year. A second set of bonuses was scrapped after Amtrak fell far short of its customer satisfaction goals, according to the agency’s inspector general. RELATED: Why we’re not going to get Northeast Corridor high-speed…
When New York City’s cultural czars revealed the choice of a new piece of public art for Long Island City late last year, the response was swift and withering. Residents of the Queens neighborhood and others lit into the proposal — an eight-foot-long reclining human form painted vibrant pink — saying it was too bright,…
A year and a half ago, Skye van Merkensteijn was shooting hoops with a friend who lives at the Aldyn, a condominium-rental hybrid on Riverside Boulevard with its own indoor basketball court, climbing wall and bowling alley. Thirteen-year-old Skye was impressed — and envious. Well, his worldly pal told him, he just happened to know…
Starbucks Wants To Talk To You About Race. Coffee Beans drying in an Ethiopian village But Does It Want to Talk To You About Racism? According to Fortune magazine, Starbucks will “encourage baristas to discuss race relations with customers”. Starbucks’ media page says that a series of “racially charged tragedies” sparked the initiative “Race Together”….
Story highlights David Wheeler: Silicon Valley doesn’t create jobs; it’s wiping out middle-class jobs Young college graduates are struggling with lack of jobs, yet many still idolize Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is tossing millennials aside like yesterday’s laptop. The commonly held belief is that with hard work and a good education, a young person in…
Photo Users of Facebook’s Messenger app will be able to link their debit cards to the service and use it to message money to each other. SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook‘s instant messaging service isn’t just for sending smiley faces and photos anymore. Now you can use it to send money instantly to your friends. Facebook,…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code Even big companies are getting screwed by NYC’s skyrocketing rents: Toys R Us will be leaving its enormous Times Square home next year. Commercial Observer broke the news, speaking with Cushman & Wakefield’s Brad Mendelson, who is marketing the 110,000 square foot space at Broadway between…
Late last week, we reported that the average Wall Street bonus totaled nearly $173,000 in 2014. Altogether, New York City’s nearly 170,000 securities industry employees took home $28.5 billion in bonuses, according to the New York Office of the State Comptroller. Shortly after the release, the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies released a report showing that those…
(Amazon.com) Counter-Currents.com, a Web site you probably do not encounter in your standard Internet travels, exists to advance the books of noted neo-Nazis and the creation of an all-white nationalist state. Amazon.com, a site visited by 80 million people daily, exists to sell things. But for the past five years, Amazon and Counter Currents have…